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Megs Jenkins
Muguette Mary "Megs" Jenkins (21 April 1917 – 5 October 1998) was an English character actress who appeared in United Kingdom, British films and television programmes. Life and career Jenkins was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, the daughter of a construction engineer. She originally trained to be a ballet dancer. Although born in England, she often played Wales, Welsh characters. She made her noticeable film debut in ''Millions Like Us'' (1943) as the Welsh room-mate and confidante of the main character (played by Patricia Roc). She went on to appear in such films as ''Green for Danger (film), Green for Danger'' (1946), ''The History of Mr. Polly (film), The History of Mr. Polly'' (1949), ''The Cruel Sea (1953 film), The Cruel Sea'' (1953), and ''Oliver! (film), Oliver!'' (1968). She played the housekeeper, Mrs. Grose, in two adaptations of Henry James's ''The Turn of the Screw'': the film ''The Innocents (1961 film), The Innocents'' (1961) and a 1974 television adaptation. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birkenhead
Birkenhead () is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England. The town is on the Wirral Peninsula, along the west bank of the River Mersey, opposite Liverpool. It lies within the Historic counties of England, historic county boundaries of Cheshire, and became part of Merseyside in 1974. At the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census, the built up area as defined by the Office for National Statistics had a population of 109,835. Birkenhead Priory and the Mersey Ferry were established in the 12th century. In the 19th century, Birkenhead expanded greatly as a consequence of the Industrial Revolution, leading to a shipbuilding firm which became Cammell Laird. A Great Float, seaport was established. As the town grew, Birkenhead Park and Hamilton Square were laid out. The first street tramway in Britain was built, followed by the Mersey Railway which connected Birkenhead and Liverpool through the world's first railway tunnel beneath a tidal estuary. In the sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Worzel Gummidge
Worzel Gummidge is a scarecrow in British children's fiction, who originally appeared in a series of books by the English novelist Barbara Euphan Todd."Worzel Gummidge (1979–81)" ''ScreenOnline.org.uk'' He was named after a famous dog. It was the first story book published by . The books have been adapted for radio and television a number of times. Frank Atkinson was the first person to play the role in the 1953 children's television series '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inspector Hornleigh On Holiday
''Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday'' is a 1939 British detective film directed by Walter Forde and starring Gordon Harker, Alastair Sim and Linden Travers. It is the sequel to the 1938 film '' Inspector Hornleigh'', and both films are based on the novels by Leo Grex. A third and final film, '' Inspector Hornleigh Goes To It'', followed in 1941. Plot summary During a holiday by the British seaside, Inspector Hornleigh and Sergeant Bingham grow bored and turn their hand to investigating a local crime. Cast * Gordon Harker as Inspector Hornleigh * Alastair Sim as Sergeant Bingham * Linden Travers as Miss Angela Meadows * Wally Patch as Police Sergeant * Edward Chapman as Captain Edwin Fraser * Philip Leaver as Bradfield * Kynaston Reeves as Dr. Manners * John Turnbull as Chief Constable * Wyndham Goldie as Sir George Winbeck References External links * ''Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday''at Reel Streets 1939 films 1930s crime comedy films Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poison Pen (1939 Film)
''Poison Pen'' is a 1939 British drama film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Flora Robson, Reginald Tate and Ann Todd. It was based on the 1937 play of the same title by Richard Llewellyn. Play Written shortly before his famous novels '' How Green Was My Valley'' and '' None But the Lonely Heart'', Llewellyn's play - concerning an outbreak of anonymous poison-pen letters that destabilise a small rural community - was first presented at Richmond, near London, on 9 August 1937. A West End production, using a revised text, opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre on 9 April 1938, moving to the Playhouse in July and the Garrick in August, achieving in all 176 performances and closing on 10 September. Theatre historian J. C. Trewin described the play, under the heading 'How Grim Was My Village', as "a showy bit of theatre." Film The film version was made by the Associated British Picture Corporation at their Elstree Studios and opened in London on 4 July 1939. Flora Robson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secret Journey (1939 Film)
''Secret Journey'' is a 1939 British thriller film directed by John Baxter and starring Basil Radford, Silvia St. Claire and Thorley Walters. The film was made at M.P. Studios, Elstree, by British National Films as a supporting feature.Wood p.101 It is a remake of the 1936 French film '' Wolves Between Them'', itself based on a novel by Charles Robert-Dumas. It was released in the United States in 1940 under the alternative title ''Among Human Wolves''. Synopsis The screenplay concerns a British agent who travels to Berlin to recover a top-secret invention that has been stolen by German intelligence. Cast * Basil Radford as John Richardson * Silvia St. Claire as Helen Richardson * Thorley Walters as Max von Reimer * Peter Gawthorne as Gen. von Reimer * Tom Helm as Capt. Benoit * Joss Ambler as Col. Blondin * George Hayes as Insp. Walter * Megs Jenkins Muguette Mary "Megs" Jenkins (21 April 1917 – 5 October 1998) was an English character actress who appeared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Silent Battle (1939 Film)
''The Silent Battle'' is a 1939 British thriller film directed by Herbert Mason and produced by Anthony Havelock-Allan for Pinebrook Studios. The cast includes Rex Harrison, Valerie Hobson and John Loder. It marked the film debut of Megs Jenkins. It is also known by the alternative titles ''Continental Express'' and ''Peace in our Time''. It was inspired by the novel ''Le Poisson Chinois'' by Jean Bommart. Secret agents try to defeat terrorists on the Orient Express. The film was distributed by Paramount British Pictures. It is a remake of the French film '' The Silent Battle'' (1937). ''The Silent Battle'' was released to cinemas in the United Kingdom in March 1939. Cast * Rex Harrison as Jacques Sauvin * Valerie Hobson as Draguisha * John Loder as Bordier * Muriel Aked as Madame Duvivier * George Devine as Sonneman * John Salew as Ernest * Kaye Seeley as Bostoff * Carl Jaffe as Rykoff * Megs Jenkins as Louise * Arthur Maude as Editor Critical reception ' ... [...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] |
A View From The Bridge
''A View from the Bridge'' is a play by American playwright Arthur Miller. It was first staged on September 29, 1955, as a one-act verse drama with '' A Memory of Two Mondays'' at the Coronet Theatre on Broadway. The run was unsuccessful, and Miller subsequently revised and extended the play to contain two acts; this version is the one with which audiences are most familiar. The two-act version premiered in the New Watergate theatre club in London's West End under the direction of Peter Brook on October 11, 1956. The play is set in 1950s America, in an Italian-American neighborhood near the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. It employs a chorus and narrator in the character of Alfieri. Eddie, the tragic protagonist, has an improper love for, and almost an obsession with, Catherine, his wife Beatrice's orphaned niece, so he does not approve of her courtship of Beatrice's cousin Rodolpho. Miller's interest in writing about the world of the New York docks originated with an u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Miller
Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright, essayist and screenwriter in the 20th-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are '' All My Sons'' (1947), '' Death of a Salesman'' (1949), ''The Crucible'' (1953), and '' A View from the Bridge'' (1955). He wrote several screenplays, including '' The Misfits'' (1961). The drama ''Death of a Salesman'' is considered one of the best American plays of the 20th century. Miller was often in the public eye, particularly during the late 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s. During this time, he received a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee, and married Marilyn Monroe. In 1980, he received the St. Louis Literary Award from the Saint Louis University Library Associates. He received the Praemium Imperiale prize in 2001, the Prince of Asturias Award in 2002, and the Jerusalem Prize in 2003, and the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clarence Derwent Award
The Clarence Derwent Awards are theatre awards given annually by the Actors' Equity Association on Broadway in the United States and by Equity, the performers' union, in the West End in the United Kingdom. Clarence Derwent (23 March 1884 – 6 August 1959) was an English actor, director, and manager. He was educated at St Paul's School, London and the Birkbeck Institute. He joined Sir Frank Benson's stage company, with whom he stayed for five years. He then joined Annie Horniman's repertory company in Manchester. He was seen in a great variety of roles, both in London and New York. He made his last appearance on stage in 1948 in '' The Madwoman of Chaillot''. He died in New York at the age of 75. From 1946 to 1952 Derwent was President of America's Actors' Equity. His will stipulated that two $500 prizes were to be given out annually to the best individual male and female supporting performances on Broadway and a £100 prize to the best supporting performances in the West En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Day By The Sea
''A Day by the Sea'' is a 1953 play by the British writer N. C. Hunter, first produced in 1953. First productions After premiering at the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool on 26 October 1953 the play toured to Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh before opening at the Haymarket Theatre in the West End of London, where it ran for 386 performances from 26 November 1953 to 30 October 1954.Wearing, p. 271 John Gielgud directed the production. The play had its American premiere in Los Angeles on 17 August 1955, before the production was taken to San Francisco and then to Broadway. On 26 September 1955 it opened in New York at the ANTA Theatre, running for 24 performances."A Day by the Sea" Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved 27 September 2020 The director was |
The Gay Dog
''The Gay Dog'' is a 1954 British comedy film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Wilfred Pickles, Petula Clark and Megs Jenkins. The screen-play was by Peter Rogers based on the 1952 play of the same title by Joseph Colton; also starring Pickles and Jenkins, it had run at London's Piccadilly Theatre for 276 performances from June 1952 to February 1953. Plot A miner, Jim Gay, owns a greyhound, "Raving Beauty", which has been very successful in races at the local stadium called Rodney Park. His bets on the dog are not winning him much money, so Gay hits upon a plan to improve its starting odds so as to win more money. His friend Peter (a fellow miner) and he initially pretend that Raving Beauty is ill, and the rumours soon spread around the local community. Upon visiting the vicar, however, Jim and Peter find out that the vicar is looking after his brother's greyhound, called Prince of Erin, which is due to compete in the same race as Raving Beauty on the Saturday. Peter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
