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Having escaped the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, Countess Sofia Belinskaya is working as a taxi dancer and prostitute, in a seedy Shanghai bar in 1936. Sofia is the sole support of her family of aristocratic White Russian émigrés, including her daughter Katya, her mother-in-law Olga, her sister-in-law Grushenka, and an aunt and uncle by marriage, Princess Vera and Prince Peter.
Stay Alive is a 2006 American horror film directed by William Brent Bell, who co-wrote it with Matthew Peterman. The film was produced by Joseph McGinty Nichol, and released on March 24, 2006, in the United States. It was the first film released by Hollywood Pictures after five years of inactivity.
The Age of Innocence is a 1920 novel by American author Edith Wharton. It was her eighth novel, and was initially serialized in 1920 in four parts, in the magazine Pictorial Review. Later that year, it was released as a book by D. Appleton & Company. It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win the prize. [1]
Eldred Gregory Peck was born on April 5, 1916, in the neighborhood of La Jolla in San Diego, California, [ 2 ][ 3 ] to Bernice Mae "Bunny" (née Ayres; 1894–1992), and Gregory Pearl Peck (1886–1962), a Rochester, New York –born chemist and pharmacist. His father was of English (paternal) and Irish (maternal) heritage, [ 4 ][ 5 ] and his ...
Bisset was born Winifred Jacqueline Fraser Bisset [1] in Weybridge, Surrey, England, the daughter of George Maxwell Fraser Bisset (1911–1982), a general practitioner, and Arlette Alexander (1914–1999), a lawyer-turned-housewife. [2] Her mother was of French and English descent and her father was of Scottish descent; [3][4] Bisset's mother ...
Box office. 1,564,609 admissions (France) [1] The Lady from Shanghai is a 1947 American film noir produced and directed by Orson Welles that stars Rita Hayworth, Welles and Everett Sloane. [2] Welles's screenplay is based on the novel If I Die Before I Wake by Sherwood King. [3]
Ina Garten. Ina Rosenberg Garten (/ ˈaɪnə / EYE-nə; born February 2, 1948) [1] is an American television cook and author. She is host of the Food Network program Barefoot Contessa, and was a former staff member of the Office of Management and Budget. [2] Among her dishes are Perfect Roast Chicken, Weeknight Bolognese, French Apple Tart, and ...
ISBN. 978-0-85720-756-2. Preceded by. The White Princess. The King's Curse is a 2014 historical novel by Philippa Gregory, part of her series The Cousins' War. A direct sequel to The White Princess, it follows the adult life of Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, the daughter of George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence and Isabel Neville. [1]