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Brember Wills
Brember Wills (1883–1948) was an early 20th Century English theatre and film actor. Early life Willis was born in Reading, in the County of Berkshire, England on 15 March 1883. Career He made his acting debut on the stage in 1905. His acting career was interrupted in 1914 by the outbreak of World War I, when he volunteered with the British Army's Royal Army Medical Corps as Private #600, and saw active service. In July/August 1926 he performed in Henrik Ibsen's ''Pillars of Society'' at the Everyman Theatre in Hampstead, and at the Royalty Theatre in London. In March 1927 he performed with Charles Laughton and Sybil Thorndike in the play ''Angela'', at the Prince's Theatre in London. He played Polonius in John Gielgud's 1930 production of ''Hamlet'' at The Old Vic. In 1932 he was invited to Hollywood from the London stage by director James Whale, to perform (alongside Charles Laughton again), the role of insane Saul Femm in the film adaptation of J. B. Priestley's novel ''B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamlet
''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play, with 29,551 words. Set in Denmark, the play depicts Prince Hamlet and his attempts to exact revenge against his uncle, Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father in order to seize his throne and marry Hamlet's mother. ''Hamlet'' is considered among the "most powerful and influential tragedies in the English language", with a story capable of "seemingly endless retelling and adaptation by others". There are many works that have been pointed to as possible sources for Shakespeare's play—from ancient Greek tragedies to Elizabethan plays. The editors of the Arden Shakespeare question the idea of "source hunting", pointing out that it presupposes that authors always require ideas from other works for their own, and suggests that no author can have an original idea or be an originator. When ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What Happened To Harkness?
''What Happened to Harkness?'' is a 1934 British comedy film directed by Milton Rosmer and starring Robert Hale, James Finlayson and Brember Wills. It was made at Teddington Studios.Low p.84 Premise The murder of a miser is investigated by a village policeman. Cast * Robert Hale as Sergeant McCabe * James Finlayson as Police Constable Gallun * Brember Wills as Bernard Harkness * John Turnbull as Inspector Marlow * Clare Harris as Mrs. Millett * Wally Patch as Bullett * Morland Graham as Billy * Veronica Brady Veronica Brady IBVM (born Patricia Mary Brady; 5 January 1929 – 20 August 2015) was an Australian religious sister who was a noted writer and academic. She was one of the first Australian religious sisters to broadcast on radio and to teach a ... as Mrs. Bullett * Aubrey Mallalieu as Dr. Powin * Kathleen Kelly as Pat References Bibliography * Low, Rachael. ''Filmmaking in 1930s Britain''. George Allen & Unwin, 1985. * Wood, Linda. ''Briti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carnival (1931 Film)
''Carnival'' is a 1931 British drama film in black and white with colour sequences directed by Herbert Wilcox and produced by his British & Dominions Film Corporation, starring Matheson Lang, Joseph Schildkraut, Kay Hammond and Chili Bouchier. During a performance of '' Othello'' a jealous actor attempts to strangle his wife who he believes has committed adultery. It was a remake of the 1921 film '' Carnival''. The French musician Alfred Rode appears with his band. Cast *Matheson Lang as Silvio Steno * Chili Bouchier as Simonetta Steno * Joseph Schildkraut as Count Andrea Scipio * Lilian Braithwaite as Italia * Kay Hammond as Nella * Brian Buchel as Lelio * Dickie Edwards as Nino * Brember Wills Brember Wills (1883–1948) was an early 20th Century English theatre and film actor. Early life Willis was born in Reading, in the County of Berkshire, England on 15 March 1883. Career He made his acting debut on the stage in 1905. His acting ... as Stage Manager * Alfre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinderella
"Cinderella",; french: link=no, Cendrillon; german: link=no, Aschenputtel) or "The Little Glass Slipper", is a folk tale with thousands of variants throughout the world.Dundes, Alan. Cinderella, a Casebook. Madison, Wis: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988. The protagonist is a young woman living in forsaken circumstances that are suddenly changed to remarkable fortune, with her ascension to the throne via marriage. The story of Rhodopis, recounted by the Greek geographer Strabo sometime between around 7 BC and AD 23, about a Greek slave girl who marries the king of Egypt, is usually considered to be the earliest known variant of the Cinderella story.Roger Lancelyn Green: ''Tales of Ancient Egypt'', Penguin UK, 2011, , chapter "The Land of Egypt" The first literary European version of the story was published in Italy by Giambattista Basile in his ''Pentamerone'' in 1634; the version that is now most widely known in the English-speaking world was published in French by Charles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Broadcasting Corporation
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The Alchemist (play)
''The Alchemist'' is a comedy by English playwright Ben Jonson. First performed in 1610 by the King's Men, it is generally considered Jonson's best and most characteristic comedy; Samuel Taylor Coleridge believed that it had one of the three most perfect plots in literature. The play's clever fulfilment of the classical unities and vivid depiction of human folly have made it one of the few Renaissance plays (except the works of Shakespeare) with a continuing life on stage, apart from a period of neglect during the Victorian era. Background ''The Alchemist'' premiered 34 years after the first permanent public theatre (The Theatre) opened in London; it is, then, a product of the early maturity of commercial drama in London. Only one of the University Wits who had transformed drama in the Elizabethan period remained alive (this was Thomas Lodge); in the other direction, the last great playwright to flourish before the Interregnum, James Shirley, was already a teenager. The theatr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Jonson
Benjamin "Ben" Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 – c. 16 August 1637) was an English playwright and poet. Jonson's artistry exerted a lasting influence upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours; he is best known for the satirical plays ''Every Man in His Humour'' (1598), '' Volpone, or The Fox'' (c. 1606), '' The Alchemist'' (1610) and '' Bartholomew Fair'' (1614) and for his lyric and epigrammatic poetry. "He is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I." Jonson was a classically educated, well-read and cultured man of the English Renaissance with an appetite for controversy (personal and political, artistic and intellectual) whose cultural influence was of unparalleled breadth upon the playwrights and the poets of the Jacobean era (1603–1625) and of the Caroline era (1625–1642)."Ben Jonson", ''Grolier Encyclopedia of Knowledge'', volume 10, p. 388. His ancestor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Embassy Theatre (London)
{{Infobox venue , name = Embassy Theatre , native_name = , native_name_lang = , image = Embassy Theatre London.jpg , image_size = , image_alt = , caption = , image_map = , map_caption = , pushpin_map = , pushpin_map_caption= , address = 64 Eton Avenue , city = London , country = United Kingdom , designation = , coordinates = {{coord, 51.5442, -0.1738, type:landmark_region:GB, display=inline,title , architect = Andrew Mather , builder = , owner = Royal Central School of Speech and Drama , tenant = , operator = , capacity = 234 , type = , opened = 1890 , reopened = , yearsactive = , rebuilt = 1928, 1945, 2003 , closed = , demolished = , othernames = Eton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime And Punishment
''Crime and Punishment'' ( pre-reform Russian: ; post-reform rus, Преступление и наказание, Prestupléniye i nakazániye, prʲɪstʊˈplʲenʲɪje ɪ nəkɐˈzanʲɪje) is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published in the literary journal ''The Russian Messenger'' in twelve monthly installments during 1866.University of Minnesota – Study notes for Crime and Punishment – (retrieved on 1 May 2006) It was later published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoevsky's full-length novels following his return from ten years of exile in Siberia. ''Cri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaston Baty
Gaston Baty (26 May 1885 – 13 October 1952), whose full name was Jean-Baptiste-Marie-Gaston Baty, was a French playwright and theatre director. He was born in Pélussin, Loire, France. Career In 1921, Baty formed his own company ''Les Compagnons de la Chimère'' he Companions of the Chimera:157 which mounted productions in a variety of Parisian theatres in the 1920s and 30s.:2 He was also a member of ''Le Cartel des Quatre'' he Cartel of Four a group of four directors in Paris who offered an alternative to both "academic and commercial theatre".:178 His stage adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's ''Madame Bovary'' was presented in an English translation on Broadway in 1937. Constance Cummings played the title role. Baty is also the author of a play entitled ''Dulcinea'', which has been filmed twice and produced on television in 1989. It is an original play that takes its inspiration from Miguel de Cervantes's great novel ''Don Quixote'' and uses some of its characters. The seco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Old Dark House (1932 Film)
''The Old Dark House'' is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy horror film directed by James Whale. Based on the 1927 novel '' Benighted'' by J.B. Priestley, the film features an ensemble cast that includes Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Stuart, Charles Laughton, Lilian Bond, Ernest Thesiger, Raymond Massey and Eva Moore. Set in interwar Wales, the film follows five travellers who seek shelter from a violent storm in the decaying country house home of the eccentric Femm family. The adaptation rights to Priestley's novel, a social commentary on contemporary British class structures, were acquired by Universal Pictures at Whale's insistence following the completion of ''Frankenstein'' (1931) and during development on ''The Invisible Man'' (1933). The screenplay was written by Benn W. Levy, who had previously scripted ''Waterloo Bridge'' (1931) for Whale and Universal, with uncredited contributions by ''The Invisible Man''s R. C. Sheriff, and serves as a largely faithful adaptat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
