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Alexandra Cordes (real name Ursula Horbach, née Schaake, 16 November 1935 – November 1986) was a prolific German writer of mainly romantic fiction, many of whose books were best-sellers. Life [ edit ]
The Lady from Shanghai is a 1947 American film noir produced and directed by Orson Welles and starring Rita Hayworth, Welles, Everett Sloane, and Glenn Anders. [2] Welles's screenplay is based on the novel If I Die Before I Wake by Sherwood King.
A rich and well-known writer (R.), returning home to Vienna from one of many holidays, finds a long letter from an unknown woman (Fräulein). As a teenager the woman had lived with her poor widowed mother in the same building and had fallen totally in love with both the opulent cultured lifestyle of her neighbour and the handsome charming man himself.
The film renames him Stefan Brand (referencing Zweig, who also lends his name to the protagonist's infant son, also unnamed in the original source material). The "unknown woman" receives no name in the book; in the film she is called Lisa Berndle (a quirk of Ophüls is having his female characters names' starting with an L).
Bonnie Prudden (née Ruth Alice Prudden; January 29, 1914 – December 11, 2011) was an American physical fitness pioneer, rock climber and mountaineer.Her report to Eisenhower on the unfitness of American children as compared with their European counterparts led to the formation of the President's Council on Youth Fitness.
She returned to Bonn in 1948, where she lived in a small apartment in August Macke's atelier until 1976. [1] Their home is now a museum, the August-Macke-Haus. [6] She took part in the cultural life of the town and published her memoirs as a book in 1962. [7] Memorial for August Macke and Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke in the Alter Friedhof, Bonn
Anne Bonny [a] (disappeared after 28 November 1720) [4] was a pirate who served under John "Calico Jack" Rackham.Amongst the few recorded female pirates in history, [5] she has become one of the most recognized pirates of the Golden Age of Piracy as well as in the history of piracy in general.
Peter Wohlleben (born 1964) is a German forester and author who writes on ecological themes in popular language and has controversially argued for plant sentience. [1] [2] [3] He is the author of the New York Times Best Seller The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate, which was translated from German into English in 2016.