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Sylvia Lopez
Sylvia Lopez (November 10, 1933 – November 20, 1959) was a French model and actress. Career as a model Born Tatjana Bernt, she was raised in Paris, where she began a career in modelling. Eventually she modeled for couturier Jacques Fath, the first French fashion designer to export his creations to the United States. Appearing under the name "Sylvia Sinclair", Bernt earned enough exposure to attract the attention of film producers. Personal life In November 1956 she became the second wife of the composer Francis Lopez. Career in acting Lopez made her first of two French-language films following which she appeared in several Italian swashbucklers with American stars such as Steve Reeves and Lex Barker that were commercially successful and for which she received favorable reviews. Early death Diagnosed with leukemia, Lopez died a few months after she withdrew while working on the set of a film '' Voulez-vous danser avec moi?'' (which was posthumously released a month la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vienna
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Françoise Hardy
Françoise Madeleine Hardy (; born 17 January 1944) is a French former singer and songwriter. Mainly known for singing melancholic sentimental ballads, Hardy has been an important figure in French pop music since her debut, spanning a career of more than fifty years with over thirty studio albums released. She rose to prominence in the early 1960s as a leading figure of the yé-yé wave, a genre of pop music and associated youth culture phenomenon that adapted to French the pop and rock styles that came from the United States and the United Kingdom. The singer differentiated herself from her peers by writing her own material, a rare feat in an industry dominated by older, male composers and producers. France's most exportable female singer of the era, Hardy rose to international fame and released music sung in English, Italian and German, in addition to her native French. She also landed roles as a supporting actress in the films ''Château en Suède'', '' Une balle au cœur'' an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1959 Deaths
Events January * January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of Earth's Moon, and was also the first spacecraft to be placed in heliocentric orbit. * January 3 ** The three southernmost atolls of the Maldive Islands, Maldive archipelago (Addu Atoll, Huvadhu Atoll and Fuvahmulah island) United Suvadive Republic, declare independence. ** Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state. * January 4 ** In Cuba, rebel troops led by Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos enter the city of Havana. ** Léopoldville riots: At least 49 people are killed during clashes between the police and participants of a meeting of the ABAKO Party in Kinshasa, Léopoldville in the Belgian Congo. * January 6 ** Fidel Castro arrives in Havana. ** The International Maritime Organization is inaugurated. * January 7 – The United States reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1933 Births
Events January * January 11 – Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand. * January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wishes of U.S. President Herbert Hoover. * January 28 – "Pakistan Declaration": Choudhry Rahmat Ali publishes (in Cambridge, UK) a pamphlet entitled ''Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?'', in which he calls for the creation of a Muslim state in northwest India that he calls " Pakstan"; this influences the Pakistan Movement. * January 30 ** National Socialist German Workers Party leader Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg. ** Édouard Daladier forms a government in France in succession to Joseph Paul-Boncour. He is succeeded on October 26 by Albert Sarraut and on November 26 by Camille Chautemps. February * February 1 – Adolf Hitler gives his "Proclamation to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Film Actresses
French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with France ** French cuisine, cooking traditions and practices Fortnite French places Arts and media * The French (band), a British rock band * "French" (episode), a live-action episode of ''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!'' * ''Française'' (film), 2008 * French Stewart (born 1964), American actor Other uses * French (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) * French (tunic), a particular type of military jacket or tunic used in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union * French's, an American brand of mustard condiment * French catheter scale, a unit of measurement of diameter * French Defence, a chess opening * French kiss, a type of kiss involving the tongue See also * France (other) * Franch, a surname * French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Moralista
''The Moralist'' (Italian: ''Il moralista'') is a 1959 Italian comedy film directed by Giorgio Bianchi. Starring Alberto Sordi and Vittorio de Sica, it satirises both the upholders of traditional sexual morality and the exploiters selling sex in a willing market. Plot In Rome in 1959, Agostino is the ferocious new Secretary-General of the Italian branch of the worldwide International Organization for Public Morality. A teetotal bachelor, he attacks with vigour public manifestations of sexual immorality. Neither bribes nor female charms deflect him from his crusade against lewdness in films and night clubs. So devoted is he that the aristocratic President of the Organisation even considers he might be a husband for his so far unmarried 29-year-old daughter. But both President and Secretary-General also have private lives. After Agostino denounces a night club to the police and it is closed, the mistress of the owner befriends the widowed President and introduces him to an exclus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Son Of The Red Corsair (1959 Film)
''The Son of the Red Corsair'' (Italian: ''Il figlio del corsaro rosso'') is a 1959 Italian historical adventure film written and directed by Primo Zeglio and starring Lex Barker, Sylvia Lopez and Vira Silenti. It is based on the novel with the same name by Emilio Salgari. The story had previously been made into a 1943 film '' The Son of the Red Corsair''.Goble p.405 The film's sets were designed by the art directors Mario Chiari and Alfredo Montori. Cast * Lex Barker as Enrico di Ventimiglia * Sylvia Lopez as Carmen di Montélimar * Vira Silenti as Neala di Ventimiglia * Luciano Marin as Miguel di Montélimar * Antonio Crast as Don Juan de Sasebo * Fanfulla as Marquese di Montélimar * Vicky Lagos as Paquita * Roberto Paoletti as Barrejo * Nietta Zocchi as Isabella * Saro Urzì as Mendoza * Elio Pandolfi as Sergeant * Livio Lorenzon as José * Franco Fantasia Franco Fantasia (5 March 1924 – 10 November 2002) was an Italian film actor, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hercules Unchained
''Hercules Unchained'' ( it, Ercole e la regina di Lidia , "Hercules and the Queen of Lydia") is a 1959 Italian-French epic fantasy feature film starring Steve Reeves and Sylva Koscina in a story about two warring brothers and Hercules' tribulations in the court of Queen Omphale. The film is the sequel to the Reeves vehicle ''Hercules'' (1958) and marks Reeves' second – and last – appearance as Hercules. The film's screenplay, loosely based upon various Greek mythology and plays by Aeschylus and Sophocles, was written by Ennio De Concini and Pietro Francisci with Francisci directing and Bruno Vailati and Ferruccio De Martino producing the film. Plot While travelling, Hercules is asked to intervene in a quarrel between two brothers, Eteocles and Polynices, over who should rule Thebes. Before he can complete this task, Hercules drinks from a magic spring and is hypnotized by a harem girl who dances the "Dance of Shiva", loses his memory and becomes the captive of Queen Omphale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herod The Great (film)
''Herod the Great'' ( it, Erode il grande, french: Le roi cruel) is a 1958 Italian-French epic historical drama film directed by Victor Tourjansky. Cast * Edmund Purdom as Herod *Sylvia Lopez as Maryam *Sandra Milo as Sarah * Elena Zareschi as Alexandra * Alberto Lupo as Aronne *Massimo Girotti as Gaius Octavian * Andrea Giordana as Little Daniele *Corrado Pani as Antipatro, later Herod Antipas *Renato Baldini as Claudio *Camillo Pilotto as The High Priest * Fedele Gentile as Oreb *Olga Solbelli as Mother of the condemned *Enrico Glori as Taret *Carlo D'Angelo as The man who saw the Messiah's birth *Enzo Fiermonte * Adolfo Geri *Nino Marchetti Nino or Niño may refer to: * Nino (name) * Niño (name) *Antonin Scalia, American Supreme Court justice whose nickname was "Nino" *El Niño, a climate pattern in the tropical Pacific Ocean *NINO, an abbreviation for National Insurance number in t ... * Feodor Chaliapin, Jr. References External links * 1958 films 1950s biog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tabarin (film)
''Tabarin'' is a 1958 French-Italian drama film, directed by Richard Pottier. Plot Director of music hall Le Tabarin, Jacques Forestier has big ambitions for his establishment. He committed his former mistress, Florence, as "star" of the show, but she turns out all the maneuvers ready to become owner of Tabarin. Cast * Michel Piccoli as Jacques Forestier * Sylvia Lopez as Florence Didier * Annie Cordy as Mimi * Sonja Ziemann as Rosine Forestier * Henri Vilbert as Morelli * Mischa Auer as Boris * Jean-Pierre Kérien as Larjac * Germaine Damar as Brigitte * Enrico Glori as Truffaut * Luisella Boni as Simone * Jean Lefebvre as Julien * Kessler Twins as The twins * Nicole Vattier as Madame Leroux * Angelo Dessy as Paolo Production The movie was released in France 21 May 1958, in Mexico, 29 January 1960 and in Denmark ) , song = ( en, "King Christian stood by the lofty mast") , song_type = National and royal anthem , image_map = EU-Denmark.svg , map_caption = , sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mademoiselle And Her Gang
''Mademoiselle and Her Gang'' (French: ''Mademoiselle et son gang'') is a 1957 French comedy film directed by Jean Boyer and starring Line Renaud, Noël Roquevert and Philippe Nicaud.Powrie & Stilwell p.143 It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Giordani. Synopsis Agnès Bourdieux the daughter of a police inspector, and a successful crime novelist under a male pseudonym, becomes leader of an inept gang of criminals. Cast * Line Renaud as Agnès Bourdieux * Noël Roquevert as L'inspecteur Bourdieux * Philippe Nicaud as Paul * Jean-Jacques Delbo as O'Connor * Georgette Anys as Gravos * Paul Bonifas as La patron du bistrot * Louis Bugette as Jojo * René-Louis Lafforgue as La Fourchette * Max Elloy as Victor * Jack Ary as Émile l'Africain - le troisième truand * Henri Garcin as L'ami snob de Christian * Raymond Gérôme as L'avocat * André Dalibert as Marcel * Sylvia Lopez Sylvia Lopez (November 10, 1933 &n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mon Amie La Rose (album)
''Mon amie la rose'' is a studio album by the French popular singer Françoise Hardy, released in France in November 1964 on LP Disques Vogue (FH 2). Published without a title except for her name on the cover this album has colloquially become known by the title of its most successful song, " Mon amie la rose" ("My friend The Rose"). Hardy recorded an English version of "Dans le monde entier", titled " All Over the World". In 1965, this song reached the charts in the United Kingdom, remaining there for 15 weeks (in the Top 50 from 25 March to 8 July 1965 - in the Top 20 from 29 April till 3 June). In the Anglophone world, this may be Hardy's best-known song. Track listing Except as noted, lyrics and music were written by Hardy. She is accompanied by the Charles Blackwell Orchestra, except for the song "Pourtant tu m’aimes", where she is accompanied by Mickey Baker. # "Je veux qu’il revienne" (original title: "Only You Can Do It", lyrics and music: B. Well ''alias'' C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
