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Fédora is a play by the French author Victorien Sardou. It opened at the Théâtre du Vaudeville in Paris on 11 December 1882, [1] and ran for 135 performances. [2] The first production starred Sarah Bernhardt. [1] She wore a soft felt hat in that role which was soon a popular fashion for women; the hat became known as a fedora. [3]
The play was popular, and the hat "fedora" was named after it. He immediately asked Sardou for permission to base an opera on the play, and Sardou initially refused because, at the time, Giordano was a relatively unknown composer. Following the premiere of his 1894 Regina Diaz, Giordano's publisher, Edoardo Sonzogno, asked Sardou again. However ...
A fedora (/ f ə ˈ d ɔːr ə /) [1] is a hat with a soft brim and indented crown. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is typically creased lengthwise down the crown and "pinched" near the front on both sides. [ 3 ] Fedoras can also be creased with teardrop crowns, diamond crowns, center dents, and others, and the positioning of pinches can vary.
Victorien Sardou (/ s ɑːr ˈ d uː / sar-DOO, French: [viktɔʁjɛ̃ saʁdu]; 5 September 1831 – 8 November 1908) was a French dramatist. [1] He is best remembered today for his development, along with Eugène Scribe, of the well-made play. [2]
Fedora, a film by Billy Wilder; Fedora, an 1898 opera by Umberto Giordano; Fédora, an 1882 play by Victorien Sardou "Fedora" (short story), an 1895 short story by Kate Chopin; Fédora, one of writer Italo Calvino's fictional Invisible Cities; Fedora Tchecoff, a character from Une mort suspecte, a short story by Pierre Boulle
Fedora is a 1978 German-French drama film directed by Billy Wilder and starring William Holden and Marthe Keller. The screenplay by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is based on Tom Tryon 's novella in the collection Crowned Heads .
Fedora is a 1934 French drama film directed by Louis J. Gasnier and starring Marie Bell, Ernest Ferny and Henri Bosc. [1] It is an adaptation of the 1882 play Fédora by Victorien Sardou. [2] It was distributed by the French subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. The film's sets were designed by the art director Henri Ménessier.
Fedora Linux [7] is a Linux distribution developed by the Fedora Project.It was originally developed in 2003 as a continuation of the Red Hat Linux project. It contains software distributed under various free and open-source licenses and aims to be on the leading edge of open-source technologies.