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Painted Ladies in the Lower Haight, San Francisco, California. During World War I and World War II many of these houses were painted battleship gray with war-surplus Navy paint. [citation needed] Another sixteen thousand were demolished. Many others had the Victorian décor stripped off or covered with tarpaper, brick, stucco, or aluminum siding.
Painted Ladies, first published in 2010, is the 39th book in Robert B. Parker's Spenser series. Spenser investigates the theft of a famous painting from the Hammond ...
Painted Lady is a 1997 murder mystery drama starring Helen Mirren, involving art theft. It co-starred Franco Nero, Karl Geary and Iain Glen, and was directed by Julian Jarrold. The role was created specifically for Mirren, as a means for her to try something a bit different from her Inspector Tennison character on the popular Prime Suspect series.
Advertisement for When a Man Sees Red, a 1917 film based on Evans story The Painted Lady. The Painted Lady, a story published in the Saturday Evening Post was adapted to film as When a Man Sees Red in 1917; Poster for The Fighting Heart, a film based on Evans' novel Once to Every Man. Evans wrote the story for the film His Own Home Town (1918) [4]
The Painted Lady is a 1912 American short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Blanche Sweet. A print of the film survives. [1] Plot
The Painted Veil is a 1925 novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham. The title is a reference to Percy Bysshe Shelley's 1824 sonnet, which begins "Lift not the painted veil which those who live / Call Life". The novel was first published in serialised form in five issues of Cosmopolitan (November 1924 – March 1925).
The Painted Lady is a 1924 American drama film directed by Chester Bennett and written by Thomas Dixon Jr. The film stars George O'Brien, Dorothy Mackaill, Harry T. Morey, Lucille Hutton, Lucille Ricksen, and Margaret McWade. The film was released on September 28, 1924, by Fox Film Corporation. [1] [2] [3]
"The Painted Skin" (Chinese: 畫皮; pinyin: Huàpí) is a short story by the Chinese writer Pu Songling collected in Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio in 1740. Literary critics have recognised it as one of the best and best-known entries in Strange Tales ; in particular, its textual detail and in-depth characterisation are lauded.