Bardagaíþróttasagnfræðingur og bardagalistamaður
Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, family history, classic film, and miscellaneous history.
Mars 4, 1922, F.W. Murnau út Nosferatu (1922). Nosferatu var aðlögun Murnau er af Dracula skáldsögu eftir Bram Stoker. Murnau vanrækt að kaupa réttindi til að filma söguna úr búi Stoker er, sem næstum leiddi til þessa kvikmynd að vera glataður að filma áhorfendur. Ekkja Stoker er tekist lögsótt Murnau og þýska kvikmynd fyrirtæki sem framleiddi fyrir hreyfingu mynd. The
George Collins, the second bank robber involved in the Union, MO bank robbery on December 26, 1902, reynt að flýja st. Louis fangelsi í janúar 1904. Fyrir utan að vinna með öðrum föngum að gera gat í vegg fangelsisins, skipaði hann einnig með fangelsi vörður til að hafa sagir smyglað honum. 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
Mig langaði að skrifa um einn af uppáhalds bíó minn, The Scarlet Pimpernel (1935). It is an adaptation of the novel by the same name, skrifað af Baroness Orczy. Myndin (tengja hlekkur) varðar enskan jafnaldra, who risks his life by saving French aristocrats from the guillotine. Sagan er flókin vegna þess að jafnaldri er giftur
Á 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
Janúar 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. 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 varð fyrir þeirri áskorun að ala upp tveggja ára son sinn Gilbert sem einhleyp
Á September 27, 1941, Warner Brothers Film Corporation released Sergeant York (1941). Myndin (tengja hlekkur) segir sögu liðþjálfa 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. Myndin byrjar á andstæðu sunnudagskirkju og guðsþjónustu
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. Janúar
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. Á September 21, 1901, hotel employees overpowered a sneak thief, who attempted to burglarize a room in the plush Southern Hotel.