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Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, family history, phim kinh điển, and miscellaneous history.
Vào ngày 4, 1922, F.W. Murnau phát hành Nosferatu (1922). Nosferatu là thích ứng Murnau của cuốn tiểu thuyết Dracula của Bram Stoker. Murnau bị bỏ quên để mua quyền làm phim về câu chuyện từ bất động Stoker, mà gần như dẫn đến bộ phim này bị mất để quay phim người xem. Stoker’s widow successfully sued Murnau and the German film company that produced the motion picture. Các
George Collins, tên cướp ngân hàng thứ hai tham gia vào Liên minh, MO vụ cướp ngân hàng vào ngày 26, 1902, cố gắng để thoát khỏi St. Louis tù vào tháng Giêng 1904. Bên cạnh làm việc với các tù nhân khác về làm một cái lỗ trên bức tường của nhà tù, 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
Tôi muốn viết về một trong những bộ phim yêu thích của tôi, Scarlet loại cây mọc chung với lúa mì (1935). It is an adaptation of the novel by the same name, được viết bởi Baroness Orczy. The film (liên kết liên kết) 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
Ngày 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
On January 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 “Bác Jules” Johannpeter was born in St. Charles, MO on March 5, 1875 to recent German immigrants Frederick William Johannpeter and Johanna Johannpeter nee Grieve. “Bác 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 had the challenge of raising her two-year-old son Gilbert as a single
Ngày 27, 1941, Warner Brothers Film Corporation released Sergeant York (1941). The film (liên kết liên kết) 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. Sở Cảnh sát Metropolitan Louis. 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. On January
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. Ngày 21, 1901, hotel employees overpowered a sneak thief, who attempted to burglarize a room in the plush Southern Hotel.