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I’m A Dreamer, Montreal
''I'm a Dreamer Montreal'' is a play by Stewart Parker. Parker's play won the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize. It was commissioned by BBC radio 3 in April 1975 and televised for ITV Playhouse in March 1979http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/10150 BFI Film & TV Database The play title derives from a pun by the Marx Brothers in the film ''Animal Crackers'' (1930). Groucho asks his brother to "play the song about Montreal". Chico asks, "Montreal?, and Groucho replies, "I'm a dreamer, Montreal." The pun on the true title of the 1929 song, " I'm a Dreamer, aren't we all?" has been much-recycled not least by Parker. An early popular recording was by Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra on October 16, 1929, with a vocal group including Bing Crosby and this reached the charts in 1929. In Belfast, where the play is set, music librarian Nelson Gloverby ( Bryan Murray) lives in a dream world. A showband singer by night, he is unconcerned with his audience's irritation at his inability t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stewart Parker
James Stewart Parker (20 October 1941 – 2 November 1988) was a Northern Irish playwright. Early life Born into a working-class family in East Belfast in 1941, he was one of the post-WWII generation to be the first in their family to attain third-level education. At Queen’s University Belfast in the early 1960s, he was a founding member of the Belfast Writers’ Group convened by Philip Hobsbaum, along with Seamus Heaney. But his long-term passion was theatre. Having been influenced as a schoolboy by the visionary teacher John Malone, he immersed himself in student drama as an undergraduate. His studies were interrupted for a time when he was diagnosed with a bone cancer that resulted in the amputation of his left leg. Parker later captured this experience in his novel Hopdance, edited by his biographer Marilynn Richtarik and published posthumously in 2017. After embarking on an MA at Queen’s, he married Kate Ireland in 1964 and immediately left Belfast for the Unit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I'm A Dreamer, Aren't We All?
''Sunny Side Up'' (stylized on-screen as ''Sunnyside Up'') is a 1929 American sound ( All-Talking) pre-Code Fox Movietone musical film starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, with original songs, story, and dialogue by B. G. DeSylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson. The film features a color sequences in the Multicolor process. The romantic comedy/musical premiered on October 3, 1929, at the Gaiety Theatre in New York City.NY Times October 4, 1929 ''Movie Review'' The film was directed by David Butler and has a running time of 121 minutes. Plot The film centres around a ''Will-they won't-they'' romance. Wealthy Jack Cromwell from Long Island runs off to New York City on account of his fiancee's relentless flirting. He attends an Independence Day block party where Molly Carr, from Yorkville, Manhattan, falls in love with him. Comic relief is provided by grocer Eric Swenson, above whose shop Molly and her flatmate, Bea Nichols, live.The Times, December 30, 1929, ''New Gallery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeananne Crowley
Jeananne Crowley (born 18 December 1949) is an Irish actress and writer who has worked in Irish theatre and in British film and television. She appeared in the film ''Educating Rita'' and is possibly best known for her role as Nellie Keene in the BBC drama series '' Tenko''. Actress Television Crowley has appeared in '' The Clinic'' and ''Proof''. Other television credits include: ''The Onedin Line''; '' Shoestring''; ''Reilly, Ace of Spies''; ''Doctor Who'' (as Princess Vena in the serial '' Timelash''); and The Racing Game (as Meg Appleby). Film Crowley has appeared in several films, including ''Educating Rita'' (1983), alongside Julie Walters and Michael Caine; ''The Fifth Province'' (1997); and '' Dead Bodies'' (2003). Stage Crowley is a veteran stage actress, having been a member of the Royal National Theatre in London for a period in the 1970s. Beginning in 1972, she appeared in several productions at The Abbey Theatre in Dublin. In 1975, she played the title role in ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Troubles
The Troubles () were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland conflict, it began in the late 1960s and is usually deemed to have ended with the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. Although the Troubles mostly took place in Northern Ireland, at times violence spilled over into parts of the Republic of Ireland, England, and mainland Europe. Sometimes described as an Asymmetric warfare, asymmetric or Irregular warfare, irregular war or a low-intensity conflict, the Troubles were a political and nationalistic struggle fueled by historical events, with a strong Ethnic conflict, ethnic and sectarian dimension, fought over the Partition of Ireland, status of Northern Ireland. Unionism in Ireland, Unionists and Ulster loyalism, loyalists, who for Plantation of Ulster, historical reasons were mostly Ulster Protestants, wanted Northern Ireland to remain within the United Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Showband
The Irish showband () was a dance band format popular in Ireland from the 1950s to the 1980s, with its peak in the 1960s. These bands typically had seven to ten members, including a rhythm section and a brass section with various combinations of trumpet, saxophone, and trombone, and were fronted by lead singers. Some included comedy skits in their shows. Their repertoire included rock and roll, country and western, Dixieland jazz, big band tunes, Irish Cèilidh, Céilí dances, Latin, folk, and more. Showbands were noted for the energy they brought to live performances, their chart-topping covers, and sometimes choreographed performances. Many such bands toured in Ireland, and some of the successful ones later performed in Britain, the US, Canada, on the German nightclub circuit, and on U.S. military bases in Europe. History 1940s–1950s: Big Band Era In the 1940s and 1950s, popular dance bands in Ireland usually had ten to fifteen musicians, sometimes more, and were known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
