"Mrs Danvers (band) Mrs Danvers is an American indie pop band from Boston, Massachusetts. The band consists of Ann Driscoll (lead vocals/guitar/synth), Dhy Berry (bass/synth/vocals), and Steph Barker (drums). Though having formed in January 2009, they have already built a cult following among the LGBT community. They borrow their stage moniker from Alfred Hitchcock's film adaptation of the novel, ""Rebecca"". In August 2009, the band released their debut EP, ""What Did I Do"". The idea of Mrs Danvers was created by Ann Driscoll after enrolling in a Hitchcock film course at the University of Missouri. Realizing she would rather pursue"
"and the fact Maxim knew about her affairs. In the end, having failed to break up the marriage, Mrs. Danvers disappears and soon after, Manderley is set on fire. In the book's final scene, Maxim and Mrs. de Winter are driving back from London and see their beloved home in flames. In the novel, Mrs. Danvers' fate is unknown; early in the novel, the narrator, looking back on the events of the story, writes, ""Mrs. Danvers. I wonder what she is doing now."" Mrs. Danvers was first, and most famously, portrayed by Judith Anderson in Alfred Hitchcock's film adaptation released"
"in 1940. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, but lost to Jane Darwell for ""The Grapes of Wrath"". Mrs. Danvers would later be played by several actresses for television adaptations, such as Dorothy Black in 1947, Nina Foch in 1962, Anna Massey in 1979, Diana Rigg in 1997, and by Mariangela Melato in an Italian language adaptation. In the book, Mrs. Danvers is given a back story. In contrast, the Hitchcock and all subsequent film adaptations never mention her past. Furthermore, the book depicts her as having a ""skull's face"" with high cheekbones and sunken"
"the deranged Mrs. Danvers. The second Mrs. de Winter and the staff escape the blaze, but Danvers is killed when a ceiling collapses on her. Finally, a silk nightdress case on Rebecca's bed, with a beautifully embroidered ""R""—Rebecca's proud emblem of ownership—is consumed by flames. Hitchcock's cameo appearance, a signature feature of his films, takes place near the end; he is seen walking, back turned to the audience, outside a phone box just after Jack Favell completes a call. At Selznick's insistence, the film faithfully adapts the plot of du Maurier's novel ""Rebecca"". However, at least one plot detail was"
"novel. However, the Hollywood Production Code required that if Max had murdered his wife, he would have to be punished for his crime. Therefore, the key turning point of the novel – the revelation that Max, in fact, murdered Rebecca – was altered so that it seemed as if Rebecca's death was accidental. At the end of the film version, Mrs Danvers perishes in the fire, which she had started. The film quickly became a classic and, at the time, was a major technical achievement in film-making. The 1964 Bollywood Hindi movie ""Kohra"" and 2008 movie Anamika were inspired by"
"a costume party, as he had done with Rebecca. She wants to plan her own costume, but Mrs. Danvers suggests she copy the beautiful outfit in the portrait of Lady Caroline de Winter, an ancestor of Maxim. At the party, when the costume is revealed, Maxim is appalled; Rebecca wore the same outfit at the ball a year ago, shortly before her death. Mrs. de Winter confronts Danvers, who tells her she can never take Rebecca's place, and almost manages to convince her to jump to her death. An airborne flare reveals that a ship has hit the rocks. Mrs."
"spaceship the ""Starjammer"". A Captain Marvel prose novel by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale was announced at New York Comic-Con 2015. Carol Danvers appears in the """" stage show, as Captain Marvel. Carol Danvers Carol Susan Jane Danvers is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Roy Thomas and artist Gene Colan, Danvers first appeared as an officer in the United States Air Force and a colleague of the Kree superhero Mar-Vell in ""Marvel Super-Heroes"" #13 (March 1968). Danvers later became the first incarnation of Ms. Marvel in ""Ms. Marvel"" #1 (cover-dated"
"of both the working process during the planning of ""Mary Poppins"" and also that of Travers's early life, drawing parallels with ""Mary Poppins"" and that of the author's childhood. The movie stars Emma Thompson as and Tom Hanks as Walt Disney. Though Travers had numerous fleeting relationships with men throughout her life, she lived for more than a decade with Madge Burnand, daughter of Sir Francis Burnand, a playwright and the former editor of ""Punch"". They shared a London flat from 1927 to 1934, then moved to Pound Cottage near Mayfield, East Sussex, where Travers published the first of the"
"and reshooting were called for after a rough cut was previewed on December 26, 1939. Although Selznick insisted that the film be faithful to the novel, Hitchcock did make some other changes, though not as many as he had made in a previously rejected screenplay, in which he altered virtually the entire story. In the novel, Mrs. Danvers is something of a jealous mother figure, and her past is mentioned in the book. But in the film, Mrs. Danvers is a much younger character (Judith Anderson would have been about 42 at the time of shooting), and her past is"
"Award for Best Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress—Motion Picture Drama. The character Queen Elinor appears in William Shakespeare's ""King John"", with other members of the family. On television, she has been portrayed in this play by Una Venning in the ""BBC Sunday Night Theatre"" version (1952) and by Mary Morris in the BBC Shakespeare version (1984). Eleanor is the subject of ""A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver"", a children's novel by E.L. Konigsburg. Historical fiction author Elizabeth Chadwick wrote a three-volume"
"The housekeeper Mrs. Danvers (Judith Anderson) is domineering and cold, and is obsessed with the beauty, intelligence and sophistication of Maxim's dead wife Rebecca, the first Mrs. de Winter, preserving her former bedroom, the master suite, as a shrine. Although dead, Rebecca's presence is pervasive: Several things throughout the house—stationery, handkerchiefs, bed linens, even the master bedroom door—bear her ornate ""R"" or ""R de W"" monogram. As her closest confidante, Mrs. Danvers regularly comments on Rebecca's exceptional grace and style. When asked what Rebecca was like, Frank Crawley (Reginald Denny), Maxim's best friend and manager of the estate, absent-mindedly tells"
"the late 1970s before becoming associated with the superhero teams the Avengers and the X-Men. The character has also been known as Binary, Warbird and Captain Marvel at various points in her history. She has been labeled ""Marvel's biggest female hero"", and ""quite possibly Marvel's mightiest Avenger"". In 2012, Danvers' incarnation of Ms Marvel was the highest ranked female character (at #11) on IGN's list of the ""Top 50 Avengers."" Danvers has been featured in other Marvel licensed products including video games, animated television series, and merchandise such as trading cards. On March 8, 2019, Marvel Studios is scheduled to"
"Jane Goldman, starring Lily James and Armie Hammer. ""Rebecca"" has been adapted for television both by the BBC and by Carlton Television. The 1979 BBC version starred Jeremy Brett as Maxim, Joanna David as the second Mrs de Winter, and Anna Massey as Mrs Danvers. It was broadcast in the United States on PBS as part of its ""Mystery!"" series. The 1997 Carlton production starred Emilia Fox, Joanna David's daughter, in the same role played by her mother in 1979; Charles Dance as de Winter, and Dame Diana Rigg as Mrs Danvers. It was broadcast in the United States by"
"his deceased wife, Rebecca. The supernatural reaction of the portrait doesn't convince him and so he places her in a cupboard. The 1970 Parallel Time storyline of the Gothic soap opera ""Dark Shadows"" was heavily inspired by ""Rebecca"" including the costume ball scene. Also the second ""Dark Shadows"" motion picture, ""Night of Dark Shadows"" took inspiration from the novel including a mention by Kate Jackson's character who hopes the housekeeper is not like Mrs. Danvers The fifth episode of the second series of ""That Mitchell and Webb Look"" contains an extended sketch parodying the 1940 film, in which Rebecca is"
"Audie Award for ""Solo Female Narration"" for her audiobook narration. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 75 on the BBC's survey The Big Read. A film adaptation of the novel was released in 2001. The film stars Renée Zellweger (in an Academy Award nominated role) as the eponymous heroine, Hugh Grant as Daniel Cleaver, and Colin Firth as Mark Darcy. It was directed by Sharon Maguire (Helen Fielding's friend who was the inspiration for Shazzer) and the screenplay was written by Fielding, Andrew Davies, and Richard Curtis. A musical version is currently in the works. The show is"
"Carol Danvers Carol Susan Jane Danvers is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Roy Thomas and artist Gene Colan, Danvers first appeared as an officer in the United States Air Force and a colleague of the Kree superhero Mar-Vell in ""Marvel Super-Heroes"" #13 (March 1968). Danvers later became the first incarnation of Ms. Marvel in ""Ms. Marvel"" #1 (cover-dated January 1977) after her DNA was fused with Mar-Vell's during an explosion, giving her superhuman powers. Debuting in the Silver Age of comics, the character was featured in a self-titled series in"
"five books recount previously unrecorded adventures from her original three visits. As P. L. Travers explains in her introduction to ""Mary Poppins in the Park"", ""She cannot forever arrive and depart."" The books were adapted by Walt Disney into a musical film titled ""Mary Poppins"" (1964), starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke. The film ""Saving Mr. Banks"" (2013) depicted the making of the 1964 film. In 2004, Disney Theatrical in collaboration with Cameron Mackintosh (who had previously acquired the stage rights from Travers) produced a stage musical also called ""Mary Poppins"" in London's West End theatre. The stage musical"
"film but shot a spoof interview with Firth as himself and Renée Zellweger staying in-character as Bridget Jones after a day's wrap. The scene is available as a deleted scene on DVD. The first novel was turned into a movie of the same name in 2001, directed by Sharon Maguire. The movie starred Renée Zellweger as Bridget, Hugh Grant as Daniel Cleaver and Colin Firth as Mark Darcy. Before the film was released, a considerable amount of controversy surrounded the casting of the American Zellweger as what some saw as a quintessentially British heroine: however, her performance is widely considered"
"characters such as storm chaser Bob Iverson (David Ferry) and a more prominent role of Danny's grandmother; as well as the absence of four of Arthur's younger siblings and the Hatch family cat, Minerva), with more of a focus on Danny's heroic efforts to try and reunite with his family. The movie also stars Amos Crawley as Arthur Darlington, Laura Bertram as Stacey Darlington and Alex and Thomas Lastewka as Ryan Hatch. Night of the Twisters Night of the Twisters is a young adult realistic fiction novel by Ivy Ruckman that was released in 1984 by publisher Harper & Row"
"by Valerie Lawson, published by Aurum Press in the United Kingdom. The relationship is also the subject of the 2013 Disney film ""Saving Mr. Banks"", starring Emma Thompson as Travers and Tom Hanks as Walt Disney. The process of planning the film and composing the songs took about two years. Songs in the film are by the Sherman Brothers. Mary Poppins is played by British actress Julie Andrews. Disney cast Dick Van Dyke in the key supporting role of Bert, while Banks children were played by Karen Dotrice and Matthew Garber. George and Winifred Banks were played by David Tomlinson"
"George Coulouris (Captain Searle), Frank Readick (the Idiot), Alfred Shirley (Frith), Eustace Wyatt (Coroner) and Agnes Moorehead (Mrs Van Hopper). Bernard Herrmann composed and conducted the score, which later formed the basis of his score for the 1943 film, ""Jane Eyre"". ""Rebecca"" has been adapted several times. The best known of these is the Academy Award winning 1940 Alfred Hitchcock film version ""Rebecca"", the first film Hitchcock made under his contract with David O. Selznick. The film, which starred Sir Laurence Olivier as Max, Joan Fontaine as the heroine, and Dame Judith Anderson as Mrs Danvers, was based on the"
"of the Travers–Disney correspondence is part of the Travers collection of papers in the Mitchell Library of New South Wales, Australia. The relationship between Travers and Disney is detailed in ""Mary Poppins She Wrote"", a biography of Travers, by Valerie Lawson. The biography is the basis for two documentaries on Travers, ""The Real Mary Poppins"", and Lisa Matthews' ""The Shadow of Mary Poppins"". Their relationship during the development of the film was also dramatized in the 2013 film ""Saving Mr. Banks"". Julie Andrews, who was making her feature film acting debut after a successful stage career, got the prime role"
"mistaken for Jenny Cameron, the supposed lover of Bonnie Prince Charlie. Goodnatured characters are often moderately loyalist and Anglican, or even supporters of the House of Hanover, while ill-natured characters (Mrs Western) or mistaken ones (Partridge) can be Jacobites, or (like Squire Western) anti-Hanoverian. 1963 saw the release of ""Tom Jones"", a film written by John Osborne, directed by Tony Richardson and starring Albert Finney as Tom. It inspired the 1976 film ""The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones"". The book has also been the basis of three operas: by François-André Philidor in 1765 (see Philidor's opera); by Edward German in"
"Danvers as she becomes Captain Marvel after the Earth is caught in the center of a galactic conflict between two alien worlds. Development of the film began as early as May 2013, and was officially announced in October 2014, making it Marvel Studios' first female-led superhero film. Nicole Perlman and Meg LeFauve were hired as a writing team the following April after submitting separate takes on the character. The story borrows elements from Roy Thomas's 1971 ""Kree–Skrull War"" comic book storyline. Larson was announced as Danvers at the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con, with Boden and Fleck brought on board to"
"the rights to musicalize the work, which had been denied to other librettists. Attending a performance of Kunze's long-running 1992 musical ""Elisabeth"" in Vienna persuaded du Maurier's son that the novel would be in good hands with Kunze and his musical partner Sylvester Levay. Writing the libretto took Kunze nearly two years, and Levay took another two years to compose the music. Workshops of the new musical were held in London, but did not lead to a West End production, although a 2003 demo recording in English was made, with Pia Douwes as Mrs. Danvers, Maike Boerdam as ""I"" and"
"70th birthday, and is written as a ""flashback"" by the old author. In 1946 the novel was adapted into a film ""Caravan"" by Gainsborough Pictures as part of the Gainsborough melodramas sequence of films. The film was directed by Arthur Crabtree and starred Stewart Granger, Jean Kent, Anne Crawford and Dennis Price. Caravan (novel) Caravan is a melodramatic novel by the British writer Lady Eleanor Smith first published in 1942. A young Englishman James Darrell goes on the road living with the Romany people in England while trying to make enough money as a writer to marry his sweetheart Oriana."
"PBS as part of its ""Masterpiece Theatre"" series. The latter adaptation is noteworthy for featuring an appearance by Rebecca, played by Lucy Cohu. It also shows Maxim saving Mrs Danvers from the fire; and finishes with an epilogue showing Maxim and the second Mrs de Winter relaxing abroad, as she explains what she and Maxim do with their days now they are unlikely ever to return to Manderley. Episode five, series two of the British sketch comedy ""That Mitchell and Webb Look"" features a parody of the 1940 film-adaptation of the novel, presented as an early cut of the same."
"Kit Connor as Jack, Jennifer Saunders as Miss Dandy with Samantha Spiro and Walliams as Jack's parents, Patricia and Barry. The film aired on New Year's Day 2018 to an overnights audience of around 5 million viewers. Grandpa's Great Escape Grandpa's Great Escape is a children's book written by David Walliams and illustrated by Tony Ross. It was released by HarperCollins on 24 September 2015. The story follows a boy called Jack trying to rescue his Grandpa who suffers from Alzheimer's disease from a care home, Twilight Towers run by an evil matron, Miss Swine. The book was adapted for"
"Margaret Lockwood, Phyllis Calvert and Stewart Granger. The film was a major commercial and critical success and was the first of the series of Gainsborough melodramas which dominated the British box office during the later years of the war during the immediate post war years. Another Smith novel ""Caravan"" was turned into a 1946 film ""Caravan"". The Man in Grey (novel) The Man in Grey was a novel by the British writer Lady Eleanor Smith first published in 1941. It was a melodrama set in Regency Britain. A young woman unhappily married to a cold aristocrat falls in love with"
"and did not fuse her human DNA with Mar-Vell's Kree DNA as originally written. Danvers is scheduled to star in the tenth volume of ""Captain Marvel"" written by Thompson and drawn by Carmen Carnero. The story sees Danvers return to New York City after a stint in space and reconnect with allies and friends like Iron Man and Spider-Woman, as well as explore new relationships. Thompson teased, ""There will definitely be some romance and it may be someone we all know and have seen before in Marvel Comics."" With ""Ms. Marvel"" #1 in 1977, writer Gerry Conway played a significant"
"as Dorry, Bryn McAuley as Joanna, and Dean Stockwell as ""Tramp"". A 1972 UK movie adaptation, ""Katy"", starred Clare Walker, and the 1962 eight-part TV series made in the UK, also called ""Katy"", featured rising star Susan Hampshire in the title role. In 2015, author Jacqueline Wilson wrote her novel ""Katy"", which is a modern retelling of ""What Katy Did"". The August 2016 edition of Storytime featured a new illustrated adaptation with illustrations by Italian artist Marco Guadalupi. ""What Katy Did"" was followed by four sequels: ""What Katy Did at School"" in which Katy and Clover attend the fictional Hillsover"
"characters are lively as flies. After this, I shan't be a bit surprised to see A.C. wearing a mini-skirt."" Robert Barnard: ""One of Christie's more embarrassing attempts to haul herself abreast of the swinging 'sixties. Mrs Oliver plays a large part, detection a small one."" The novel reintroduces Stillingfleet, a character from the short story ""The Dream"" and first published in book form in the UK in ""The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding"" in 1960, and Mr Goby, whose previous appearance had been in ""After the Funeral"" in 1953. A television adaptation by Peter Flannery for the series ""Agatha Christie's"
"Her first was an adaptation of her novel ""Rebecca"", which opened at the Queen's Theatre in London on 5 March 1940 in a production by George Devine, starring Celia Johnson and Owen Nares as the De Winters and Margaret Rutherford as Mrs Danvers. After 181 performances, the production transferred to the Strand Theatre, with Jill Furse taking over as the second Mrs De Winter and Mary Merrall as Mrs Danvers, with a further run of 176 performances. In 1943 she wrote the autobiographically inspired drama ""The Years Between"" about the unexpected return of a senior officer, thought killed in action,"