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Box office. $2.5 million (US rentals) [2] or $3,392,000 [1] Watch on the Rhine is a 1943 American drama film directed by Herman Shumlin and starring Bette Davis and Paul Lukas. The screenplay by Dashiell Hammett is based on the 1941 play Watch on the Rhine by Lillian Hellman. Watch on the Rhine was nominated for the Academy Award for Best ...
Watch on the Rhine is a 1941 American play by Lillian Hellman.In an essay on World War II, a contributor to The Companion to Southern Literature (2002) wrote that the play's "peculiar combination of drawing-room comedy in a genteel southern home with sinister corruption of the Nazi regime in Europe made for a unique and powerful drama, one strong enough to win the New York Drama Critics ...
Germania on Guard on the Rhine, Hermann Wislicenus, 1873. " Die Wacht am Rhein " ( German: [diː ˈvaxt am ˈʁaɪn], The Watch on the Rhine) is a German patriotic anthem. The song's origins are rooted in the historical French–German enmity, and it was particularly popular in Germany during the Franco-Prussian War and the First World War.
Closer to Fine. " Closer to Fine " is a folk single by Indigo Girls, an American songwriting duo consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. The single, released in 1989 from their eponymous second album, was written by Saliers. The song primarily speaks to the search for meaning in life. "Closer to Fine" was reviewed favorably, and appeared in ...
Corgis are renowned for their intelligence, and one precious Corgi named Eowyn proved just how smart they can be. Eowyn amazed her owners, one of whom is deaf, by learning the signs for all her ...
Allied movements. German movements. The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Offensive, was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II which took place from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945. [16] It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region between Belgium and Luxembourg.
Watch on the Rhine (1943), a film based on Lillian Hellman's play. "Watch on the Rhine" (German: Unternehmen: Wacht am Rhein ), the German ground offensive in late 1944 on the Western Front that set off the Battle of the Bulge. Wacht am Rhein (game), a 1977 board wargame that simulates the Battle of the Bulge. Watch on the Rhine (novel) (2007 ...
The Black Horror on the Rhine was a moral panic aroused in Weimar Germany and elsewhere concerning allegations of widespread crimes, especially sexual crimes, committed by Senegalese and other African soldiers serving in the French Army during the French occupation of the Rhineland between 1918 and 1930.