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Évelyne Grandjean
Évelyne Grandjean (born 7 April 1939 in Versailles) is a French stage, cinematic and television actress, playwright and television writer, and radio host. She has been also a prolific voice actress for many French-dubbed versions of foreign films and TV series, including '' 101 Dalmatians: The Series'' (as Spot, Princess and Nanny), ''Alfred J. Kwak'' (as Kwak), '' The Animals of Farthing Wood'' (as Adder the Snake), '' Around the World in Eighty Dreams'' (as Grandma Tadpole), '' Babar'' (as Celeste), ''A Bug's Life'' (as Dr. Flora), '' The Cat Returns'' (as Natoru), ''Chicken Run'' (as Bunty), '' Cinderella II: Dreams Come True'' (as Fairy Godmother), '' Cutey Honey'' (as Sister Jill), '' Dr. Slump'' (as Arale Norimaki), '' Elvira, Mistress of the Dark'' (as Elvira), ''The Flintstones'' (as Wilma Flintstone), ''Grey's Anatomy'' (as Ellis Grey), '' Ice Age: Continental Drift'' (as Granny), '' James and the Giant Peach'' (as Sponge and Ladybug), '' The Jetsons'' (as Jane and Ros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Versailles
The Palace of Versailles ( ; ) is a former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, Yvelines, Versailles, about west of Paris, in the Yvelines, Yvelines Department of Île-de-France, Île-de-France region in France. The palace is owned by the government of France and since 1995 has been managed, under the direction of the Ministry of Culture (France), French Ministry of Culture, by the Public Establishment of the Palace, Museum and National Estate of Versailles. About 15,000,000 people visit the palace, park, or gardens of Versailles every year, making it one of the most popular tourist attractions in the world. Louis XIII built a hunting lodge at Versailles in 1623. His successor, Louis XIV, expanded the château into a palace that went through several expansions in phases from 1661 to 1715. It was a favourite residence for both kings, and in 1682, Louis XIV moved the seat of his court and government to Versailles, making the palace the ''de fact ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James And The Giant Peach (film)
''James and the Giant Peach'' is a 1996 musical fantasy film directed by Henry Selick, based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Roald Dahl. It was produced by Tim Burton and Denise Di Novi, and starred Paul Terry as James. The film is a combination of live action and stop-motion animation. Joanna Lumley and Miriam Margolyes played James's self-absorbed Aunts Spiker and Sponge, respectively (in the live-action segments), with Simon Callow, Richard Dreyfuss, Jane Leeves, Susan Sarandon and David Thewlis, as well as Margolyes, voicing his insect friends in the animation sequences. Released on April 12, 1996 in the United States, the film received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised its story and visual aspects. However, the film was a box office failure, grossing $37 million against its $38 million budget. Plot In the summer of 1948, English boy James Henry Trotter is a young orphan living with his sadistic and domineering aunts Spiker and Sponge aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello (; ; 28 June 1867 – 10 December 1936) was an Italians, Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays. He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art". Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays, some of which are written in Sicilian language, Sicilian. Pirandello's tragic farces are often seen as forerunners of the Theatre of the Absurd. Biography Early life Pirandello was born into an upper-class family in Girgenti (now Agrigento), Sicily, near the poor suburb of Porto Empedocle. His family's surname had originally been the Greek language, Greek "Pirangelos" (Greek language, Greek: ), which had been phonetically corrupted. Pirandello was of Greeks, Greek descent, as he noted himself in an interview to Kostas Ouranis in 1934. The area of his birth was called "Caos", from , Sicilian language, Sici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Six Characters In Search Of An Author
''Six Characters in Search of an Author'' ( ) is an Italian play by Luigi Pirandello, written and first performed in 1921. An absurdist metatheatric play about the relationship among authors, their characters, and theatre practitioners, it premiered at the Teatro Valle in Rome to a mixed reception, with shouts from the audience of "''Manicomio''!" ("Madhouse!") and "''Incommensurabile''!" ("Off the scale!"), a reaction to the play's illogical progression. Reception improved at subsequent performances, especially after Pirandello provided for the play's third edition, published in 1925, a foreword clarifying its structure and ideas. The play was given in an English translation in the West End of London in February 1922, and had its American premiere in October of that year at the Princess Theatre, New York. Characters The characters are: *The Father *The Mother *The Stepdaughter *The Son *The Boy *The Child *Madame Pace *The Manager/Director *Leading Lady *Leading Man *Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molière
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (; 15 January 1622 (baptised) – 17 February 1673), known by his stage name Molière (, ; ), was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world literature. His extant works include comedies, farces, Tragicomedy, tragicomedies, comédie-ballets, and more. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed at the Comédie-Française more often than those of any other playwright today. His influence is such that the French language is often referred to as the "language of Molière". Born into a prosperous family and having studied at the Collège de Clermont (now Lycée Louis-le-Grand), Molière was well suited to begin a life in the theatre. Thirteen years as an itinerant actor helped him polish his comedic abilities while he began writing, combining Commedia dell'arte elements with the more refined French comedy. Through the patronage of aristocrats inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amphitryon (Molière Play)
Amphitryon (; Ancient Greek: Ἀμφιτρύων, ''gen''.: Ἀμφιτρύωνος; usually interpreted as "harassing either side", Latin: Amphitruo), in Greek mythology, was a son of Alcaeus, king of Tiryns in Argolis. His mother was named either Astydameia, the daughter of Pelops and Hippodamia, or Laonome, daughter of Guneus, or else Hipponome, daughter of Menoeceus. Amphitryon was the brother of Anaxo (wife of Electryon), and Perimede, wife of Licymnius. He was a husband of Alcmene, Electryon's daughter, and stepfather of the Greek hero Heracles.Roman, L., & Roman, M. (2010). Mythology Born—according to tradition—in Tiryns, in Argolis in the eastern part of the Peloponnese, Amphitryon became King of Troezen and regent of Mycenae. He was a friend of Panopeus. Having accidentally killed his prospective father-in-law, Electryon, king of Mycenae, Amphitryon was driven out of Mycenae by Electryon's brother, Sthenelus. However, there is an earlier tradition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giulio Scarnicci
Giulio Scarnicci (5 May 1913 – 13 July 1973) was an Italian screenwriter. He worked on more than thirty films, including the screenplay for the 1960 horror film '' My Friend, Dr. Jekyll''.Shipka, Danny. ''Perverse Titillation: The Exploitation Cinema of Italy, Spain and France, 1960-1980''. McFarland, 2011. p.316 Selected filmography * '' The Two Sergeants'' (1951) * '' My Friend, Dr. Jekyll'' (1960) * ''His Women ''His Women'' () is a 1961 Italian comedy film directed by and starring Ugo Tognazzi. It was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. Cast * Ugo Tognazzi as Stefano Garbelli * Ilaria Occ ...'' (1961) * '' L'arbitro'' (1974) References External links * 1913 births 1973 deaths 20th-century Italian screenwriters Italian male screenwriters Film people from Florence 20th-century Italian male writers {{Italy-film-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goffredo Parise
Goffredo Parise (8 December 1929 in Vicenza – 31 August 1986 in Treviso) was an Italian writer, journalist, and screenwriter. He won the Viareggio Prize in 1965 for his novel ''Il padrone'' ''(The Boss)'' and the Strega Prize in 1982 for ''Sillabario n.2''. Works *''The Dead Boy and the Comets'', translated by Marianne Ceconi, New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953 *''Don Gastone and the Ladies'', trans. by Stuart Hood, New York: Knopf, 1955 *''The Boss'', trans. by William Weaver, New York: Knopf, 1966 *''Solitudes'', trans. by Isabel Quigly, introduction by Natalia Ginzburg, New York: Vintage, 1982 *''Abecedary'', trans. by James Marcus, Marlboro, Vt.: Marlboro Press, 1990 *''The Smell of Blood'', trans by John Shepley, Evanston, Ill.: Marlboro Press/Northwestern, 2003 Selected filmography * ''Boccaccio '70'' (1962) * ''La cuccagna'' (1962) * ''Careless (film), Careless'' (1962) * ''Agostino (film), Agostino'' (1962) * ''Oggi, domani, dopodomani'' (1965) * ''L'asso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aristophane
Firmin Aristophane Boulon (or simply Aristophane; 1967–2004) was a Guadeloupe-born cartoonist. Career A graduate of the French schools École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts and the École européenne supérieure de l’image, Aristophane began work "preoccupied with evil and frailty as viewed through the lives of demons and mythological creatures." His first work to receive attention was his 300-page graphic novel ''Conté Demoniaque'' ("Demonic Tale"): an epic set in hell inspired by Dante's ''Inferno'', ''Paradise Lost'', the philosophy of Max Stirner and the artist Gustave Doré. 50 of its pages were exhibited in the "Angels and Demons" during the 1994 Angoulême comics festival in the Centre National de la Bande Dessinée et de l’Image. Sometime during 1998, Aristophane suffered a domestic accident that left him severely burned on the face and hands and was hospitalised in Nantes. Following this accident he burned all the original art of his breakthrough work Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Knight
''Princess Knight'', also known as ''Ribon no Kishi'', is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Osamu Tezuka. This manga follows the adventures of Sapphire, a girl who was born accidentally with a blue heart of a boy and a pink heart of a girl. She pretends to be a prince to prevent the evil Duke Duralumin from taking over the kingdom through his son, Plastic. The gender-bending main character was inspired by the all-female musical theater group Takarazuka Revue in which women performed both female and male roles. The story was ordered by an editor of Kodansha's magazine '' Shōjo Club'' who wanted Tezuka to produce a manga aimed towards a female audience that could replicate the success of his former boy-aimed stories. The author then created ''Princess Knight'', originally serialized in that magazine from 1953 to 1956. The manga's popularity resulted into a radio dramatization in 1955, three other serializations between 1958 and 1968, and a 52-episode televi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Gwenevere And The Jewel Riders
''Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders'', known outside of North America as ''Starla & the Jewel Riders'' and sometimes spelled as the more traditionally Arthurian "Guinevere", is an American fantasy animated television series aimed at the pre-teen girl audience and produced by New Frontier Entertainment and Enchanted Camelot Productions in association with Hong Ying Animation Company Limited. It was internationally distributed by Bohbot Entertainment, and broadcast in the United States on their syndicated Amazin' Adventures block, where it originally ran from 1995 to 1996, with two seasons and twenty-six episodes. The series follows the titular protagonist, Princess Gwenevere of Avalon, and her fellow Jewel Riders, Fallon and Tamara, in their quest to find the seven lost enchanted jewels and to stop the evil sorceress Lady Kale from conquering Avalon. In the second season, the Jewel Riders gain new powers and fight against Kale and new enemy Morgana, as they search fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muppet Treasure Island
''Muppet Treasure Island'' is a 1996 American Musical film, musical Swashbuckler film, swashbuckler comedy film directed by Brian Henson and the fifth theatrical film featuring the Muppets. Adapted from the 1883 novel ''Treasure Island'' by Robert Louis Stevenson, similarly to its predecessor ''The Muppet Christmas Carol'' (1992), the key roles were played by live-action actors, with the Muppets in supporting roles. The film stars Muppet performers Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire, Jerry Nelson, Kevin Clash, Bill Barretta, and Frank Oz in various roles, as well as Tim Curry as Long John Silver and introduces Kevin Bishop as Jim Hawkins (character), Jim Hawkins. The film was released in the United States on February 16, 1996, by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution. It grossed $47 million worldwide. It also received generally positive reviews from critics. It is the second Muppets film to be produced by Walt Disney Pictures, whose The Walt Disney Company, parent company would later acqui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
