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Waltzes From Vienna
''Waltzes from Vienna'' is a 1934 British biographical film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, sometimes known as ''Strauss' Great Waltz''. It was part of the cycle of operetta films made in Britain during the 1930s. Hitchcock's film is based on the stage musical ''Waltzes from Vienna'', which premiered in Vienna in October 1930. With a libretto by A. M. Willner, Heinz Reichert and Ernst Marischka, this stage production contains music by Johann Strauss I and Johann Strauss II, selected and arranged by Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Julius Bittner into discrete musical numbers. Hitchcock, however, did not include these musical numbers in his film. In addition, he changed the end of the story. In the stage musical, Resi, the baker's daughter, decides that her father's apprentice, Leopold, will make a more suitable husband than the composer, Schani (Johann Strauss II). By contrast, Hitchcock's film rendition ends with Resi and Schani declaring their love for each other. Plot ''Waltzes fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Arnold (theatre Impresario)
Tom Arnold, OBE (1897 – 2 February 1969) was a theatrical producer in the United Kingdom. Born in Yorkshire, Thomas Charles Arnold spent much of his life travelling, although he considered Brighton to be his second home. His business activities were extensive, and included opera, classical plays, films, revues, American rodeo and variety, ice spectaculars and circuses. He had interests in seaside piers and pleasure steamers and controlled the Ice Palace in Brighton. One of the most versatile and successful theatrical businessmen of his day, his empire extended to the continent and South Africa.Obituary, ''The Guardian'', 3 February 1969 He started in the theatre world shortly after the First World War, as a promoter and manager of touring revues seen mainly in provincial theatres and music halls. When Julian Wylie died suddenly in December 1934, he had several Pantomime productions ongoing, and they were taken over by Arnold. Arnold staged his first London pantomime in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biographical Film
A biographical film or biopic () is a film that dramatizes the life of a non-fictional or historically-based person or people. Such films show the life of a historical person and the central character's real name is used. They differ from docudrama films and historical drama films in that they attempt to comprehensively tell a single person's life story or at least the most historically important years of their lives. Context Biopic scholars include George F. Custen of the College of Staten Island and Dennis P. Bingham of Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis. Custen, in ''Bio/Pics: How Hollywood Constructed Public History'' (1992), regards the genre as having died with the Hollywood studio era, and in particular, Darryl F. Zanuck. On the other hand, Bingham's 2010 study ''Whose Lives Are They Anyway? The Biopic as Contemporary Film Genre'' shows how it perpetuates as a codified genre using many of the same tropes used in the studio era that has followed a simila ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Story Of The London Fog
''The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog'' is a 1927 British silent thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June Tripp, Malcolm Keen and Ivor Novello. Hitchcock's third feature film, it was released on 14 February 1927 in London and on 10 June 1928 in New York City. The film is based on the 1913 novel '' The Lodger'' by Marie Belloc Lowndes and the play ''Who Is He?'' co-written by Belloc Lowndes. Its plot concerns the hunt for a Jack the Ripper-like serial killer in London. Hitchcock's first thriller, the film established him as a name director. Upon its release the trade journal ''Bioscope'' wrote: "It is possible that this film is the finest British production ever made". It also saw Hitchcock make his first cameo appearances in a film; he was depicted sitting in a newsroom, and in the second, standing in a crowd as the leading man is arrested. Plot A young blonde woman screams. She is the seventh victim of a serial killer known as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Truffaut
François Roland Truffaut ( , ; ; 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic. He is widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave. After a career of more than 25 years, he remains an icon of the Cinema of France, French film industry, having worked on over 25 films. Truffaut's film ''The 400 Blows'' (1959) is a defining film of the French New Wave movement, and has four sequels, ''Antoine et Colette'' (1962), ''Stolen Kisses'' (1968), ''Bed and Board (1970 film), Bed and Board'' (1970), and ''Love on the Run (1979 film), Love on the Run'' (1979). Truffaut's 1973 film ''Day for Night (film), Day for Night'' earned him critical acclaim and several awards, including the BAFTA Award for Best Film and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His other notable films include ''Shoot the Piano Player'' (1960), ''Jules and Jim'' (1962), ''The Soft Skin'' (1964), ''The Wild Child'' (1970), ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyril Smith (actor)
Cyril Edward Bruce-Smith (4 April 1892 – 5 March 1963) was a Scottish actor who began his career as a child in 1900 and went on to appear in numerous stage plays as well as over 100 films between 1914 and his death almost 50 years later. The son of Frederick and Elsa Smith; his mother travelled with him on his engagements during his boyhood. Career Smith first became known as a child stage actor in 1900, and by the age of 13 in 1905, he travelled to New York to appear as Cosmo in a production of the J. M. Barrie play ''Alice-Sit-By-The Fire'', opposite Ethel Barrymore; at the time, ''The New York Times'' hailed him as "one of the best-known child actors in England". Smith's film career began in 1914 in the Wilfred Noy-directed ''Old St. Paul's'' and he appeared in almost 20 other silent films of the 1910s and 1920s before making the transition to sound. From the early 1930s until his death, he featured in dozens of films ranging from the quota quickies of the 1930s and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Singer (actor)
John Harold Singer (4 December 1923 in Hastings, Sussex, England – 7 July 1987 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England), also known as Johnny Singer, was an English actor. He began as a child actor, popular in the 1930s, and known for ''Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street'' (1936). In later years he continued to act in numerous films, including '' In Which We Serve'' (1942) and '' The Cruel Sea'' (1953). He died on 7 July 1987 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. His son, Steven Singer, became a TV scriptwriter.Steven Singer , BFI Filmography * '' Further Up the Creek'' (1958) – as despatch rider * '' Track the Man Down'' (1955) – as police detective (uncredited) * ''Up to His Neck'' (1954) – as R/T rating (uncredited) * ''Betrayed'' (1954) – as paratrooper (uncredited) * ''Forbidden Cargo'' (1954) – as seaman (uncredited) * ''The Cruel Sea'' (1953) – as Gray * '' Come Back Peter'' (1953) as Ted * ''The Brave Don't Cry'' (1952) – as Tam Stewart * ''Whisper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Shine (actor)
Wilfred William Dennis Shine (20 October 1911 – 24 July 1997) was a British theatre, film and television actor. Shine was born into a family of theatre actors; among others, Shine's father, mother, grandmother, two uncles and an aunt had worked in theatre.Benedick, Adam ''The Independent'', 14 August 1997. Retrieved 20 February 2009. His father Wilfred Shine was a theatre actor who also appeared in films during the 1920s and the 1930s. Bill Shine made his film debut in 1929, since which he appeared in over 160 films and television series. Towards the end of his career, he was best known for playing Inventor Black on children's television series ''Super Gran''. In series two, episode four, of Mrs Thursday, 'The Duke and I', (1967), he played the Duke of Midlothian. Selected filmography * '' The Flying Scotsman'' (1929) - Barman (uncredited) * ''High Seas'' (1929) - Minor Role (uncredited) * ''Under the Greenwood Tree'' (1929) - Leaf * '' The Loves of Robert Burns'' (1930) - ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sybil Grove
Sybil Grove was an English actress. She was born Sybil Marian Westmacott on 4 October 1891 in Teddington, Middlesex, and was also known as Sybil Wingrove. With reddish brown hair and standing 5'8", she trained at RADA and her stage debut was in 1927. She had seven years in the UK in straight plays, revues and musical comedies then seven years directing and playing in her own stock company in the Orient. She also worked in the United States. She died in 1957, aged 65, and was interred in Weston Super Mare Crematorium & Cemetery. Selected filmography * '' His Private Life'' (1928) * '' A Bit of Heaven'' (1928) * '' The Black Pearl'' (1928) * '' Satan and the Woman'' (1928) * ''Along Came Youth'' (1930) * ''The Man from Blankley's'' (1930) * ''Let Us Be Gay'' (1930) * ''Sunshine Susie'' (1931) * '' Hotel Splendide'' (1932) * ''I'm an Explosive'' (1933) * '' Red Wagon'' (1933) * ''Maid Happy'' (1933) * '' The Man from Toronto'' (1933) * ''Too Many Millions'' (1934) * ''Fighting St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Huntley-Wright
Betty Huntley-Wright (3 December 1911 – 27 May 1993) was a British actress and vocalist. Daughter of the comic actor Huntley Wright, she had a long career on stage, chiefly in comedy and pantomime, and in film, radio and television. Later she also ran an antiques business in London. Biography Early years Huntley-Wright was born Betty Jessie Wright in Hampstead, London, one of three children of the comic actor Huntley Wright and his wife, the actress Mary Fraser. She was educated at Hampstead High School and studied for the stage under Julian Kimbell (singing), Anton Dolin and the Cone School (dancing).Gaye, Freda (ed). ''Who's Who in the Theatre'', 14th Jubilee Edition, London: Pitman, 1967 She made her first appearance on the stage at the Regent Theatre, Kings Cross, London, in 1928, as Chris Haversham in ''The Eye of Siva'', and her first appearance in the West End, at His Majesty's Theatre in July 1929, as Freda in Noël Coward's operetta ''Bitter Sweet''. Acting career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Heslop
Charles Heslop (8 June 1883 in Thames Ditton, England – 13 April 1966) was a British actor. His stage successes include a musical version of '' Tons of Money'', which toured Australia for Hugh J. Ward in 1924, co-starring Dot Brunton. He starred in the BBC television comedy Percy Ponsonby as a talkative barber. The series was broadcast in 1939, and was cancelled with the outbreak of the Second World War. In 1954 he appeared in William Douglas Home's ''The Manor of Northstead'' in the West End. In 1960 he appeared in the comedy thriller play ''Settled Out of Court''. Two years later he featured at Wyndham's Theatre in Arthur Watkyn's '' Out of Bounds''. Filmography * ''Hobson's Choice'' (1920) * '' This Is the Life'' (1933) * '' Waltzes from Vienna'' (1934) * ''Charing Cross Road'' (1935) * '' Crackerjack'' (1938) * '' The Lambeth Walk'' (1939) * '' Percy Ponsonby'' (1939) * '' Flying Fortress'' (1942) * ''The Peterville Diamond'' (1943) * '' The Second Mate'' (1950) * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Vosper
Frank Permain Vosper (15 December 1899, in London – 6 March 1937) was an English actor who appeared in both stage and film roles and a dramatist, playwright and screenwriter. Stage Vosper made his stage debut in 1919 and was best known for playing urbane villains. His extensive stage experience included appearing in his own play '' Love from a Stranger'' (1936), adapted from the short story " Philomel Cottage" by Agatha Christie. His screenplays included co-writing the comedy ''No Funny Business'' with ''Victor Hanbury'' (1933). He also co-wrote the adaptation of G.B. Stern's novel ''Debonair'' with the novelist which opened at the Lyric 23 April 1930. He also wrote ''People Like Us'', based on the case of Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters. Banned by the Lord Chamberlain after a performance at the Strand Theatre featuring Atholl Fleming, it remained unperformed until 1948, when it premiered at Wyndham's Theatre in London, with Miles Malleson, George Rose, Robert Fle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Blue Danube
"The Blue Danube" is the common English title of "An der schönen blauen Donau", Op. 314 (German for "By the Beautiful Blue Danube"), a waltz by the Austrian composer Johann Strauss II, composed in 1866. Originally performed on 15 February 1867 at a concert of the Wiener Männergesang-Verein (Vienna Men's Choral Association), it has been one of the most consistently popular pieces of music in the classical repertoire. Its initial performance was considered only a mild success, however, and Strauss is reputed to have said, "The devil take the waltz, my only regret is for the coda—I wish that had been a success!" After the original music was written, the words were added by the Choral Association's poet, Joseph Weyl. Strauss later added more music, and Weyl needed to change some of the words. Strauss adapted it into a purely orchestral version for the 1867 Paris World's Fair, and it became a great success in this form. The instrumental version is by far the most commonl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
