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The Ambassador's Daughter (1913 Film)
''The Ambassador's Daughter'' or Ambassador's Daughter or Daughter of the Ambassador, may refer to: *''The Ambassador's Daughter'' (1913 film), a short film starring Miriam Nesbitt, George Lessey and Robert Brower, directed by Charles Brabin * ''The Ambassador's Daughter'' (1956 film), featuring Olivia de Havilland and John Forsythe * ''Ambassador's Daughter'' (1958 book), a memoir by Meriel Buchanan (1886–1959) * ''The Ambassador's Daughter'' (2013 book), a novel by Pam Jenoff Pam Jenoff is an American author, lawyer, and professor of law at Rutgers University–Camden, Rutgers University. She writes love stories and historical novels, some of which have been nominated for awards and many of which have been bestsellers ... * '' Sefirin Kızı'' (; ), 2019 Turkish TV show See also * * * Ambassador (other) * Daughter (other) {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miriam Nesbitt
Miriam Nesbitt (September 14, 1873, in Chicago – August 11, 1954, in Hollywood) was an American stage and film actress. Biography Born Miriam Skanke, she studied at the Stanhope-Wheatcroft Dramatic School, before landing a part in Daniel Frohman's play ''The Tree of Knowledge'' under the stage name Miriam Nesbitt. She went on to perform on Broadway a number of times in the first decade of the twentieth century. She also acted in over 120 silent films, beginning in 1908 with ''Saved by Love''. Fellow actor Marc McDermott appeared with her in many of these productions, among them '' Aida'' (1911), based on Verdi's opera with Mary Fuller and Marc McDermott, ''The Declaration of Independence'' (1911), in which she played Mrs. John Adams to McDermott's Thomas Jefferson; ''The Three Musketeers: Part 1'' and ''Part 2'' (1911), where she portrayed the Queen to his Cardinal Richelieu; the 1913 serial '' Who Will Marry Mary?''; and '' The Man Who Disappeared'', a 1914 serial. In 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Lessey
George Lessey (June 8, 1879 – June 3, 1947) was an American actor and director of the silent era. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1910 and 1946. He also directed more than 70 films between 1913 and 1922. Lessey was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, and as a boy he acted in theatrical productions there. He graduated from Amherst College. For a year, Lessey was a leading man for Edison Studios, after which he directed films for the company for two years. In 1914, he joined Universal Studios as a director. He portrayed Romeo in the initial film version of ''Romeo and Juliet'', directed the first serial, ''What Happened to Mary'', and played the first dual role in film as twins in '' The Corsican Brothers.'' On stage, Lessey appeared in the original Broadway production of ''Porgy and Bess'' (1935) in one of the few white roles, that of the lawyer Mr. Archdale. In the 1930s, Lessey worked as a model for men's clothes. Lessey was married to the former May Abbey. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Brabin
Charles Brabin (April 17, 1882 – November 3, 1957) was a British-American film director. Biography Born in Liverpool, England, he was educated at St. Francis Xavier's College (Liverpool), St. Francis Xavier College. Brabin sailed to New York City in the early 1900s and, while holding down odd jobs there, he tried his hand as a stage actor. He joined the Edison Manufacturing Company around 1908, first acting, later writing and directing. He was active during the Silent film, silent era, then pursued a short-lived career in Sound film, talkies. His last film was ''A Wicked Woman'' for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1934. Brabin married, firstly, to socialite Suzan Jeanette Mosher, daughter of Edwin Howard Mosher and Jennie Slater Mosher, of New York City. They married on December 14, 1913, at Bedford Congregational Church in The Bronx, New York, shortly after Brabin returned from a trip to England and Europe. Brabin's best friend, screen actor Marc MacDermott, served as best man. Char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ambassador's Daughter (1956 Film)
''The Ambassador's Daughter'' is a 1956 American romantic comedy film directed by Norman Krasna and starring Olivia de Havilland, John Forsythe and Myrna Loy. It was also produced and written by Krasna, and was distributed by United Artists. It was shot at the Joinville Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Léon Barsacq. Plot When a visiting American senator decides to make Paris off-limits to enlisted military personnel, the daughter of the United States Ambassador to France decides to show him that American servicemen can be gentlemen by dating one of them without revealing her lofty social status. Sergeant Sullivan takes Joan to colorful nightclub cabarets, and on a comical trip up the Eiffel Tower, all the time believing her to be a Christian Dior SE, Dior fashion model. Thinking she has an emergency back in America, Sullivan offers to buy her an airline ticket, for which she is grateful, until she hears that counterfeit plane tickets are a comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivia De Havilland
Dame Olivia Mary de Havilland (; July 1, 1916July 26, 2020) was a British and American actress. The major works of her cinematic career spanned from 1935 to 1988. She appeared in 49 feature films and was one of the leading actresses of her time. Before her death in 2020 at age 104, she was the oldest living and earliest surviving Academy Award winner and was widely considered as being the last surviving major star from the Classical Hollywood cinema, Golden Age of Hollywood cinema. Her younger sister, with whom she had a noted rivalry well documented in the media, was Oscar-winning actress Joan Fontaine. De Havilland first came to prominence with Errol Flynn as a screen couple in adventure films such as ''Captain Blood (1935 film), Captain Blood'' (1935) and ''The Adventures of Robin Hood'' (1938). One of her best-known roles is that of Melanie Hamilton in ''Gone with the Wind (film), Gone with the Wind'' (1939), for which she received the first of her five Academy Awards, Osca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Forsythe
John Lincoln Forsythe ( Freund; January 29, 1918 – April 1, 2010) was an American stage, film/television actor, producer, narrator, drama teacher and philanthropist whose career spanned six decades. He also appeared as a guest on several talk and variety shows and as a panelist on numerous game shows. His acting career began in films in 1943. He signed up with Warner Bros. at age 25 as a minor contract player, but he starred in '' The Captive City'' (1952) and co-starred opposite Loretta Young in '' It Happens Every Thursday'' (1953), Edmund Gwenn and Shirley MacLaine in ''The Trouble with Harry'' (1955), and Olivia de Havilland in '' The Ambassador's Daughter'' (1956). He also enjoyed a long successful television career, starring in three television series in three genres: as the single playboy father Bentley Gregg in the sitcom '' Bachelor Father'' (1957–1962); as the unseen millionaire Charles Townsend in the crime drama '' Charlie's Angels'' (1976–1981)—a role ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meriel Buchanan
Meriel Buchanan (5 September 1886 – 6 February 1959) was a British memorialist. The daughter of the last British Ambassador to Imperial Russia, she wrote a number of articles and books about her experiences during that time, most notably: ''Recollections of imperial Russia'' (1923) and ''Ambassador's daughter'' (1958). Life Meriel Buchanan was the only child of Sir George Buchanan (1854-1924), and his wife Lady Georgina Meriel Bathurst (1863-1922). As her father was a career diplomat, Meriel's early life was spent in the many countries where her father was posted: Hesse, Baden, Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.McCarthy, ''Women of the World'', p.36 In 1910 the Buchanan family moved to Saint Petersburg, when Sir George Buchanan was appointed as the British ambassador to Russia. In her early twenties at her arrival in Russia in 1910, she had a prominent position as the daughter of the British ambassador at the court of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pam Jenoff
Pam Jenoff is an American author, lawyer, and professor of law at Rutgers University–Camden, Rutgers University. She writes love stories and historical novels, some of which have been nominated for awards and many of which have been bestsellers. She is still writing and lives with her three children and husband in New Jersey. Biography A resident of Haddonfield, New Jersey, Jenoff grew up in Evesham Township, New Jersey, Evesham Township, where she attended Cherokee High School (New Jersey), Cherokee High School. Her mother "grew up in South Philadelphia in the 1940s"; "my dad’s family is from Atlantic City and my grandparents and great grandparents owned hotels and restaurants there in the 1930s and 40s." Her bachelor's degree is from George Washington University and her M.A. (in history) is from Cambridge University. Her J.D. degree is from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. A former special assistant to the secretary of the Army and a State Department officer, sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sefirin Kızı
''Sefirin Kızı'' () is a Turkish drama television series directed by Emre Kabakuşak and written by Ayşe Ferda Eryılmaz and Sedef Nehir Erdem. It consists of two seasons, the first of which aired on 16 December 2019, and concluded on 22 June 2020. The second season premiered on 7 September 2020, and concluded on 11 May 2021. The series originally starred Engin Akyürek and Neslihan Atagül in the lead roles, but Atagül announced on 18 January 2021 that she would depart from the series due to leaky gut syndrome and was replaced by Tuba Büyüküstün. Cast * Engin Akyürek as Sancar Efeoğlu * Neslihan Atagül as Nare Çelebi Efeoğlu Işıklı * Tuba Büyüküstün as Mavi Çınar Efeoğlu * Beren Gençalp as Melek Efeoğlu * Uraz Kaygılaroğlu as Gediz Işıklı * Doğukan Polat as Yahya Efeoğlu * Hivda Zizan Alp as Elvan Efeoğlu * Cemre Öktem as Zehra Efeoğlu * Zerrin Sümer as Feride Efeoğlu * Edip Tepeli as Kavruk Ömer * Gonca Cilasun as Halise Efeoğlu * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambassador (other)
Ambassador is the highest ranking diplomat who represents a nation. Ambassador(s) or The Ambassador(s) or may also refer to: Representatives * Brand ambassador * Goodwill ambassador Arts and entertainment Film, television and theatre * ''The Ambassador'' (1936 film), an Italian historical comedy film * ''The Ambassador'' (1960 film), a West German film * ''The Ambassador'' (1984 American film), a political thriller based on Elmore Leonard's novel ''52 Pick-Up'' * ''The Ambassador'' (1984 Croatian film), a film directed by Fadil Hadžić * ''The Ambassador'' (2005 film), a Norwegian documentary film directed by Erling Borgen * ''The Ambassador'' (2011 film), a Danish documentary film * '' The Raja Saab'', working title ''Ambassador'', a 2025 Indian romantic horror film by Maruthi * ''Ambassador'' (musical), a 1971 adaptation of the Henry James novel (see below) * ''The Ambassador'' (TV series), a 1998–1999 British drama * ''Ambassadors'' (TV series), a 2013 Britis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
