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Barbara White (actress)
Barbara White (11 December 1923 – 6 February 2013) was a British actress. She played several leading roles during a brief film career during the 1940s. She also appeared on stage in Lesley Storm's '' Great Day'' amongst others. Life From the age of ten, White viewed a future career as a concert pianist, but it was identified the hands of the 'pocket Venus' could not stretch to the required keys. Instead she then began training at a dramatic school ran by her aunt. In the 1948 movie '' This Was a Woman'', Russian-born composer Mischa Spoliansky (1898–1985) wrote a concerto especially for White to play, additional to several other compositions she played in the film. White was described as , dark curly hair, and brown eyes. As part of stage superstition, White stated in 1947 that she wore an ankle bracelet of tiny silver hearts, a token from an RAF officer who had been shot down in World War II over Germany. She owned a black spaniel called 'Notchka'. Workin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheerness
Sheerness () is a port town and civil parish beside the mouth of the River Medway on the north-west corner of the Isle of Sheppey in north Kent, England. With a population of 13,249, it is the second largest town on the island after the nearby town of Minster, Swale, Minster which has a population of 16,738. Sheerness began as a fort built in the 16th century to protect the River Medway from naval invasion. In 1665 plans were first laid by the Navy Board for Sheerness Dockyard, a facility where warships might be provisioned and repaired. The site was favoured by Samuel Pepys, then Clerk of the Acts of the navy, for shipbuilding over Chatham, Medway, Chatham inland. After the raid on the Medway in 1667, the older fortification was strengthened; in 1669 a Royal Navy dockyard was established in the town, where warships were stocked and repaired until its closure in 1960. Beginning with the construction of a pier and a promenade in the 19th century, Sheerness acquired the added at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rank Organisation
The Rank Organisation (founded as the J. Arthur Rank Organisation) is a British entertainment Conglomerate (company), conglomerate founded in 1937 by industrialist J. Arthur Rank. It quickly became the largest and most vertical integration, vertically integrated film company in the United Kingdom, owning production, distribution, and exhibition facilities as well as manufacturing projection equipment and chairs. It diversified into the manufacture of radios, TVs and photocopiers (as one of the owners of Rank Xerox). The company name lasted until February 1996, when the name and some of the remaining assets were absorbed into the newly structured Rank Group, Rank Group plc. The company itself became a wholly owned subsidiary of Xerox and was renamed XRO Limited in 1997. The company's logo, the Gongman, first used in 1935 by the group's distribution company General Film Distributors [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Stage Actresses
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2013 Deaths
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1923 Births
In Greece, this year contained only 352 days as 13 days was skipped to achieve the calendrical switch from Julian to Gregorian Calendar. It happened there that Wednesday, 15 February ''(Julian Calendar)'' was followed by Thursday, 1 March ''(Gregorian Calendar).'' Events January–February * January 9, January 5 – Lithuania begins the Klaipėda Revolt to annex the Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory). * January 11 – Despite strong British protests, troops from France and Belgium Occupation of the Ruhr, occupy the Ruhr area, to force Germany to make reparation payments. * January 17 (or 9) – First flight of the first rotorcraft, Juan de la Cierva's Cierva C.4 autogyro, in Spain. (It is first demonstrated to the military on January 31.) * February 5 – Australian cricketer Bill Ponsford makes 429 runs to break the world record for the highest first-class cricket score for the first time in his third match at this level, at Melbourne Cricket Ground, giving the Victor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
While The Sun Shines
''While the Sun Shines'' is a 1947 British comedy film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Barbara White, Ronald Squire, Brenda Bruce, Bonar Colleano, and Michael Allan. It was based on Terence Rattigan's 1943 play of the same name. Plot Lady Elisabeth Randall is an English Air Force corporal during World War II. She is on her way to marry her fiancé when she finds herself being romanced by two different men. The first man is Colbert, a Frenchman residing in England. The second man is Joe Mulvaney, an American lieutenant. Difficulties ensue as Lady Elisabeth finds that due to these romances both her military career and her impending marriage are in danger. Cast Critical reception ''TV Guide TV Guide is an American digital media In mass communication, digital media is any media (communication), communication media that operates in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats. Digital content can be created, vi ...'' wrote that "The directio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quiet Weekend
''Quiet Weekend'' is a 1946 British comedy film directed by Harold French and starring Derek Farr, Frank Cellier, Marjorie Fielding, George Thorpe and Barbara White. A family try to relax during a weekend holiday in the country.QUIET WEEK END (1946) It was a sequel to the 1941 film '' Quiet Wedding'', with several of the actors reprising their roles. It was based on the long running 1941 West End play '' Quiet Weekend'' and shot at Welwyn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It Happened One Sunday
''It Happened One Sunday'' is a 1944 British romantic comedy film directed by Karel Lamač and starring Robert Beatty, Barbara White and Marjorie Rhodes. It was written by Paul Vincent Carroll, Frederic Gotfurt and Frank Harvey based on the play ''She Met Him One Sunday'' by Victor Skutezky. Produced and distributed by Associated British it was shot at Welwyn Studios with sets designed by the art director William C. Andrews. Synopsis In the film, an Irish servant girl working in Liverpool mistakenly believes that she has a secret admirer working at a hospital, and while seeking him out accidentally meets and falls in love with a serviceman there. She spends the rest of the day around Liverpool with him and they eventually decide to marry. Cast * Robert Beatty as Tom Stevens * Barbara White as Moya Malone * Marjorie Rhodes as Mrs. Buckland * Ernest Butcher as Mr. Buckland * Kathryn Beaumont as Jill Buckland * Judy Kelly as Violet * Irene Vanbrugh as Mrs. Bellamy * K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Daily Mirror (Sydney)
''The Daily Mirror'' was an afternoon paper established by Ezra Norton in Sydney, Australia in 1941, gaining a licence from the Minister for Trade and Customs, Eric Harrison, despite wartime paper rationing. In October 1958, Norton and his partners sold his newspapers to the Fairfax Group, which immediately sold it to News Limited. It was merged with its morning sister paper ''The Daily Telegraph'' on 8 October 1990 to form ''The Daily Telegraph-Mirror'', which in 1996 reverted to ''The Daily Telegraph'', in the process removing the last vestige of the old ''Daily Mirror''. Frank McGuinness, father of journalist P. P. McGuinness, also played a role in launching the newspaper. In 1941, McGuinness was controversially accused of conveying betting odds before the start of a race at Ascot. Charles Buttrose, father of Ita Buttrose (launch editor of '' Cleo'', editor of ''The Australian Women's Weekly'' and current chair of the '' ABC''), was a journalist on, and then the edito ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Savoy Hotel
The Savoy Hotel is a luxury hotel located in the Strand in the City of Westminster in central London, England. Built by the impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte with profits from his Gilbert and Sullivan opera productions, it opened on 6 August 1889. It was the first in the Savoy group of hotels and restaurants owned by Carte's family for over a century. The Savoy was the first hotel in Britain to introduce electric lights throughout the building, electric lifts, bathrooms in most of the lavishly furnished rooms, constant hot and cold running water and many other innovations. Carte hired César Ritz as manager and Auguste Escoffier as '' chef de cuisine''; they established an unprecedented standard of quality in hotel service, entertainment and elegant dining, attracting royalty and other rich and powerful guests and diners. The hotel became Carte's most successful venture. Its bands, Savoy Orpheans and the Savoy Havana Band, became famous, and other entertainers (who were also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mine Own Executioner
''Mine Own Executioner'' is a 1947 British psychological thriller drama film starring Burgess Meredith and directed by Anthony Kimmins, and based on the novel of the same name by Nigel Balchin. It was entered into the 1947 Cannes Film Festival. The title is derived from a quotation of John Donne's " Devotions", which serves as an epigraph for the original book. Plot Felix Milne (Meredith) is an overworked psychologist with psychological problems of his own. Molly Lucian seeks Milne's help in treating her husband Adam, traumatised from his experiences in a Japanese POW camp. Adam is about to become severely schizophrenic. To make matters worse, Felix finds his own home life deteriorating. Cast * Burgess Meredith as Felix Milne * Kieron Moore as Adam Lucian * Dulcie Gray as Patricia Milne * Michael Shepley as Peter Edge * Christine Norden as Barbara Edge * Barbara White as Molly Lucian * Walter Fitzgerald as Dr. Norris Pile * Edgar Norfolk as Sir George Freethorne * Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
