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Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, family history, classic film, and miscellaneous history.
En marzo 4, 1922, F.W. Murnau lanzado Nosferatu (1922). Nosferatu foi a adaptación de Murnau da novela Drácula de Bram Stoker. Murnau esqueceu de mercar os dereitos para filmar a historia da propiedade de Stoker, que case levou a esta película que está a ser perdido para filmes os espectadores. Stoker’s widow successfully sued Murnau and the German film company that produced the motion picture. O
George Collins, o segundo asaltante de bancos implicados na Unión, Asalto a base MO en decembro 26, 1902, tentou fuxir do St. Louis Jail en xaneiro 1904. Ademais de traballar cos outros prisioneiros en facer un buraco na parede da prisión, he also arranged with a prison guard to have saws smuggled to him. 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
I wanted to write about one of my favorite movies, The Scarlet Pimpernel (1935). It is an adaptation of the novel by the same name, written by Baroness Orczy. The film (enlace de afiliado) refírese a un compañeiro inglés, who risks his life by saving French aristocrats from the guillotine. A historia complícase polo feito de que o compañeiro está casado
En setembro de 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. O 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
En xaneiro de 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 fóra de 10 estrelas. It is #104 on the Top 250. Nun tema co que se enfrontou a sociedade desde o comezo do
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 “Sotavento” 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
En setembro de 27, 1941, Warner Brothers Film Corporation released Sergeant York (1941). The film (enlace de afiliado) 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. Louis Departamento de Policía Metropolitana. 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. En xaneiro de
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. En setembro de 21, 1901, hotel employees overpowered a sneak thief, who attempted to burglarize a room in the plush Southern Hotel.