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Post by aubrey on Mar 18, 2019 8:53:00 GMT
Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE (14 March 1869 – 10 December 1951) was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. Algernon Blackwood is amazing. I read a lot of his stuff last year. He can be very sensual, very erotic; Ancient Sorceries is a great example of that; someone ought to have made a film of it in the 70s, starring Leonora Fani as the cat girl. He had a wide range as well - from simple ghost stories, through unsettling accounts of encounters with unearthly (or super-earthly) beings, to the cosmic horror The Willows a story that predates and outdoes Lovecraft. It's amazing that more of his stories haven't been made into films really - are there any at all, come to that? editWendigo (1978) is one.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2019 13:50:55 GMT
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier. He was one of the leading poets of the First World War. His war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was heavily influenced by his mentor Siegfried Sassoon, and stood in stark contrast both to the public perception of war at the time and to the confidently patriotic verse written by earlier war poets such as Rupert Brooke. Among his best-known works – most of which were published posthumously – are "Dulce et Decorum est", "Insensibility", "Anthem for Doomed Youth", "Futility", "Spring Offensive" and "Strange Meeting".
Anthem for Doomed Youth By Wilfred Owen
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells; Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,— The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells; And bugles calling for them from sad shires What candles may be held to speed them all? Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes. The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall; Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.
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Post by ARENA on Mar 19, 2019 6:59:51 GMT
Louis Charles Hayward (19 March 1909 – 21 February 1985) was a British actor born in South Africa. Born in Johannesburg, Louis Hayward was educated at Latymer Upper School in London (see Latymer Upper School; A History of the School and its Foundation, Nigel Watson). Hayward began his screen work in British films, notably as Simon Templar in Leslie Charteris' The Saint in New York.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2019 10:24:52 GMT
Patrick Joseph McGoohan (19 March 1928 – 13 January 2009) was an Irish actor, screenwriter, and director. He began his career in the United Kingdom in the 1950s, relocating to the United States in the 1970s. His career-defining roles were in the British television series Danger Man (US: Secret Agent) and the surreal psychological drama The Prisoner, which he co-created. He was a BAFTA and two-time Primetime Emmy Award winner. "I am not a number"
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Post by ARENA on Mar 20, 2019 7:07:21 GMT
William Dalrymple, FRSL FRAS (born 20 March 1965 in Scotland) is an award winning historian and writer, as well as a broadcaster, critic and art historian. He has been the South Asia correspondent of the New Statesman since 2004. He is also one of the co-founders and co-directors of the annual Jaipur Literature Festival.
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Post by ARENA on Mar 21, 2019 7:52:45 GMT
Christopher Leonard Trace (21 March 1933 – 5 September 1992) was an English actor and television presenter, best remembered for his nine years as a presenter of the BBC children's programme Blue Peter. Trace was born the youngest of three children, born to Edith (née Morley) and Lawrence Archibald Trace. Trace had two older siblings, Ann and David Morley Trace.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2019 10:30:25 GMT
Brian Howard Clough, OBE ( 21 March 1935 – 20 September 2004) was an English football player and manager. He played as a striker and remains one of the Football League's highest goalscorers, but his career was shortened by a serious injury. As a manager, Clough's name is closely associated with that of Peter Taylor, who served as his assistant manager at various clubs in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. They achieved great successes with Derby County and Nottingham Forest. Clough is also remembered for doing frequent radio and television interviews in which he made controversial remarks about players, other managers, and the overall state of the game.
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Post by aubrey on Mar 21, 2019 20:30:35 GMT
JS Bach (estimated) 21/3/1685.
The best.
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Post by ARENA on Mar 22, 2019 7:11:29 GMT
Leslie Thomas, OBE (born 22 March 1931, in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales) is a British author. His novels about 1950s British National Service such as "The Virgin Soldiers" spawned two film versions, in 1969 and 1977, whilst his Tropic of Ruislip and Dangerous Davies, The Last Detective have been adapted for television (the former as Tropic in 1979 and latter having also spawned a film version.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2019 9:35:54 GMT
Think he revealed that the Virgin Soldiers was biographical from his National Service
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Post by ARENA on Mar 23, 2019 7:34:31 GMT
Roddy McMillan (23 March 1923 - 9 July 1979) was a Scottish actor and playwright, possibly most famous for his comedy role as Para Handy for BBC Scotland television. He also played the lead role in Edward Boyd's private eye series, The View from Daniel Pike. The Glasgow-born McMillan's earliest theatre work began in the mid-1940s with the Glasgow Unity Theatre.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2019 10:43:56 GMT
Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur; March 23, .1904 – May 10, 1977) was an American actress. She began her career as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting as a chorus girl on Broadway. Crawford then signed a motion picture contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1925; her career would span decades, studios and controversies.
In the 1930s, Crawford's fame rivaled, and later outlasted, that of MGM colleagues Norma Shearer and Greta Garbo. Crawford often played hard-working young women who found romance and success. These characters and stories were well received by Depression-era audiences, and were popular with women. Crawford became one of Hollywood's most prominent movie stars, and one of the highest-paid women in the United States. In 1945 she starred in Mildred Pierce and won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She would go on to receive Best Actress nominations for Possessed (1947) and Sudden Fear (1952). Crawford continued to act in film and television throughout the 1950s and 1960s; she achieved box office success with the highly successful horror film Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? (1962), in which she starred alongside Bette Davis, her long-time rival.
In 1955, Crawford became involved with the Pepsi-Cola Company through her marriage to company Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Alfred Steele. In 1970 Crawford retired from the screen and following a public appearance in 1974 Crawford withdrew from public life, becoming increasingly reclusive until her death in 1977.
Crawford married four times. Her first three marriages ended in divorce; the last ended with the death of husband Alfred Steele. She adopted five children, one of whom was reclaimed. Crawford's relationships with her two elder children, Christina and Christopher, were acrimonious. After Crawford's death, Christina wrote a well-known "tell-all" memoir, Mommie Dearest (1978) which accused her adoptive mother of being a fraud.
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Post by ARENA on Mar 24, 2019 7:44:42 GMT
Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge (24 March 1903 – 14 November 1990) was an English journalist, author, media personality, and satirist. During World War II, he was a soldier and a spy. He is credited with popularising Mother Teresa and in his later years became a Catholic and morals campaigner. Muggeridge's father, Henry (known as H. T. Muggeridge), served as a prominent Labour Party councillor.
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Post by ARENA on Mar 25, 2019 6:54:42 GMT
Andy Clyde (March 25, 1892 — May 18, 1967) was a Scottish movie and TV actor whose career spanned more than four decades. He broke into silent films in 1925 as a Mack Sennett comic. Born Andrew Allan Clyde, he was the fifth of six children of Scottish theatrical actor, producer and manager John Clyde. Both his brother David and sister Jean also became screen actors.
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Post by ARENA on Mar 26, 2019 7:52:46 GMT
Frederick John Westcott (26 March 1866 – 18 September 1941), best known by his stage name Fred Karno, was a theatre impresario of the British music hall. Karno is credited with inventing the custard-pie-in-the-face gag. During the 1890s, in order to circumvent stage censorship, Karno developed a form of sketch comedy without dialogue. Cheeky authority-defying playlets such as "Jail Birds" (1896)
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