The new musical 'Betty Blue Eyes' is based on the film 'A Private Function' which starred Michael Palin and Maggie Smith 'Betty' is stolen at the time of the 1947 wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip. What kind of animal is 'Betty'?
"Sarah Lancashire as Joyce. A Private Function A Private Function is a 1984 British comedy film starring Michael Palin and Maggie Smith. The film was predominantly filmed in Ilkley, Ben Rhydding, and Barnoldswick, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival. In a small Northern English town in 1947 the citizens endure continuing food rationing. Some local businessmen want to hold a party to celebrate the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth to Prince Philip and illegally decide to raise a pig for that occasion. However, the"
"over five performances. Betty Blue Eyes Betty Blue Eyes is a 2011 stage musical comedy based on the 1984 film ""A Private Function"", and features music by George Stiles, with lyrics by Anthony Drewe. The book was written for the stage by Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman, adapted from Alan Bennett's original screenplay. ""Betty Blue Eyes"" is based on the 1984 film ""A Private Function"", by Alan Bennett. The show marked producer Cameron Mackintosh's first new musical in over 10 years and when describing what drew him to the project (which he has described as ""delicious""), Mackintosh said: ""Betty Blue"
"Betty Blue Eyes Betty Blue Eyes is a 2011 stage musical comedy based on the 1984 film ""A Private Function"", and features music by George Stiles, with lyrics by Anthony Drewe. The book was written for the stage by Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman, adapted from Alan Bennett's original screenplay. ""Betty Blue Eyes"" is based on the 1984 film ""A Private Function"", by Alan Bennett. The show marked producer Cameron Mackintosh's first new musical in over 10 years and when describing what drew him to the project (which he has described as ""delicious""), Mackintosh said: ""Betty Blue Eyes"" opened at"
"musical comedy ""Betty Blue Eyes"", based on the 1984 film ""A Private Function"" by Alan Bennett and Malcolm Mowbray. ""Betty Blue Eyes"" ran at the Novello Theatre from April to September 2011. Emery died on 28 September 2016, aged 86. Ann Emery Ann Emery (12 March 1930 – 28 September 2016) was a British actress. She was the half-sister of actor and comedian Dick Emery. Educated at Mrs Smith's School for Young Ladies and the Cone Ripman School, she excelled in tap dancing, which led to her first stage role as a Babe in ""Babes In The Wood"" at the"
"Betty Boop's Little Pal Betty Boop's Little Pal is a 1934 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop, and featuring Pudgy the Puppy (in his first appearance). Betty and her puppy Pudgy are on a picnic, but find it hard to enjoy the day when Pudgy ruins it and is sent home. Meanwhile, a dogcatcher is intent on capturing Pudgy, but the other dogs in the catcher's cage manage to escape him, and soon the two are reunited happily. This is the last Betty Boop cartoon in which Betty wears her famous flapper suit. This is the first time"
"it. They get onto the stage, and in the orchestra pit, and become part of the act, upstaging Betty. Pudgy Takes a Bow-Wow Pudgy Takes a Bow-Wow is a 1937 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop and Pudgy the Puppy. It is directed by Dave Fleischer and its producer is Max Fleischer. A marquee advertises ""Betty Boop in Person"" (and gives her 4 and 7/8 stars) at the theatre. Betty leaves Pudgy in her dressing room while she goes to perform her stage show. Her show involves singing a song, then impersonating a Chinese man and an Italian"
"Pudgy Takes a Bow-Wow Pudgy Takes a Bow-Wow is a 1937 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop and Pudgy the Puppy. It is directed by Dave Fleischer and its producer is Max Fleischer. A marquee advertises ""Betty Boop in Person"" (and gives her 4 and 7/8 stars) at the theatre. Betty leaves Pudgy in her dressing room while she goes to perform her stage show. Her show involves singing a song, then impersonating a Chinese man and an Italian organ grinder. While she's singing, a kitten comes to the dressing room and Pudgy gets out and begins chasing"
"also parodied by Kermit the Frog in ""The Great Muppet Caper"". Notes Bibliography Royal Wedding Royal Wedding is a 1951 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical comedy film starring Fred Astaire and Jane Powell, with music by Burton Lane and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. The film was directed by Stanley Donen; it was his second film and the first he directed on his own. It was released as Wedding Bells in the United Kingdom. The story is set in London in 1947 at the time of the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten. Astaire and Powell play siblings in a song and"
"and their cats, Serafina and Wolfie, have many, many, many kittens. They ride off happily together in their wedding carriage driven by King Dominick, with Queen Erika by his side. This film is the first musical in the series of Barbie CGI films. The entire soundtrack (including popular duets and the opening orchestral theme) can be found on the ""Barbie Sings! The Princess Movie Song Collection"" CD, released by Mattel in 2004. The songs in the film are, in chronological order, as follows. DVD Verdict called it ""wholesome entertainment"" with ""sweet songs tunefully sung"" though lacking in grown-up humor. Entertainment"
"Betty Boop and the Little King Betty Boop and the Little King is a 1936 Fleischer Studio animated short film, starring Betty Boop and featuring Otto Soglow's Little King. A special opera performance is held for the Little King and his queen, but the diminutive monarch is soon bored by the music. He sneaks out in search of some new entertainment, and spots a sign for Betty Boop at the local vaudeville theatre. After some difficulties getting a pretzel from a vendor, the curtain comes up on Betty's Wild West show. Betty performs several tricks with her horse, entrancing the"
"Buckingham Palace. Now with a hairstyle similar to Phil Oakey, Michael jumps on the balcony and starts dancing with The Queen and one of her corgis. Prince Charles tries to do the same, but moves completely out of rhythm. Then the Queen's crown falls of her head and lands on Charles'. He is excited, but then is bitten in the behind by the dog. Meanwhile, Michael jumps at two large groups of soldiers. He sticks flowers in their guns (a reference to the famous picture of hippie protesters by Bernie Boston) and then strips to his underwear, before jumping onto"
"Betty spanks Pudgy for punishment. Clips of the redrawn colorized version were used in the compilation movie ""Betty Boop For President: The Movie"" (1980). Betty Boop's Little Pal Betty Boop's Little Pal is a 1934 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop, and featuring Pudgy the Puppy (in his first appearance). Betty and her puppy Pudgy are on a picnic, but find it hard to enjoy the day when Pudgy ruins it and is sent home. Meanwhile, a dogcatcher is intent on capturing Pudgy, but the other dogs in the catcher's cage manage to escape him, and soon the"
"Royal Wedding Royal Wedding is a 1951 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical comedy film starring Fred Astaire and Jane Powell, with music by Burton Lane and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. The film was directed by Stanley Donen; it was his second film and the first he directed on his own. It was released as Wedding Bells in the United Kingdom. The story is set in London in 1947 at the time of the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten. Astaire and Powell play siblings in a song and dance duo, echoing the real-life theatrical relationship of Fred and Adele Astaire. ""Royal"
"her beloved hedgehog and laid her to rest in the garden at the Potter family home at 2 Bolton Gardens, Kensington. The tale has had two dramatic adaptations. In 1971, Sir Frederick Ashton performed the role of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle in the Royal Ballet film ""The Tales of Beatrix Potter"", which he also choreographed. In 1993, the tale was adapted (with ""The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher"") as one of six episodes of the animated BBC anthology series ""The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends"". In the 2018 film ""Peter Rabbit"", Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle is voiced by Australian singer-songwriter Sia doing a"
"beef, served by a gourmet chef. At Christmas, the Queen makes stockings for pets full of toys and delicacies such as biscuits. In 1999, one of Queen Elizabeth's royal footmen was demoted from Buckingham Palace for his ""party trick of pouring booze into the corgis' food and water"" and watching them ""staggering about"" with relish. In 2007, the Queen was noted to have five corgis, Monty, Emma, Linnet, Willow, and Holly; five cocker spaniels, Bisto, Oxo, Flash, Spick, and Span; and four ""dorgis"" (dachshund-corgi crossbreeds), Cider, Berry, Vulcan, and Candy. In 2012, Queen Elizabeth II's corgis Monty, Willow, and Holly"
"Corgi in 1933 from the Rozavel Kennels in Surrey. Named Dookie, he proved popular with his daughters, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, and so a second Corgi, Jane, was purchased. He also owned six other dogs, but it was the Corgis that the young Princess Elizabeth was most fond of. For her eighteenth birthday in 1944, the King gave Princess Elizabeth a two-month-old Pembroke Corgi puppy with the registered name Hickathrift Pippa; she was called Sue, which became Susan. Princess Elizabeth did not want to be separated from Susan, so following her wedding to Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey"
"the family dog, Blair. Two professional actors were paid to appear, Sebastian Smith as the soldier, and his wife as the old woman who stole the baby. The two actors were paid half a guinea each; Hepworth would recall ""We couldn't get them for less"". The film is often cited as the first film to have used paid actors. Completing the cast was Mabel Clark, who had previously played Alice in Hepworth's version of ""Alice in Wonderland"", as the child's nurse. Clark was also the cutting room assistant. The movie was so successful that Hepworth had to re-shoot the entire"
"lawyers, but the Witchsmeller silences them before they can even start their case by condemning them also as witches. The proceedings rapidly descend into a farcical show trial. The Witchsmeller interrogates Edmund and presents three pieces of evidence in his case: Prince Edmund, also known as ""The Great Grumbledook"", has a pet cat named Bubbles (""short for Beelzebubbles!"") who supposedly drinks blood; he has allegedly engaged in acts of bestiality with his horse, Black Satin, who supposedly has the ability to talk (the horse later dies during interrogation, but leaves a signed ""confession""); and he is accused of having sexual"
"furiously tears the fur to smithereens. Pudgy Picks a Fight! Pudgy Picks a Fight is a 1937 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop and Pudgy the Puppy. Betty Boop is so delighted with her new fox fur. Pudgy the Puppy, thinking the fox is a live animal, jealously handles it, and, when it does not move in response, thinks he killed the creature. Pudgy is then plagued by nightmarish illusions accusing him of guilt (including seeing the shadow of a part of a lamp which he thinks is a noose) and when Betty returns and tells Pudgy that"
"The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex is a 1939 American historical romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, and Olivia de Havilland. Based on the play ""Elizabeth the Queen"" by Maxwell Anderson—which had a successful run on Broadway with Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt in the lead roles—the film fictionalizes the historical relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex. The screenplay was written by Norman Reilly Raine and Aeneas MacKenzie. It was the fifth of nine films that Flynn and de"
"Betty in Blunderland Betty in Blunderland is a 1934 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop. It is based on ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"" and ""Through the Looking-Glass"" by Lewis Carroll. Betty falls asleep doing a jigsaw puzzle of Alice and the white rabbit. She ""awakes"" just in time to follow the rabbit through the looking glass and disguises as Alice into a modern wonderland. Betty meets most of the traditional inhabitants of Wonderland and sings ""How Do You Do"" (to the tune of ""Everyone Says I Love You"") to them. When the Jabberwock steals Betty away, everyone comes"
"and ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" (1961), and appeared in the television series ""Our Miss Brooks"" with Eve Arden; Cleo, a basset hound who was in the film ""Bell, Book and Candle"" (1957) and in Jackie Cooper's 1950s television show, ""The People's Choice""; Arnold Ziffel, the pig from ""Green Acres""; the chimps from ""Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp"", the dog and two cats from ""The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty"", Tramp the dog of ""My Three Sons"" and many of Elly May Clampett's exotic ""critters"" on ""The Beverly Hillbillies"". Possibly his most famous animal was Higgins, a fluffy brown mutt he rescued from"
"his wife, Betty, so that Gerard must depend upon her. The charming Betty manages to become accepted by the society into which she has married and eventually charms her way into the heart of her wayward husband. He returns to her of his own accord and they find happiness. Betty (musical) Betty is an Edwardian musical comedy in three acts, with a book by Frederick Lonsdale and Gladys Unger, music by Paul Rubens and Ernest Steffan, and lyrics by Adrian Ross and Rubens. It was first produced at the Prince's Theatre in Manchester, opening on December 24, 1914, then at"
"Beethoven bursts in and performs an impressive chase scene with Pete the Lizard, which instantly makes the director love him. Beethoven and Eddie are hired on the spot, and Sal is fired. To celebrate, Eddie takes Billy and Beethoven out for hamburgers, but Beethoven escapes with the burgers and leads Eddie and Billy on a chase. Finally, they find where Beethoven was going: he had been caring for his three small pups in an alley, as their mother had apparently died. In ""Beethoven's 2nd"", she wasn't heard from again. Eddie begrudgingly adopts the puppies, as well. Eddie is then charged"
"Beebe, a young brother and sister who move from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Chincoteague, Virginia to live with Grandpa Beebe and Grandma Beebe after their parents die. Paul and Maureen befriend an elusive mare on Assateague named the Phantom, and later come to own her foal, Misty. Using local people from the town in most of the roles, the film stars only six professional actors, including Arthur O'Connell, Anne Seymour, Pam Smith, and future Hollywood executive David Ladd. The horse Misty was played in the film by another pony, although the real Misty can be seen in some scenes. The film"
"Betty Boop's Life Guard Betty Boop's Life Guard is a 1934 Fleischer Studios animated short film, starring Betty Boop. Betty is spending the day at the beach, where her boyfriend Fearless Freddy works as a life guard. Betty is enjoying the ocean while floating in her inflatable rubber horsey when it springs a leak. Freddy dives in to save Betty, but she goes under, where she begins to imagine she's a mermaid. At first Betty enjoys her new underwater life, swimming and singing with the other undersea inhabitants. The fun ends when a sea monster chases her. Just before the"
"played by a female dog called Pippin, and later by the dog's grandson, Mr. Higgins. A feature of ""Come Outside"" is Auntie Mabel's unusual mode of transport: a small aeroplane (a Slingsby T67 Firefly) with multi-coloured polka dots. Pippin was a mixed-breed dog, half Tibetan Terrier, half Bearded Collie, roughly third generation descended from the famous American acting dog Benji and was owned and trained by the award-winning animal trainer Ann Head. Pippin was quite old at the start of the first series in 1993 and so she performed the slower but complex moves while her grandson, Mr. Higgins, performed"
"12, 1792. Manuel is dressed in a red costume. He holds a string attached to his pet magpie, who is holding a calling card of the painter. On his left is a cage of finches. Three cats are intently watching the magpie on his right. The pets in this portrait have been analyzed in many different ways. The caged birds may symbolize the soul, the cats may be an evil force. For example, Goya shows a cat among the creatures in ""The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters"", part of ""The Caprices"". In 1926, Kathryn Bache Miller fell in love with"
"Betty's Little Theater. Four dancers, dressed as raccoons, perform a nighttime adventure. Lady Elaine is annoyed with Prince Tuesday's constant crying. At one point, she asks King Friday and Queen Sara to send the baby back, although they can't. Prince Tuesday is one week old, and the Castle is suitably decorated for a celebration. King Friday gives gifts to everyone, which only rides Lady Elaine's jealousy. Rogers shows how he operates Picture-Picture and the Trolley. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday asks that Reardon put together an opera within two days. Reardon fears that he doesn't have enough time"
"The Private Affairs of Bel Ami The Private Affairs of Bel Ami is a 1947 American drama film directed by Albert Lewin. The film stars George Sanders as a ruthless cad who uses women to rise in Parisian society, co-starring Angela Lansbury and Ann Dvorak. It is based on the Guy de Maupassant novel ""Bel Ami"". The film had a 1946 premiere in Paris, Texas. The score is by Darius Milhaud. In Paris in 1880, Georges Duroy, an ex-soldier working as a poorly paid clerk, encounters his former comrade-in-arms, sickly journalist Charles Forestier. Rachel, already rebuffed once by Georges, sits"
"The Betty Boop Movie Mystery The Betty Boop Movie Mystery (also known as Betty Boop's Hollywood Mystery) is a 1989 animated special starring Betty Boop. The story is set in the 1930s, reflecting on the original Max Fleischer style of animation. Betty works as a waitress in a diner with her friends Bimbo the musical dog and Koko the Clown. Betty and her friends entertain the customers with a Hawaiian hula revue. The trio are seen entertaining the customers by Diner Dan who owns the diner; he gets very angry and fires Betty and her friends. While searching for a"
"some years later. The film was nominated for five Academy Awards: The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex is a 1939 American historical romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, and Olivia de Havilland. Based on the play ""Elizabeth the Queen"" by Maxwell Anderson—which had a successful run on Broadway with Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt in the lead roles—the film fictionalizes the historical relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex."
"and takes it. After that, Betty then asks for anyone that can sing and dance. A rabbit then comes forward and says that he can play the piano. So, Betty asks Hanson to bring in the piano. However Hanson is a small bug, so comically has to tug at it to get it in the room, whilst a big hippo comically only carries a stool. Betty then hands the rabbit some sheet music, but the rabbit says that he only plays ""by ear"". However, when he starts to play, he comically uses his ears to play the piano. Betty then"