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Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, family history, classic film, and miscellaneous history.
Em março 4, 1922, F.W. Murnau lançado Nosferatu (1922). Nosferatu foi a adaptação de Murnau do romance Drácula de Bram Stoker. Murnau esqueceu de comprar os direitos para filmar a história da propriedade de Stoker, que quase levou a este filme que está sendo perdido para filmar os espectadores. Stoker’s widow successfully sued Murnau and the German film company that produced the motion picture. O
George Collins, o segundo assaltante de bancos envolvidos na União, Assalto a banco MO em dezembro 26, 1902, tentou fugir do St. Louis Jail em janeiro 1904. Além de trabalhar com os outros prisioneiros em fazer um buraco na parede da prisão, ele também arranjou com um guarda da prisão de ter serras contrabandeados para ele. Collins intended to use
Arthur Wontner é indiscutivelmente o melhor retratista filme de Sherlock Holmes. Sua excursão quinto e último como Holmes em Murder at the Baskervilles (1937). O filme foi lançado no Reino Unido em 1937 mas não foi lançado na América até janeiro 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. O filme (link de afiliado) diz respeito a um colega inglês, who risks his life by saving French aristocrats from the guillotine. The story is complicated by the fact the peer is married to
Em 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
Em janeiro 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 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 “Sotavento” Johannpeter, my great grandmother. When Lee’s husband William Ellis died in 1917, Lee teve o desafio de criar seu filho Gilbert, de dois anos, como solteiro
Em setembro de 27, 1941, Warner Brothers Film Corporation released Sergeant York (1941). O filme (link 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 Polícia 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. Em janeiro 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. Em setembro de 21, 1901, hotel employees overpowered a sneak thief, who attempted to burglarize a room in the plush Southern Hotel.