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The Great Pretender
"The Great Pretender" is a popular song recorded by The Platters, with Tony Williams on lead vocals, and released as a single in November 1955. The words and music were written by Buck Ram, the Platters' manager and producer who was a successfu ...
" is a 1955 song written by Buck Ram and originally recorded by the Platters.
The Great Pretender may also refer to:
Film and television
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''Great Pretenders'' (film), a 1991 Hong Kong comedy directed by Ronny Yu
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''The Great Pretender'' (film), a 2018 drama directed by Nathan Silver
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''The Great Pretender'' (game show), a 2007 British daytime game show
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''Great Pretender'' (TV series), a 2020 Japanese anime series
* ''Great Pretenders'', a 1999–2001 American music game show hosted by
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Music
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''The Great Pretender'' (Dolly Parton album), 1984
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''The Great Pretender'' (Freddie Mercury album), 1992
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''The Great Pretender'' (Lester Bowie album), 1981
* ''
The Great Pretenders
''The Great Pretenders'' is the second album by Los Angeles band Mini Mansions. It was released on March 23, 2015. The album cover alludes to the cover of the Voyager Golden Record.
Reception
''The Great Pretenders'' received great acclaim from ...
'', an album by Mini Mansions, 2015
* "The Great Pretender", a song by Avatar from ''
Avatar
Avatar (, ; ), is a concept within Hinduism that in Sanskrit literally means "descent". It signifies the material appearance or incarnation of a powerful deity, goddess or spirit on Earth. The relative verb to "alight, to make one's appear ...
'', 2009
* "The Great Pretender", a song by Brian Eno from ''
Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
''Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)'' is the second solo album by English musician Brian Eno, released in November 1974 by Island Records. Unlike his debut album ''Here Come the Warm Jets'', which had featured 16 musicians, this album utili ...
'', 1974
* "The Great Pretender", a song by the Jon Frederik Band from ''
Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light'', 2004
Other meanings
* ''The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness'', 2019 book by
Susannah Cahalan
Susannah Cahalan (born January 30, 1985) is an American journalist and author, known for writing the memoir '' Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness'', about her hospitalization with a rare auto-immune disease, anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis. She ...
See also
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The great imitator, a number of medical conditions that can look like other health problems
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Pretender (disambiguation)
A pretender is a claimant to an abolished throne or to a throne already occupied by somebody else.
Pretender or The Pretender may also refer to:
Film and television
* ''The Pretender'' (film), a 1947 American crime film
* ''The Pretender'' ( ...
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