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Stanley J. Damerell
Stanley J. Damerell (''aka'' Jack Stevens ''aka'' John Edward Stanley Damerell Stevens; ''né'' John Edward Stanley Stevens; 1 July 1878 – 12 December 1951) was, in his early life (1900s through to the early 1920s), a British vaudevillian actor, writer, and producer, and in his later life (from the 1920s until his death), a prolific lyricist, and, to a lesser degree, composer of popular songs. Early life Damerell was born in Fulham, London. Career As a writer and producer of vaudevillian revues, Damerell collaborated with Cecil Rutland. Their productions were billed under the name, Damerell and Rutland. In 1921, composer Tolchard Evans, and his regular lyricists, Damerell and Robert Joseph Hargreaves (1893–1934), along with Harry Tilsley (''né'' Henry B. Tilsley), formed the Cecil Lennox Music Company to publish their songs. Damerell and Hargreaves, as co-lyricists with Robert Joseph Hargreaves (1893–1934), sometimes used the pseudonym Erell Reaves – an amalgamati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fulham
Fulham () is an area of the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham in West London, England, southwest of Charing Cross. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames, bordering Hammersmith, Kensington and Chelsea. The area faces Wandsworth, Putney, Barn Elms and the London Wetland Centre in Barnes. on the far side of the river. First recorded by name in 691, Fulham was a manor and ancient parish which originally included Hammersmith. Between 1900 and 1965, it was the Metropolitan Borough of Fulham, before its merger with the Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith created the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham (known as the London Borough of Hammersmith from 1965 to 1979). The district is split between the western and south-western postal areas. Fulham has a history of industry and enterprise dating back to the 15th century, with pottery, tapestry-weaving, paper-making and brewing in the 17th and 18th centuries in present-day Fulham High Street, and later involvement in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gracie Fields
Dame Gracie Fields (born Grace Stansfield; 9 January 189827 September 1979) was an English actress, singer, comedian and star of cinema and music hall who was one of the top ten film stars in Britain during the 1930s and was considered the highest paid film star in the world in 1937. She was known affectionately as ''Our Gracie'' and ''the Lancashire Lass'' and for never losing her strong, native Lancashire accent. She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) and an Officer of the Venerable Order of St John (OStJ) in 1938, and a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1979. Life and work Early life Fields was born Grace Stansfield, a daughter of Frederick Stansfield (1874–1956) and his wife Sarah Jane 'Jenny' Stansfield née Bamford (1879–1953), over a fish and chip shop owned by her grandmother, Sarah Bamford, in Molesworth Street, Rochdale, Lancashire. Her great-grandfather, William Stansfield (b.1805), of Hebden Bridge, Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molly And Me
''Molly and Me'' is a 1945 American comedy film directed by Lewis Seiler and starring Monty Woolley, Gracie Fields, Reginald Gardiner and Roddy McDowall and released by 20th Century Fox. The screenplay was based on the novel written by Frances Marion and adapted by Roger Burford. Plot In 1937 London, struggling vaudeville actress Molly Barry grows tired of searching for roles and applies for a job as housekeeper for upper class gentleman John Graham. She informs her friends and fellow actors, Lily and Julia, about her plans, and persuades former exotic dancer Kitty Goode, who has married into the peerage, to provide a fake reference. Graham's butler, Peabody, interviews Molly. But when Kitty shows up, Peabody recognises her, as he himself is really former actor Harry Phillips. Harry had given up acting because of a drinking problem, which he has since conquered. He does not want another former actor in the household. Desperate, Molly persuades Peabody to join a party at a p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bom The Flyer
''Bom the Flyer'' (Swedish: ''Flyg-Bom'') is a 1952 Swedish comedy film directed by Lars-Eric Kjellgren and starring Nils Poppe, Elisaveta, Yvonne Lombard and Gerd Andersson.Qvist & Von Bagh p.56 It was shot at the Råsunda in Stockholm. The film's sets were designed by the art director Nils Svenwall. It was part of a series of films featuring Poppe as Fabian Bom. Cast * Nils Poppe as Fabian Bom / Bom senior * Elisaveta as Lisa Larsson Röök * Yvonne Lombard as Saga Saxholm * Gerd Andersson as Anita Berg * Gunnar Björnstrand as Sergeant Niklas Slevbrink * John Botvid as Jonte Larsson Röök * Arne Källerud as Pluggen, flygbassoldat * Hjördis Petterson as Fru Wikman * Inga Landgré as Matilda * Else Fisher as Amanda * Margit Andelius as Fröken Psilander * Sven Magnusson as Stickan, flygbassoldat * Nils Eklund as Molnet, flygbassoldat * Arne Lindblad as Jean-Jacques Pampouche * Ragnar Klange as Grankvist, hyresvärd * Kenneth Pedersen as Balettstudent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floyd Huddleston
Floyd Huddleston (August 19, 1918 - September 27, 1991) was an American songwriter, screenwriter, and television producer. Career Huddleston was born in Leland, Mississippi, and would later sing and write songs for Glenn Miller's Army Air Force Band during World War II. After he was discharged, Huddleston came to California where he was under contract with Decca Records in 1949. There, he co-wrote with Al Rinker an estimated 800 songs, some of which were recorded by Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, and Sarah Vaughan. Soon after, Huddleston would compose lyrics for theater productions such as ''Shuffle Along'' and ''The New Ziegfeld Follies''. Later in his life, he wrote lyrics for songs in several films, including ''The Ballad of Josie'' and ''Midnight Cowboy''. For Disney, he contributed the song, "Everybody Wants to be a Cat", to ''The Aristocats''. For ''Robin Hood'', he and George Bruns were nominated for an Academy Award for "Love," sung by his wife, Nancy Adams. Huddleston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Command Performance (1937 Film)
''Command Performance'' is a 1937 British musical drama film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Arthur Tracy, Lilli Palmer and Mark Daly. It was based on a play by Stafford Dickens. Like ''The Street Singer'', which was released the same year, it was designed as a vehicle for Tracy who performs a number of songs during the film. It was made at Pinewood Studios.Wood p.94 Plot Growing tired of his life of fame, a singer runs away from a domineering manager and goes to live with a group of gypsies. A massive manhunt is whipped by the press to find him so that he can shoot the final scenes of his latest film. Cast * Arthur Tracy as Street Singer * Lilli Palmer as Susan * Mark Daly as Joe * Rae Collett as Betty * Finlay Currie as Manager * Jack Melford as Reporter * Stafford Hilliard as Sam * Julian Vedey as Toni * Phyllis Stanley Phyllis Stanley (30 October 1914 – 12 March 1992) was a British actress. Personal life During World War II, she shared a flat in We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Hartley
Fred Hartley (1905–1980) was a Scottish pianist, conductor and composer of light music best known for his waltz ''Rouge et Noir''. He sometimes composed music under the pseudonym Iris Taylor.Philip Scowcrof76th Garland Retrieved 17 September 2010 Hartley was born in Dundee in 1905, where he attended Harris Academy. He later attained a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music. He made his first public broadcast as a solo pianist in 1925 and in 1931 went on to form his "Novelty Quintet", which regularly made broadcasts on the BBC. In 1946, he was made Head of BBC Light Music.Fred Hartley piano solos Celtic Music. Retrieved 17 September 2010 He composed mainly in the light music genre and his compositions were often featured ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radiolympia
''Radiolympia'', also known as the Radio Show, was a pioneering exhibition of radio equipment, latterly television equipment, held annually at Olympia, London, Olympia in London, England, in the 1920s to 1940s, except for a period of interruption during World War II. The first such exhibition was held in 1926. On 26 August 1936, the first high-definition standard (Baird 240 lines) television transmission was made in a test by the BBC from the exhibition. The day after, the Marconi-EMI (405-line television system, 405 lines) system was used. The record attendance was 238,000 in 1934. References External links * {{Coord, 51, 29, 47, N, 0, 12, 35, W, region:GB_type:landmark, display=title History of radio History of television 1926 establishments in England Annual events in London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambroise Thomas
Charles Louis Ambroise Thomas (; 5 August 1811 – 12 February 1896) was a French composer and teacher, best known for his operas ''Mignon'' (1866) and ''Hamlet'' (1868). Born into a musical family, Thomas was a student at the Conservatoire de Paris, winning France's top music prize, the Prix de Rome. He pursued a career as a composer of operas, completing his first opera, ''La double échelle'', in 1837. He wrote twenty further operas over the next decades, mostly comic, but he also treated more serious subjects, finding considerable success with audiences in France and abroad. Thomas was appointed as a professor at the Conservatoire in 1856, and in 1871 he succeeded Daniel Auber as director. Between then and his death at his home in Paris twenty-five years later, he modernised the Conservatoire's organisation while imposing a rigidly conservative curriculum, hostile to modern music, and attempting to prevent composers such as César Franck and Gabriel Fauré from influencing t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zampa
''Zampa'','' ou La fiancée de marbre'' (''Zampa, or the Marble Bride'') is an opéra comique in three acts by French composer Ferdinand Hérold, with a libretto by Mélesville. The overture to the opera is one of Hérold's most famous works and is a staple of orchestral repertoire. Performance history ''Zampa'' was first performed in Paris on 3 May 1831 at the Opéra-Comique (Salle Ventadour), where it became popular, achieving 500 performances by 1877. In the 20th century however, it faded from the repertoire. It was also popular in Germany and Italy; in the latter the spoken dialogue was replaced by recitatives. It was first performed in the United States on 16 February 1833 at the Théâtre d'Orléans in New Orleans, and in the United Kingdom on 19 April 1833 at the King's Theatre in London. The opera was revived at the Opéra-Comique in March 2008 under William Christie in a production by Macha Makeïeff and Jérôme Deschamps. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paso Doble
Pasodoble (Spanish language, Spanish: ''double step'') is a fast-paced Spanish military march used by infantry troops. Its speed allowed troops to give 120 steps per minute (double the average of a regular unit, hence its name). This military march gave rise recently to a modern Spanish dance, a musical genre including both voice and instruments, and a genre of instrumental music often played during Bullfighting, bullfight. Both the dance and the non martial compositions are also called pasodoble. Structure All pasodobles have binary rhythm. Its musical structure consists of an introduction based on the dominant chord of the piece, followed by a first fragment based on the main tone and a second part, called "the trío", based on the sub-dominant note, based yet again on the dominant chord. Each change is preceded by a brieph. The last segment of the pasodoble is usually "the trío" strongly played. The different types of pasodoble- popular, taurino, militar- can vary in rhy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
If (They Made Me A King)
"If (They Made Me a King)" is a popular song with music written by Tolchard Evans and the lyrics written by Robert Hargreaves and Stanley J. Damerell. The song was written in 1934, but the most popular versions were recorded in 1950-1951. Perry Como's version, recorded November 28, 1950, was a number-one hit on the ''Billboard'' charts for eight weeks. The Como version was released under the following labels and catalog numbers: *In the United States, by RCA Victor, as catalog number 47-3997 with the flip side "Zing Zing - Zoom Zoom" *In Argentina, by ''Discos RCA Victor Argentina,'' as catalog number 68-0583 with the flip side "Zing Zing - Zoom Zoom" *In the United Kingdom, by HMV, as catalog number B-10042 with the flip side "Zing Zing - Zoom Zoom" *In Germany, by HMV, as catalog number X-7293 with the flip side being a Tony Martin/Dinah Shore recording of "A Penny a Kiss" Other charted versions in 1951 *Jo Stafford also recorded the song (with "queen" for "king" in the lyric) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
