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Theodora Goes Wild is a 1936 American screwball comedy film that tells the story of the residents in a small town who are incensed by a risqué novel, unaware that the book was written under a pseudonym by a member of the town's leading family. It stars Irene Dunne and Melvyn Douglas and was directed by Richard Boleslawski.
The earliest known settlement in the Shirley area was at Berry Mound Camp at what is now Solihull Lodge, in the west of Shirley. This was the site of an Iron Age Hill Fort, which may have been the scene of a battle between the forces of King Alfred and besieged Danes [1] (and with archaeological evidence which would indicate defense of the site during this period).
Rod Taylor as Peter McDermott, manager; Catherine Spaak as Jeanne Rochefort, O'Keefe's mistress; Karl Malden as Keycase Milne, thief; Melvyn Douglas as Warren Trent, owner; Richard Conte as crooked house detective Dupere
Being There is a 1979 American satirical comedy-drama film starring Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, and Melvyn Douglas.Directed by Hal Ashby, it is based on the 1970 novel of the same name by Jerzy Kosiński, and adapted for the screen by Kosiński and the uncredited Robert C. Jones.
As the book's primary incidents begin, the family has "two children and about five thousand books" when they are abruptly given notice to vacate their city apartment. After a frantic last-minute search, they come upon the perfect home in the country and prepare to adjust to their new quiet but quirky life as newcomers to a small, insular New ...
Shirley MacLaine is once again opening the book on her storied life.. In her new memoir and photo album The Wall of Life: Pictures and Stories from this Marvelous Lifetime (out Oct. 22 from Crown ...
The heroine, Sybylla Melvyn, is an imaginative, headstrong girl growing up in rural Australia in the 1890s. Drought and a series of poor business decisions reduce her family to a subsistence level, her father begins to drink excessively, and Sybylla struggles to deal with the monotony of her life.
The new book features a compendium of facts and images about The Flash, that traces the superhero from his first appearance in comic books in the 1940s, to his solo film debut in 2023.