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Joan Maude
Joan Maude (16 January 1908 – 28 September 1998) was an English actress, active from the 1920s to the 1950s. She is probably best known for playing the Chief Recorder in the 1946 Powell and Pressburger film '' A Matter of Life and Death''. The daughter of actors Charles Maude and Nancy Price, Maude's great grandmother on her father's side was the singer Jenny Lind, known as the "Swedish Nightingale". Maude was a cousin of the actor-manager Cyril Maude. Maude married firstly Scottish Rugby International player and journalist Frank Waters (1909-1954), with whom she had a daughter. In 1956 she married Oliver Woods (1911-1972). She was the writer, producer, and production designer of the short film ''All Hallowe'en'' (1952). Her mother, an author as well as an actress, published a book ''Behind the night-light: the by-world of a child of three'' in 1912 recording 'faithfully' the beasts and animals Joan imagined as a 3 year old. Filmography *''This Freedom'' (1923) - Hilda *' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madame Yevonde
Yevonde Philone Middleton (née Cumbers; 5 January 1893 – 22 December 1975) was an English photographer, who pioneered the use of colour in portrait photography. She used the professional name Madame Yevonde. Early life Educated at the liberal and progressive Lingholt Boarding School in Hindhead and subsequently at the Guilde Internationale in Paris, as well as boarding schools in Belgium and France, from an early age Yevonde Cumbers displayed an independent attitude. Her heroine was women's liberationist Mary Wollstonecraft, and she joined the Suffragette movement in 1910. Upon leaving school, she returned to the family home in Bromley, Kent, and became active in suffragette activities, but realised that she was not cut out to be a leader in the field of women's rights. Cumbers eventually ceased her active involvement, but not before answering an advert she had seen in The Suffragette for a photographer's apprentice. She attended an interview with Lena Connell, who took ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Family
1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. In conventions of sign where zero is considered neither positive nor negative, 1 is the first and smallest positive integer. It is also sometimes considered the first of the infinite sequence of natural numbers, followed by 2, although by other definitions 1 is the second natural number, following 0. The fundamental mathematical property of 1 is to be a multiplicative identity, meaning that any number multiplied by 1 equals the same number. Most if not all properties of 1 can be deduced from this. In advanced mathematics, a multiplicative identity is often denoted 1, even if it is not a number. 1 is by convention not considered a prime number; this was not universally accepted until the mid-20th century. Additionally, 1 is the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rake's Progress (film)
''The Rake's Progress'' is a 1945 British comedy-drama film. In the United States, the title was changed to ''Notorious Gentleman''. The film caused controversy with U.S. censors of the time, who trimmed scenes for what was considered graphic amoral and sexual content. Plot The plot follows the career of upper-class cad Vivian Kenway (Rex Harrison). He is sent down from Oxford University for placing a chamber pot on the Martyrs' Memorial. Sent to South America after his father pulls a favour from a friend, he is fired for heckling the managing director while drunk. A friend offers him a job, but he responds by seducing his wife and is found out. His jobs decline, as he moves from employment as racing driver to shop assistant to dancing partner. He lives a life of womanising and heavy drinking and constantly runs up large debts, which his family has to pay. One girl tries to kill herself. Driving while drunk and taking risks, he crashes and causes the death of his father, Colo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Day (1945 Film)
''Great Day'' is a 1945 British drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Eric Portman, Flora Robson and Sheila Sim. It is based on the play of the same name by Lesley Storm. It was made at Denham Studios with location filming at various sites including Denham village. The film's sets were designed by the art director William C. Andrews. The film recorded a loss of £1,511.Richard Jewell & Vernon Harbin, ''The RKO Story.'' New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House, 1982. p212 Plot The small (fictional) English village of Denley is thrown into excitement by the impending 'surprise' visit of Eleanor Roosevelt. However, the family of the impoverished local squire, whose wife is the moving spirit of the local Women's Institute, is faced with several crises. Margaret 'Meg' Ellis, their daughter, works as a Land Girl on a nearby farm. She is loved by the farm's owner, who is twice her age, but is reluctant to allow him to announce their engagement, as she is still being ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strawberry Roan (1945 Film)
''Strawberry Roan'' is a 1945 British drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring William Hartnell and Carol Raye. The screenplay was developed from the then-popular 1932 novel of the same name by Wiltshire author A. G. Street. Plot Farmer Chris Lowe meets and falls in love with Molly, a dancer. Despite being a city girl, she accepts his proposal of marriage and after the wedding goes to live on the farm. In an attempt to ease her into farm life, Chris buys her a strawberry roan calf to look after, but she shows no interest in it, preferring to concentrate on a life of shopping, parties and generally gadding about with Chris. Being much in love and enjoying her company, he goes along with it, but it causes him to give less and less of his attention to the farm business. After one of his friends brings this home to him, he tells Molly that the farm is in financial difficulties and that things will have to change and she must accept that his first priority must be the busin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lamp Still Burns
''The Lamp Still Burns'' is a 1943 British drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Rosamund John, Stewart Granger and Godfrey Tearle. Its plot concerns a woman architect who changes careers to become a nurse. It was based on the 1942 novel ''One Pair of Feet'' by Monica Dickens. Like the novel, the film is a plea for better conditions in English hospitals – and, more specifically, for better treatment of England's selfless nurses. ''The Lamp Still Burns'' was produced by actor Leslie Howard, who was killed in the service of his country not long after the film was released. Plot Laurence Rains is annoyed when architect Hilary Clarke insists he must enlarge the first aid room in his factory to satisfy government regulations, even though it has the best safety record in the country. He encounters her once again, now a nurse trainee assisting a doctor treating one of his employees. He finds out that Clarke only became an architect to please her father, who had no sons t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turn Of The Tide
''Turn of the Tide'' (1935) is a British drama film directed by Norman Walker and starring John Garrick, Geraldine Fitzgerald and Wilfrid Lawson. It was the first feature film made by J. Arthur Rank. Lacking a distributor for his film, Rank set up his own distribution and production company which subsequently grew into his later empire. The film contains many Whitby registered boats (WY) and contains much documentary-style footage of making and repairing lobster creels. Plot The film is set in the fictional Yorkshire fishing village of Bramblewick and relates the rivalry between two fishing families. It is filmed mainly around Robin Hood's Bay (evidenced in the WY identity codes on the fishing boats). The characters speak in the local Yorkshire accent and dialect. Rivalry between the lobster fishermen begins when one boat is fitted with a new diesel engine. Ropes are cut so the lobsters cannot be retrieved. The feuding comes to an end when a man from one family says he wants to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jud Süß (1934 Film)
(, "Süss the Jew") is a 1940 Nazi German historical drama and propaganda film produced by Terra Film at the behest of Joseph Goebbels. It is considered one of the most antisemitic films of all time. The film was directed by Veit Harlan, who wrote the screenplay with Eberhard Wolfgang Möller and Ludwig Metzger. The leading roles were played by Ferdinand Marian and Harlan's wife Kristina Söderbaum; Werner Krauss and Heinrich George played key supporting roles. The film has been characterized as "one of the most notorious and successful pieces of antisemitic film propaganda produced in Nazi Germany." It was a great success in Germany, and was seen by 20 million people. Although its budget of 2 million Reichsmarks was considered high for films of that era, the box office receipts of 6.5 million Reichsmarks made it a financial success. Heinrich Himmler urged members of the SS and police to see it. After the war, some of the leading cast members were brought to trial as part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The King Of Paris (1934 Film)
''The King of Paris'' is a 1934 British drama film directed by Jack Raymond and starring Cedric Hardwicke, Marie Glory and Ralph Richardson. It is based on a play ''La Voie Lactee'' by Alfred Savoir based on the life of Sacha Guitry. Plot An influential actor and impresario discovers and makes a star of a Russian girl, falls in love with her and tricks her into marriage. She however, falls in love with his friend, and desires to leave the marriage. Cast * Cedric Hardwicke as Max Till * Marie Glory as Maike Tamara * Ralph Richardson as Paul Lebrun * Phyllis Monkman as Gismonde * O. B. Clarence as Mayor * John Deverell as Bertrand * Lydia Sherwood as Juliette Till * Jeanne Stuart as Yvonne * Joan Maude Joan Maude (16 January 1908 – 28 September 1998) was an English actress, active from the 1920s to the 1950s. She is probably best known for playing the Chief Recorder in the 1946 Powell and Pressburger film '' A Matter of Life and Death''. Th ... as Lea Rossignol References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lash (1934 Film)
''The Lash'' is a 1934 British drama film directed by Henry Edwards and starring Lyn Harding, John Mills and Leslie Perrins. It was based on a play of the same name by Cyril Campion. A brutish millionaire horsewhips his dissolute son. The film was made as a quota quickie by Twickenham Studios, one of the largest producers of Quota films. Cast * Lyn Harding - Bronson Haughton * John Mills - Arthur Haughton * Joan Maude - Dora Bush * Leslie Perrins - Alec Larkin * Mary Jerrold - Margaret Haughton * Aubrey Mather - Col. Bush * D. J. Williams - Mr. Charles * Roy Emerton - Steve * Victor Stanley Victor Stanley (1892–1939) was a British film actor. Selected filmography * ''The World, the Flesh, the Devil'' (1932) - Jim Stanger * '' The Iron Stair'' (1933) - Ben * ''The Ghost Camera'' (1933) - Albert Sims * '' Puppets of Fate'' (1933) * ... - Jake References External links * 1934 films Films directed by Henry Edwards 1934 drama films Films shot at Twickenham F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menace (1934 British Film)
''Menace'' is a 1934 British crime film directed by Adrian Brunel and starring Victor Varconi, Joan Maude and D. A. Clarke-Smith. The film was made at Shepperton Studios by the Sound City production company. It was released in America under the alternative titles ''When London Sleeps'' and ''Without Warning''. Cast * Victor Varconi as Stephen Ronsart * Joan Maude as Lady Conway * D. A. Clarke-Smith as Sir Robert Conway * Hubert Leslie as Mr. Jones * Joan Matheson as Mrs. Jones * J.A. O'Rourke as O'Leary * Shayle Gardner as Commissioner * Wilfred Noy Wilfred Noy (born Wilfred Noy Blumberg, 24 December 1883 – 29 March 1948) was an English film director, actor, screenwriter and producer of the silent era. Noy was the maternal uncle of Leslie Howard.Eforgan, Estel. Leslie Howard: The Los ... as Dean Bibliography * Chibnall, Steve. ''Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' film''. British Film Institute, 2007. * Low, Rachael. ''History of the British Film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It's A King
''It's a King'' is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Jack Raymond and starring Sydney Howard, Joan Maude and Cecil Humphreys. It was made at Elstree Studios by the producer Herbert Wilcox's British and Dominions company.Wood p.75 Plot Farce in which insurance agent Albert King is discovered to be the exact double of the king of Helgia, and even has his name in reverse (King Albert). Insurance man Albert enjoys a romance with a princess, before finally saving the King from assassination by anarchists. Cast * Sydney Howard as Albert King / King Albert * Joan Maude as Princess Yasma * Cecil Humphreys as Count Yendoff * George De Warfaz as Colonel Brandt * Arthur Goullet as Leader * Franklyn Bellamy as Salvatore * Bela Berkes as Himself * Lew Stone Louis Stone known professionally as Lew Stone (28 June 1898 – 13 February 1969) was a British bandleader and arranger of the British dance band era, and was well known in Britain during the 1930s. He was kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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