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Coquette Falls
A coquette is a flirtatious woman. It may refer to: * ''The Coquette'' (film), a 1917 German silent comedy film * ''Coquette'' (film), an Academy Award-winning 1929 film starring Mary Pickford * ''Coqueta '' (1949 film), a Mexican musical film * ''Coqueta'' (1983 film), a Mexican musical drama film * "Coquette" (song), 1929 song by Johnny Green and Carmen Lombardo *"Coquette", a song by Irving Berlin *Coquette Productions, the production company of Courteney Cox and David Arquette *''The Coquette'', a 1797 epistolary novel by Hannah Webster Foster * HMS ''Coquette'', various ships of the British Royal Navy *Coquettes, several species of hummingbird in the genus '' Lophornis'', and the Racket-tailed coquette The racket-tailed coquette (''Discosura longicaudus''; sometimes ''Discosura longicauda'') is a species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae native to northern South America. Taxonomy The racket-tailed coquette was formally described in 178 ... in the genus ''Discosura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flirtatious
Flirting or coquetry is a Social behavior, social and Human sexual activity, sexual behavior involving spoken or written communication, as well as body language. It is either to suggest interest in a deeper relationship with the other person or, if done playfully, for amusement. It usually involves speaking and behaving in a way that suggests a mildly greater intimacy than the actual personal relationship, relationship between the parties would justify. This may be accomplished by communicating a sense of playfulness or irony. Double entendres (where one meaning is more formally appropriate, and another more suggestive) may be used. Body language can include flicking the hair, eye contact, brief touching, open stances, proximity, and other gestures. Flirting may be done in an under-exaggerated, shy or frivolous style. Vocal communication of interest can include, for example, * Alterations in vocal tone (such as pace, volume, and intonation), * Challenges (including teasing, que ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Coquette (film)
''The Coquette'' (German: ''Die Erzkokette'') is a 1917 German silent comedy film directed by Franz Eckstein and Rosa Porten and starring Porten, Reinhold Schünzel, and Eduard von Winterstein.Bock & Bergfelder p.433 It premiered at the Marmorhaus in Berlin. Cast * Reinhold Schünzel as Tertianer Rolf * Rosa Porten * Gustav von Wangenheim * Eduard von Winterstein Eduard Clemens Franz Anna Freiherr von Wangenheim (1 August 1871 – 22 July 1961), known as Eduard von Winterstein, was an Austrian-German film actor who appeared in over one hundred fifty German films during the silent and sound eras. He was ... References Bibliography * Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009. External links * 1917 films Films of the German Empire German silent feature films Films directed by Franz Eckstein Films directed by Rosa Porten German black-and-white films 1917 comedy films German comedy films Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coquette (film)
''Coquette'' is a 1929 American pre-Code drama film, starring Mary Pickford. The film was a box office success. For her role, Pickford won the second Academy Award for Best Actress. Plot Norma Besant, daughter of a Southern doctor, is an incorrigible flirt and has many suitors. Her father Dr. Besant (John St. Polis) favors Stanley ( Matt Moore), who is taken with Norma. However Norma has met a simple man named Michael Jeffrey (Johnny Mack Brown) who she has fallen madly in love with. Dr. Besant disapproves of Michael and orders Norma to never see him again. Norma gives him their word, then promptly plans to marry Michael in 6 months, when he's made 'good in the hills' so he can buy her a home in the valley. A few months pass and Michael sneaks down from the hills to see Norma at a Country Club dance. Wanting more time alone they sneak off to Michael's mother's cabin. According to Norma they made coffee and talked all night about the future. She returns home the next day at 4am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coqueta (1949 Film)
''Coquette'' (Spanish:''Coqueta'') is a 1949 Mexican musical film directed by Fernando A. Rivero, and starring Ninón Sevilla, Agustín Lara, and Víctor Junco.Wood, p. 287 The film's art direction was by José Rodríguez Granada. Cast * Ninón Sevilla as Marta del Valle * Agustín Lara as Don Rubén * Víctor Junco as Luciano Martínez, el caimán * Armando Silvestre as Rodolfo * José Luis Moreno as Margarito * César del Campo as Mario Roel * Tana Lynn as Belén * Waldo Custodio as Sr. Rivera, dueño cabaret * Irma Haro Esmeralda as Cantante * Haydeé Caceres * Kiko Mendive as Bailarín * Mercedes Soler as Maestra * Jorge Mondragón as Doctor * Gaby Roman * Enriqueta Reza as Tendera solterona * Lupe Carriles as Tendera solterona * Gerardo del Castillo as Amigo del Luciano * Ana María Hernández as Miembra del patronato * Concepción Martínez as Huesped hotel * Kika Meyer as Cabaretera borracha * José Morcillo José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coqueta (1983 Film)
''Coqueta'' (in English: ''Coquette'') is a 1983 Mexican musical drama film. Plot It tells the story of Rocío (Lucerito aka Lucero), an optimistic adolescent, who finds true love in Pablo (Pedrito Fernández aka Pedro Fernández). However, the innocent love of this pair is destroyed when Roció faints at her birthday party, which leads to the diagnosis of a grave heart defect. In desperation, due to the possibility of losing his beloved Roció, Pablo tries to hide his sadness, and show great bravery for the well-being of the girl he adores. Cast * Lucero as Rocío * Pedro Fernández as Pablo * Rodolfo Gómez Rodolfo Gómez Orozco (born 30 October 1950 in Delicias, Chihuahua) is a Mexican retired long-distance runner, who was one of the leading runners represented from Mexico in the 1970s and 1980s. He won the Tokyo Marathon (1981), the ... as Ricardo * Sergio Gómez as Luis * Antonio de Hud as Juan * Lucero León as Mother of Pablo Promotion This ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coquette (song)
"Coquette" is a 1928 fox trot jazz standard. It was composed by Johnny Green and Carmen Lombardo, with lyrics by Gus Kahn. Guy Lombardo had great success with the song in 1928. Film appearance * Cockeyed Cavaliers (1934) Notable recordings * Guy Lombardo & his Royal Canadians (vocal Carmen Lombardo) recorded on March 21, 1928, and released on Columbia 1345-D. * Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra (recorded on March 2, 1928, and released on Victor 21301. * The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra recorded on March 14, 1928 and released on Okeh 41007 * Rudy Vallée & His Connecticut Yankees - recorded February 7, 1929 and released on Victor 21880. * The Ink Spots - recorded August 17, 1939 and released on Decca 3077. * Louis Armstrong - recorded April 17, 1942 and released on Decca 4327. * Django Reinhardt with Stéphane Grappelli (1946) * Frankie Laine (1947) * Billy Eckstine recorded for MGM Records in 1953 and released on MGM 11439. This version briefly reached the Billboard charts at No. 26. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin (born Israel Beilin; yi, ישראל ביילין; May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989) was a Russian-American composer, songwriter and lyricist. His music forms a large part of the Great American Songbook. Born in Imperial Russia, Berlin arrived in the United States at the age of five. He published his first song, "Marie from Sunny Italy", in 1907, receiving 33 cents for the publishing rights,Starr, Larry and Waterman, Christopher, American Popular Music: From Minstrelsy to MP3, Oxford University Press, 2009, pg. 64 and had his first major international hit, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", in 1911. He also was an owner of the Music Box Theatre on Broadway. For much of his career Berlin could not read sheet music, and was such a limited piano player that he could only play in the key of F-sharp; he used his custom piano equipped with a transposing lever when he needed to play in keys other than F-sharp. "Alexander's Ragtime Band" sparked an international dance craze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coquette Productions
Coquette Productions is a film and television production company founded by Courteney Cox and David Arquette in June 2004. The company is located in Los Angeles, California. The company name is a portmanteau of Cox's and Arquette's surnames. Filmography Television * ''Mix It Up'' (2003) * ''Talk Show Diaries'' (2005) * ''Daisy Does America'' (with Warner Bros. Television) (2005) * ''Dirt'' (with FX Productions, Matthew Carnahan Circus Products, Touchstone Television and ABC Studios) (2007–2008) * ''Cougar Town'' (with Doozer and ABC Studios) (2009–2015) * '' Celebrity Name Game'' (with Entertain the Brutes, Green Mountain West Inc., CBS Television Studios and Fremantle North America) (2014–2017) Film * '' Bigger Than the Sky'' (with Neverland Films) (2005) * ''Slingshot'' (2005) * ''The Tripper'' (with Raw Entertainment) (2007) * '' The Butler's in Love'' (with Le Tourment Vert and Bischoff Hervey Entertainment) (2008) * ''The Big Change'' (2009) * ''Just Before I Go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Coquette
''The Coquette or, The History of Eliza Wharton'' is an epistolary novel by Hannah Webster Foster. It was published anonymously in 1797, and did not appear under the author's real name until 1856, 16 years after Foster's death. It was one of the best-selling novels of its time and was reprinted eight times between 1824 and 1828. A fictionalized account of the much-publicized death of a socially elite Connecticut woman after giving birth to a stillborn, illegitimate child at a roadside tavern, Foster's novel highlights the social conditions that lead to the downfall of an otherwise well-educated and socially adept woman. List of characters * Eliza Wharton— the protagonist of the novel who, following the death of her fiancé is pursued by two men: Reverend J. Boyer and Major Peter Sanford. Her free spirit and lack of commitment to the male sex bestow her the term "coquette." Her coquettish nature eventually leads to her demise. * Rev. J. Boyer — the first of Eliza's suitors. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Coquette
Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Coquette''. A seventh was ordered but never completed: * was a 28-gun sixth rate captured from the French in 1783 and in service in 1785. * was a 20-gun sixth rate launched in 1807 and sold in 1817. She became a whaler and was lost in 1835. * HMS ''Coquette'' was to have been an 18-gun corvette. She was ordered in 1835 and cancelled in 1851. * was a wooden screw gunvessel launched in 1855 and broken up in 1868. * was an composite screw gunboat launched in 1871 and sold in 1889. * was a destroyer In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, manoeuvrable, long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against powerful short range attackers. They were originally developed in ... launched in 1897 and sunk by a mine from a German submarine in 1916 (22 casualties). * was an launched in 1943 and scrapped in 1958. {{DEFAULTSORT:Coquette, Hms Royal Navy s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lophornis
''Lophornis'' is a genus of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae. These are all tiny birds, ranking among the smallest hummingbirds. No species exceeds and most are under in total length, weighing 3 grams or less. The male coquettes are noted from their outlandish, colorful crests and markings, the females being more subdued. Taxonomy and species list The genus ''Lophornis'' was introduced by the French naturalist René Lesson in 1829. The type species was subsequently designated as the tufted coquette (''Lophornis ornatus''). The generic name combines the Ancient Greek Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic peri ... ''lophos'' meaning "crest" or "tuft" with ''ornis'' meaning "bird". The genus contains the following eleven species: References Taxonomy articles cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Racket-tailed Coquette
The racket-tailed coquette (''Discosura longicaudus''; sometimes ''Discosura longicauda'') is a species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae native to northern South America. Taxonomy The racket-tailed coquette was formally described in 1788 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's ''Systema Naturae''. He placed it with all the other hummingbirds in the genus ''Trochilus'' and coined the binomial name ''Trochilus longicaudus''. Gmelin based his description on the "L'oiseau-mouche à raquettes" that had been described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1779 in his ''Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux''. Buffon did not specify the origin of his specimen but in 1902 Hans von Berlepsch and Ernst Hartert designated the type locality as Cayenne, French Guiana. The racket-tailed coquette is now placed with four other hummingbirds in the genus '' Discosura'' that was introduced in 1850 by the Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
