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6 de may. de 2024 · By contrast, Dame Flora Robson was much loved by all who knew her in Brighton. A big name in the theatrical world, she never declined a charity call or refused to open a fête. Suddenly there were actors everywhere. Sir John Clements even moved next door to Olivier, while Dame Anna Neagle was a couple of blocks away.
Hace 4 días · Flora Robson played Queen Elizabeth I, and Claude Rains acted as the Spanish ambassador, whose job it was to mislead the Queen who rightly suspected the Spanish Armada was about to attempt to invade England.
12 de may. de 2024 · Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Flora Robson and Felix Aylmer star in this moving and sophisticated story of love and loss set against the backdrop of the Second World War and based on the play by Daphne du Maurier. After hearing news that her officer husband has been killed in battle, Diana Wentworth forges a new life for herself ...
Hace 2 días · As late as the 1940s, Warner Bros. used blackface in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), a minstrel show sketch in This Is the Army (1943) and by casting Flora Robson as a Haitian maid in Saratoga Trunk (1945). In The Spoilers (1942), John Wayne appeared in blackface and bantered in a mock accent with a black maid who mistook him for an ...
13 de may. de 2024 · The Culture of History: English Uses of the Past 1800–1953. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006, ISBN: 9780199296880; 384pp.; Price: £60.00. The use of the past in previous eras has become a growth area of historical enquiry in recent times, exemplified by the enormous Cambridge University project, ‘Past Versus Present ...
Hace 2 días · Flora Robson: Saratoga Trunk: Nominated 1948 Jean Simmons: Hamlet: Nominated 1949 Elsa Lanchester: Come to the Stable: Nominated 1957 Witness for the Prosecution: Nominated 1958 Wendy Hiller: Separate Tables: Won 1959 Hermione Baddeley: Room at the Top: Nominated 1960 Glynis Johns: The Sundowners: Nominated Mary Ure: Sons and Lovers ...
16 de may. de 2024 · Richard Attenborough, Jack Hawkins, Flora Robson 61 votes Guns at Batasi , directed by John Guillermin, is a captivating blend of British cinema and war themes, portraying the tense standoff between a group of British soldiers and rebel forces during a fictional unrest in an African colony.
