"of the station in 1882, used until 1903, and this survives preserved as a listed building. A major rebuilding project, including a 300-yard long platform (currently used by northbound services), took place in 1938 with government funding - it brought the number of platforms in use to six. In 1944, the government approved the rebuilding of Carnforth MPD into a major regional railway depot. The film ""Brief Encounter"" was partly filmed at the station in February 1945. The station clock became a powerful icon through repeated use in the film. The West Coast Main Line platforms were closed in May"
"a junction on the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. As well as a busy station being necessary for the plot, it was located far enough away from major cities to avoid the blackout for film purposes, shooting taking place in early 1945 before the Second World War had finished. At two points in the film the station location is indicated by platform signs referring to local destinations including, Leeds, Bradford, Morecambe and Lancaster. Noël Coward makes the station announcements in the film. The station refreshment room was a studio recreation. Carnforth Station still retains many of the period features present"
"She cries in his embrace. The film is based on Noël Coward's one-act play ""Still Life"" (1936), one of ten short plays in the cycle """", designed for Gertrude Lawrence and Coward himself, and to be performed in various combinations as triple bills. All scenes in ""Still Life"" are set in the refreshment room of a railway station (the fictional Milford Junction). As is common in films based on stage plays, the film depicts places only referred to in the play: Dr. Lynn's flat, Laura's home, a cinema, a restaurant and a branch of Boots the Chemist. In addition, a"
"with music by André Previn from a libretto by John Caird. Still Life (play) Still Life is a short play by Noël Coward, one of ten that make up """", a cycle written to be performed across three evenings. The play depicts the love affair of Alec and Laura across a twelve-month period. The sadness of Alec and Laura's serious and secretive affair is contrasted throughout the play with the boisterous, uncomplicated relationship of Myrtle and Albert, two of the station staff. In the introduction to a published edition of the plays, Coward wrote, ""A short play, having a great"
"mood without technical creaking or over padding, deserves a better fate, and if, by careful writing, acting and producing I can do a little towards reinstating it in its rightful pride, I shall have achieved one of my more sentimental ambitions."" ""Still Life"" was first produced in London (1936) and later presented in New York (1936–1937) and Canada (1938). It has enjoyed several major revivals and in 1945 was adapted for film under the title ""Brief Encounter"". Like all the other plays in the cycle, it originally starred Gertrude Lawrence and Coward himself. Six of the plays in """" were"
"Still Life (play) Still Life is a short play by Noël Coward, one of ten that make up """", a cycle written to be performed across three evenings. The play depicts the love affair of Alec and Laura across a twelve-month period. The sadness of Alec and Laura's serious and secretive affair is contrasted throughout the play with the boisterous, uncomplicated relationship of Myrtle and Albert, two of the station staff. In the introduction to a published edition of the plays, Coward wrote, ""A short play, having a great advantage over a long one in that it can sustain a"
"starring Richard Gere, ""The Railway Children"" starring Jenny Agutter, a 1970s classic filmed around Haworth including the Bronte Parsonage about Victorian children whose father goes missing and """" starring Harvey Keitel based on the story of the Cottingley Fairies. Monty Python's ground-breaking ""The Meaning of Life"" and the controversial hit ""Rita, Sue and Bob Too"", about a married man who cannot choose between two teenage lovers, were also filmed in the city. In recent years Bradford has developed a relationship with Bollywood, hosting the International Indian Film Festival awards in 2007. There are four theatres in Bradford. The Alhambra also"
"first presented at the Manchester Opera House beginning on 15 October 1935, and a seventh play, ""Family Album"", was added on the subsequent provincial tour. ""Still Life"", however, was added for the London run, together with ""Ways and Means"" and ""Star Chamber"", the last of which was performed only once. The first London performance in the cycle was on 9 January 1936 at the Phoenix Theatre but ""Still Life"" did not premiere until May 1936. Coward directed all ten pieces, and each starred Coward and Gertrude Lawrence. Coward said that he wrote them as ""acting, singing, and dancing vehicles for"
"1942, with a screenplay by Claudine West, Hans Rameau and George Froeschel. It was directed by Robert Z. Leonard. The film starred Norma Shearer and Melvyn Douglas, and also featured Florence Shirley, Lee Bowman and Lenore J. Coffee. Coward adapted ""Still Life"" for the screen as ""Brief Encounter"" in 1945. The film was remade in 1974 starring Richard Burton and Sophia Loren. In May 2009, Houston Grand Opera premiered an opera in two acts based on ""Brief Encounter"", with music by André Previn from a libretto by John Caird. For a 1952 film ""Meet Me Tonight"", directed by Anthony Pelissier,"
"audiences continued to enjoy such pieces as Arthur Honegger's depiction of a steam locomotive in ""Pacific 231"". Indeed, Percy Grainger's incomplete orchestral fragment ""Train Music"" employs the same function. This music for large orchestra depicts a train moving in the mountains of Italy. Music that is composed to accompany a ballet is often program music, even when presented separately as a concert piece. Aaron Copland was amused when a listener said that when she listened to ""Appalachian Spring"" she ""could ""see"" the Appalachians and ""feel"" Spring"", the title having been a last-minute thought, but it is certainly program music. Film"
"ten short plays, presented in various permutations across three evenings. One of these plays, ""Still Life"", was expanded into the 1945 David Lean film ""Brief Encounter"". ""Tonight at 8:30"" was followed by a musical, ""Operette"" (1938), from which the most famous number is ""The Stately Homes of England"", and a revue entitled ""Set to Music"" (1938, a Broadway version of his 1932 London revue, ""Words and Music""). Coward's last pre-war plays were ""This Happy Breed"", a drama about a working-class family, and ""Present Laughter"", a comic self-caricature with an egomaniac actor as the central character. These were first performed in"
"was composed, arranged and conducted by Johnny Douglas. In October 1999, ITV made a new adaptation, as a made-for-television film. This time Jenny Agutter played the role of the mother. Others in the movie include Jemima Rooper, Jack Blumenau and JJ Feild. The railway filmed was the Bluebell Railway using some of the Railway's steam engines and rolling stock and NBR C Class 0-6-0 ""Maude"", from the Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway. In 2005 the stage musical was first presented at Sevenoaks Playhouse in Kent, UK, with a cast including Are You Being Served star Nicholas Smith as the Old Gentleman,"
"Richard Burton, and directed by Joseph Losey. The film was a disastrous vehicle for both stars. The play is set in Italy and centers on a dying, wealthy woman, Mrs. Flora Goforth, who catches a young man, Christopher Flanders, allegedly trespassing on her estate. Dialogue between the two makes up much of the play. At the end Mrs. Goforth dies after her long struggle with terminal illness. The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963) is a play written by Tennessee Williams. It debuted at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy,"
"The 1976 film ""The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane"" featured this Concerto, performed by pianist Claudio Arrau and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. A performance of the Piano Concerto No. 1 also features prominently in the 2015 British film ""The Lady in the Van"". The second movement is featured at the climax of Don Hertzfeldt's 2012 film ""It's Such a Beautiful Day"". This movement is also featured in the 1998 movie, ""The Truman Show"", as well as in . Piano Concerto No. 1 (Chopin) The Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11, is a piano concerto written"
"films ""The Knack …and How to Get It"" (1965), ""Performance"" (1970) featuring Mick Jagger, ""Lava"" (2001), and ""Paddington"" (2014). Notting Hill also serves as the locale for the 1999 romantic comedy ""Notting Hill"", starring Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant. At a site just to the east of the Old Oak Common site, Kensington and Chelsea Council has been pushing for a station at North Kensington / Kensal off Ladbroke Grove and Canal Way, as a turn-back facility will have to be built in the area anyway. Siting it at Kensal Rise, rather than next to Paddington itself, would provide a"
"includes a 17-minute concert suite from ""Hangover Square"", assembled by Stephen Hogger. The film's musical tour-de-force is a sonata movement for piano and orchestra in the Lisztian style (where the scherzo and adagio movements, which are typical as succeeding movements in a concerto, are compressed and presented in place of a central development). Slightly revised by the composer in 1973 for Charles Gerhardt's RCA film music series and retitled ""Concerto Macabre,"" it has been recorded by RCA, Naïve, Koch and Naxos, in addition to the recording paired with Hogger's suite. Save for that released by RCA, all of the recordings"
"Severn Valley Railway that runs between the midland towns of Bridgnorth and Kidderminister in the United Kingdom was used as a location in the film. Candleshoe Candleshoe is a 1977 American family adventure film, directed by Norman Tokar in a screenplay written by David Swift and Rosemary Anne Sisson, based on the Michael Innes novel ""Christmas at Candleshoe"", produced by Walt Disney Productions. The film stars Jodie Foster, David Niven, Helen Hayes (in her last big screen appearance), and Leo McKern. The film follows an orphan who assists a couple of con-men in their attempt to get their hands on"
"became the basis of Nyman's 1994 composition, ""The Piano Concerto"" which debuted in 1994. Perhaps the most unusual rerecording is by conductor Bill Broughton and the Orchestra of the Americas—an orchestral version sans piano. ""Here to There"", a saxophone solo, has become something of a staple for contemporary classical saxophonists. Two additional solo piano pieces, ""The Attraction of the Pedalling Ankle"", which is based on Frédéric Chopin's Mazurka Op. 7/i, and ""Deep Sleep Playing"" are featured in the film, the former in scenes 51, 57, and 88, and the latter in scene 100. While not on the album, they are"
"celebrated pianist and it is Levant's piano playing that is on the soundtrack. Parts of these classical music pieces are heard in the film: Songs in the film: Columbia Masterworks released an album of music from this movie consisting of four 78-rpm phonograph records (Columbia Masterworks set MM-657, copyright 1946). In 1998, Nonesuch Records released an album of music from this movie, recorded in 1997 in London and New York, featuring violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg. Lawrence J. Quirk in ""Screen Stars (Retrospective Review)"" commented, """"Humoresque"" is undoubtedly Crawford's finest performance ... Her timing was flawless, her appearance lovely, her emotions depthful."""
"at the theater. Performers at the Bijou during the 1920s included John Philip Sousa and his band, Anna Pavlova and the Ballet Russe, and magician Harry Blackstone. In 1935, Kincy Theaters purchased the Bijou for use as a second-run moviehouse (the Tennessee Theatre, which opened in 1928, was Knoxville's first-run moviehouse). Live performances continued, however, among them Dorothy Gish in ""Life with Father"" in 1941, Lunt and Fontanne in Robert Sherwood's ""There Shall Be No Night"" in 1941, and Ethel Barrymore in Emlyn Williams's ""The Corn Is Green"" in 1943. The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra used the Bijou for its performances"
"title composition evoked for the subject matter. The soundtrack producer Robert Townson, who re-recorded the score in 1998 with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, described the music as rich and vibrant, commenting ""I would cite ""The 7th Voyage of Sinbad"" as one of the scores which most validates film music as an art form and a forum where a great composer can write a great piece of music. As pure composition, I would place Sinbad beside anything else written this century and not worry about it being able to stand on its own"". ""The 7th Voyage of Sinbad"" continues to"
"name as the fictional station having dropped its suffix in the successful film ""Brief Encounter"" (1945). The platform scenes were filmed at Carnforth station in Lancashire. Milford railway station Milford railway station is a stop on the Portsmouth Direct Line, serving the village of Milford, Surrey in England. It is down the line from . There is an hourly service to southbound and London Waterloo northbound. At approximately level gradient but adjoining woodland the track occasionally suffers from leaves on the line resulting in poor traction for trains, in extremis leading to overshoots on stopping and difficulty moving off. The"
"siding on the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad opened in 1887. Today, the depot is furnished with railroad memorabilia and is open to visitors. Number of films have been made at the station, including the remake of ""Christmas in Connecticut"", which starred Dyan Cannon, Arnold Schwarzenegger (also directed), and Kris Kristofferson. The arboretum is widely reported to be haunted, particularly the Queen Anne Cottage. Some have claimed to see the ghost of Lucky Baldwin or one of his wives. Visitors have claimed hearing moaning coming from the house (where Lucky Baldwin's wife also died of cancer), odd cooking"
"starring Val Kilmer, Sam Shephard, and Stephen Dorff. The music from the movie was performed by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra at the Film Music Night in Munich in 2009. Soundtracks: Film Music Suites - original film and TV themes That which I love destroys me - original motion picture soundtrack Hindenburg & Hitler - original motion picture soundtrack Film Music Collection II – Drama Love Romance - original film and TV themes Albums: 3D Scoring – Fantasy Animation Family Rural Renewal – Gerhard Daum Guitar & String Ensemble Epic Drama Epic Action Piano Visions String Theory Mental Voyager Mental"
"goes to console him at the pub, and after drinking a toast to Ros, they kiss. Their happiness is short-lived, however, as a German bomb strikes the pub, killing them both. Despite the tragedy, the night's performance goes on, and as Ros sings Judy's song, she determines to stay with the show. Tonight and Every Night Tonight and Every Night is a 1945 American musical film directed by Victor Saville and starring Rita Hayworth, Lee Bowman and Janet Blair. The film portrays wartime romance and tragedy in a London musical show, loosely modelled on the Windmill Theatre in Soho, that"
"VI"". This trilogy of plays came to the Old Vic in London, and from then on began to be far more regularly revived. For Birmingham Rep, he also played parts as diverse as Richard II, Alec in Coward's ""Still Life"" (the story better known as ""Brief Encounter"") and the Elephant in Obey's ""Noah"". He returned to the Old Vic for the 1958–59 season, as Julius Caesar among other parts. Later stage roles included The Headmaster in ""A Voyage Round My Father"", and Colonel Pickering in ""Pygmalion"" with Alec McCowen and Diana Rigg. In 1957, he married the actress Petra Davies."
"for coming back. ""Brief Encounter"" also loosely inspired ""Mum's Army"", an episode of the British comedy series ""Dad's Army"". There is a similar final scene in a railway station. An episode of the British comedy series ""Goodnight Sweetheart"" mentions the movie, Noël Coward and there is also a similar scene in a railway station. A 1974 television remake of the film, shown in the US on the ""Hallmark Hall of Fame"", starred Richard Burton and Sophia Loren, but was not well received. In the 2012 ""Sight & Sound"" polls of the world's greatest films, ""Brief Encounter"" received the votes of"
"as used by most railway companies in Britain at one time or another. 67 is now at the Middleton Railway, Leeds, and 4744 is now with the North Norfolk Railway at Sheringham. 5775 and 957 are still on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway. As of 2014, 4744 is the only locomotive that remains operational as 957, 5775 and 67 are on static display at the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, National Railway Museum Shildon and the Middleton Railway respectively. A wide variety of vintage rolling stock was used in the film, including examples from the Metropolitan and London and"
"seventh play, ""Family Album"", was added on the subsequent provincial tour. ""Ways and Means was added for the London run, together with ""Still Life"" and ""Star Chamber"", the last of which was performed only once. The first London performance in the cycle was on 9 January 1936 at the Phoenix Theatre, but ""Ways and Means"" did not premiere until 5 May 1936. Coward directed all ten pieces, and each starred Coward and Gertrude Lawrence. Coward said that he wrote them as ""acting, singing, and dancing vehicles for Gertrude Lawrence and myself"". The plays were performed in various combinations of three"
"Coward adapted ""Ways and Means"", ""Red Peppers"" and ""Fumed Oak"" (called ""Tonight at 8:30"" in the US). Coward himself played Christian Faber in a 1950 film of ""The Astonished Heart"" (also starring Celia Johnson and Margaret Leighton). Television adaptations of ""Red Peppers"" were released in 1937, 1938, 1958 and 1969. ""Still Life"" was given a television production in 1951. The NBC-TV anthology series ""Producers' Showcase"" debuted on 18 October 1954 with ""Shadow Play"", ""Still Life"" and ""Red Peppers"", produced and directed Otto Preminger, starring Ginger Rogers in all three; Martyn Green also starred in ""Red Peppers"". ""Hands Across the Sea"""
"also wanted to include more recent footage, resulting in a special concert being scheduled on 15 December 1977 at the Gaumont State Cinema in Kilburn, London. This was the band's first show since 21 October 1976, when they concluded their last tour at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. Unfortunately the group proved rusty and this performance was considered unsatisfactory and ultimately not used in the film, save clips of a brief Pete Townshend speech and of the band leaving the stage. Although the Kilburn footage was largely scrapped, ""My Wife"" did appear on the film's soundtrack and eventually most of"
"Stanford, Paul Schneider, Michael Rapaport, Judah Friedlander, Kevin Dunn, and Zooey Deschanel. Set in fictional Rutland, New Hampshire, it is a picaresque comedy-drama about a small-town would-be crime legend. The name of the movie derives from the motto of the Granite State. In 2017, Claremont gained notoriety in the media when white teenagers injured a biracial eight year old while pretending to lynch him and taunting him with racial slurs. The Topstone Mill, formerly a shoe factory and now housing a restaurant, was featured in season 8, episode 20 of ""Ghost Hunters"", airing October 24, 2012, titled ""Fear Factory"". Claremont,"
"from ""The Band Wagon"" in which Crawford, in blackface, lip-syncs to Adams' voice while writhing with male dancers. The film marked Crawford's return to MGM after a ten-year absence. Her original recordings for the soundtrack, which were not used in the film, have survived and been included in home video releases. Jenny Stewart is a tough Broadway musical star, alienating her colleagues with her neurotic demands for absolute perfection. Jenny takes offense when her new rehearsal pianist Tye Graham criticizes her song stylings and ruthless ways. Graham was blinded in World War II but fell in love with Jenny when"