Search results for "Melodrama" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Romain Rolland (January 29, 1866 – December 30, 1944) was a French writer and dramatist, best known as the author of the novel series Jean ...26 KB (3,958 words) - 21:37, 16 April 2023
- to all forms of theater, directing and producing melodrama, vaudeville, opera, etc. In order to create an ensemble of actors all working together as ...19 KB (2,723 words) - 17:50, 16 May 2020
- performing in a production of the popular melodrama The Royal Slave she turned to burlesque, the least selective branch of the entertainment ...19 KB (2,934 words) - 00:41, 25 March 2024
- Billy Wilder (June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-born, Jewish-American journalist, screenwriter, film director, and producer whose ...22 KB (3,248 words) - 17:40, 31 October 2023
- After Verdi, the sentimental "realistic" melodrama of verismo ... similar to the older German genre of Melodrama. When he did compose ...38 KB (5,681 words) - 00:49, 18 November 2022
- Dreyer's first film as director was a melodrama entitled The President (1918). Instead of studio actors employed by Nordisk, Dreyer assembled ...19 KB (2,998 words) - 15:20, 27 November 2023
- Although some consider Lang's work to be simple melodrama, he produced a coherent oeuvre that helped to establish the characteristics of ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 07:06, 15 April 2024
- * Berton, Pierre, The Dionne Years: A Thirties Melodrama , Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977 * Berton, Pierre, The Battle of Lake Erie, Toronto: ...22 KB (3,103 words) - 05:19, 24 November 2022
- Criticized for using melodrama and catering to the tastes of the common folk, using a diatonic rather than a chromatic musical idiom, Verdi ...21 KB (3,371 words) - 14:28, 22 May 2024
- and good girl Olivia de Havilland in the film melodrama In This Our Life (1942), and three of his Maltese Falcon stars (Bogart, Mary Astor, and Sydney ...23 KB (3,526 words) - 06:02, 3 August 2022
- not, like Dickens and Hardy, writers of melodrama—either humorous or pessimistic ... is a combination of social comedy and melodrama concerning the adventures ...48 KB (7,374 words) - 07:29, 22 January 2024
- shot in Hollywood, In Old California (1910), a melodrama about California in the 1800s, while it was still part of Mexico. Biograph stayed there for ...22 KB (3,307 words) - 22:38, 4 July 2022
- of drama from political satire into melodrama, and an evolution toward ... their noble subjects to the quickly developing melodrama. ...61 KB (9,767 words) - 03:12, 31 January 2023
- in Nathaniel Hawthorne's atmosphere and melodrama. Later Transcendentalist writers such as Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson still ...25 KB (3,676 words) - 17:16, 20 May 2024
- company to act in them. The Maid of Arran, a melodrama with songs based on William Black's novel A Princess of Thule, proved a modest success. Baum ...23 KB (3,507 words) - 15:58, 26 September 2023
- the Porte Saint-Martin theatre, a popular melodrama theatre. In early 1866 ... she was offered a new role in Fédora, a melodrama written for her by Victorien ...103 KB (16,692 words) - 01:55, 22 March 2023
- returned to the 19th century's emphasis on melodrama and naturalism. [[Image:HenryMoore RecliningFigure 1951.jpg|thumb|Henry Moore was famous ...27 KB (4,032 words) - 17:31, 25 January 2023
- Hammett's was the source for the gangster melodrama City Streets (1931), directed by Rouben Mamoulian and photographed by Lee Garmes, who worked ...24 KB (3,552 words) - 19:47, 26 March 2024
- * De Noma, Elizabeth Ann. Multiple Melodrama: The Making and Remaking of Three Selma Lagerlöf Narratives in the Silent Era and the 1940s. Ann ...31 KB (4,475 words) - 21:12, 27 July 2023
- author Dame Daphne du Maurier. This Gothic melodrama explores the fears of a naïve young bride who enters a great English country home and must grapple ...29 KB (4,441 words) - 08:14, 20 July 2023
