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Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, family history, film clasic, and miscellaneous history.
La martie 4, 1922, F.W. Murnau released Nosferatu (1922). Nosferatu was Murnau’s adaptation of the Dracula novel by Bram Stoker. Murnau neglijat să cumpere drepturile pentru a filma povestea din averea lui Stoker, care aproape a dus la acest film a fost pierdut de film telespectatori. Văduva lui Stoker dat in judecata cu succes Murnau și compania germană de film care a produs film. The
George Collins, de-al doilea jefuitor de banci implicate în Uniune, MO jaf decembrie 26, 1902, a încercat să scape de St. Louis închisoare în ianuarie 1904. Pe lângă lucrul cu ceilalți deținuți pentru a face o gaură în perete de închisoare, 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
Am vrut să scriu despre unul dintre filmele mele preferate, Scarlet Pimpernel (1935). It is an adaptation of the novel by the same name, scris de Baroness Orczy. Filmul (affiliate link) 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
Septembrie 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. 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
Ianuarie 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 stele. 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 “Sub vânt” Johannpeter, my great grandmother. When Lee’s husband William Ellis died in 1917, Lee a avut provocarea de a-și crește fiul de doi ani, Gilbert, ca necăsătorit
Septembrie 27, 1941, Warner Brothers Film Corporation released Sergeant York (1941). Filmul (affiliate link) spune povestea sergentului 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. Filmul începe cu contrastul dintre slujba bisericii de duminică și
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. Ianuarie
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. Septembrie 21, 1901, hotel employees overpowered a sneak thief, who attempted to burglarize a room in the plush Southern Hotel.