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Carol Raye
Carol Raye (17 January 1923 – 18 June 2022 as Kathleen Mary Corkrey and also billed as Carole Raye) was a British-born Australian actress of film, television, radio, theatre and revue, comedian, singer, dancer, and radio and television producer and director, as well as a TV network assistant and media personality. Raye was one of the first female executives in Australia, at a time when the industry was dominated by male counterparts. She was known for her career, spanning some seven decades from the late 1930s, firstly as a film star and theatre performer in the United Kingdom in which she would star, and often dance and sing, in such movies as ''Song of Romance'', '' Strawberry Roan'' and ''Waltz Time'', after which she briefly worked in Kenya, before immigrating to Australia, where she became notable for her small screen roles. Raye was best known as the producer and original star of the iconic TV satire ''The Mavis Bramston Show'' alongside Gordon Chater and Barry Crey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotherhithe
Rotherhithe () is a district of south-east London, England, and part of the London Borough of Southwark. It is on a peninsula on the south bank of the Thames, facing Wapping, Shadwell and Limehouse on the north bank, as well as the Isle of Dogs to the east of the Thames and is a part of the London Docklands, Docklands area. It borders Bermondsey to the west and Deptford to the south east. Rotherhithe has a long history as a port, with Elizabethan era, Elizabethan shipyards and working docks until the 1970s. In the 1980s, the area along the river was redeveloped as housing through a mix of warehouse conversions and new-build developments. Following the arrival of the Jubilee line in 1999 (giving quick connections to the West End of London, West End and to Canary Wharf) and the London Overground in 2010 (providing a quick route to the City of London), the rest of Rotherhithe is now a gentrification, gentrifying residential and commuter area, with urban regeneration progressing arou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No, No, Nanette
''No, No, Nanette'' is a musical comedy with lyrics by Irving Caesar and Otto Harbach, music by Vincent Youmans, and a book by Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel, based on Mandel's 1919 Broadway play ''My Lady Friends''. The farcical story involves three couples who find themselves together at a cottage in Atlantic City in the midst of a blackmail scheme, focusing on a young, fun-loving Manhattan heiress who naughtily runs off for a weekend, leaving her unhappy fiancé. Its songs include the well-known " Tea for Two" and "I Want to Be Happy". During its 1924 pre-Broadway tour, ''No, No, Nanette'' became a hit in Chicago, and the production stayed there for over a year. In 1925, the show opened both on Broadway and in the West End, running 321 and 665 performances respectively. Film versions and revivals followed. A popular 1971 Broadway revival, with a book adapted by Burt Shevelove, led to the piece becoming a favorite of school and community groups for a time. A popular myth holds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ticket-of-Leave Man (play)
''The Ticket-of-Leave Man'' is an 1863 stage melodrama in four acts by the British writer Tom Taylor, based on a French drama, ''Le Retour de Melun''. It takes its name from the Ticket of Leave issued to convicts when they were released from jail on parole. A recently returned convict is blackmailed by another man into committing a robbery, but is rescued thanks to the intervention of a detective. It has been described as probably being the first play about a detective. The play introduced the character of Hawkshaw the Detective, with "Hawkshaw" becoming a synonym for a detective. It was not well received by critics, but proved very popular with audiences and was constantly revived, becoming one of the standard works of Victorian melodrama. First production The play was first produced in March 1863 at the Olympic Theatre in London. The cast included Henry Gartside Neville as Robert Brierly, Horace Wigan as Hawkshaw, Robert Soutar as Green Jones and Kate Saville as May Edward ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dear Miss Phoebe
''Dear Miss Phoebe'' is a musical with a book by Christopher Hassall and music by Harry Parr-Davies. It is based on the play '' Quality Street'' by J.M. Barrie. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham before transferring to the Phoenix Theatre in London's West End, where it ran for 283 performances between 13 October 1950 and 16 June 1951. The original London cast included Carol Raye, Peter Graves, Olga Lindo, Moya Nugent, Gretchen Franklin and Noel Dyson Elsie Noël Dyson (23 December 1916 – 29 June 1995) was an English character actress Dyson played a number of roles in theatre, television and films (including in telemovies) but is best remembered as a versatile character actress in TV seri .... The song "I Leave My Heart in an English Garden" from it is particularly well-known. References Bibliography * Wearing, J. P. ''The London Stage 1950-1959: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel''. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 1950 musicals British m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Merry Widow
''The Merry Widow'' (german: Die lustige Witwe, links=no ) is an operetta by the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár. The librettists, Viktor Léon and Leo Stein, based the story – concerning a rich widow, and her countrymen's attempt to keep her money in the principality by finding her the right husband – on an 1861 comedy play, (''The Embassy Attaché'') by Henri Meilhac. The operetta has enjoyed extraordinary international success since its 1905 premiere in Vienna and continues to be frequently revived and recorded. Film and other adaptations have also been made. Well-known music from the score includes the " Vilja Song", "" ("You'll Find Me at Maxim's"), and the "Merry Widow Waltz". Background In 1861, Henri Meilhac premiered a comic play in Paris, (''The Embassy Attaché''), in which the Parisian ambassador of a poor German grand duchy, Baron Scharpf, schemes to arrange a marriage between his country's richest widow (a French woman) and a Count to keep her mon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
While I Live
''While I Live'' is a 1947 British drama film directed and co-written by John Harlow and starring Sonia Dresdel, Tom Walls and Carol Raye. ''While I Live'' is best remembered for its musical theme "The Dream of Olwen" composed by Charles Williams, reprised at intervals throughout the film, which became hugely popular in its time and is still regularly performed. The film itself became widely known as ''The Dream of Olwen''. It was based on a play by Robert Bell, in which Sonia Dresdel also starred. Plot In Cornwall in 1922, young pianist and composer Olwen Trevelyan (Audrey Fildes) is struggling with the ending of a piano tone poem she is composing. Driven to complete the piece by her domineering elder sister Julia (Sonia Dresdel), Olwen becomes agitated and despondent, and one night sleepwalks to the edge of a cliff near their home. Julia follows her and shouts her name but Olwen, abruptly awakened, loses her balance and falls to her death on the rocks below. Julia is unab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Fingers
''Green Fingers'' is a 1947 British drama film directed by John Harlow and starring Robert Beatty, Carol Raye and Nova Pilbeam. The film title does not use the term green fingers in its normal context, alluding to an untaught and natural skill at growing plants, but rather applies it to the world of alternative medicine and the ancient concept of individuals being natural "healers". Plot Thomas Stone, a seaman on a fishing trawler, discovers that he has what appear to be healing powers when a crewmate is injured. He shows a natural aptitude as a healer. He begins training formally as an osteopath, but his natural flair in combination with human sympathy causes him to treat the daughter of the family where he lodges two months before he is due to qualify. He cures her, enabling her to walk, but is thrown out of his studies as a result. He does, however, marry the girl. He also gets much press coverage for his cure - attracting many clients. During his studies, he had waited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Harlow (director)
John Harlow (19 August 1896 – 1977) was an English film director, active from the 1930s to the 1950s. Harlow worked for smaller studios, mainly in crime/thriller genre potboilers, with his better known films including ''Candles at Nine'' (1944), the Sexton Blake thrillers ''Meet Sexton Blake'' and ''The Echo Murders'' (both 1945), ''Appointment with Crime'' (1946) and the 1947 reincarnation drama ''While I Live''. He also directed two late entries in the popular, if critically unappreciated, Old Mother Riley series. Filmography (director) *1933: '' My Lucky Star'' *1934: '' Master and Man'' *1941: '' Spellbound'' *1942: '' This Was Paris'' *1943: '' The Dark Tower'' *1944: ''Candles at Nine'' *1944: ''Headline'' *1945: ''The Agitator'' *1945: ''Meet Sexton Blake'' *1945: ''The Echo Murders'' *1946: ''Appointment with Crime'' *1947: ''Green Fingers'' *1947: ''While I Live'' *1949: ''Old Mother Riley's New Venture'' *1950: ''Old Mother Riley Headmistress'' *1953: '' Tho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montgomery Tully
Montgomery Tully (6 May 190410 October 1988) was an Irish film director and writer. Film career Born in Dublin, Tully studied at the University of London, and originally entered the film industry as a director of documentaries. Later, Tully worked on low-budget British films, and is mostly known for his crime dramas. One of his films, ''No Road Back'' (1957), featured Sean Connery in a very early role. His last film, ''The Terrornauts'', was made in 1967. He also worked in television, directing episodes of shows such as ''Edgar Wallace Mysteries'', ''Kraft Mystery Theatre'', ''Man from Interpol'' and ''Fabian of the Yard''. Partial filmography * ''Waltz Time (1945 film), Waltz Time'' (1945) * ''Murder in Reverse?'' (1945) * ''Spring Song (1946 film), Spring Song'' (1946) * ''Mrs. Fitzherbert'' (1947) * ''Boys in Brown'' (1949) * ''A Tale of Five Cities'' (a.k.a. ''A Tale of Five Women '') (1951) * ''Girdle of Gold'' (1952) * ''Small Town Story (film), Small Town Story'' (1953) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spring Song (1946 Film)
''Spring Song'' is a 1946 British drama film directed by Montgomery Tully and starring Peter Graves, Carol Raye and Lawrence O'Madden. The film follows the history of a brooch after it is given as a present by a man to a woman in 1911. Cast * Peter Graves - Tony Winster * Carol Raye - Janet Hill/Janet Ware * Lawrence O'Madden - Johnnie Ware * Leni Lynn - Vera Dale * Netta Westcott - Lady Norchester * Diana Calderwood - Mary Norchester * David Horne - Sir Anthony * Finlay Currie - Cobb * Alan Wheatley - Menelli * Peter Penn - Carrington * Maire O'Neill - Dresser * Gerhard Kempinski - Hotel Manager * Lois Maxwell Lois Ruth Maxwell (born Lois Ruth Hooker; 14 February 1927 – 29 September 2007) was a Canadian actress who portrayed Miss Moneypenny in the first fourteen Eon-produced ''James Bond'' films (1962–1985). She was the first actress to play the ... - Penelope Cobb * Jack Billings - Dancer References External links * 1946 films 1946 drama films Films directe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul L
Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) *Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity *Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Christian missionary and writer *Pope Paul (other), multiple Popes of the Roman Catholic Church *Saint Paul (other), multiple other people and locations named "Saint Paul" Roman and Byzantine empire *Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus (c. 229 BC – 160 BC), Roman general *Julius Paulus Prudentissimus (), Roman jurist *Paulus Catena (died 362), Roman notary *Paulus Alexandrinus (4th century), Hellenistic astrologer *Paul of Aegina or Paulus Aegineta (625–690), Greek surgeon Royals *Paul I of Russia (1754–1801), Tsar of Russia *Paul of Greece (1901–1964), King of Greece Other people *Paul the Deacon or Paulus Diaconus (c. 720 – c. 799), Italian Benedictine monk *Paul (father of Maurice), the father of Maurice, Byzan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Elvey
Maurice Elvey (11 November 1887 – 28 August 1967) was one of the most prolific film directors in British history. He directed nearly 200 films between 1913 and 1957. During the silent film era he directed as many as twenty films per year. He also produced more than fifty films - his own as well as films directed by others.Rachael Low:''The History of British Film (Volume 3): The History of the British Film 1914 - 1918'' Linked 2015-03-18 Biography Born William Seward Folkard in Stockton-on-Tees, he ran away from home at the age of nine, seeking his fortune i ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
