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Alice Dunbar Nelson (July 19, 1875 – September 18, 1935) was an American poet, journalist, and political activist. Among the first generation of African Americans born free in the Southern United States after the end of the American Civil War, she was one of the prominent African Americans involved in the artistic flourishing of the Harlem Renaissance.
Ann Bradford Davis (May 3, 1926 – June 1, 2014) was an American actress. [1] [2] She achieved prominence for her role in the NBC situation comedy The Bob Cummings Show (1955–1959), for which she twice won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, but she was best known for playing the part of Alice Nelson, the housekeeper in ABC's The Brady Bunch (1969 ...
Alice, as portrayed by Ann B. Davis. Alice Nelson (center) is the housekeeper to the Brady family. She was portrayed by Ann B. Davis. Alice grew up in the same neighborhood as the Bradys, graduating from Westdale High School, the school Greg and Marcia attended in the series.
Nelson might not examine actual lynchings in Mine Eyes Have Seen, but the effects of such acts are present after the characters must travel north: Their mother passes due to the abysmal atmosphere of the north, Dan is crippled while working in a factory, and Lucy lives with a limp and constant fear.
The film was produced by Nick Higgins from Lansdowne Productions and Noémie Mendelle from the Scottish Documentary Institute and has 10 film-chapter directors for each of the 10 chapters of the film - Kenny Glenaan, Douglas Gordon, Nick Higgins, Irvine Welsh, Mark Cousins, Sana Bilgrami, Alice Nelson, Tilda Swinton, Doug Aubrey, David Graham ...
Alice is a form of the Old French name Alis / Alys (older Alais), short form of Adelais, which is derived from the Old High German Adalhaidis (see Adelaide), from the Proto-Germanic words *aþala-, meaning "noble" and *haidu-, meaning "appearance; kind" (compare German Adel "nobility", edel "noble", nominalizing suffix -heit "-hood"), hence "of noble character or rank, of nobility". [1]
The Wong brothers were the sons of Wong Siong Tek, an Adventist clergyman. Nelson was born in 1895, Joshua in 1906, and Othniel in 1908. The Indonesian film historian Misbach Yusa Biran writes that the brothers were born in China and later went to the United States, Nelson in 1920 and his family some time afterwards; [1] however, the Sinematek Indonesia publication Apa Siapa Orang Film ...
Achintya Holte Nilsen, Winner of Miss Indonesia 2017 and Top 10 Miss World 2017 (Norwegian descent) Adjie Massaid, actor, model and politician (Dutch descent) Ahmad Dhani, musician (German and Jewish descent) Alessandra Usman, model (Turkish descent) Alexandra Gottardo, actress (Italian descent) Alice Norin, actress and DJ (Norwegian descent)