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diioonysus · 10 months
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death in art
the death of chatteron by henry wallis (1856) ophelia by john everett millais (1851-52) the execution of marshal ney by jean-leon gerome (1868) requiescat by briton riviere (1888) yellow fever in buenos aires by juan manuel blanes elaine by edward rosenthal (1874) the doctor by luke fildes (1891) ivan the terrible and his son by Ilya repin (1885) the bride of death by thomas barker (1839) lord byron on his death-bed by joseph denis odevaere (1826) recognition: north and south by constant mayer (1865) the lament for icarus by herbert james draper (1898) death of seneca by dominguez sanchez manuel (1871)
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The 7 Faces Of Dr. Lao
Art by Joseph Smith
MGM (1964)
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Progression of Tom and Jerry from 1940-2023. 🐱🤎🐭
Tom and Jerry is an American animated media franchise and series of comedy short films created in 1940 by William Hanna (14 July 1910 – 22 March 2001) and Joseph Barbera (24 March 1911 – 18 December 2006).
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adarkrainbow · 1 year
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Le Cabinet des Fées, or the memorial of French fairytales
The golden age of the French fairytale lasted a century - and we say that thanks to Le Cabinet des Fées (The Cabinet of Fairies).
If Perrault and d’Aulnoy opened the literary genre by creating French fairytales, The Cabinet of Fairies “closed” it, at least for time, by becoming the greatest archive of French fairytales.
Perrault and d’Aulnoy were part of circles of writers, poets and story-tellers that created and grew the French fairytale at the end of the 17th century. They were the first literary storytellers and fairytale-makers, and their work was so successful that throughout the next decades numerous people imitated them, followed them, or varied on their subjects. Regularly the genre of the fairytale was “re-ignited” by newcomers on the literary scene - such as the One Thousand and One Nights, which brought the entire subgenre of the “oriental farytale” in France. And this lasted for quite some times...
But then the genre started to weak, be out of breath. People got tired of these same old stories, or the same ingredients re-used again and again. Fairytales either became a well-known part of popular culture everybody knew by heart (and thus without any thrill or excitement anymore), either became slowly forgotten, cast aside, not republished. People started to read and write other things, far away from the marvelous and the fairy-worlds... We could almost say that the fairytale genre weakened alongside the French monarchy, as the end of its “golden age” coincided somehow with the French Revolution. Down with the king, down with the fairies.
And upon seeing this happen, one man decided to start an important work. 
Charles-Joseph Mayer, a knight of the second half of the 18th century, was a huge fan of fairytales, and upon seeing them disappear into oblivion, upon noticing people did not give any more care or respect for them, he went on a collecting quest, gathering and reuniting all of the French fairytales he could find (literary of course, since it was the only kind of fairytales that existed at the time). His intent was to preserve the memory of a whole century of literature, of dozens of authors that else would be doomed to the darkness of ignorance - by creating the most complete collection of fairytales that ever was. This work took quite some times, it consisted of 41 volumes, published between 1785 and 1789, but it became a landmark in the history of French literature: it was Le Cabinet des Fées, considered for a long time the ultimate reference and authority when it came to French fairytales.
Thanks to this enormous anthology, numerous fairytales were preserved that otherwise would have been lost to time - especially since Mayer included in his books a handful of anonymous fairytales whose authors were already gone from the minds of people. It highlighted the cohesion, variations and importance of fairytales as a literary genre, and as a testimony of the culture and tastes of a soon-to-be-gone-era. Many people compare Mayer’s work to the one of the Brothers Grimm, but French and literary instead of German and folkorist. 
However the publication of The Cabinet of Fairies had a dual effect. This work intended to “save” the fairytale genre - but it actually became its tumbstone, the memorial over its grave. Because, by compiling all of the fairytales ever done in one definitive, “ultimate” collection, Mayer cemented, or rather froze, paralyzed, petrified them. In people’s minds it asserted that the fairytales had come to an end, that now we had reached the final point, where they just had to be put into shelves. It truly affirmed the fairytales as a “dead” genre, with no more stories to tell. 
[Note: Of course French fairytales as a literary genre did continue to exist... But with less notorious and noticeable forms, and never the same general hype the fairytales had back in this “golden era” where they were the hot topic of all literary and cultural discussions.]
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badgaymovies · 2 years
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Double Wedding (1937)
Double Wedding by #RichardThorpe starring #WilliamPowell and #MyrnaLoy, "the chemistry of the stars overrides its flaws",
RICHARD THORPE Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB USA, 1937. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Screenplay by Jo Swerling, based on the play by Ferenc Molnar. Cinematography by William H. Daniels. Produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Music by Edward Ward. Production Design by Cedric Gibbons, David S. Hall. Costume Design by Adrian. Film Editing by Frank Sullivan. Myrna Loy is proud of the control she exerts over every…
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gbhbl · 11 months
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Horror Movie Review: Soylent Green (1973)
A nightmarish futuristic fantasy about the controlling power of big corporations and an innocent cop who stumbles on the truth.
Soylent Green is a 1973 American ecological dystopian film directed by Richard Fleischer, and starring Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, and Edward G. Robinson in his final film role. By 2022, the cumulative effects of overpopulation and pollution have caused severe worldwide shortages of food, water, and housing. New York City has a population of 40 million, and only the elite can afford…
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aklingolgesi · 1 year
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ISI VE SICAKLIĞIN DOĞASI: BÖLÜM 1 | TERMODİNAMİK YASALARI NASIL GELİŞTİRİLDİ?
Isı ve sıcaklık nedir? Birer madde mi? Enerji mi? Yoksa bazı olguları açıklayabilmek için varsaydığımız kavramlar mı? Fiziğin önemli alt disiplinlerinden birisi olan termodinamik, bu iki kavramı merkeze alarak maddeyi inceliyor. Peki, termodinamik ilmi zaman içinde gelişerek ısı ve sıcaklığı nasıl açıkladı? Termodinamik Kanunları olarak bilinen 4 yasa nasıl ortaya çıktı? Günümüzde ısı ve sıcaklık…
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spacelazarwolf · 5 months
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in honor of that anon who said jews have done nothing for the world, here’s a non exhaustive list of things we’ve done for the world:
arts, fashion, and lifestyle:
jeans - levi strauss
modern bras - ida rosenthal
sewing machines - isaac merritt singer
modern film industry - carl laemmle (universal pictures), adolph zukor (paramount pictures), william fox (fox film forporation), louis b. mayer (mgm - metro-goldwyn-mayer), harry, sam, albert, and jack warners (warner bros.), steven spielberg, mel brooks, marx brothers
operetta - jacques offenbach
comic books - stan lee
graphic novels - will eisner
teddy bears - morris and rose michtom
influential musicians - irving berlin, stephen sondheim, benny goodman, george gershwin, paul simon, itzhak perlman, leonard bernstein, bob dylan, leonard cohen
artists - mark rothko
actors - elizabeth taylor, jerry lewis, barbara streisand
comedians - lenny bruce, joan rivers, jerry seinfeld
authors - judy blume, tony kushner, allen ginsberg, walter mosley
culture:
esperanto - ludwik lazar zamenhof
feminism - betty friedan, gloria steinem, ruth bader ginsberg
queer and trans rights - larry kramer, harvey milk, leslie feinberg, abby stein, kate bornstein, frank kameny, judith butler
international women's day - clara zetkin
principles of journalizm, statue of liberty, and pulitzer prize - joseph pulitzer
"the new colossus" - emma lazarus
universal declaration of human rights - rene samuel cassin
holocaust remembrance and human rights activism - elie wiesel
workers rights - louis brandeis, rose schneiderman
public health care, women's rights, and children's rights - lillian wald
racial equity - rabbi abraham joshua heschel, julius rosenwald, andrew goodman, michael schwerner
political theory - hannah arendt
disability rights - judith heumann
black lives matter slogan and movement - alicia garza
#metoo movement - jodi kantor
institute of sexology - magnus hirschfeld
technology:
word processing computers - evelyn berezin
facebook - mark zuckerberg
console video game system - ralph henry baer
cell phones - amos edward joel jr., martin cooper
3d - leonard lipton
telephone - philipp reis
fax machines - arthur korn
microphone - emile berliner
gramophone - emile berliner
television - boris rosing
barcodes - norman joseph woodland and bernard silver
secret communication system, which is the foundation of the technology used for wifi - hedy lamarr
three laws of robotics - isaac asimov
cybernetics - norbert wiener
helicopters - emile berliner
BASIC (programming language) - john george kemeny
google - sergey mikhaylovich brin and larry page
VCR - jerome lemelson
fax machine - jerome lemelson
telegraph - samuel finley breese morse
morse code - samuel finley breese morse
bulletproof glass - edouard benedictus
electric motor and electroplating - boris semyonovich jacobi
nuclear powered submarine - hyman george rickover
the internet - paul baran
icq instant messenger - arik vardi, yair goldfinger,, sefi vigiser, amnon amir
color photography - leopold godowsky and leopold mannes
world's first computer - herman goldstine
modern computer architecture - john von neumann
bittorrent - bram cohen
voip internet telephony - alon cohen
data archiving - phil katz, eugene roshal, abraham lempel, jacob ziv
nemeth code - abraham nemeth
holography - dennis gabor
laser - theodor maiman
instant photo sharing online - philippe kahn
first automobile - siegfried samuel marcus
electrical maglev road - boris petrovich weinberg
drip irrigation - simcha blass
ballpoint pen and automatic gearbox - laszlo biro
photo booth - anatol marco josepho
medicine:
pacemakers and defibrillators - louise robinovitch
defibrillators - bernard lown
anti-plague and anti-cholera vaccines - vladimir aronovich khavkin
polio vaccine - jonas salk
test for diagnosis of syphilis - august paul von wasserman
test for typhoid fever - ferdinand widal
penicillin - ernst boris chain
pregnancy test - barnhard zondek
antiretroviral drug to treat aids and fight rejection in organ transplants - gertrude elion
discovery of hepatitis c virus - harvey alter
chemotherapy - paul ehrlich
discovery of prions - stanley prusiner
psychoanalysis - sigmund freud
rubber condoms - julius fromm
birth control pill - gregory goodwin pincus
asorbic acid (vitamin c) - tadeusz reichstein
blood groups and rh blood factor - karl landsteiner
acyclovir (treatment for infections caused by herpes virus) - gertrude elion
vitamins - caismir funk
technique for measuring blood insulin levils - rosalyn sussman yalow
antigen for hepatitus - baruch samuel blumberg
a bone fusion technique - gavriil abramovich ilizarov
homeopathy - christian friedrich samuel hahnemann
aspirin - arthur ernst eichengrun
science:
theory of relativity - albert einstein
theory of the electromagnetic field - james maxwell
quantum mechanics - max born, gustav ludwig hertz
quantum theory of gravity - matvei bronstein
microbiology - ferdinand julius cohn
neuropsychology - alexander romanovich luria
counters for x-rays and gamma rays - robert hofstadter
genetic engineering - paul berg
discovery of the antiproton - emilio gino segre
discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation - arno allan penzias
discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe - adam riess and saul merlmutter
discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity - roger penrose
discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of the milky way - andrea ghez
modern cosmology and the big bang theory - alexander alexandrovich friedmann
stainless steel - hans goldschmidt
gas powered vehicles
interferometer - albert abraham michelson
discovery of the source of energy production in stars - hans albrecht bethe
proved poincare conjecture - grigori yakovlevich perelman
biochemistry - otto fritz meyerhof
electron-positron collider - bruno touschek
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drivemysoul · 1 year
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DON'T YOU THINK I WAS TO YOUNG? YOU SHOULD'VE KNOWN.
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perfettamentechic · 2 years
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18 agosto … ricordiamo …
18 agosto … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic
2020: Ben Cross, vero nome Harry Bernard Cross, attore inglese principalmente. Cross è stato sposato con la modella Penelope Butler. In seguito è stato sposato con Michele Moerth. Successivamente ha sposato l’artista bulgara Deyana Boneva. (n. 1947) 2020: Mariolina De Fano, all’anagrafe Maria Esther De Fano, attrice italiana. (n. 1940) 2019: Gillian Hanna, attrice e doppiatrice irlandese. Gillian…
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llovelymoonn · 10 months
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favourite poems of july
knar gavin strindberg grey
dahlia ravikovitch the love of an orange (tr. chana bloch)
danez smith summer, somewhere
hannah gamble your invitation to a modest breakfast: “your invitation to a modest breakfast”
claire schwartz lecture on the history of the house
joseph brodsky collected poems in english, 1972-1999: “a part of speech”
ralph angel twice removed: “alpine wedding”
bob hicok insomnia diary: “spirit ditty of no fax-line dial tone”
caleb klaces language is her caravan
philip good & bernadette mayer alternating lunes
hester knibbe light-years (tr. jacquelyn pope)
tracy k. smith life on mars: “the universe as primal scream”
rigoberto gonzález other fugitives and other strangers: “the strangers who find me in the woods”
stephen edgar murray dreaming
james schuyler other flowers: uncollected poems: “light night”
amy beeder because our waiters are hopeless romantics
diane seuss backyard song
tomás q. morín love train
safiya sinclair the art of unselfing
carol muske-dukes skylight: “the invention of cuisine”
peter gizzi the outernationale: “vincent, homesick for the land of pictures”
william matthews selected poems and translations, 1969-1991: “onions”
c.k. williams butcher
mark mccloskey the smell of the woods
jennifer chang the age of unreason
richard blanco city of a hundred fires: “contemplations at the virgin de la caridad cafeteria, inc.”
bob hicock the pregnancy of words
j. allyn rosser impromptu 
carl phillips then the war
stephanie young ursula or university: “essay”
gloria e. anzaldúa the new speakers
kofi
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empirearchives · 9 months
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A Muse (detail), by Constance Mayer
c. 1800s, Napoleonic era
According to the lot essay, Napoleon gave Mayer an apartment in Paris and bought some of her paintings. She studied under Joseph-Benoît Suvée and Jean-Baptiste Greuze. During the early 1800s, she joined the studio of Jacques-Louis David and collaborated with Pierre-Paul Prud'hon.
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todaysdocument · 6 months
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Deposition of Andrew Hunter Holmes filed in case of United States v. Jean Lafitte
Record Group 21: Records of District Courts of the United StatesSeries: Case FilesFile Unit: 573: United States v. Jean Lafitte
The United States vs Jean Lafitte (jeune) Angel Rabello, Antoine Semel, Antoine Angelet Antoine Bormet, Pierre Cadet Pierre Lafitte (aine) Jean Gentie, Salvadore Artagus Louis Dalhier Jean Baptiste oulize, Pierre Terram Michel Joseph Andre Camo, Henry Munez, Henry Saybardir Antoine Michel Manuel Garcias Jean Harven Julien Beral Jean Mayer Manuel Raza Martin Pouce Antoine Cardier
Andrew Hunter Holmes of the United States Army being first duly sworn deposeth & saith that the said Andrew Hunter hath good reason to believe and doth suspect that the above named persons did on or about the sixteenth of the present month & year  receive on board certain skiffs and peroques to the number of five and aid & assise & abet in this receiving a large quantity of foreign goods which goods had been unlawfully put ashore from a certain vessel or vessels laying at Anchor at or near the Lake of Baratavia and which goods were subject to Revenue Duties, the same not having been paid.  And the said Andrew Hunter further saith that the said goods are of the value of three thousand Dollars more or less and further saith not
Signed
A H Holmes
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 19th day Nov. 1813
Signed
Joshua Lewis
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eretzyisrael · 4 months
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Blood libels began with the 1840 Damascus Affair
Blood libels are again being levelled at Jews in the current climate of antisemitism, resurgent from the Israel-Hamas war.  Charging Jews with the false accusation that they used the blood of Christian children for their religious rituals has a long history in the Christian world. But the first blood libel to penetrate the Muslim world – also spread by Christians –  occurred in 1840, and was to lead to dozens more in the Ottoman empire, and also the first  international Jewish attempt to fight it. Rabbi Menachem Levine writes for Aish (with thanks: Edna):
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Jewish prisoner preparing his defence
The Damascus Affair of 1840 was an infamous blood libel that became international news and led to one of the first instances in which Jewish communities around the world worked together to demand justice for another Jewish community. The Damascus blood libel is recognized as one of the turning points of modern Jewish history when world Jewry realized the importance of uniting to advocate for each other.
On February 5, 1840, Father Thomas, an Italian Friar of the Capuchin Order who lived in Damascus, disappeared with his Muslim servant Ibrahim Amara. They were assumed murdered, possibly by businessmen with whom Thomas had had shady dealings or by a Muslim who was infuriated by an insult to Islam that Father Thomas had uttered.
But the Jews were to bear the blame as the Capuchin friars began spreading rumors that the Jews had murdered the two men to use their blood for Passover. This led to one of history’s most famous blood libels, the Damascus Blood Libel, better known as the Damascus Affair of 1840.
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In his article for Dorot journal (Summer 2021) Alain Farhi has more detail on the malign role played by the French consul in Beirut, Ulysse Ratti-Menton,  and the  Jewish families accused of the murder: 
Ratti-Menton convinced Sherif Pasha that the Jews were responsible for the alleged ritual murders and, as a result, was given full investigative powers. RattiMenton, based on an extracted confession from a barber (Salomon Negrin) of complicity but not participation, rounded up eight Jewish men including Salomon Hayek; Murad el-Fattal; Jacob Antebi, the chief rabbi of Damascus; Aaron Harari; Aaron Stambouli; Joseph Lañado; Moses Abulafia; Moses Salonicli and Aslan Farhi (son of Raphael), Joseph and Murad Farhi. They were arrested and harshly interrogated by Jean-Baptiste Beaudin, a French diplomat seeking more confessions.
Rabbi Antebi and Lañado died under torture while Abulafia converted to Islam to avoid death. On February 14, Raphael El Mouallem Farhi, banker and head of the Farhi families of Damascus, was placed under house arrest with his servants in a government house for 90 days. On March 23, 1840, Mayer Farhi (my direct ancestor) was arrested and imprisoned. He was 55 years old and had an estimated 500,000 piasters net worth. The ghurush or piaster is the Arabic spelling of the kuruş which was the currency of the Ottoman Empire. A bribe of 24,400 piasters (£244) was offered by his wife Deborah to spare him 1,000 lashes of flagellation in prison.
Ratti-Menton published in European newspapers the alleged confessions. In the meantime, the Muslim population raided the Jobar synagogue, destroyed sefarim and attacked properties in the Jewish Quarter. Finally, the Ottoman police intervened to stop the Muslim attacks on Jewish residents.
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badgaymovies · 2 years
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Love Crazy (1941)
Love Crazy by #JackConway starring #WilliamPowell and #MyrnaLoy, "not as polished as the greatest comedies of remarriage... but don’t sleep on it either"
JACK CONWAY Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB.5 USA, 1941. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Story by David Hertz, William Ludwig, Screenplay by William Ludwig, Charles Lederer, David Hertz. Cinematography by Ray June, William H. Daniels. Produced by Pandro S. Berman. Music by David Snell. Production Design by Cedric Gibbons. Costume Design by Eugene Joseff. Film Editing by Ben Lewis.  Myrna Loy and William Powell…
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You must face the age of not believing Doubting everything you ever knew Until at last you start believing There's something wonderful in you
Dame Angela Lansbury, who died at her home today in Los Angeles at the age of 96, is perhaps best known today as Jessica Fletcher in the acclaimed TV series Murder, She Wrote and in the Broadway stage plays and musicals in significant parts that Hollywood never gave her. But well before that, the Irish-British transplant to America (she and her family left Britain at the height of Nazi Germany’s bombing campaign of her home nation) made her career as mostly a character actress during the Golden Age of Hollywood. She may not have been a major star billed at the top of marquees and movie posters during her time while contracted to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), but she would come to be a recognizable figure to audiences of multiple generations – whether she might be playing a tough saloon owner with a belter of a singing voice, a schoolteacher just making ends meet, Elvis’ mother (despite a nine-year age difference), princesses and queens, the amoral and scheming wife of a political candidate, an emotionally manipulative mother, or a teapot matriarch.
She stepped onto a movie soundstage for the first time at seventeen years of age, while making Gaslight (1944) for MGM. Because she was still technically a minor, she had to be accompanied by a social worker while working on set. Despite this, director George Cukor and her co-stars (including Ingrid Bergman) treated her as equals, all of them recognizing right away her professionality and acting ability. Perhaps producers and studio executives might not have done the same, saddling her so often with character roles, but Lansbury – by all accounts – extended that same kindness Cukor and Bergman afforded to her to so many others over the decades, leaving a legacy that goes beyond whatever personal disappointments she may have had over the more considerable roles she never got to play.
Her distinction as Hollywood royalty came later in life, as our connections of Hollywood’s Golden Age are almost all gone.
Nine of the films Angela Lansbury appeared in follow (left-right, descending):
Gaslight (1944) – directed by George Cukor; also starring Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, and Dame May Whitty
The Harvey Girls (1946) – directed by George Sidney; also starring Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Ray Bolger, Preston Foster, Virginia O’Brien, Kenny Baker, Marjorie Main, Chill Wills, Selena Royle, and Cyd Charisse
The Three Musketeers (1949) – directed by George Sidney; also starring Lana Turner, Gene Kelly, June Allyson, Van Heflin, Frank Morgan, and Vincent Price
The Court Jester (1955) – directed by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama; also starring Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, and Cecil Parker
The Manchurian Candidate (1962) – directed by John Frankenheimer; also starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, and Janet Leigh
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) – directed by Robert Stevenson and Ward Kimball; also starring David Tomlinson, Roddy McDowall, Sam Jaffe, John Ericson, Cindy O’Callaghan, Ian Weighill, and Roy Snart
Death on the Nile (1978) – directed by John Guillermin; also starring Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin, Lois Chiles, Bette Davis, Mia Farrow, Jon Finch, Olivia Hussey, I.S. Johar, George Kennedy, Simon MacCorkindale, David Niven, Maggie Smith, and Jack Warden
Beauty and the Beast (1991) – directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise; also starring Paige O’Hara, Robby Benson, Richard White, Jerry Orbach, David Ogden Stiers, Rex Everhart, Jesse Corti, and Bradley Pierce
Mary Poppins Returns (2018) – directed by Rob Marshall; also starring Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer, Pixie Davies, Nathanael Saleh, Joel Dawson, Julie Walters, Meryl Streep, Colin Firth, David Warner, and Dick Van Dyke
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