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Patricia Burke
Patricia Burke (23 March 191723 November 2003), was an English singer and actress in cinema, stage and TV. She was the daughter of actress Marie Burke and British operatic tenor Thomas Burke. On stage she enjoyed success in the 1943 West End musical '' The Lisbon Story''. Patricia Burke's most well known films were '' Lisbon Story'' (1946) and ''The Trojan Brothers'' (1946), and the role of Elizabeth the 1949 TV production of ''Elizabeth of Ladymead''. She appeared in several episodes of the TV series ''The Adventures of Robin Hood'' between 1955 and 1958. In 1947-48 she acted in productions of Shakespeare and Shaw at the Old Vic. In 1957 she acted in a production of Aristophanes' ''Lysistrata'' at the Royal Court Theatre. Between 1958 and 1972 she played the part of Jimmy Clitheroe's mother in the BBC Radio Series ''The Clitheroe Kid''. Selected filmography * ''Jennifer Hale'' (1937) * ''Ship's Concert'' (1937) * '' Lisbon Story'' (1946) * ''The Trojan Brothers'' (1946) * ''Whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city has 3.26 million inhabitants. Its continuously built-up urban area (whose outer suburbs extend well beyond the boundaries of the administrative metropolitan city and even stretch into the nearby country of Switzerland) is the fourth largest in the EU with 5.27 million inhabitants. According to national sources, the population within the wider Milan metropolitan area (also known as Greater Milan), is estimated between 8.2 million and 12.5 million making it by far the largest metropolitan area in Italy and one of the largest in the EU.* * * * Milan is considered a leading alpha global city, with strengths in the fields of art, chemicals, commerce, design, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Trojan Brothers
''The Trojan Brothers'' is a 1946 British comedy film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Patricia Burke, David Farrar and Bobby Howes.Murphy p.522 It is an adaptation of the 1944 novel of the same title by Pamela Hansford Johnson. Synopsis The two halves of a London music hall act performing together as a pantomime horse have a sharp falling out when one of them begins a relationship with an attractive society woman. Cast * Patricia Burke as Betty Todd * David Farrar as Sid Nichols * Bobby Howes as Benny Castelli * Barbara Mullen as Margie Castelli * Lesley Brook as Ann Devon * David Hutcheson as Cyril Todd * Finlay Currie as W.H. Maxwell * Wylie Watson as Stage Manager * Joan Hickson as Ada * Gus McNaughton as Frank * George Robey as Old Sam * Bransby Williams as Tom Hockaby * Annette D. Simmonds as Charlie * Roma Milne as Lorna * Hugh Dempster as Tommy * Grace Arnold as Mrs. Johnson * Joyce Blair as Beryl Johnson * Shirley Renton as Connie Johnson * Carol La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Stage Actresses
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2003 Deaths
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1917 Births
Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 9 – WWI – Battle of Rafa: The last substantial Ottoman Army garrison on the Sinai Peninsula is captured by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force's Desert Column. * January 10 – Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: Seven survivors of the Ross Sea party were rescued after being stranded for several months. * January 11 – Unknown saboteurs set off the Kingsland Explosion at Kingsland (modern-day Lyndhurst, New Jersey), one of the events leading to United States involvement in WWI. * January 16 – The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million. * January 22 – WWI: United States President Woodrow Wilson calls for "peace without victory" in Germany. * January 25 ** WWI: British armed merchantman is sunk by mines off Lough Swilly (Ireland), with the loss of 354 of the 475 aboard. ** An anti- prostitution drive in San Francisco occurs, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
''Soft Beds, Hard Battles'' is a 1974 British comedy film directed by Roy Boulting, starring Peter Sellers (in several roles), Curt Jurgens, Lila Kedrova and Jenny Hanley. Sellers reunited with the Boulting brothers for this farce, in which the women of a brothel help the war effort to rid the world of the Nazi peril - in the bedroom. The film took a limited release; in the United States, it was released under the title ''Undercovers Hero''. Plot Set in Nazi-occupied France, the story follows Major Robinson of the British Army. Installing himself at a Parisian brothel, he assists the French resistance and works with Madame Grenier and her girls who find themselves eliminating high ranking German officers (using ingenious rigged beds and killer flatulence pills) right under the noses of the Gestapo. The girls find themselves enlisted in the Free French Forces and finally help to foil Hitler's plan to blow up Paris. They later receive medals from the French president. Cast *Peter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Day The Fish Came Out
''The Day the Fish Came Out'' (Greece: Otan ta psaria vgikan sti steria) is a 1967 DeLuxe Color Greek–British comedy film directed and written by Michael Cacoyannis who also designed the film's futuristic costumes. The film stars Tom Courtenay, Colin Blakely and Sam Wanamaker. Plot The film, set in 1972, was inspired by an actual incident which occurred on 17 January 1966: a B-52G Stratofortress collided with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Palomares, Spain, and four B-28 FI 1.45-megaton-range hydrogen bombs aboard the B-52 were briefly lost. In a title sequence shot by Maurice Binder, a chorus of Spanish Flamenco dancers explains why the film's location is Greece rather than Spain. Life on the remote Greek resort island of Karos is forever changed when atomic bombs are dropped there by a NATO plane rapidly losing power. Life on the island is so bleak that the inhabitants stage a mass exodus on news that Denmark has opened Greenland to Greek emigration. The pilots drop thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dilemma (1962 UK Film)
''Dilemma'' is a 1962 British crime thriller directed by Peter Maxwell and starring Peter Halliday and Ingrid Hafner. Plot Harry returns home from work on the eve of his second wedding anniversary to be told by his next door neighbour that a scream came from his house minutes earlier. Inside, he finds a strange man dying in the bathroom and his wife missing. Cast *Peter Halliday as Harry Barnes *Ingrid Hafner as Jean Barnes *Patricia Burke as Edna Jones *Joan Heath as Mrs. Barnes *Patrick Jordan as Inspector Murray *Barbara Lott as Nun *Arthur Hewlett Arthur Hewlett (12 March 1907 in Southampton, Hampshire – 25 February 1997 in London) was a British actor. Hewlett made his stage debut in 1930 at Plymouth Rep, and his theatre work included the original British production of Bernard Shaw ... as Piano Tuner *Alan Rolfe as Arthur Jones *Robert Dean as Doctor References External linksFilm pageat BFI * 1962 films 1960s crime thriller films British black-and-white fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Impersonator
''The Impersonator'' is a 1961 low-budget black and white British thriller film directed and co-written by Alfred Shaughnessy. An American angle and U.S. character actor John Crawford were incorporated to give this second feature some transatlantic box office appeal. Plot In an effort to improve relations between a US air force base and the sleepy local English village nearby, airman Sergeant Jimmy Bradford organises a school trip to see the pantomime "Mother Goose". Meanwhile a prowling killer is on the loose and after a night out with the victim, the finger of suspicion points at Bradford. Cast * John Crawford – Sgt. Jimmy Bradford * Jane Griffiths – Ann Loring *Patricia Burke – Mrs Lloyd *John Salew – Harry Walker *John Dare – Tommy Lloyd *John Arnatt – Detective Superintendent Fletcher *Yvonne Ball – Principal boy in "Mother Goose" *Edmund Glover – Colonel *Frank Thornton as Police Sergeant Critical reception Writing in ''The Radio Times'', David Park ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marriage Of Convenience (1960 Film)
''Marriage of Convenience'' is a 1960 British crime film directed by Clive Donner and starring Harry H. Corbett, John Cairney and John Van Eyssen. Part of the long-running series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries films made at Merton Park Studios, it is based on the 1924 novel '' The Three Oak Mystery''.Goble p.488 Cinema release Marriage of Convenience was the first of the Edgar Wallace series to be allocated to the Rank circuit for general release. It went out as support for Man in the Moon from January 15th 1961. Synopsis A convict escapes from jail, only to discover that his girlfriend has married the police officer who arrested him. Cast * Harry H. Corbett as Inspector Bruce * John Cairney as Larry * John Van Eyssen as John Mandle * Jennifer Daniel as Barbara Blair * Moira Redmond as Tina * Russell Waters as Sam Spencer * Trevor Reid as Superintendent Carver * Howard Goorney as Onion Seller * Alexander Archdale as Governor * Geoffrey Denton as Uniformed Inspector * Patr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Wallace Mysteries
The ''Edgar Wallace Mysteries'' is a British second-feature film series mainly produced at Merton Park Studios for Anglo-Amalgamated. There were 48 films in the series, which were released between 1960 and 1965. The series was screened as ''The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre'' on television in the United States. Synopsis Producers Nat Cohen and Stuart Levy acquired the film rights to all of Edgar Wallace's books and stories in 1960. The original intent was that 30 of the films would be produced by Independent Artists at Beaconsfield Studios while a further 20 would be made by the Film Producers Guild at Merton Park Studios. In the event, Independent Artists' only contribution to the series would be The Malpas Mystery while more than double the intended 20 were made at Merton Park. The resulting adaptations were loose, with very few using Wallace's original titles. Like the concurrent Rialto Film series then being produced in Germany (see ''German crimis''), there was no atte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Desperate Man
''The Desperate Man'' is a 1959 British B movie crime film directed by Peter Maxwell and starring Conrad Phillips, Jill Ireland, William Hartnell, Charles Gray and Peter Swanwick. The plot involves a writer who investigates a murder in the tower of a castle. It is adapted from the 1958 novel ''Beginner's Luck'' by Paul Somers, the writer better known as Andrew Garve. In the US, the feature was shown as an episode of ''Kraft Mystery Theater'' in 1961. Plot Two reporters, Curtis (Conrad Phillips) and his girlfriend Carol (Jill Ireland), pursue jewel thief Smith (William Hartnell) through the Sussex countryside. On arriving at an ancient castle, Smith abducts Carol and holds her hostage, and Curtis is forced to assist the thief to find his buried loot. Cast * Conrad Phillips as Curtis * Jill Ireland as Carol Bourne * William Hartnell as Smith * Charles Gray as Lawson * Peter Swanwick as Hoad * Arthur Gomez as Landlord * John Warwick as Inspector Cobley * Patricia Burke a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
