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Shortly after his play "Blithe Spirit" opened in the West End in July 1941, Noël Coward was approached by Anthony Havelock-Allan, who was working with the production company Two Cities Films. Its founder, Filippo Del Giudice, was interested in making a propaganda film and wanted someone well known to write the screenplay. Coward agreed to work on the project as long as the subject was the Royal Navy and he was given complete control. Coward acutely felt that with the coming of war, the world of which he wrote, bright young things scampering around drawing rooms, was a world that no longer existed. "In Which We Serve" (1942) was directed by Coward and David Lean, who made his debut as a director. Coward was nervous at the prospect of directing and asked his friend John Mills if he could recommend someone to help him. Mills suggested "the best editor in the country," Lean. Before accepting the assignment, Lean asked Coward how the credits would read. Coward ...

  Bette Davis: "My favorite person to work with was Claude Rains." In her 1987 memoir, "This 'N That," Davis revealed that Rains (with whom she shared the screen four times in "Juarez" (1939), "Now, Voyager" (1942), "Mr. Skeffington" (1944, below), and "Deception" (1946)) was her favorite co-star. In an interview with Dick Cavett, Davis said about Rains, "Well, of course he petrified me, the first time I played with him was in ('Juarez'), and I had to make an entrance [into] the King of France's domain for a rehearsal and he's playing the King of France (Napoleon III) in rehearsal. As all of us '"other era people,' we don't just run through lines and say, 'Turn the camera"; we rehearse beforehand. Anyway, Claude and I couldn't and he was the King of France who loathed Carlotta and I was a kid and petrified of Mr. Rains, so I thought he hated me, I didn't know he was pl...

  Barbara Shelley, born Barbara T. Kowin (February 13, 1932 – January 4, 2021) She appeared in more than 100 films and TV series and was particularly known for her work in horror films. In 1958, she made her first significant appearance in a film for Hammer, The Camp on Blood Island. She took a number of roles in gothic horror features for Hammer, such as Blood of the Vampire (1958), The Gorgon (1964) and Rasputin, the Mad Monk (1966). She became the company's top female star and was nicknamed the "Queen of Hammer". She also appeared in Village of the Damned (1960), Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1966), and Quatermass and the Pit (1967). Although she is known as a scream queen, her most famous scream (in Dracula) was dubbed by co-star Suzan Farmer. Her television appearances include the first Danger Man episode, "View from a Villa" (1960), plus a subsequent episode that season, "The Traitor" (also 1960); The Saint (1962), an episode of The New Phil Silve...

  avid Soul, born David Richard Solberg (August 28, 1943 – January 4, 2024) He was known for his role as Detective Kenneth "Hutch" Hutchinson in the television series Starsky & Hutch from 1975 to 1979; Joshua Bolt on Here Come the Brides from 1968 to 1970; and Officer John Davis in Magnum Force in 1973. He also starred in the 1979 hit TV movie adaptation Salem's Lot by Stephen King. Soul first gained national attention as the "Covered Man" appearing on The Merv Griffin Show in 1966 and 1967, on which he sang while wearing a mask. He explained: "My name is David Soul, and I want to be known for my music." The same year, he made his television debut in Flipper. His breakthrough came when he portrayed Detective Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson on Starsky & Hutch, a role he played from 1975 until 1979. Soul also directed three episodes of Starsky and Hutch: "Huggy Can't Go Home" (1979), "Manchild on the Streets" (1977), and ...

  Een Ode aan het Nederlandse Spookverhaal Bron: Het Vrije Volk – Democratisch-Socialistisch Dagblad, 25 juli 1959. Waarde amice, Het zal u bekend zijn dat het spookverhaal in Nederland een bepaald armetierig bestaan leidt. Kijk eens in uw rijk voorziene boekenkast, en zeg mij met de hand op het hart: kunt u ook maar één ware spookverhalenschrijver noemen wiens wieg stond tussen Sappemeer en Sas van Gent, tussen Sint Annaparochie en Schin op Geul? Dat kunt u niet, waarde heer. En wel om de simpele reden: ze zijn er niet. De Engelsen, ja—die beschikken over een hele school van doorgewinterde griezelauteurs. Hoe heb ik dat volk benijd! Hoeveel avonden zat ik niet bij u aan het knapperend haardvuur, een glas punch in de ene hand en een kop slemp in de andere, terwijl u mij voorlas uit de geheimzinnige werken van dr. James, Algernon Blackwood, of de beminnelijke maar uiterst geladen Lady Cynthia Asquith? Hoe vaak, amice, joegen wij elkaar niet de griezels over de grazzels met het verha...

  Glynis Margaret Payne Johns (October 5, 1923 – January 4, 2024) In a career spanning eight decades on stage and screen, Johns appeared in more than 60 films and 30 plays. She received various accolades throughout her career, including a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Laurence Olivier Award. She appeared on stage from a young age and was typecast as a stage dancer from early adolescence, making her screen debut in South Riding (1938). She rose to prominence in the 1940s following her role as Anna in the war drama film 49th Parallel (1941), for which she won a National Board of Review Award for Best Acting, and starring roles in Miranda (1948) and Third Time Lucky (1949). Following No Highway in the Sky (1951), a joint British-American production, Johns took on increasingly more roles in the United States and elsewhere. She made her television and Broadway debuts in 1952 and took on starring roles in such f...

  Wanneer  Karel de Stoutmoedige  , hertog van Bourgondië, in de strijd sneuvelt, besluit zijn erfgenares en enig kind,  Maria  , alleen te regeren, ondanks de begeerde gunsten van verschillende mannen. Maria verzet zich tegen de rijke  Gentse  burgers die, in samenspraak met  Lodewijk XI  van Frankrijk, haar willen dwingen te trouwen met de  dauphin Karel  , een jongen met een zwakke geest en twaalf jaar jonger dan zij. Ondertussen wil keizer  Frederik III  van het Heilige Roomse Rijk dat zijn zoon Maximiliaan met de hertogin trouwt. Nadat ze had gezien hoe haar ministers werden geëxecuteerd en haar gebieden door Frankrijk werden binnengevallen, besloot Maria haar hofdame Johanna von Hallewyn met een boodschap naar Maximiliaan te sturen. De jonge en strijdlustige Maximiliaan veracht de traagheid van zijn vader en diens afkeer van vijanden zoals de Hongaarse koning  Matthias Corvinus  . Hoewel hij verliefd was op...

  Diana Claire Millay (June 7, 1935 – January 8, 2021) She was best known for her work in television, having guest starred in close to one hundred prime time shows, both live and filmed, and for playing continuing roles on two daytime soap operas, Dark Shadows and The Secret Storm. After appearing on the cover of Montgomery Ward's catalog as a child, she modeled and acquired acting experience in summer stock productions. She made her motion picture debut in the Robert Montgomery picture "Street of Sinners" (1957) and went on to roles in numerous TV programs which include "Maverick," "Bonanza", "Rawhide" and "Perry Mason." She retired during the early 1970s after appearing "Night of Dark Shadows" (1971). Millay's interests shifted from acting to writing and she published several books, including I'd Rather Eat Than Act, The Power of Halloween, and How to Create Good Luck. She was married to Broadway producer Geoffre...

  Veronica Greenfield, born Veronica Yvette, and known as Ronnie Spector (August 10, 1943 – January 12, 2022) Spector was part of the girl group the Ronettes in 1957 with her elder sister, Estelle Bennett, and their cousin, Nedra Talley. Ronnie fronted the group while record producer Phil Spector produced the majority of their recording output. The two were married in 1968 and separated in 1972. Bennett sang lead on the Ronettes' string of hits in the early-to-mid–1960s, including "Be My Baby" (1963), "Baby, I Love You" (1963), "The Best Part of Breakin' Up" (1964) and "Walking in the Rain" (1964). In 1964 she launched a solo career with the single "So Young". After 1980 she released five studio albums: Siren (1980), Unfinished Business (1987), Something's Gonna Happen (2003), Last of the Rock Stars (2006) and English Heart (2016). Bennett also recorded one extended play, She Talks to Rainbows (1999). In 1986 her career revi...

  Rosa Lee Hawkins (October 23,1945-January 11, 2022) Hawkins was the youngest member of the musical trio the Dixie Cups, whose hit single “Chapel of Love” reached No. 1 on the Billboard 100 in 1964. The other members were her sister Barbara, and Joan Marie Johnson. While in high school in 1963, Barbara brought Rosa along to sing with her and Joan Marie in a high school talent show. The trio initially called themselves the Meltones, only to discover later that the name had already been taken. Since they were from the land of Dixie, and “cups are cute,” Barbara said in an interview, they came up with the name Dixie Cups. The Dixie Cups continued to perform steadily over the decades, with Athelgra Neville, a childhood friend and sister of the Neville Brothers, stepping in as the most recent replacement for Johnson, who left the group in 1966 and died in 2016. The Dixie Cups received two Gold Records, for “Chapel of Love” and another hit, “People Say.” They were inducted into the Loui...

Irena's Vow is een oorlogsfilm uit 2023 , geregisseerd door Louise Archambault . Het scenario is geschreven door Dan Gordon , die ook het Broadway-stuk Irena's Vow schreef . De film heeft Sophie Nélisse in de hoofdrol als Irena Gut Opdyke , een Poolse verpleegster die Joodse mensen tijdens de Holocaust hielp beschermendoor hen te verbergen in de kelder van het huis waar ze als huishoudster werkte voor de Duitse legerofficier majoor Eduard Rügemer ( Dougray Scott ). Wanneer de dienstmeid verneemt dat de joodse wijk op het punt staat uitgeroeid te worden, weet ze twaalf arbeiders in een kelder verborgen te houden. Voor deze heldendaad zal ze later een medaille ontvangen. De cast bestaat verder uit Andrzej Seweryn , Eliza Rycembel , Maciej Nawrocki, Aleksandar Milicevic, Tomasz Tyndyk en Nela Maciejewska. __________________ Review: De film behoort onmiskenbaar tot het subgenre van reddingsdrama's over burgers tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog, een genre dat zich kenmerkt door...

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  Larry King, born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger (November 19, 1933 – January 23, 2021) He was a television host, radio host, and paid spokesman, whose work was recognized with awards including two Peabody awards, an Emmy award, and 10 Cable ACE Awards. King began as a local Florida journalist and radio interviewer in the 1950s and 1960s, and gained prominence beginning in 1978 as host of The Larry King Show, an all-night nationwide call-in radio program heard on the Mutual Broadcasting System. From 1985 to 2010, he hosted the nightly interview television program Larry King Live on CNN. From 2012 to 2020, he hosted Larry King Now aired on Hulu, Ora TV, and RT America. He continued to host Politicking with Larry King, a weekly political talk show which aired weekly on the same two channels from 2013 until his death in 2021. King received many awards during his life, including several Cable ACE Awards, Peabody Awards and lifetime achievement awards. He guest starred in episodes of Arthur, 3...

  De Stadsschouwburg een begrip in Amsterdam. In 1774 werd een nieuwe schouwburg geopend, op het Leidseplein. Ook dit gebouw was geheel van hout. In de periode dat Napoleons soldaten door Amsterdam marcheerden veranderde de schouwburg meerdere malen van naam en was afwisselend Staats-, Hof- en Stadstheater. Napoleon zelf bezocht de schouwburg tijdens zijn bezoek aan Nederland in 1811. Hij zag er Johanna Cornelia Ziesenis-Wattier spelen en noemde haar 'de grootste actrice van Europa'. Oorspronkelijk had de Stadsschouwburg een groot aantal ingangen. Dit kwam omdat iedere bevolkingsgroep zijn eigen plaats had in de zaal, zijn pauzedrankje gebruikte in aparte foyers en dus ook de schouwburg betrad via zijn eigen entree. De hoofdingang in het midden was uitsluitend voor het deftige publiek. Voor deze ingang bevindt zich een passage waar de koetsen vroeger onder konden rijden tot aan de deuren. In de Rotonde, een ronde hal met een spiegelwand, wachtte dit deftige publiek na afloop va...

  Lisa Marie Presley (February 1, 1968 – January 12, 2023) She was the only child of singer and actor Elvis Presley and actress Priscilla Presley, as well as the sole heir to her father's estate. Presley developed a career in the music business and issued three albums: To Whom It May Concern in 2003, Now What in 2005, and Storm & Grace in 2012. Her first album reached Gold certification with the Recording Industry Association of America. Presley also released non-album singles, including duets with her father using tracks he had released before he died. The father and daughter were extremely close, with Elvis once flying her out to Idaho after she said she had never seen snow. Her father named his 1958 Convair 880 private jet “the Lisa Marie.” Presley was married to musician Danny Keough, singer Michael Jackson, actor Nicolas Cage, and music producer Michael Lockwood. She had four children, including Benjamin Keough (who predeceased her). On January 12, 2023, Presley suffered c...

  William Garson Paszamant, known as Willie Garson. (February 20, 1964 – September 21, 2021) He appeared in over 75 films and more than 300 TV episodes. His first break in Hollywood was in guest roles on TV shows such as "Cheers" and "Family Ties." He was known for playing Stanford Blatch on the HBO series Sex and the City and in the related films Sex and the City and Sex and the City 2, Mozzie in the USA Network series White Collar from 2009 to 2014, Ralph in the 2005 romantic comedy Little Manhattan, Gerald Hirsch in the reboot of Hawaii Five-0, and Martin Lloyd in the sci-fi series Stargate SG-1. Garson also appeared in three movies from the Farrelly brothers—Kingpin, There's Something About Mary, and Fever Pitch. His other film credits include Groundhog Day, Just Like Heaven, The Rock, Fortress 2: Re-Entry, Being John Malkovich, Freaky Friday, Labor Pains, and Out Cold. He made a cameo in the end credits of Jackass Number Two, with the full context of the ca...

  White Bird  is een Amerikaanse dramafilm uit 2023. "One act of kindness lives on forever." Julian Albans wordt van school gestuurd vanwege zijn pestgedrag jegens een jongen met een zeldzame, aangeboren aangezichtsafwijking. Hij krijgt later bezoek van zijn grootmoeder uit Parijs en wordt getransformeerd door haar opmerkelijke verhaal van medeleven en moed. Als meisje in het door nazi's bezette Frankrijk duikt Julians grootmoeder onder met de hulp van een schoolvriend, een jongeman die alles riskeert om haar de kans te geven te overleven. Samen vinden ze schoonheid en liefde in de geheime wereld die ze zelf hebben gecreëerd.   In deze betrekkelijk traditioneel verfilmde oorlogsherinnering staat de kracht van verbeelding tegenover de grimmige realiteit. ______________________ Review: White Bird was een goede film, maar ik vond Wonder beter. Het was voor mij niet zo goed als Wonder, maar het gaf me wel hetzelfde emotionele gevoel en was zeker de moeite ...

  Donald Patrick Murray (July 31, 1929 – February 2, 2024) Murray is remembered for his breakout performance in the film Bus Stop (1956, with Marilyn Monroe), which earned him a nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His other films include A Hatful of Rain (1957), Shake Hands with the Devil (1959, with James Cagney), One Foot in Hell (1960, with Alan Ladd), The Hoodlum Priest (1961), Advise & Consent (1962, with Henry Fonda and Charles Laughton), Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965, with Steve McQueen and Lee Remick), Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972), Deadly Hero (1975), and Peggy Sue Got Married (1986, with Kathleen Turner). On television, Murray starred in series such as The Outcasts (1968–1969), Knots Landing (1979–1981), and Twin Peaks (2017). In 1956, Murray married Hope Lange, with whom he had co-starred in Bus Stop. They had two children, Christopher and Patricia. They divorced in 1961. In 1962, he married Elizabeth Johnson and they had three childre...

   De film is losjes gebaseerd op  de roman uit 2014  van  Martin Amis  en focust op het leven van de Duitse commandant  van Auschwitz  , Rudolf Höss  , en zijn vrouw Hedwig, die met hun gezin in een huis in de "  Zone of Interest  " naast het concentratiekamp Auschwitz wonen.  Christian Friedel  speelt Rudolf Höss en  Sandra Hüller  speelt Hedwig Höss. In 1943 woont  Rudolf Höss  ,  commandant  van het Duitse  concentratiekamp Auschwitz  , met zijn vrouw Hedwig en hun vijf kinderen in een idyllisch huis  naast het kamp  . Höss neemt de kinderen mee om te zwemmen en te vissen, en Hedwig besteedt haar tijd aan het verzorgen van de tuin. Niet-Joodse gevangenen doen de klusjes en de beste bezittingen van de  vermoorde Joden  worden aan het gezin gegeven. Buiten de tuinmuur zijn vaak geweerschoten, geschreeuw en het geluid van treinen en ovens te horen. Höss keurt het...