Mwanahistoria wa Michezo ya Vita na Msanii wa Vita
Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, family history, classic film, and miscellaneous history.
On Machi 4, 1922, F.W. Murnau iliyotolewa Nosferatu (1922). Nosferatu mara kukabiliana na hali Murnau ya Dracula riwaya na Bram Stoker. Murnau usahau kununua haki ya filamu hadithi kutoka mali Stoker ya, ambayo karibu kuongozwa na filamu hii kupotea kwa filamu watazamaji. Mjane Stoker ya mafanikio sued Murnau na Ujerumani kampuni ya filamu zinazozalishwa mwendo picha. The
George Collins, pili Benki ya `anyi kushiriki katika Umoja wa, MO benki wizi Desemba 26, 1902, walijaribu kutoroka St. Louis Jela Januari 1904. Licha ya kufanya kazi na wafungwa wengine juu ya maamuzi ya shimo katika ukuta wa jela, 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
Nilitaka kuandika kuhusu moja ya sinema favorite, Scarlet Pimpernel (1935). It is an adaptation of the novel by the same name, written by Baroness Orczy. filamu (affiliate kiungo) concerns an English peer, ambao hatari maisha yake kwa kuokoa aristocrats Kifaransa kutoka guillotine. The story is complicated by the fact the peer is married to
On 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. 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
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 nyota. 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 alikuwa na changamoto ya kumlea mwanawe Gilbert mwenye umri wa miaka miwili akiwa mseja
On September 27, 1941, Warner Brothers Film Corporation released Sergeant York (1941). filamu (affiliate kiungo) inasimulia hadithi ya Sajenti 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. Filamu inaanza na tofauti ya ibada ya Jumapili ya kanisa na
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. 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. On September 21, 1901, hotel employees overpowered a sneak thief, who attempted to burglarize a room in the plush Southern Hotel.