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Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, family history, classic film, and miscellaneous history.
Ar Fawrth 4, 1922, F.W. Murnau Nosferatu rhyddhau (1922). Roedd Nosferatu Addasiad Murnau o'r nofel Dracula Bram Stoker gan. Murnau esgeuluso i brynu'r hawliau i ffilmio'r stori o ystâd Stoker, sydd bron wedi arwain at y ffilm hon yn cael ei golli i ffilmio gwylwyr. Stoker’s widow successfully sued Murnau and the German film company that produced the motion picture. Mae'r
George Collins, the second bank robber involved in the Union, MO bank robbery on December 26, 1902, ceisio i ddianc rhag y St. Louis Jail ym mis Ionawr 1904. Ar wahân i weithio gyda'r carcharorion eraill ar wneud twll yn y wal y carchar, bu hefyd yn trefnu gyda gard carchar i gael llifiau smyglo iddo. Collins intended to use
Arthur Wontner is arguably the best film portrayer of Sherlock Holmes. His fifth and final outing as Holmes in Murder at the Baskervilles (1937). The film was released in the United Kingdom in 1937 but was not released in America until January 15, 1941. Wontner was excellent as usual but Murder at the Baskervilles is the weakest offering in the
Roeddwn i eisiau ysgrifennu am un o fy hoff ffilmiau, Mae'r Scarlet Pimpernel (1935). It is an adaptation of the novel by the same name, a ysgrifennwyd gan y Farwnes Orczy. The film (cyswllt Affiliate) concerns an English peer, who risks his life by saving French aristocrats from the guillotine. The story is complicated by the fact the peer is married to
On September 5, 1984, I walked through the doors of Grover Cleveland High School for the first time. I attended St. Louis’ most popular magnet school at the time, Kennard NJROTC Academy. St. Louis School Board decided to move the program to “The Castle on Grand”. Cleveland High School would graduate many St. Louis children on St. Louis’ South
Ar Ionawr 10, 1927, Universum Film (UFA) released Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927). The German film company produced a science fiction class, which still holds up today. On the Internet Movie Database website (IMDb), users rate it 8.3 out of 10 stars. It is #104 on the Top 250. Mewn thema mae cymdeithas wedi ymgodymu â hi ers dechrau'r
Julius “Uncle Jules” Johannpeter was born in St. Charles, MO on March 5, 1875 to recent German immigrants Frederick William Johannpeter and Johanna Johannpeter nee Grieve. “Uncle Jules” was seven years older than his sister Caroline Leah “Lee” Johannpeter, my great grandmother. When Lee’s husband William Ellis died in 1917, Lee had the challenge of raising her two-year-old son Gilbert as a single
On September 27, 1941, Warner Brothers Film Corporation released Sergeant York (1941). The film (cyswllt Affiliate) tells the story of Sergeant Alvin C. York, a reluctant World War I hero from the small town of Pall Mall, Tennessee. Western film veteran Gary Cooper stars as Sergeant York. The film begins with the contrast of a Sunday church service and the
Before he became St. Louis Chief of Detectives in 1890, William Desmond plied his trade as a Detective with the St. Adran Heddlu Metropolitan Louis. During February 1890, Detective Desmond’s persistent efforts to locate two confidence men paid off with the arrest of both men. “Kinch” Keegan and “Thatch” Grady were brother-in-laws and accomplices in several confidence games. Ar Ionawr
During the Gilded Age and for several decades after, St. Louis had the distinction of being the largest city west of the Mississippi River. Pickpockets and thieves rode the rails to ply their illicit trade in the bustling metropolis. On September 21, 1901, hotel employees overpowered a sneak thief, who attempted to burglarize a room in the plush Southern Hotel.