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Posts about the history of St. Louis, Misuri, family history, classic film, and miscellaneous history.
Në mars 4, 1922, F.W. Murnau released Nosferatu (1922). Nosferatu was Murnau’s adaptation of the Dracula novel by Bram Stoker. Murnau lënë pas dore për të blerë të drejtat për të filmuar ngjarjen nga e pasurive të Stoker, e cila pothuajse çoi në këtë film duke u humbur të filmit shikuesit. E veja Stoker paditur me sukses Murnau dhe kompania gjermane e filmit që prodhohen në film. The
George Collins, hajdut banka e dytë të përfshirë në Bashkimin, MO vjedhje banke ne Dhjetor 26, 1902, u përpoq për t'i shpëtuar rr. Louis burg në janar 1904. Përveç punës me të burgosurit e tjerë për të bërë një vrimë në murin e burg, he also arranged with a prison guard to have saws smuggled to him. Collins intended to use
Arthur Wontner është ndoshta filmi më i mirë i portrayer Sherlock Holmes. Shëtitje e tij të pestë dhe të fundit si Holmes në Vrasje në Baskervilles (1937). Filmi u lirua në Mbretërinë e Bashkuar në 1937 por nuk u lirua në Amerikë deri janar 15, 1941. Wontner was excellent as usual but Murder at the Baskervilles is the weakest offering in the
Unë të kërkuar për të shkruar në lidhje me një nga filmat e mi të preferuar, Scarlet Pimpernel (1935). It is an adaptation of the novel by the same name, shkruar nga baronesha Orczy. The film (lidhje Filialin) 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
Në shtator 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
Ne Janar 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. Në një temë me të cilën shoqëria ka luftuar që nga fillimi i
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 “I mbrojtur nga era” Johannpeter, my great grandmother. When Lee’s husband William Ellis died in 1917, Lee kishte sfidën për të rritur djalin e saj dy-vjeçar Gilbert si beqar
Në shtator 27, 1941, Warner Brothers Film Corporation released Sergeant York (1941). The film (lidhje Filialin) 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. Ne Janar
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. Në shtator 21, 1901, hotel employees overpowered a sneak thief, who attempted to burglarize a room in the plush Southern Hotel.