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The Black Orchid is a 1959 American drama film directed by Martin Ritt [2] and starring Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn. Supporting actors include Peter Mark Richman , Virginia Vincent , Frank Puglia , Jimmy Baird , Naomi Stevens , Whit Bissell and Ina Balin .
The Black Orchid (nightclub), a Chicago night club from 1949 to 1959; Black Orchid (band), an Australian gothic metal band; Black Orchid, a 1962 jazz album by the Three Sounds; Black Orchid, a 1987 Hawaiian album by Peter Moon Band "Black Orchid", a song by Stevie Wonder from Stevie Wonder's Journey Through "The Secret Life of Plants"
The Black Orchid may refer to: The Black Orchid, a 1916 film starring Grace Darmond; The Black Orchid, a 1958 film starring Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn; The Black Orchid (nightclub), a former Chicago nightclub
When designing Black Orchid, artist Tony DeZuñiga took inspiration from Cymbidium canaliculatum, a plant with dark purple petals, and Black Condor.He stated that he "read the character description and [recalled that] in the ’40s there was this character called the Black Condor, but [since] that was a male superhero, [he] took some ideas and revised [it] to a female form."
The superhero Black Orchid, created by Sheldon Mayer and Tony Zuniga, first appeared in Adventure Comics #428 (June 1973), and was published by DC Comics.She was the first superhero to debut as the cover feature of the series since Starman in 1941; she was not given an origin story and her personal life was not shown.
Prosthechea cochleata is the national flower of Belize, where it is known as the black orchid. [53] Lycaste skinneri has a white variety (alba) that is the national flower of Guatemala, commonly known as Monja Blanca (White Nun). Panama's national flower is the Holy Ghost orchid (Peristeria elata), or 'the flor del Espiritu Santo'.
Black Orchid is a 1953 British B [1] mystery film directed by Charles Saunders and starring Ronald Howard, Olga Edwardes and John Bentley. [2] [3] It was written by Francis Edge, John Temple-Smith and Maurice Temple-Smith. In the film, a physician is implicated in the death of his wife, which allows him to marry her sister.
Black Orchids is a Nero Wolfe double mystery by Rex Stout published in 1942 by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. Stout's first short story collection, the volume is composed of two novellas that had appeared in abridged form in The American Magazine: "Black Orchids" (August 1941, abridged as "Death Wears an Orchid")