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The Blue Max is a 1966 war film directed by John Guillermin and starring George Peppard, James Mason, Ursula Andress, Karl Michael Vogler, and Jeremy Kemp. The film was made in DeLuxe Color and was one of the last movies filmed in CinemaScope. It was filmed entirely in Ireland, and included numerous location scenes shot in Dublin, Wickow and Cork.
The Pour le Mérite (German: [puːɐ̯ lə meˈʁiːt]; [3] French: [puʁ lə me.ʁit], lit. ' For Merit '), also informally known as the Blue Max (German: Blauer Max) after German WWI flying ace Max Immelmann, is an order of merit established in 1740 by King Frederick II of Prussia.
Almost immediately after joining Harry Schmidt's Blue Max team, Beadle rivaled "Jungle Jim" Liberman in popularity and Don Prudhomme in on-track success. [citation needed] By the end of his first year with the Max, Beadle won the NHRA U.S. Nationals Funny Car class, and by the end of the decade, he was the reigning world champion and a bona fide superstar.
Pour le Mérite (original title in French, lit. For Merit) is a 1938 propaganda film produced and directed by Karl Ritter for Nazi Germany. [N 1] The film follows the story of officers of the Luftstreitkräfte (German Air Force) in the First World War who were later involved in the formation of the Luftwaffe. [2]
Blue Max is an informal name of Pour le Mérite, a German military decoration from 1740 until the end of World War I. Blue Max may also refer to: Blue Max (1983) and its sequel Blue Max 2001; Blue Max: Aces of the Great War, a 1990 video game; Blue Max (1983) The Blue Max, a 1966 film
Over the Front – the quarterly issued by the League of World War I Aviation Historians. Volume 13, Number 3, Fall 1998. Article, "The Blue Max Revisited," by Jack D. Hunter, in which the author's autobiographical sketch tells how the novel came to be written and the impact it had on his life.
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Ursula Andress, the third of six children, was born on 19 March 1936 in Ostermundigen, Canton of Bern, to a Swiss mother, Anna, and Rolf Andress, a German diplomat.Her father was expelled from Switzerland for political reasons and her grandfather, a garden designer, took the role of being her guardian. [2]