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Jocelyn Lane
Jocelyn "Jackie" Lane (born 16 May 1937) is a former actress and model of the 1950s and 1960s. She was married to Prince Alfonso of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. Early life Lane was born as Jocelyn Olga Bolton in Vienna, Austria in 1937. She is the youngest daughter of Russian-born pianist mother Olga Mironova and English father Briton John Bolton, who worked for an American oil firm; he later died in a car crash in the US. She was educated in New Rochelle, New York, in the United States. At the age of 14, she moved to Britain, where she received dance training. Her older sister Mara Lane was a well-known British model and actress in the 1950s. Career Lane established herself as a popular model in the United Kingdom by the time she was 18, using the pseudonym Jackie Lane. She appeared in several British films beginning in 1955 with a travelogue ''April in Portugal''. One of her most striking film roles in the 1950s was as the second female lead in ''These Dangerous Years'' (1957), dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vienna
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The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. Since 2018, the paper's main news ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Snatch
''Operation Snatch'' is a 1962 British comedy film starring Terry-Thomas and George Sanders and directed by Robert Day. Plot The story takes place in Gibraltar, and is based on a local legend: if the resident Barbary apes were ever to leave, the British would lose Gibraltar. This wartime comedy has Terry-Thomas as the keeper of the apes. When one of the apes goes missing, he is required to go behind enemy lines to capture another one, or be personally responsible for the loss of Gibraltar. Cast * Terry-Thomas as Lieutenant Wigg * George Sanders as Major Hobson * Lionel Jeffries as Evans * Jocelyn Lane as Bianca Tabori * Mark Eden as Mosquito Pilot * Mario Fabrizi as Tall Man * John Gabriel as Major Frink * Gerard Heinz as Colonel Waldock * Bernard Hunter as Captain Baker * Dinsdale Landen as Captain Wellington * Howard H. Lang as P.T. Sergeant * Angus Lennie as Vic * Jeremy Lloyd as Captain James * John Meillon as Medical Officer * Warren Mitchell as Contact Man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two And Two Make Six
''Two and Two Make Six'', also known as ''A Change of Heart'' and ''The Girl Swappers'', is a 1962 black and white British romantic comedy film directed by Freddie Francis and starring George Chakiris and Janette Scott. Unusually, the two women are the main pursuers in the storyline, and the men are each slow to respond. Plot American serviceman Larry is serving in England when he goes absent without leave. After accidentally knocking out a sergeant sent to arrest him he goes on the run with a girl, Julie, riding a motorcycle around rural England. At a transport cafe, due to parallel bikes and leathers as seen from the back, she gets on the pillion of the wrong motorcycle (that of Tom Bennett), and her counterpart Irene gets on Larry's bike. Both girls realise their mistake ten minutes later. Both couples return to the cafe to resolve it. Tom is ridiculed at the counter. Larry returns but speeds off when he sees a police car. One couple go to Sevenhills and one to Westport. Tom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goodbye Again (1961 Film)
''Goodbye Again'' (released in Europe as ''Aimez-vous Brahms?'') is a 1961 American-French romantic drama film produced and directed by Anatole Litvak. The screenplay was written by Samuel A. Taylor, based on the novel '' Aimez-vous Brahms?'' by Françoise Sagan. The film, released by United Artists, stars Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Perkins, Yves Montand, and Jessie Royce Landis. Plot Paula Tessier is a 40-year-old interior designer who for the past five years has been the mistress of Roger Demarest, a "philandering business executive" who refuses to stop seeing other women. When Paula meets Philip, the 25-year-old son of one of her wealthy clients, he falls in love with her and insists that the age difference will not matter. Paula resists the young man's advances, but finally succumbs when Roger initiates yet another affair with one of his young "Maisies". While she is initially happy with Philip, her friends and business associates disapprove of the May–December romance. B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Hood And The Pirates
''Robin Hood and the Pirates'' ( it, Robin Hood e i pirati) is a 1960 Italian adventure film directed by Giorgio Simonelli, and starring Lex Barker and Jackie Lane. Plot Robin Hood, the protagonist, leaves Sherwood Forest, and joins the pirates. After several fights and many adventures, he gets bored, and decides to return to his homeland. He discovers that his father has been killed, and that a usurper has taken the throne. He begins his life as fighter who defends the poor against the rich. Cast * Lex Barker as Robin Hood * Jackie Lane as Kareen Blain * Rossana Rory as Lizbeth Brooks * Mario Scaccia as Jonathan Brooks * Walter Barnes as Guercio / Orbo * Edith Peters as Palla di Grasso * Giulio Donnini as Golia * Renato Chiantoni as Gladiacove * Mario Passante as Brooks' friend * Marco Tulli as Friar Lorenzo * Gino Buzzanca as Captain Uncini * Umberto Sacripante as Philips * Renato Terra Renato Terra (26 July 1922 in Naples – 28 November 2010 in Rome) had a career workin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howlers In The Dock
''Howlers in the Dock'' ( it, Urlatori alla sbarra) is a 1960 Italian "musicarello" film directed (and co-written) by Lucio Fulci. It is also known as ''Howlers of the Dock'' in some reference books. The film was shown on Italian TV under a longer title, ''Metti, Celentano e Mina...Urlatori alla sbarra''.Thrower, Stephen (1999). Beyond Terror, the films of Lucio Fulci. FAB Press. page 273 Plot The film is a fast-paced musical comedy about a band of teddy boys and rock n' roll chicks, whose crazy, fun-loving habits inspire bitter complaints from their neighbors in the town. A prominent blue jeans company owner feels that the kids' poor reputation adversely affects his product's sales and public image. Prevailing upon the youths to help, he engineers a series of promotional stunts to lighten the public's opinion of these good-hearted rock n rollers and their lovely jeans. An unscrupulous politician makes things difficult for the youngsters, but everything turns out well. Cast * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jet Storm
''Jet Storm'' (also known as ''Jet Stream'' or ''Killing Urge'') is a 1959 British thriller film directed and co-written by Cy Endfield. Richard Attenborough stars with Stanley Baker, Hermione Baddeley and Diane Cilento. The film is a precursor to the later aviation disaster film genre such as ''Airport'' (1970). Plot Ernest Tilley (Richard Attenborough), a former scientist who lost his daughter two years earlier in a hit-and-run accident, tracks down James Brock ( George Rose), the man he believes is responsible for the accident and boards the same airliner on a transatlantic flight, flying from London to New York. Tilley has hidden a bomb on board and threatens to blow it up in an act of vengeance, not only killing Brock but also all passengers and crew. When Captain Bardow (Stanley Baker) and the passengers realise that he is serious, and they cannot find the bomb (which Tilley had attached to the underside of the airliner's left wing), they begin to panic. Some want to p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Angry Hills (film)
''The Angry Hills'' is a 1959 American-British war film directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Robert Mitchum, Stanley Baker and Elisabeth Müller. It is based on the novel by Leon Uris. Plot Set in Greece in 1941, before and after the Axis invasion, the film follows an American journalist who possesses a list of Greek resistance leaders. Having memorized the list he destroys it and is then pursued by various groups of people keen to have it: Communist resistance fighters, the Gestapo and Greek collaborators. Cast * Robert Mitchum as Mike Morrison * Stanley Baker as Conrad Heisler * Elisabeth Müller as Lisa Kyriakides * Gia Scala as Eleftheria * Theodore Bikel as Dimitrios Tassos * Sebastian Cabot as Chesney * Peter Illing as Leonides * Leslie Phillips as Ray Taylor * Donald Wolfit as Dr. Stergion * Marius Goring as Colonel Elrick Oberg * Jocelyn Lane as Maria Tassos * Kieron Moore as Andreas * George Pastell as Papa Panos * Patrick Jordan as Bluey * Marita Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wonderful Things!
''Wonderful Things!'' is a 1958 British comedy romance film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Frankie Vaughan, Jocelyn Lane and Wilfrid Hyde-White. It was written by Jack Trevor Story. The screenplay concerns two fishermen brothers who clash over the love of a woman. Cast * Frankie Vaughan ... Carmello * Jeremy Spenser ... Mario * Jocelyn Lane ... Pepita (as Jackie Lane) * Wilfrid Hyde-White ... Sir Bertram * Jean Dawnay ... Anne * Eddie Byrne ... Harry * Harold Kasket ... Poppa * Christopher Rhodes ... Codger * Nancy Nevinson ... Mamma * Cyril Chamberlain ... Butler * Barbara Goalen ... Courtesy Appearance * Liz Fraser ... Minor role * Ronnie Barker ... Minor role The film marked the film debut of comedian Ronnie Barker, in an uncredited role as a waiter. Critical reception Sky Movies wrote, "If you can believe in Frankie Vaughan and Jeremy Spenser as Gibraltar fishermen, you'll enjoy this Anna Neagle-produced trifle about love and life, Latin-style. Fiery Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Truth About Women
''The Truth About Women'' is a 1957 British comedy film directed by Muriel Box and starring Laurence Harvey, Julie Harris, Mai Zetterling and Diane Cilento. Plot When his son-in-law comes to him with a woeful tale of an unhappy relationship and a belief that all women are impossible to love, elderly Sir Humphrey Tavistock calmly puts him straight. Tavistock regales him with decades-old anecdotes of found lovers and lost love. We meet in flashback the free-thinking Ambrosine Viney, an independent woman ahead of her time, and the sophisticated Louise Tiere, a diplomat's wife. There are others as well, including one whom Tavistock adores and marries, only to lose her forever during childbirth. Cast * Laurence Harvey as Sir Humphrey Tavistock * Julie Harris as Helen Cooper * Diane Cilento as Ambrosine Viney * Mai Zetterling as Julie * Eva Gabor as Louise * Michael Denison as Rollo * Derek Farr as Anthony * Elina Labourdette as Comtesse * Roland Culver as Charles Tavistock * Wilfrid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gamma People
''The Gamma People'' is a 1956 British-American black-and-white science fiction film, produced by John Gossage, directed by John Gilling, that stars Paul Douglas, Eva Bartok, and Leslie Phillips. The film was distributed by Columbia Pictures and evolved from a script treatment originally written in the early 1950s by Robert Aldrich. ''The Gamma People'' was released theatrically in the U.S. as a double feature with the 1956 British science fiction film ''1984''. Plot A railroad passenger car carrying a reporter and his photographer mysteriously breaks away from its locomotive, accidentally ending up on a remote sidetrack in Gudavia, an isolated Ruritanian-style, one-village dictatorship. The newsmen discover a mad scientist using gamma rays to turn the country's youth into either geniuses or subhumans. Cast * Paul Douglas as Mike Wilson * Eva Bartok as Paula Wendt * Leslie Phillips as Howard Meade * Walter Rilla as Boronski * Philip Leaver as Koerner * Martin Miller as Loch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
