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Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, family history, classic film, and miscellaneous history.
Sou Mas 4, 1922, F.W. Murnau lage Nosferatu (1922). Nosferatu te adaptasyon Murnau a nan roman an pa Dracula Bram charjeur. Murnau neglije yo achte dwa yo ki nan fim istwa a nan byen Stoker a, ki prèske mennen nan sa a fim te pèdi nan fim telespektatè. Stoker’s widow successfully sued Murnau and the German film company that produced the motion picture. Nan
George Collins, dezyèm vòlè a bank ki patisipe nan Inyon an, MO vole labank sou Desanm 26, 1902, eseye chape anba St la. Louis Prizon nan mwa janvye 1904. Anplis ap travay ak lòt prizonye yo sou fè yon twou nan miray la nan prizon an, 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
Mwen te vle ekri sou youn nan sinema pi renmen m ', Wouj mouron a (1935). It is an adaptation of the novel by the same name, ekri pa Baroness Orczy. The film (lyen afilye) 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
Sou Sèptanm 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 a. 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
Nan mwa janvye 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 (Endb), users rate it 8.3 out of 10 zetwal. It is #104 on the Top 250. In a theme society has wrestled with since the beginning of the
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
Sou Sèptanm 27, 1941, Warner Brothers Film Corporation released Sergeant York (1941). The film (lyen afilye) 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 Metropolitan Police Department. 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. Nan mwa janvye
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. Sou Sèptanm 21, 1901, hotel employees overpowered a sneak thief, who attempted to burglarize a room in the plush Southern Hotel.