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Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, family history, classic film, and miscellaneous history.
Pada bulan Maret 4, 1922, F.W. Murnau dirilis Nosferatu (1922). Nosferatu adalah adaptasi Murnau dari novel Dracula oleh Bram Stoker. Murnau diabaikan untuk membeli hak untuk memfilmkan cerita dari real Stoker, yang hampir menyebabkan film ini hilang untuk film pemirsa. Stoker’s widow successfully sued Murnau and the German film company that produced the motion picture. Itu
George Collins, the second bank robber involved in the Union, MO bank robbery on December 26, 1902, mencoba untuk melarikan diri dari St. Louis Jail pada bulan Januari 1904. Selain bekerja sama dengan para tahanan lain untuk membuat lubang di dinding penjara, ia juga diatur dengan penjaga penjara untuk memiliki gergaji diselundupkan kepadanya. 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
Aku ingin menulis tentang salah satu film favorit saya, The Scarlet Pimpernel (1935). It is an adaptation of the novel by the same name, ditulis oleh Baroness Orczy. Film (affiliate link) menyangkut rekan Inggris, who risks his life by saving French aristocrats from the guillotine. Ceritanya menjadi rumit karena teman sebayanya sudah menikah
Pada 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. The 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
Pada Januari 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 bintang. It is #104 on the Top 250. Dalam sebuah tema yang telah diperjuangkan masyarakat sejak awal
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
Pada September 27, 1941, Warner Brothers Film Corporation released Sergeant York (1941). Film (affiliate link) 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. Pada Januari
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. Pada September 21, 1901, hotel employees overpowered a sneak thief, who attempted to burglarize a room in the plush Southern Hotel.