"label. Brief Encounter (opera) Brief Encounter is an opera in two acts by composer André Previn. The English libretto by John Caird is based on Noël Coward's play ""Still Life"" and Coward's screenplay for the 1945 David Lean film ""Brief Encounter"". Commissioned by the Houston Grand Opera, the opera premiered on May 1, 2009 in Houston, Texas at the Wortham Theater Center. The production starred Elizabeth Futral as Laura Jesson and Nathan Gunn as Alec Harvey, with Rebekah Camm, Meredith Arwady, Robert Orth, and Kim Josephson as supporting soloists and Patrick Summers conducting. A recording was issued on the Deutsche"
"Jesson, a respectable middle-class British woman in an affectionate but rather dull marriage, tells her story while sitting at home with her husband, imagining that she is confessing her affair to him. Laura, like many women of her class at the time, goes to a nearby town every Thursday for shopping and to the cinema for a matinée. Returning from one such excursion to Milford, while waiting in the railway station's refreshment room, she is helped by another passenger, who solicitously removes a piece of grit from her eye. The man is Alec Harvey, an idealistic doctor who also works"
"""Milford Junction"" railway station, in the spring, Laura Jesson, a housewife, is waiting for her train home after shopping. She is in pain from a piece of grit that has got into her eye. Alec Harvey, a married physician, who is in the refreshment room removes it for her. The next summer, Alec and Laura have met each other a second time by chance and have enjoyed each other's company to the extent of arranging to lunch together and go to the cinema. In October, they are forced to admit that they are in love with each other, and they"
"film was released. Warner Home Video then released it on DVD in February 2007. The Clock (1945 film) The Clock (UK title Under the Clock) is a 1945 American romantic drama film starring Judy Garland and Robert Walker and directed by Garland's future husband, Vincente Minnelli. This was Garland's first dramatic role, as well as her first starring vehicle in which she did not sing. A soldier, Joe Allen (Robert Walker), on a 48-hour leave, meets Alice Mayberry (Judy Garland) in Pennsylvania Station when she trips over his foot and breaks the heel off one of her shoes. Although it"
"The Clock (1945 film) The Clock (UK title Under the Clock) is a 1945 American romantic drama film starring Judy Garland and Robert Walker and directed by Garland's future husband, Vincente Minnelli. This was Garland's first dramatic role, as well as her first starring vehicle in which she did not sing. A soldier, Joe Allen (Robert Walker), on a 48-hour leave, meets Alice Mayberry (Judy Garland) in Pennsylvania Station when she trips over his foot and breaks the heel off one of her shoes. Although it is Sunday, Joe gets a shoe-repair shop owner to open his store and repair"
"audio Laura (1944 film) Laura is a 1944 American film noir produced and directed by Otto Preminger. It stars Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews and Clifton Webb along with Vincent Price and Judith Anderson. The screenplay by Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein and Betty Reinhardt is based on the 1943 novel ""Laura"" by Vera Caspary. In 1999, ""Laura"" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"". The American Film Institute named it one of the 10 best mystery films of all time, and it also appears on"
"Bedside Manner (film) Bedside Manner is a 1945 American film directed by Andrew L. Stone, based on a 1944 ""Saturday Evening Post"" story of the same name by Robert Carson. The film was re-released in 1950 under the title Her Favorite Patient. Plastic surgeon Dr. Hedy Fredericks (Ruth Hussey) picks up three hitchhiking Marines, Tommy (Joel McGinnis), Dick (John James), and Harry (Frank Jenks) (who all have Smith as their last name), while driving home to Chicago. On the way she makes a quick stop in her birth town of Blithewood, and is appalled by the way the town has"
"Laura (1944 film) Laura is a 1944 American film noir produced and directed by Otto Preminger. It stars Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews and Clifton Webb along with Vincent Price and Judith Anderson. The screenplay by Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein and Betty Reinhardt is based on the 1943 novel ""Laura"" by Vera Caspary. In 1999, ""Laura"" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"". The American Film Institute named it one of the 10 best mystery films of all time, and it also appears on Roger"
"gives him Frank Sinatra's voice to entrance the harem girls. A Thousand and One Nights (1945 film) A Thousand and One Nights is a 1945 tongue-in-cheek Technicolor fantasy film set in the Baghdad of the ""One Thousand and One Nights"" directed by Alfred E. Green and starring Cornel Wilde as Aladdin, Evelyn Keyes as the genie of the magic lamp, Phil Silvers as Aladdin's larcenous sidekick, and Adele Jergens as the princess Aladdin loves. It was nominated for two Academy Awards, for Best Art Direction, Color (Stephen Goosson, Rudolph Sternad, Frank Tuttle) and Best Special Effects (Ray Bomba and Lawrence"
"(both 1944), before their most famous film, the 1945 film noir ""Detour"". Reminiscing in the 1980s about her career as a stalwart B movie actress, Savage dismissed most of her roles as ""mindless"", saying: ""The actresses were just scenery. The stories all revolved around the male actors; they really had the choice roles. All the actresses had to do was to look lovely, since the dialogue was ridiculous"". ""Detour"", she felt, was different. The two leads underwent role reversal, with Savage's Vera blackmailing Neal's Al, in a style described by her manager Kent Adamson as ""vicious and predatory… very sexually"
"Harvey (play) Harvey is a 1944 play by the American playwright Mary Chase. Chase received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the work in 1945. It has been adapted for film and television several times, most notably in a 1950 film starring James Stewart. ""Harvey"" premiered on Broadway on November 1, 1944, at the 48th Street Theatre and closed on January 15, 1949, after 1,775 performances. The original production was directed by Antoinette Perry and produced by Brock Pemberton and starred Frank Fay as Elwood P. Dowd and Josephine Hull as Elwood's sister Veta. Elwood was subsequently played during this"
"Spellbound (1945 film) Spellbound is a 1945 American film noir psychological mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It tells the story of the new head of a mental asylum who turns out not to be what he claims. The film stars Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov and Leo G. Carroll. It is an adaptation by Angus MacPhail and Ben Hecht of the novel ""The House of Dr. Edwardes"" (1927) by Hilary Saint George Saunders and John Palmer. Dr. Constance Petersen (Ingrid Bergman) is a psychoanalyst at Green Manors, a therapeutic community mental hospital in Vermont. She is perceived"
"Leave Her to Heaven Leave Her to Heaven is a 1945 American film noir, shot in Technicolor, starring Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, with Vincent Price, Darryl Hickman, Ray Collins, and Chill Wills. The story was adapted for the screen by Jo Swerling from the best selling novel of the same name by Ben Ames Williams and directed by John M. Stahl. The story (told in an extended flashback that constitutes the bulk of the film) revolves around a femme fatale who entraps a husband and commits several crimes motivated by her insane jealousy over everything concerning him. Tierney"
"The Story of Dr. Wassell The Story of Dr. Wassell is a 1944 American Technicolor World War II film set in the Dutch East Indies, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, and starring Gary Cooper, Laraine Day, Signe Hasso and Dennis O'Keefe. The film was based on a book of the same name by novelist and screenwriter James Hilton. The book and film were inspired by the wartime activities of U.S. Navy Doctor Corydon M. Wassell which were referred to by President Roosevelt in a radio broadcast made in April 1942. The appropriate section of this broadcast appears toward the end"
"at the time noticed the superficial resemblance to the earlier film, but described ""Escape in the desert"" as basically an action picture, a sort of updated Western with Nazis as the villains. Escape in the Desert Escape in the Desert is a 1945 American drama film directed by Edward A. Blatt and written by Marvin Borowsky and Thomas Job. The film stars Jean Sullivan, Philip Dorn, Irene Manning, Helmut Dantine, Alan Hale, Sr. and Samuel S. Hinds. The film was released by Warner Bros. on May 1, 1945. The action takes place in the southwestern United States late in World"
"catches the killer in the act and becomes his next victim. Elizabeth tries to protect Barnaby from his father, whom she has come to love, but it turns out that Dr. Evans is the one responsible for the crimes. The Unseen (1945 film) The Unseen is a 1945 America film noir mystery film directed by Lewis Allen and starring Joel McCrea. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Recording (Loren L. Ryder), and is based on the novel ""Midnight House"" (US title: ""Her Heart in Her Throat"") by Ethel Lina White. The film was Paramount's follow-up to"
"A Thousand and One Nights (1945 film) A Thousand and One Nights is a 1945 tongue-in-cheek Technicolor fantasy film set in the Baghdad of the ""One Thousand and One Nights"" directed by Alfred E. Green and starring Cornel Wilde as Aladdin, Evelyn Keyes as the genie of the magic lamp, Phil Silvers as Aladdin's larcenous sidekick, and Adele Jergens as the princess Aladdin loves. It was nominated for two Academy Awards, for Best Art Direction, Color (Stephen Goosson, Rudolph Sternad, Frank Tuttle) and Best Special Effects (Ray Bomba and Lawrence W. Butler). Vagabond singer Aladdin (Cornel Wilde) has his hands"
"The Fatal Witness The Fatal Witness is a 1945 American mystery film directed by Lesley Selander and written by Jerry Sackheim and Cleve F. Adams. The film stars Evelyn Ankers, Richard Fraser, George Leigh, Barbara Everest, Barry Bernard and Frederick Worlock. The film was released on September 15, 1945, by Republic Pictures. The wealthy Lady Elizabeth Ferguson threatens to disinherit nephew John Bedford after accusing him of stealing from her. Bedford goes to a pub, where he becomes inebriated, creates a scene and is taken to jail. The dead body of Lady Elizabeth is discovered by her ward, Priscilla Ames,"
"commentary, theatrical trailer, as well as outtakes and bloopers. However, it does not include the other extras included with the original DVD release. A Blu-ray version was released on November 18, 2008. Awake (film) Awake is a 2007 American conspiracy thriller film written and directed by Joby Harold. It stars Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, Terrence Howard and Lena Olin. The film was released in the United States and Canada on November 30, 2007. Young billionaire Clay Beresford, Jr. (Hayden Christensen) is in love with Samantha ""Sam"" Lockwood (Jessica Alba) his mother's personal assistant. Clay requires a heart transplant. Dr. Jack"
"are shown bursting around the ""Enola Gay"" on its bombing run over Hiroshima; and it is said that leaflets were dropped on Hiroshima for ten days in advance of the mission warning the citizens of the forthcoming raid. The film received generally mixed reviews, and was a box office disappointment. In 1945, physicist and atomic scientist Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer (Hume Cronyn) praises the discovery of atomic energy, but also warns of its dangers. American scientists such as Matt Cochran (Tom Drake), working under the guidance of Dr. Enrico Fermi (Joseph Calleia) and Dr. Marré (Victor Francen), have split the"
"located in the former Harvey residence in Leavenworth, Kansas. A movie musical entitled ""The Harvey Girls"", starring Judy Garland, Cyd Charisse and Angela Lansbury, and based on a near-pulp novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams, was made in 1946. It won the Academy Award for Best Song for ""On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe."" In the 1995 steampunk alternate history novel ""The Two Georges"" by Richard Dreyfuss and Harry Turtledove, Harvey is mentioned in the first chapter as having been in the business of airships in addition to railroads. Fred Harvey (entrepreneur) Frederick Henry Harvey (June 27, 1835 –"
"""The extraordinarily blonde Laura La Plante occupies herself genially enough in the title part."" The Teaser The Teaser was a 1925 American silent romantic comedy/drama film written by Lewis Milestone, Edward T. Lowe Jr. and Jack Wagner based upon the play of the same name by Adelaide Matthews and Martha M. Stanley. The film was directed by William A. Seiter for Universal Pictures, and stars Laura La Plante, Pat O'Malley, Hedda Hopper, and Walter McGrail. It is unknown whether any copies of this film exist, and it is considered a lost film. Ann Barton (Laura La Plante), a girl from"
"The Alligator People The Alligator People is a 1959 CinemaScope science fiction horror film directed by Roy Del Ruth. It stars Beverly Garland, Bruce Bennett and Lon Chaney Jr. This film was the penultimate feature directed by Del Ruth, and quite different than those of his days at Warner Bros. The film was theatrically distributed by 20th Century Fox on a double bill with ""Return of the Fly"". After nurse Jane Marvin (Beverly Garland) is administered the drug sodium pentothal by psychiatrists Erik Lorimer (Bruce Bennett) and Wayne McGregor (Douglas Kennedy), she recalls a series of events from her forgotten"
"The Teaser The Teaser was a 1925 American silent romantic comedy/drama film written by Lewis Milestone, Edward T. Lowe Jr. and Jack Wagner based upon the play of the same name by Adelaide Matthews and Martha M. Stanley. The film was directed by William A. Seiter for Universal Pictures, and stars Laura La Plante, Pat O'Malley, Hedda Hopper, and Walter McGrail. It is unknown whether any copies of this film exist, and it is considered a lost film. Ann Barton (Laura La Plante), a girl from a once-wealthy family, must make a living by clerking in a cigar store. There"
"Awake (film) Awake is a 2007 American conspiracy thriller film written and directed by Joby Harold. It stars Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, Terrence Howard and Lena Olin. The film was released in the United States and Canada on November 30, 2007. Young billionaire Clay Beresford, Jr. (Hayden Christensen) is in love with Samantha ""Sam"" Lockwood (Jessica Alba) his mother's personal assistant. Clay requires a heart transplant. Dr. Jack Harper (Terrence Howard) is Clay's heart surgeon and friend. Clay asks Dr. Harper to arrange his elopement with Sam. They marry privately at midnight, then Clay goes to the hospital for the"
"Harvey (film) Harvey is a 1950 American comedy-drama film based on Mary Chase's play of the same name, directed by Henry Koster, and starring James Stewart and Josephine Hull. The story is about a man whose best friend is a pooka named ""Harvey"" – in the form of a six-foot, three-and-a-half-inch tall invisible rabbit. Elwood P. Dowd (Stewart) is a middle-aged, amiable though somewhat eccentric man whose best friend is an invisible 6 foot;3inch tall rabbit named Harvey. As described by Dowd, Harvey is a pooka, a benign but mischievous creature from Celtic mythology who is especially fond of social"
"Laura (novel) Laura (1942, 1943) is a detective novel by Vera Caspary. It is her best known work, and was adapted into a popular film in 1944, with Gene Tierney in the title role. Originally, ""Laura"" ran in ""Colliers"" from October to November 1942 as a seven-part serial entitled ""Ring Twice for Laura"". Houghton Mifflin republished ""Laura"" in book form the next year; afterwards, Caspary sold the film rights to Twentieth Century Fox, resulting in a 1944 hit movie starring Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews. In 1946, Caspary sold the story for a fourth time, this time co-writing a theatrical"
"acclaimed director Martin Scorsese as one of his favorite films of all time and assessed ""Gene Tierney is one of the most underrated actresses of the Golden Era."" Rotten Tomatoes reported that 95% of critics gave the film a positive review, based on 20 reviews. In 2018, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"". Wins Nominations Leave Her to Heaven Leave Her to Heaven is a 1945 American film noir, shot in Technicolor, starring Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, with Vincent"
"notes of the song are sometimes ""quoted"" during jazz solos, especially since Dizzy Gillespie did it during his ""Perdido"" solo at the famous Massey Hall concert in 1953. Laura (1945 song) ""Laura"" is a 1945 popular song. The music, composed by David Raksin for the 1944 movie ""Laura,"" which starred Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews, is heard frequently in the movie. The film's director, Otto Preminger, had originally wanted to use Duke Ellington's ""Sophisticated Lady"" as the theme, but Raksin was not convinced that it was suitable. Angered, Preminger gave Raksin one weekend to compose an alternative melody. Raksin later"
"of three movies that Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce and Hillary Brooke appeared together; in 1942 ""Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror"" and in 1945 ""The Woman in Green"". Dr. Watson is serving as resident doctor at Musgrave Hall in Northumberland, a stately home which is also used as a hospital for a number of servicemen suffering from shell shock. When Sally Musgrave displays her feelings for one of the wounded American fighter pilots, Captain Pat Vickery, who is currently recovering at the family estate, her brothers Geoffrey and Phillip are quick to show their dismay. Then one of the"
"The Hour Before the Dawn The Hour Before the Dawn is a 1944 American drama war film directed by Frank Tuttle starring Franchot Tone and Veronica Lake. It was based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham. It is often rumored that this film may have led to the decline of Lake's career. She was at her peak at the time of production, with films such as ""Sullivan's Travels"", ""This Gun for Hire"", ""The Glass Key"", ""I Married a Witch"" and ""So Proudly We Hail!"" all having been big box office successes for her and Paramount. After this film was"
"Canada and $386,000 elsewhere, making a profit of $1,184,000, a remarkable figure for a ""B"" picture. Between Two Women (1945 film) Between Two Women, made in 1945, was the sixteenth film in the Dr Kildare series. This was the fourteenth of fifteen in which Lionel Barrymore starred as Dr. Leonard B. Gillespie. The film following was ""Dark Delusion"" (1947), which was the last in the Dr. Kildare series released by MGM. This was the last of Van Johnson's character, Dr. Randall 'Red' Adams, also seen in three previous Kildare films. This episode in the series should have been called ""Between"
"Between Two Women (1945 film) Between Two Women, made in 1945, was the sixteenth film in the Dr Kildare series. This was the fourteenth of fifteen in which Lionel Barrymore starred as Dr. Leonard B. Gillespie. The film following was ""Dark Delusion"" (1947), which was the last in the Dr. Kildare series released by MGM. This was the last of Van Johnson's character, Dr. Randall 'Red' Adams, also seen in three previous Kildare films. This episode in the series should have been called ""Between Three Women"", because there are plot strands involving three, not two, women. Dr. Gillespie's (Lionel Barrymore)"