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Goodbye Mr Chips
''Goodbye, Mr. Chips'' is a novella about the life of a school teacher, Mr. Chipping, written by English writer James Hilton and first published by Hodder & Stoughton in October 1934. It has been adapted into two feature films and two television presentations. History The story was originally issued in 1933, as a supplement to the ''British Weekly'', an evangelical newspaper. It came to prominence when it was reprinted as the lead piece of the April 1934 issue of ''The Atlantic Monthly''. The success of the ''Atlantic Monthly'' publication prompted a book deal between the author and the US publisher Little, Brown and Company, who published the story in book form for the first time in June 1934. Published during the Great Depression, Little, Brown cautiously released a small first print run. Public demand for more was immediate and Little, Brown went into an almost immediate reprinting the same month. Public demand remained strong, and Little, Brown continued to reprint the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Hilton (novelist)
James Hilton (9 September 1900 – 20 December 1954) was an English novelist and screenwriter. He is best remembered for his novels ''Lost Horizon'', ''Goodbye, Mr. Chips'' and ''Random Harvest'', as well as co-writing screenplays for the films ''Camille (1936 film), Camille'' (1936) and ''Mrs. Miniver'' (1942), the latter earning him an Academy Awards, Academy Award. Early life Hilton was born in Leigh, Greater Manchester, Leigh, Lancashire, the son of John Hilton, the headmaster of Chapel End School in Walthamstow. He was educated at the Monoux School Walthamstow till 1914, then The Leys School, Cambridge, and then at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he wrote his first novel and was awarded an honours degree in English literature. He started work as a journalist, first for the ''Manchester Guardian'', then reviewing fiction for ''The Daily Telegraph''. Career Hilton's first novel, ''Catherine Herself,'' was published in 1920 when he was still an undergraduate. The next 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time (magazine)
''Time'' (stylized in all caps) is an American news magazine based in New York City. For nearly a century, it was published weekly, but starting in March 2020 it transitioned to every other week. It was first published in New York City on March 3, 1923, and for many years it was run by its influential co-founder, Henry Luce. A European edition (''Time Europe'', formerly known as ''Time Atlantic'') is published in London and also covers the Middle East, Africa, and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition (''Time Asia'') is based in Hong Kong. The South Pacific edition, which covers Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands, is based in Sydney. Since 2018, ''Time'' has been published by Time USA, LLC, owned by Marc Benioff, who acquired it from Meredith Corporation. History ''Time'' has been based in New York City since its first issue published on March 3, 1923, by Briton Hadden and Henry Luce. It was the first weekly news magazine in the United States. The two had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil B
Cecil may refer to: People with the name * Cecil (given name), a given name (including a list of people and fictional characters with the name) * Cecil (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) Places Canada * Cecil, Alberta, Canada United States * Cecil, Alabama * Cecil, Georgia *Cecil, Ohio *Cecil, Oregon * Cecil, Pennsylvania * Cecil, West Virginia *Cecil, Wisconsin * Cecil Airport, in Jacksonville, Florida * Cecil County, Maryland Computing and technology * Cecil (programming language), prototype-based programming language *Computer Supported Learning, a learning management system by the University of Auckland, New Zealand Music * Cecil (British band), a band from Liverpool, active 1993-2000 * Cecil (Japanese band), a band from Kajigaya, Japan, active 2000-2006 Other uses * Cecil (lion), a famed lion killed in Zimbabwe in 2015 * Cecil (''Passions''), a minor character from the NBC soap opera ''Passions'' * Cecil (soil), the dominant red clay soil in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edna Best
Edna Clara Best (3 March 1900 – 18 September 1974) was a British actress. Early life Born in Hove, Sussex, England, she was educated in Brighton and later studied dramatic acting under Miss Kate Rorke who was the first professor of Drama at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. Career Edna Best was known on the London stage before she entered films in 1921, having made her debut at the Grand Theatre, Southampton, in ''Charley's Aunt'' in 1917. She also won a silver swimming cup as the lady swimming champion of Sussex. She appeared with husband Herbert Marshall in John Van Druten's 1931 play '' There's Always Juliet'' on both Broadway and London. For Gainsborough Pictures, she starred in the melodramas '' Michael and Mary'' and '' The Faithful Heart'' alongside her husband. She is best remembered for her role as the mother in the original 1934 film version of Alfred Hitchcock's '' The Man Who Knew Too Much''. Her subsequent roles were a mixture of British and Hol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier (; 22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor and director who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, was one of a trio of male actors who dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century. He also worked in films throughout his career, playing more than fifty cinema roles. Late in his career, he had considerable success in television roles. His family had no theatrical connections, but Olivier's father, a clergyman, decided that his son should become an actor. After attending a drama school in London, Olivier learned his craft in a succession of acting jobs during the late 1920s. In 1930 he had his first important West End success in Noël Coward's '' Private Lives'', and he appeared in his first film. In 1935 he played in a celebrated production of ''Romeo and Juliet'' alongside Gielgud and Peggy Ashcroft, and by the end of the decade he was an established star. In the 1940s, together with Richa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lux Radio Theatre
''Lux Radio Theatre'', sometimes spelled ''Lux Radio Theater'', a classic radio anthology series, was broadcast on the NBC Blue Network (1934–35) (owned by the National Broadcasting Company, later predecessor of American Broadcasting Company BCin 1943–1945); CBS Radio network ( Columbia Broadcasting System) (1935–54), and NBC Radio (1954–55). Initially, the series adapted Broadway plays during its first two seasons before it began adapting films. These hour-long radio programs were performed live before studio audiences. The series became the most popular dramatic anthology series on radio, broadcast for more than 20 years and continued on television as the ''Lux Video Theatre'' through most of the 1950s. The primary sponsor of the show was Unilever through its Lux Soap brand. Broadcasting from New York, the series premiered at 2:30 pm, October 14, 1934, on the NBC Blue Network with a production of '' Seventh Heaven'' starring Miriam Hopkins and John Boles in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermione Hannen
Hermione Hannen (26 January 1913 – 1 October 1983) was an English theatre and film actress. She was born in London, the daughter of Nicholas "Beau" Hannen, who was also an actor on the stage and in film. Biography Hermione Hannen was born on 26 January 1913, London. Hannen's grandfather was Sir Nicholas John Hannen, who served as Chief Justice of the British Supreme Court for China and Japan and also as British Consul-General in Shanghai. Sir Nicholas died in office and marines from served as an honour guard and pallbearers at his funeral. On her mother's side she was the grand-daughter of Sir Henry Morland, a British administrator in the Bombay Presidency of India. Through his marriage to Fanny Ellen Hannah Louisa Carandini, she was the great-grand-daughter of the opera singer, Marie Carandini. Marie was married to the Italian nobleman, Jerome Carandini, the Marquis of Sarzano, and thus Hannen was also a distant cousin of the actor Christopher Lee. Career Hannen trained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Shaw
Lewis Shaw (1910–1987) was a British actor. . Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk (16 April 2009). Retrieved on 7 January 2014. Selected filmography * '' Confessions'' (1925) * '' Carry On'' (1927) * '''' (1928) * '' The Marriage Bond'' (1932) * ''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Simpson (actor)
Ronald Maitland Simpson (1896–1957) was a British film, TV, and stage actor. He was a publicist, too, known for BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950). He was married to Doris Lila Muschamp. Selected filmography * '' One Precious Year'' (1933) - (uncredited) * '' The Medicine Man'' (1933) - Dr. Wesley Primus * '' It's a Cop'' (1934) - Bates * '' Lucky Days'' (1935) - Smedley * ''Calling the Tune'' (1936) - Bramwell * ''Song of Freedom'' (1936) - Mr. Blane, the Pianist * ''Head Office'' (1936) - Knott * '' No Escape'' (1936) - Scoop Martin * '' The Loves of Joanna Godden'' (1947) - Rev. Brett * '' Mine Own Executioner'' (1947) - Mr. Grandison * '' Last Holiday'' (1950) - Dr. Pevensey * ''The Long Dark Hall'' (1951) - Mary's father * ''The House in the Square'' (1951) - Sir Joshua Reynolds (uncredited) * '' The Cruel Sea'' (1953) - R.N. Captain * ''The Last Man to Hang? ''The Last Man to Hang?'' is a 1956 crime film directed by Terence Fisher. It stars Tom Conway and Elizabeth Sell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Shelley
Norman Shelley (16 February 1903 – 21 August 1980) was a British actor, best known for his work in radio, in particular for the BBC's ''Children's Hour''. He also had a recurring role as Colonel Danby in the long-running radio soap opera ''The Archers''. Perhaps Shelley's single best-known role was as Winnie-the-Pooh in ''Children's Hour'' adaptations of A.A. Milne's stories; for many British people of the mid-20th century, his is the definitive voice of Pooh. Other roles for ''Children's Hour'' included Dr. Watson (opposite Carleton Hobbs as Holmes) in the 1952–1969 Sherlock Holmes radio series; Toad in Kenneth Grahame's '' The Wind in the Willows''; and the roles of The Magician and Captain Higgins in the specially written '' Toytown'' series. Shelley also played the parts of Gandalf and Tom Bombadil in the 1955-6 radio adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's ''The Lord of the Rings''. In the 1973 BBC television series ''Jack the Ripper'' Shelley played Detective Constab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Goolden
Richard Percy Herbert Goolden, OBE (23 February 1895 – 18 June 1981) was a British actor, most famous for his portrayal of Mole from Kenneth Grahame's ''Wind in the Willows'' in A A Milne's stage adaptation, ''Toad of Toad Hall''. Goolden took up the stage after serving in the army in the First World War. From the start of his career he was cast in character parts, usually elderly. He played more than 500 roles in a career that lasted more than fifty years, and embraced the classics, farce, opera bouffe, radio, films and television. He first played Mole in 1930 and took the part in numerous revivals until his retirement in 1980. He created roles in new plays by Samuel Beckett and Tom Stoppard, and, in his last year, in the radio series ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''. Life and career Early years Goolden was born in London, the son of a barrister,"Mr Richard Goolden", ''The Times'', 20 June 1981, p. 14 Percy Pugh Goolden Goolden ic and his wife Margarida, ''née' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC National Programme
The BBC National Programme was a radio service which was on the air from 9 March 1930 – replacing the earlier BBC's experimental station 5XX – until 1 September 1939 when it was subsumed into the Home Service, two days before the outbreak of World War II. Both the National Programme and the Regional Programme provided a mixed mainstream radio service. Whilst the two services provided different programming, allowing listeners a choice they were not streamed to appeal to different audiences, rather they were intended to offer a choice of programming to a single audience. While using the same transmitters, the National Programme broadcast significantly more speech and classical music than its successor, the Light Programme. Similarly, the Regional Programme broadcast much more light and dance music than its successor, the Home Service. History Development When the British Broadcasting Company (later to be nationalised as the British Broadcasting Corporation) began transmis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
