Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
On the Beach is a 1959 American post-apocalyptic science fiction drama film, starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, and Anthony Perkins. Produced and directed by Stanley Kramer , [ 2 ] it is based on Nevil Shute 's 1957 novel of the same title depicting the aftermath of a nuclear war. [ 3 ]
Ford Prefect is Arthur Dent's friend. He rescued Dent when the Earth is unexpectedly demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass at the start of the story. Although his heart is in the right place and he is shown to be highly intelligent, resourceful, and even brave, Ford is essentially a dilettante when it comes to causes such as the search for the question to the ultimate answer of "life ...
On the Beach is a 2000 apocalyptic drama television film directed by Russell Mulcahy and starring Armand Assante, Bryan Brown, and Rachel Ward. [1] In America, it aired on Showtime on 28 May 2000 and in Australia it aired on Channel 7 .
Einstein on the Beach is an opera in four acts composed by Philip Glass with libretto in collaboration with Robert Wilson, who also designed and directed early productions. [2] [3] The opera eschews traditional narrative in favor of a formalist approach based on structured spaces laid out by Wilson in a series of storyboards which are framed and connected by five "knee plays" or intermezzos. [4]
HMS Heroine, four ships of the British Royal Navy; Heroine-class submarine, a class of submarine of the South African Navy; Heroines: Powerful Indian Women of Myth and History, a 2017 book by Ira Mukhoty; Gertrude Yorkes or Heroine, a Marvel Comics superhero character; The Heroine, an 1813 novel by Eaton Stannard Barrett
Late in 1966, Welles had filmed another one-hour Karen Blixen adaptation The Immortal Story, for French television.It would not be transmitted (or released in other territories) until 1968, and while editing was still underway on the project, Welles decided to shoot one or two more Blixen stories so that they could be combined with The Immortal Story as a feature-length anthology film, and ...
Eleanor Emily Hodgman was born in Littleton, New Hampshire, on December 19, 1868, the daughter of Llewella French (née Woolson) and Francis Fletcher Hodgman. [2] [3] She was trained as a singer, attending the New England Conservatory for several years.
(The first musical number in the film is "Bloody Mary", sung by the Seabees, while in the stage version it is "Dites-moi", sung by Emile's children. The only version of this song in the final release print of the film is a reprise sung with Emile. Only on the soundtrack recording is it first heard as a duet by the children Ngana and Jerome.)