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The Lady from Shanghai is a 1947 American film noir produced and directed by Orson Welles and starring Rita Hayworth, Welles, Everett Sloane, and Glenn Anders. [2] Welles's screenplay is based on the novel If I Die Before I Wake by Sherwood King.
A rich and well-known writer (R.), returning home to Vienna from one of many holidays, finds a long letter from an unknown woman (Fräulein). As a teenager the woman had lived with her poor widowed mother in the same building and had fallen totally in love with both the opulent cultured lifestyle of her neighbour and the handsome charming man himself.
The book was a New York Times bestseller, [13] and was included in the best seller lists of the Los Angeles Times [14] and USA Today. [15] It has a Goodreads average rating of 4.23. [16] Kirkus Reviews calls the narrative voice of Book Woman "engaging", and praises how well-researched the novel is, illuminating the history of 1930s Kentucky ...
Warning: This post contains spoilers for eps. 1 and 2 of Apple's Lady in the Lake In Lady in the Lake , the new show releasing on Apple TV+ on July 19, two chilling murders change the course of a ...
The Lady from the Sea (Norwegian: Fruen fra havet) is a play written in 1888 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen inspired by the ballad Agnete og Havmanden. [1] The drama introduces the character of Hilde Wangel who is again portrayed in Ibsen's later play The Master Builder .
The novel is set in the late 1960s, in Bonn, the capital of West Germany. The UK is hoping to gain support from the West German government in a bid to enter the European common market . From London , Alan Turner, an official from the British Foreign Office , arrives to investigate the disappearance of minor British Embassy officer Leo Harting ...
Glenarvon was Lady Caroline Lamb's first novel. [1] It created a sensation when published on 9 May 1816. Set in the Irish Rebellion of 1798, the book satirized the Whig Holland House circle, [2] [3] while casting a sceptical eye on left-wing politics. [4] Its rakish title character, Lord Glenarvon, is an unflattering depiction of her ex-lover ...
Lippman was inspired to write the book by two unrelated deaths in Baltimore in 1969: the murder of 11-year-old Esther Lebowitz, and the mysterious death of Shirley Parker, a 33-year-old black woman. [2] Lippman first learned about the latter death, which was underreported, while working at The Baltimore Sun. [3]