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Rolf Von Sydow
Rolf von Sydow (18 June 1924 – 16 June 2019) was a German film director and author. Life Von Sydow worked as a film director in Germany. He married on three occasions. As an author, Sydow wrote several books and audible books. Works by Sydow As film director * 1957: ''Mensch und Technik'' (short educational film about the Bundeswehr) * 1958: ''Der Alltag des Soldaten'' (short educational film about the Bundeswehr) * 1958: ''Der Sanitätsdienst in der Bundeswehr'' (educational film about the Bundeswehr) * 1960: ' * 1962: ' * 1969: ' * 1983: ' * 1989: ' — (based on a novel by ) As television director * 1960: ''Mein Freund Hazy'' * 1961: ''Das nasse Leben – Erinnerungen einer Brustschwimmerin'' * 1962: ''Typisch Lucy'' (TV series, 6 episodes) * 1962: ''Mit Musik kommt alles wieder'' * 1962: ''Warten auf Dodo'' — (based on a play by Eugène K. Ilyin and Gerard Willem Van Loon) * 1962: ''Drei Jungen und ein Mädchen'' — (based on a play by Roger Ferdinand) * 1963: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiesbaden
Wiesbaden () is a city in central western Germany and the capital of the state of Hesse. , it had 290,955 inhabitants, plus approximately 21,000 United States citizens (mostly associated with the United States Army). The Wiesbaden urban area is home to approximately 560,000 people. Wiesbaden is the second-largest city in Hesse after Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main. The city, together with nearby Frankfurt am Main, Darmstadt, and Mainz, is part of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Region, a metropolitan area with a combined population of about 5.8 million people. Wiesbaden is one of the oldest spa towns in Europe. Its name translates to "meadow baths", a reference to its famed hot springs. It is also internationally famous for its architecture and climate—it is also called the "Nice of the North" in reference to the city in France. At one time, Wiesbaden had 26 hot springs. , fourteen of the springs are still flowing. In 1970, the town hosted the tenth ''Hessentag Landesfest'' (En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Eckhardt
Fritz Eckhardt (born Linz, 30 November 1907; died Klosterneuburg, 31 December 1995) was an Austrian actor, director, and writer. He is remembered for playing the lead role as ''chief inspector Marek'' in the Österreichischer Rundfunk version of the detective series ''Tatort''. He also played cabaret and wrote numerous theatre plays and film scripts. Partial filmography * '' The Last Enemy'' (1938) * ''Singende Engel'' (1947) - Bürgermeister von Liechtenthal (uncredited) * ' (1948) - Präsident von Bagatello * '' The Angel with the Trumpet'' (1948) * ''Nothing But Coincidence'' (1949) * ''Der Schuß durchs Fenster'' (1950) * ''Die Mitternachtsvenus'' (1951) * ''Der Fünfminutenvater'' (1951) - Der Wirt * ''Adventure in Vienna'' (1952) - Portier im Goldenen Löwen * ''Abenteuer im Schloss'' (1952) * ' (1952) - Weber * ''Heute nacht passiert's'' (1953) - Studienrat Krickau * ' (1953) * ' (1953) - Department store boss * '' The Last Bridge'' (1954) - Tilleke * ' (1954) - Herr Mal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime And Other Stories
''Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories'' is a collection of short semi-comic mystery stories that were written by Oscar Wilde and published in 1891. It includes: *"Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" *"The Canterville Ghost" *"The Sphinx Without a Secret" *"The Model Millionaire" In later editions, another story, "The Portrait of Mr. W. H.", was added to the collection. __TOC__ Contents "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" This story was first published in '' The Court and Society Review'', in late 1887. The main character, Lord Arthur Savile, is introduced by Lady Windermere to Mr Septimus R. Podgers, a chiromantist, who reads his palm and tells him that it is his destiny to be a murderer. Lord Arthur wants to marry, but decides he has no right to do so until he has committed the murder. His first attempted murder victim is his elderly Aunt Clementina, who suffers from heartburn. Pretending it is medicine, Lord Arthur gives her a capsule of poison, telling her to take it only when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Let It Ride (musical)
''Let It Ride'' is a Broadway musical based on the 1935 Broadway farce '' Three Men on a Horse'' by George Abbott and John Cecil Holm. The musical, with book by Abram S. Ginnes and music and lyrics by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, choreographer Onna White, assistant choreographer Eugene Louis Faccuito (Luigi), opened on Broadway in New York City at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on October 12, 1961, and played 69 performances including one preview. The original Broadway production co-starred George Gobel and Sam Levene and featured Barbara Nichols and Paula Stewart. Erwin Trowbridge, a mild-mannered man working for a greeting card company, has an unusual talent: he can pick the winners of horse races with uncanny accuracy, as long as he does not place a bet himself. When a few professional gamblers discover his talent, they do their best to exploit it. Sam Levene created the role of Patsy in the original Broadway production of '' Three Men on a Horse'' (1935) which was a mega ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valentin Kataev
Valentin Petrovich Kataev (russian: Валенти́н Петро́вич Ката́ев; also spelled Katayev or Kataiev; – 12 April 1986) was a Russian and Soviet novelist and playwright who managed to create penetrating works discussing post-revolutionary social conditions without running afoul of the demands of official Soviet style. Kataev is credited with suggesting the idea for ''The Twelve Chairs'' to his brother Yevgeny Petrov and Ilya Ilf. In return, Kataev insisted that the novel be dedicated to him, in all editions and translations. Kataev's relentless imagination, sensitivity, and originality made him one of the most distinguished Soviet writers. Life and works Kataev was born in Odesa (then Russian Empire, now Ukraine) into the family of Pyotr Vasilyevich Kataev, a Court councillor and a teacher at the Odesa Female seminary, and Eugenia Ivanovna Bachei who belonged to a noble family of the Poltava Governorate. Thus it's no coincidence that the main character ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Admirable Crichton
''The Admirable Crichton'' is a comic stage play written in 1902 by J. M. Barrie. Origins Barrie took the title from the sobriquet of a fellow Scot, the polymath James Crichton, a 16th-century genius and athlete. The epigram-loving Ernest is probably a caricature of the title character in Oscar Wilde's ''The Importance of Being Earnest''. The plot may derive from ''Robinson's Eiland'', an 1896 German play by Ludwig Fulda. In this, "a satire upon modern super-culture in its relation to primal nature", a group of Berlin officials (including a capitalist, a professor and a journalist) are shipwrecked on an island, where a secretary, Arnold, becomes the natural leader of the group. The contemporary critic Arthur Bingham Walkley, however, viewed the connection as merely a rumour: "I feel quite indifferent as to its accuracy of fact". Characters Synopsis Act One Act one is set in Loam Hall, the household of the Earl of Loam, a British peer, with Crichton being his butler. Loa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvey (play)
''Harvey'' is a 1944 play by the American playwright Mary Chase (playwright), Mary Chase. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the work in 1945. It has been adapted for film and television several times, most notably in a Harvey (1950 film), 1950 film starring James Stewart and Josephine Hull. Plot Elwood P. Dowd is an affable man who claims to have an unseen (and presumably imaginary) friend Harvey – whom Elwood describes as a six foot, three-and-one-half inch (192 cm) tall Púca, pooka resembling an anthropomorphic rabbit. Elwood introduces Harvey to everyone he meets. His social-climbing sister, Veta Simmons, increasingly finds his eccentric behavior embarrassing. She decides to have him committed to a sanatorium, sanitarium. When they arrive at the sanitarium, a wikt:comedy of errors, comedy of errors ensues. When Veta confesses that she has seen Harvey too, the young Dr. Sanderson commits Veta instead of Elwood. But when the mistake comes out, the search is on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blandings Castle
Blandings Castle is a recurring fictional location in the stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being the seat of Lord Emsworth (Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth), home to many of his family and the setting for numerous tales and adventures. The stories were written between 1915 and 1975. The series of stories taking place at the castle, in its environs and involving its denizens have come to be known as the "Blandings books", or, in a phrase used by Wodehouse in his preface to the 1969 reprint of the first book, "the Blandings Castle Saga". In a radio broadcast on 15 July 1961, Evelyn Waugh said: "The gardens of Blandings Castle are that original garden from which we are all exiled." The Castle Blandings Castle, lying in the picturesque Vale of Blandings, Shropshire, England, is from the town of Market Blandings, home to at least nine pubs, most notably the Emsworth Arms. The tiny hamlet of Blandings Parva lies directly outside the castle gates and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Émile De Najac
Comte Émile de Najac (December 1828 – 11 April 1889) was a French librettist. He was a prolific writer during the Second Empire and early part of the Third Republic, supplying plays and opéra comique librettos, many in one act. Biography Émile de Najac was born in Lorient, France, the descendant of naval commander and bonapartist Benoît Georges de Najac. His son Raoul Charles Eugène was also a writer for the stage. Najac died in Paris on 11 April 1889. Works Always writing with a co-author, Najac provided librettos for several opéras comiques and opéras bouffes: ''La Momie de Roscoco'', with Eugène Ortolan, music by Émile Jonas, ( Bouffes-Parisiens, 1857);Lamb, Andrew"Jonas, Emile"''Grove Music Online'', Oxford University Press 2002. Retrieved 27 August 2020 ''Les Noces de Fernande'', with Victorien Sardou, music by Louis Deffès, (Opéra-Comique, 1878); ''La Bonne Aventure'', with Henri Bocage, music by Émile Jonas, (Théâtre de la Renaissance, 1882); ''Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorien Sardou
Victorien Sardou ( , ; 5 September 18318 November 1908) was a French dramatist. He is best remembered today for his development, along with Eugène Scribe, of the well-made play. He also wrote several plays that were made into popular 19th-century operas such as ''La Tosca'' (1887) on which Giacomo Puccini's opera ''Tosca'' (1900) is based, and ''Fédora'' (1882) and '' Madame Sans-Gêne'' (1893) that provided the subjects for the lyrical dramas '' Fedora'' (1898) and '' Madame Sans-Gêne'' (1915) by Umberto Giordano. His play ''Gismonda'', from 1894, was also adapted into an opera of the same name by Henry Février. Early years Victorien Sardou was born at 16 rue Beautreillis (), Paris on 5 September 1831. The Sardous were settled at Le Cannet, a village near Cannes, where they owned an estate, planted with olive trees. A night's frost killed all the trees and the family was ruined. Victorien's father, Antoine Léandre Sardou, came to Paris in search of employment. He was in su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Flea In Her Ear
''A Flea in Her Ear'' (french: La Puce à l'oreille) is a play by Georges Feydeau written in 1907, at the height of the Belle Époque. The author called it a vaudeville, but in Anglophone countries, where it is the most popular of Feydeau's plays, it is usually described as a farce. The plot hinges on the central characters having a double: a middle class businessman is indistinguishable from the hall porter of a shady hotel, and the two are persistently mistaken for each other, to the bafflement of both. Premiere The play was first performed at the Théâtre des Nouveautés, Paris, on 2 March 1907. ''Les Annales du théâtre et de la musique'' said of the play, "It is a piece for which we need to invent a new description: funny, pleasing, comical, frenzied, dizzying, it is all those, and more. The action goes forward with such velocity, explosiveness, ''prestissimo'', from start to finish that the actors and the audience cannot catch their breath for even a second." The play se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
