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If I Were King is a 1938 American biographical and historical film starring Ronald Colman as medieval poet François Villon, and featuring Basil Rathbone and Frances Dee. It is based on the 1901 play and novel, both of the same name, by Justin Huntly McCarthy , and was directed by Frank Lloyd , with a screenplay adaptation by Preston Sturges .
Being children's poems, many make fun of school life. He wrote his first children's poem, "Scrawny Tawny Skinner", in 1994. In 1997, he decided to write his first poetry book, My Foot Fell Asleep, which was published in 1998. Nesbitt's poem "The Tale of the Sun and the Moon", was used in the 2010 movie Life as We Know It.
"The King and the Beggar-maid" is a 16th-century broadside ballad [1] that tells of an African king, Cophetua, and his love for the beggar Penelophon (Shakespearean Zenelophon). Artists and writers have referenced the story, and King Cophetua has become a byword for "a man who falls in love with a woman instantly and proposes marriage immediately".
The poem relates that the Queen of Hearts bakes some tart. The Knave of Hearts then steals all of them. The King of Hearts (the husband of the Queen of Hearts) calls for the tarts. He --the King-- demands the Knave must bring them back and (after the Knave brings them back) the King he beats the Knave harshly. (That is, as the line reads, "And ...
As of November 2023, the Internet Movie Database lists Shakespeare as having writing credit on 1,800 films, including those under production but not yet released. [4] The earliest known production is King John from 1899. [5]
It (also known as Stephen King's IT) is a 1990 ABC two-part psychological horror drama [1] miniseries directed by Tommy Lee Wallace and adapted by Lawrence D. Cohen from Stephen King's 1986 novel of the same name. The story revolves around a predatory monster that can transform itself into its prey's worst fears to devour them, allowing it to ...
Poem Film(s) "Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 1888" (1888), Ernest Thayer: Casey at the Bat (1916) Casey at the Bat (1927) Make Mine Music (1946) "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1854), Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Balaclava (1928) The Charge of the Light Brigade (1912) The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
Auberon Muircetach, The King of the Elves, leading the People of the Alders (and thus the de facto King of the Alders) imprisons Cirilla, one of the main heroines of the saga, in his world. In the Japanese visual novel The Devil on G-String, "Der Erlkönig", and the Schubert piece it inspired, play a prominent role as a recurring theme.