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Arms and the Man or Heroes (German: Helden) is a 1958 West German historical comedy film directed by Franz Peter Wirth and based on the 1894 play of the same name by George Bernard Shaw. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. [1] It was also entered into the 1959 Cannes Film Festival. [2]
Arms and the Man is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw, whose title comes from the opening words of Virgil's Aeneid, in Latin: Arma virumque cano ("Of arms and the man I sing"). [ 5 ] The play was first produced on 21 April 1894 at the Avenue Theatre and published in 1898 as part of Shaw's Plays Pleasant volume, which also included Candida , You ...
Arms and the Man is a 1932 British film based on the play Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw. [1] It was written and directed by Cecil Lewis. References
Fraser was one of the original co-hosts of the BBC's Ouch! Podcast. [29] He presented the short-lived Channel 4 series Freak Out. [30] He presented the 2004 Channel 4 documentary Happy Birthday Thalidomide, documenting how the drug was being used in Brazil to treat leprosy, but that its use in a country with low levels of literacy and a black market in drugs was leading to new thalidomide births.
Arms and the Man is an 1894 play by George Bernard Shaw. Arms and the Man may also refer to: Arms and the Man, adaptation by Cecil Lewis; Arms and the Man, adaptation by Franz Peter Wirth; Arms and the Man, title of American Rifleman from 1906 to 1923
Man and Superman is a four-act drama written by George Bernard Shaw in 1903, in response to a call for Shaw to write a play based on the Don Juan theme. [1] Man and Superman opened at the Royal Court Theatre in London on 21 May 1905 as a four-act play produced by the Stage Society, and then by John Eugene Vedrenne and Harley Granville-Barker on 23 May, without Act III ("Don Juan in Hell"). [2]
In 1953 he played the role of Chester Finley, a piano instructor and hopeful suitor to Doris Day, in the film By the Light of the Silvery Moon. From 1952 to 1957, he was best known as a vocalist on Your Hit Parade , an NBC television series that reviewed the popular songs of the day and on which a regular cast of vocalists would perform the top ...
[9] [10] The film's original length was 89 minutes but was cut to 78 minutes for a 1938 reissue. The 89-minute version, which had not been seen since the film's original 1932 release, was long believed to be lost. However, a nitrate print was located in the David O. Selznick vaults and the uncut film was released on DVD in 1999 by Image ...