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Topsy-Turvy is a 1999 British musical period drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh, starring Jim Broadbent as W. S. Gilbert and Allan Corduner as Sir Arthur Sullivan, along with Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville and Ron Cook. The story concerns the 15-month period in 1884 and 1885 leading up to the premiere of Gilbert and Sullivan's The ...
The Purchase of the North Pole or Topsy-Turvy (French: Sans dessus dessous) is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1889.It is the third and last novel of the Baltimore Gun Club, first appearing in From the Earth to the Moon, and later in Around the Moon, featuring the same characters but set twenty years later.
NGC 1313 (also known as the Topsy Turvy Galaxy [2]) is a field galaxy [3] and an irregular galaxy [4] discovered by the Scottish astronomer James Dunlop on 27 September 1826. [5] It has a diameter of about 50,000 light-years , or about half the size of the Milky Way .
In The World Upside Down in 16th-Century French Literature and Visual Culture, [3] Vincent Robert-Nícoud introduces the mundus inversus by writing (p. 1): . To call something ‘inverted’ or ‘topsy-turvy’ in the sixteenth century is, above all, to label it as abnormal, unnatural and going against the natural order of things.
Topsy-Turvy, a 2002 album by The Apex Theory; Topsy Turvy (Guitar Shorty album), a 1993 album by Guitar Shorty "Topsy Turvy", a song from the 1996 film The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Topsy Turvy, a video in the Disney Sing-Along Songs series; Topsy Turvy (Young Fresh Fellows album), a 1985 album by Young Fresh Fellows
Gilbert, who wrote the libretti for these operas, created fanciful "topsy-turvy" worlds where each absurdity is taken to its logical conclusion: fairies rub elbows with British lords, flirting is a capital offence, gondoliers ascend to the monarchy, and pirates emerge as noblemen who have gone astray. [2]
Topsy-Turvy: Yes Yes Pathé Distribution [9] 2002 All or Nothing: Yes Yes UGC Films UK [10] 2004 Vera Drake: Yes Yes Momentum Pictures [11] 2008 Happy-Go-Lucky: Yes Yes [12] 2010 Another Year: Yes Yes [13] 2014 Mr. Turner: Yes Yes [14] 2018 Peterloo: Yes Yes Entertainment One/Amazon [15] 2024 Hard Truths: Yes Yes StudioCanal [16]
Lesley Ann Manville [1] (born 12 March 1956) [2] is an English actress. She is known for her frequent collaborations with Mike Leigh, appearing in the films Grown-Ups (1980), High Hopes (1988), Secrets & Lies (1996), Topsy-Turvy (1999), All or Nothing (2002), Vera Drake (2004), Another Year (2010), and Mr. Turner (2014).