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Lady Oscar (film)
''Lady Oscar'' ( Japanese: ベルサイユのばら Hepburn: ''Berusaiyu no bara'', "The Rose of Versailles") is a 1979 English-language romantic historical drama film, based on the 1972 manga ''The Rose of Versailles'' by Riyoko Ikeda. The film was written and directed by Jacques Demy, with music composed by his regular collaborator Michel Legrand. The Japanese-French co-production was produced by Mataichiro Yamamoto for Kitty Films, Nippon TV, Toho, and Ciné Tamaris, and was filmed on location in France. Catriona MacColl stars as the eponymous Oscar François de Jarjayes, with Barry Stokes as her lover André Grandier, alongside Jonas Bergström, Christine Böhm, Mark Kingston, Georges Wilson, Sue Lloyd, Martin Potter, and Anouska Hempel. A young Lambert Wilson appears in a minor role. Plot General Jarjayes' wife dies while giving birth to a baby girl. Frustrated by this and refusing to believe his wife would die without giving him a male heir, the General names the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Demy
Jacques Demy (; 5 June 1931 – 27 October 1990) was a French director, screenwriter and lyricist. He appeared at the height of the French New Wave alongside contemporaries like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. Demy's films are celebrated for their Style (visual arts), visual style, which drew upon diverse sources such as classic Hollywood musicals, the En plein air, plein-air Realism (arts), realism of his French New Wave colleagues, fairy tales, jazz, Japanese manga, and the opera. His films contain overlapping Continuity (fiction), continuity (i.e., characters cross over from film to film), lush musical scores (typically composed by Michel Legrand) and motifs like teenage love, labor rights, chance encounters, incest, and the intersection between dreams and reality. He was married to Agnès Varda, another prominent director of the French New Wave. Demy is best known for the two musicals he directed in the mid-1960s: ''The Umbrellas of Cherbourg'' (1964) and ''The Young G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romance Film
Romance films involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion (emotion), passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typically their journey through dating, courtship or marriage, marriage is featured. These films focus on the search for romantic love as the main plot focus. Occasionally, romance lovers face obstacles such as finances, physical illness, various forms of discrimination, psychological restraints, or family resistance. As in all quite strong, deep, and close romantic relationships, the tensions of day-to-day life, temptations (of infidelity), and differences in compatibility enter into the plots of romantic films. Romantic films often explore the essential themes of love at first sight, young and mature love, unrequited love, obsession, sentimental love, Spirituality, spiritual love, forbidden love, platonic love, sexual and passionate love, sacrificial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lambert Wilson
Lambert Nicolas Wilson (; né Willson, 3 August 1958) is a French actor and theatre director. He is a seven-time Cesar Award nominee, four for César Award for Best Actor, Best Actor and three for César Award for Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actor. Internationally, he is known for playing List of Matrix series characters#Merovingian, The Merovingian in ''The Matrix (franchise), The Matrix'' film series, beginning with ''The Matrix Reloaded''. Biography Early life Wilson is the son of Georges Wilson, who was an actor, theatrical manager and director of the Théâtre National Populaire. As a teenager, he had little interest in the French theatre and aimed to become an "American actor" and appear in Hollywood pictures. He studied acting at the Drama Centre London to learn English. He played his first movie role in the 1977 American film ''Julia (1977 film), Julia'', directed by Fred Zinnemann. Five years later, he played his first starring role in another film by Zinne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anouska Hempel
Anouska Hempel, Lady Weinberg (born December 1941) is a New Zealand-born film and television actress turned hotelier and interior designer. She is sometimes credited as Anoushka Hempel. Early life Hempel is of Russian and Swiss German ancestry and has speculated that she was born on a boat ''en route'' from Papua New Guinea to New Zealand. Her family emigrated to New Zealand where she was born. They later moved to Cronulla, south of Sydney in Australia, where her father owned a garage. As a teenager in the mid-1950s, Hempel attended Sutherland High School. In 1962, she moved to England carrying only £10. Acting Hempel's first film appearance was in ''The Kiss of the Vampire'' (1963). In 1969 she appeared in the James Bond film '' On Her Majesty's Secret Service'' as one of the 'angels of death'. Thereafter, she appeared in several films, including '' Scars of Dracula'' (1970), '' The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins'' (1971), '' Go for a Take'' (1972), '' Tiffany Jones'' (1973 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Potter (actor)
Martin Potter (born 4 October 1944) is a British actor. After the National Youth Theatre and repertory theatre in Guildford and Hampstead Hampstead () is an area in London, England, which lies northwest of Charing Cross, located mainly in the London Borough of Camden, with a small part in the London Borough of Barnet. It borders Highgate and Golders Green to the north, Belsiz ..., Potter received his first role in British television at the age of 23 in the television drama ''The Bonegrinder'' (1968) written by Dennis Potter. In the same year he had another small part alongside Brian Cox (actor), Brian Cox in the futuristic drama ''The Year of the Sex Olympics''. One year later Potter's career took off with a much larger role. The Italy, Italian director Federico Fellini chose him for the main role of Encolpius in his film ''Fellini Satyricon, Satyricon''. Terence Stamp, Fellini's original choice for the main role, was not available, and Fellini was looking for someone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sue Lloyd
Susan Margery Jeaffreson Lloyd (7 August 1939 – 20 October 2011) was an English model and actress, with numerous film and television credits. She may be best known for her long-running role (1979 to 1985) as Barbara Hunter ( Brady) in the British soap opera '' Crossroads'' and Cordelia Winfield in the ITC series '' The Baron''. Early life The daughter of a GP, Lloyd was born in Aldeburgh, Suffolk. She attended Edgbaston High School in Birmingham and studied dance as a child, attending Sadler's Wells Ballet School. In 1953, she won a scholarship to the Royal Ballet School at Sadler's Wells Theatre, but when she grew to her possibilities for a career as a dancer diminished, and she became a showgirl and model, and, briefly, a member of Lionel Blair's dance troupe. She was one of the last two debutantes to be presented to the queen at Buckingham Palace in 1958; the final such ceremony. Films and television In 1965, Lloyd made her film debut in two espionage-themed films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Wilson
Georges Wilson (né Willson, ; 16 October 1921 – 3 February 2010) was a French actor and director of stage and screen. He was a significant figure in French theatre during the latter 20th-century, serving as director of the Theatre National Populaire from 1963 and 1972, while his film work earned him both BAFTA Award and Cesar Award nominations. He was also the father of French actor Lambert Wilson. Biography Wilson was born in Champigny-sur-Marne, Seine (now Val-de-Marne) as the illegitimate son of a French father and an Irish mother. His professional surname, Wilson, derives from his Irish grandmother; his birthname has not been made public. He was nominated for a BAFTA Film Award, and also nominated for a César Award. Georges Wilson's last film was '' Mesrine: Public Enemy Number One''. From 1963 to 1972 Georges Wilson was the director of the Théâtre national de Chaillot (formerly known as the Théâtre National Populaire). Georges Wilson died in Rambouillet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Kingston
Mark Kingston (18 April 1934 – 9 October 2011) was an English actor who made many television and stage appearances over his 50-year career. Biography Kingston's father was a blacksmith and he attended Greenwich Central School and trained as an actor at LAMDA, he then appeared in repertory theatre and at the Old Vic with Vivien Leigh. He played the lecturer Frank in the original stage production of '' Educating Rita'' with Julie Walters. On television he had significant roles in ''United!'', '' Beryl's Lot'', '' A Voyage Round My Father'', '' Shine on Harvey Moon'', and other productions. His film career included roles in ''Invasion'' (1965), '' Love Is a Splendid Illusion'' (1970), '' Hitler: The Last Ten Days'' (1973) as Martin Bormann, '' Saint Jack'' (1979), '' Lady Oscar'' (1979), ''Sphinx'' (1981) and ''Give My Regards to Broad Street'' (1984). Kingston also appeared in an episode of ''Birds of a Feather'' as Sharon's ( Pauline Quirke) Lover (1990). He died at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Grandier
This is a list of characters from ''The Rose of Versailles'', a shōjo manga created by Riyoko Ikeda which centers on the main character, Marie Antoinette, while the anime is about Oscar François de Jarjayes. Most of the characters are based on French historical personages. Main characters Marie Antoinette is the main character in the manga, while in the anime is the third protagonist after Oscar and André. She married the Dauphin to seal the alliance between his grandfather Louis XV and her mother, Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, when she was 14. After her marriage, she realizes that Madame du Barry, King Louis XV's mistress, is against her. The princess, horrified by what she had heard about du Barry, decides to never speak to her. Meanwhile, she meets Count von Fersen, who becomes her lover. Madame du Barry, always plotting against Marie Antoinette and Oscar, fulfills her desire to be greeted by her. After the death of Louis XV, Madame du Barry is forcibly removed fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar François De Jarjayes
(25 December 1755 – 14 July 1789) is a fictional character created by Japanese manga artist Riyoko Ikeda. She is the protagonist of the 1972 manga series ''The Rose of Versailles'', and its various adaptations and spin-offs. Character history Born December 25, 1755, the last of six daughters to the Commander of the Royal Guards, General (a real historical personage), she is raised by her father as if she were a boy in order to succeed him as the commander of the Royal Guard at the Palace of Versailles. Upon the completion of her military training at the age of fourteen, Oscar is tasked with protecting the Dauphine Marie Antoinette when she arrives at Versailles. Despite being raised as if she were a boy and dressing in males' clothes, Oscar is open about being female. Even as she embraces her womanhood, she uses her male position to gain freedoms that she could never have as a lady of the court. She is the love interest of André Grandier, her servant at the Jarjayes man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
