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"We Serve"". In Which We Serve In Which We Serve is a 1942 British patriotic war film directed by Noël Coward and David Lean. It was made during the Second World War with the assistance of the Ministry of Information. The screenplay by Coward was inspired by the exploits of Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten, who was in command of the destroyer when it was sunk during the Battle of Crete. Coward composed the film's music as well as starring in the film as the ship's captain. The film also starred John Mills, Bernard Miles, Celia Johnson and Richard Attenborough in"
"September 2002. The Captain's Paradise The Captain's Paradise is a 1953 British comedy film produced and directed by Anthony Kimmins, and starring Alec Guinness, Yvonne De Carlo, and Celia Johnson. Guinness plays the captain of a passenger ship that travels regularly between Gibraltar and Spanish Morocco. De Carlo plays his Moroccan wife and Johnson plays his British wife. The film begins at just before the end of the story, which is then told in a series of flashbacks. In 1958, the story was made into a Broadway musical comedy, retitled ""Oh, Captain!"". In early 1950s North Africa, a man (Alec"
"the end of the film, when Capt. Kinross addresses the survivors from the ""Torrin"" in Alexandria, Coward used the real speech that Mountbatten gave to the surviving crew of HMS ""Kelly"" after they were rescued and taken to Egypt. Coward was determined to portray Captain Kinross in the film, despite the studio's concern that his public ""dressing gown and cigarette-holder"" persona might make it difficult for audiences to accept him in the role of a tough navy man. Havelock-Allan supported him, although he later called his performance ""always interesting, if not quite convincing."" Coward also needed to convince the censors"
"The Captain's Paradise The Captain's Paradise is a 1953 British comedy film produced and directed by Anthony Kimmins, and starring Alec Guinness, Yvonne De Carlo, and Celia Johnson. Guinness plays the captain of a passenger ship that travels regularly between Gibraltar and Spanish Morocco. De Carlo plays his Moroccan wife and Johnson plays his British wife. The film begins at just before the end of the story, which is then told in a series of flashbacks. In 1958, the story was made into a Broadway musical comedy, retitled ""Oh, Captain!"". In early 1950s North Africa, a man (Alec Guinness) is"
"The Astonished Heart (film) The Astonished Heart is a 1950 British drama film directed by Terence Fisher. It stars Celia Johnson, Noël Coward, and Margaret Leighton, and is based on Coward's play ""The Astonished Heart"" from his cycle of ten plays, """". Inspired by the great success of the 1945 film ""Brief Encounter"", which also had been adapted from ""Tonight at 8:30"", Coward agreed to have ""The Astonished Heart"" produced as a motion picture. As with the previous film, Coward also wrote the screenplay. Production began in 1949 and featured not only Noël Coward in one of his rare film"
"contract with Alex Korda to make one film a year and he agreed to star.) Celia Johnson signed to play the other lead. Kimmins said, ""We're trying to show man's triple side... there's the domestic wife – pipe and slippers side; then the jungle side – the girl-in-port sort of thing. Then there's the conversational, man-to-man side... And naturally we stay tongue in cheek throughout so we don't expect to wreck any homes."" Yvonne de Carlo said she enjoyed the film because she ""got the chance to act"". She found working with Guinness ""an exhilarating experience"". The film was a"
"you've got over its peculiar patrician tones and bitty structure, there's much to enjoy – not least the changing frocks and haircuts and wallpapers."" ""Radio Times"" gave it five out of five stars and said ""This second of David Lean's four collaborations with Noël Coward provides a fascinating picture of the way we were. ... such is the ebb and flow of events (both domestic and historical) that the two hours it takes to cover the 20 inter-war years seem to fly by. Celia Johnson is superb ...the best scenes belong to neighbours Robert Newton and Stanley Holloway"". The National"
"""The Times"" called it ""a serious and sympathetic study of humdrum people suddenly trapped by love"" and strongly praised Coward both for the play and his performance. After the successful production of the play, Coward expanded and adapted it into a full-length film script, ""Brief Encounter"" (1945), which was filmed by David Lean, with Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard in the roles originally played by Lawrence and Coward. A radio adaptation of the film was broadcast in 1955, and the following year Coward made a version for two voices which he recorded with Margaret Leighton. A French translation was given"
"and Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan ditched at sea. Movie rights to the book were purchased for Fox Searchlight Studios and Captain Long was hired as technical consultant for the major motion picture titled ""Amelia"" (2009). The screenplay was written by Ron Bass. Two time Best Actress Oscar winner Hilary Swank stars as Amelia Earhart with Richard Gere cast as her husband George Palmer Putnam. Filming of the epic movie was under the direction of Mira Nair mainly at sites in Canada and South Africa. ""Amelia"" was released in late 2009. In 1971, Captain Long flew solo around the"
"received a Golden Globe Award for her performance and was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Pete Townshend was also nominated for an Oscar for his work in scoring and adapting the music for the film. The film was shown at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival, but was not entered into the main competition. In 1975, the film won the award for Rock Movie of the Year in the First Annual Rock Music Awards. In the prologue, set in 1945, a montage displays the honeymoon of Captain Walker (Robert Powell) and his wife, Nora (Ann-Margret). After his"
"proud, indefatigable people; Captain Kinross is now in command of a battleship. Its massive main guns fire against the enemy. Shortly after his play ""Blithe Spirit"" opened in the West End in July 1941, Noël Coward was approached by Anthony Havelock-Allan, who was working with the production company Two Cities Films. Its founder, Filippo Del Giudice, was interested in making a propaganda film and wanted someone well known to write the screenplay. Coward agreed to work on the project as long as the subject was the Royal Navy and he was given complete control. As the sinking of on 23"
"club. Willis's target is fugitive Dr. Corrina ""Cora D"" Devonshire (Victoria Rowell), a former government scientist with information about a bioweapon being developed by her former superior, Colonel Pryzer (Steve Railsback) of the Congressional Directorate. Dr. Devonshire hopes to escape to Canada in order to make this information public. Devonshire later turns up at the Hammerhead. She is accompanied by Axel Hood (Temuera Morrison), a ""freedom fighter"" whom Barb had known and loved at the outbreak of the war, but the two were separated during the conflict. Axel is trying to help Cora get to Canada. They are trying to"
"her in public. Longtime guardian Jonathan Connors (Edgar Buchanan) protects his ward's privacy zealously. During a ship launching, a press photographer takes Nora's picture, but Connors sees to it that the camera film is ruined. Sylvia tells Nora that she is quitting so that she can accompany her husband, Phil Vernon (Allyn Joslyn), whose job requires him to move to Washington. Nora decides to marry her fiance Donald (William Post Jr.) so that Sylvia can be her maid of honor at her wedding, but when Donald returns from military duty, he breaks the news that he has fallen in love"
"her true love, and she and Jemmy have a shipboard wedding. Kim Novak took a three-year break from motion pictures after this film, though her 1965 scenes in ""Eye of the Devil"" were deleted and reshot with Deborah Kerr. She returned to the screen in 1968's ""The Legend of Lylah Clare"". Co-stars Novak and Richard Johnson married in March 1965. The lead role was originally considered for Diane Cilento, who had gathered critical acclaim from her role in ""Tom Jones"", but she had other commitments. Had Cilento appeared in the film, Sean Connery would have played the male lead. The"
"factory, causing friction with their supervisor Charlie Forbes (Eric Portman) which eventually blossoms into a verbally combative romance. A nearby RAF bomber station sends some of its men to a staff dance at the factory, during which Celia meets and falls in love with an equally shy young Scottish flight sergeant Fred Blake (Gordon Jackson). Their relationship encounters a crisis when Fred refuses to tell Celia when he is sent out on his first mission, but soon afterwards they meet and make up, with Fred asking Celia to marry him. After the wedding they spend their honeymoon at the same"
"to the best contributor to the ""Chronicle"". He went on from Eton to Christ Church, Oxford, and graduated with a first-class degree in English. He was a member of the Bullingdon Club during his time there. On 10 December 1935 he married the actress Celia Johnson (1908–1982), best known for her roles in the films ""Brief Encounter"" and ""The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"". In April 1932 Fleming replied to an advertisement in the personal columns of ""The Times"": ""Exploring and sporting expedition, under experienced guidance, leaving England June to explore rivers central Brazil, if possible ascertain fate Colonel Percy"
"filmed at Paramount-Publix New York Studios in Astoria, Long Island. His Woman His Woman is a 1931 American romance drama film directed by Edward Sloman and starring Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert. Based on the novel ""His Woman"" by Dale Collins, the story is about a tough sea captain who discovers a baby aboard his freighter and hires a tramp, masquerading as a missionary's daughter, to care for the infant on their passage to New York. The 1931 film was 52nd box-office rank by the year. It is a remake of the 1928 film ""Sal of Singapore"". While docked in"
"Board of Review named Celia Johnson Best Actress for her portrayal of Ethel Gibbons. This Happy Breed (film) This Happy Breed is a 1944 British Technicolor drama film directed by David Lean and starring Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, Stanley Holloway, and John Mills. The screenplay by Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan and Ronald Neame is based on the 1939 play of the same title by Noël Coward. The title, a reference to the English people, is a phrase from John of Gaunt's monologue in Act II, Scene 1 of William Shakespeare's ""Richard II"". (Laurence Olivier provides the uncredited introductory narration.) Opening in"
"sense that she adds to the sexual complications of the plot by her friendship with the cross-dressing Rosalind. Celia effectively sets up home with Rosalind in the forest, requiring no male presence, and her marriage to Oliver may be regarded as a means of prolonging their relationship rather than the result of any affection she feels for him. Celia has been played by various notable actresses on screen. Sophie Stewart played Celia in a 1936 film, Rosalind Knight in the 1963 UK television series, Angharad Rees in the 1978 BBC version of the play directed by Basil Coleman, and Romola"
"be made in their expenditure. The officers all fall over themselves to woo his beautiful daughter Celia (Jessie Matthews), who accompanies him: she becomes engaged to the son of the First Sea Lord and her father decides to leave economics to the Navy. The Midshipmaid The Midshipmaid is a 1932 British comedy film directed by Albert de Courville and starring Jessie Matthews, Frederick Kerr, Basil Sydney and Nigel Bruce. The film is based on a play by Ian Hay and Stephen King-Hall. it was released in the U.S. as Midshipmaid Gob. John Mills makes his film debut in a supporting"
"post in order to race. Rob is portrayed by Riley Smith. Ellie Laird is Rob's wife. She is a 27-year-old front desk clerk at a hotel. Ellie was secretly having an affair with ""Allan James"". However, as he was employed by the race organizers, he couldn't enter the race, so Ellie convinced her husband to be her partner. Ellie is fully intending to leave her husband and split the prize money with James if she wins the race. Ellie is portrayed by Mircea Monroe. Ceal Cousins is a racer on a motorcycle. Her race partner is Jimmy Cousins, her husband."
"film is widely praised for its black-and-white photography and the mood created by the steam-age railway setting, both of which were particular to the original David Lean version. The film was a great success in the UK and such a hit in the US that Celia Johnson was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. In her book ""Noël Coward"" (1987), Frances Gray says that ""Brief Encounter"" is, after the major comedies, the one work of Coward that almost everybody knows and has probably seen; it has featured frequently on television and its viewing figures are invariably high. ""Its"
"Reid returned to the West End opposite Eve Best in Oscar Wilde's ""A Woman of No Importance"" at the Vaudeville Theatre. Anne Reid Anne Reid, MBE (born 28 May 1935) is an English stage, film and television actress, known for her roles as Valerie Barlow in the soap opera ""Coronation Street"" (1961–71); Jean in the sitcom ""Dinnerladies"" (1998–2000); and her BAFTA-nominated role as Celia Dawson in ""Last Tango in Halifax"" (2012–2016). She won the London Film Critics Circle Award for British Actress of the Year for the film ""The Mother"" (2003). Reid was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, the daughter"
"months of the Second World War, Nazi Germany's ""Kriegsmarine"" sends out merchant raiders to attack Allied shipping. The Royal Navy responds with hunting groups whose mission is to stop them. The group that finds the heavily armed pocket battleship ""Admiral Graf Spee"" near South America is outgunned: ""Graf Spee"" is equipped with long-range 11-inch guns, while the British heavy cruiser has much lighter 8-inch guns, and the light cruisers and have 6-inch guns. Despite this, they go straight to the attack. The British are led by Commodore Harwood (Anthony Quayle), with Captain Woodhouse (Ian Hunter) commanding flagship ""Ajax"", Captain Bell"
"other US Navy personnel are stuck in a public relations unit far from the fighting. Lieutenant Commander Clinton T. Nash (Fred Clark), their commanding officer and a stockbroker in civilian life, refuses to allow anyone to transfer out. Much of Siegel's time is spent showing war correspondents (like obnoxious Gordon Ripwell (Keenan Wynn)) and visiting Congressmen around the island. One day, Siegel spots beautiful local schoolteacher Melora Alba (Gia Scala). Despite some formidable obstacles, he eventually wins her love. However, they break up when he wants to live in New York City to further his career, while she feels she"
"The Divorcee The Divorcee is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film written by Nick Grindé, John Meehan, and Zelda Sears, based on the novel ""Ex-Wife"" by Ursula Parrott. It was directed by Robert Z. Leonard, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. The film was also nominated for Best Picture and won Best Actress for its star Norma Shearer. Ted (Chester Morris), Jerry (Norma Shearer), Paul (Conrad Nagel), and Dorothy (Helen Johnson) are part of the New York in-crowd. Jerry's decision to marry Ted crushes Paul. He gets drunk and is involved in an accident that leaves"
"It features three stories; Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) coming to terms with the psychological impact of the previous mission, Doctor Phlox (John Billingsley) finds that the people on Earth have become hostile to aliens, while Commander Charles ""Trip"" Tucker (Connor Trinneer) and Sub-Commander T'Pol (Jolene Blalock) travel to Vulcan for her arranged marriage. The episode featured the return of several recurring characters, such as Vaughn Armstrong as Admiral Maxwell Forrest and Gary Graham as Ambassador Soval. Others who made their first of several appearances included Michael Reilly Burke, Ada Maris, Jack Donner and Joanna Cassidy as T'Pol's mother. Filming"
"with local Knox representative Danny Oldsen (Peter Capaldi). During a visit to a Knox research facility in Aberdeen, Dr Geddes (Rikki Fulton) and his assistant Watt (Alex Norton) inform them about the scope of the company's plans, which entail replacing Ferness with the refinery. They also meet (and admire) marine researcher Marina (Jenny Seagrove). Mac ultimately spends several weeks in Ferness, gradually adapting to the slower-paced life and getting to know the eccentric residents, most notably the hotel owner and accountant, Gordon Urquhart (Denis Lawson) and his wife, Stella (Jennifer Black). As time passes, Mac becomes more and more conflicted"
"all along. The captain realizes that Blossom is his daughter, and they are reconciled. Blossom and Tom fall in love. The Sea Lion The Sea Lion is a 1921 American silent adventure film directed by Rowland V. Lee, and starring Hobart Bosworth, Bessie Love, and Emory Johnson. The same staff on this film produced Rowland Lee's previous directed film ""Blind Hearts"", released just before ""The Sea Lion"". Captain John Nelson (Hobart Bosworth) and his crew hunt whales on the high seas. The captain is an angry man, having never recovered from his wife's leaving him for another man 20 years"
"to become a reluctant ally with China, while trying to keep his own crew, led by Chief of the Boat Joseph Prosser (Robert Patrick), from rebelling against him. He must also combat the schemes of the local drug lord Julian Serrat (Sahr Ngaujah). The series also follows the efforts of Kylie Sinclair (Autumn Reeser), a weapons designer back home who allies with Christine Kendal (Jessy Schram), the wife of the ""Colorado""s XO, to discern the truth behind the nuclear attack on Pakistan and the ""Colorado""s fugitive status. An ongoing subplot involves a Navy SEAL named James King (Daniel Lissing) who,"
"logging thousands of hours looking after the lives of passengers and crew. Young second officer Hobie Wheeler (William Campbell) and veteran navigator Lenny Wilby (Wally Brown) are contrasts in age and experience. Stewardess Spalding (Doe Avedon) attends her passengers, each with varying personal problems, including jaded former actress May Holst (Claire Trevor), unhappily married heiress Lydia Rice (Laraine Day), aging beauty queen Sally McKee (Jan Sterling), and cheerful vacationer Ed Joseph (Phil Harris). Spalding befriends the terminally ill Frank Briscoe (Paul Fix) after being charmed by his pocket watch. A last-minute arrival, Humphrey Agnew (Sidney Blackmer), causes the crew concern"
"movies with the same title were released in 1917, 1919, and 1969. The Divorcee The Divorcee is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film written by Nick Grindé, John Meehan, and Zelda Sears, based on the novel ""Ex-Wife"" by Ursula Parrott. It was directed by Robert Z. Leonard, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. The film was also nominated for Best Picture and won Best Actress for its star Norma Shearer. Ted (Chester Morris), Jerry (Norma Shearer), Paul (Conrad Nagel), and Dorothy (Helen Johnson) are part of the New York in-crowd. Jerry's decision to marry Ted crushes"
"a Body"" (1957) and ""The Woman Eater"" (1958). He played in over 80 films, but radio roles were also numerous, and his television roles included parts in ""Danger Man"" and ""The Prisoner"" (""Checkmate"", 1967). Other notable appearances included the recurring role of science writer Harcourt Brown in the ABC serials, ""Pathfinders to Mars"" and ""Pathfinders to Venus"", which were sequels to earlier serials; ""Target Luna"" and ""Pathfinders in Space"". He appeared as Arbitan in the ""Doctor Who"" serial ""The Keys of Marinus"" (1964). Coulouris was married to Louise Franklin (1930–1976) and Elizabeth Donaldson (1977–1989) and was the father of computer"