(1828–1905) Jules-Gabriel Verne Works: • Abandoned (English) • All Around the Moon (English) • Around the World in Eighty Days (English) • Autour de la lune (French) • In Search of the Castaways (English) • Les enfants du capitaine Grant (French)…
(1934–2022) Filmography as Actress: Spartacus 1960 Director: Stanley Kubrick Starring: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier The Parent Trap 1961 Director: David Swift Starring: Hayley Mills, Maureen O’Hara The Parent Trap 1998 Director: Nancy Meyers Starring: Dennis Quaid, Natasha Richardson …
(1917–2012) Filmography as Actor: War and Peace 1956 Director: King Vidor Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda Spartacus 1960 Director: Stanley Kubrick Starring: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier El Cid 1961 Director: Anthony Mann Starring: Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren Born September 11 1917…
(1875–1955) Paul Thomas Mann Works: • Der Tod in Venedig (German) Filmography as Writer: Morte a Venezia 1971 Director: Luchino Visconti Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Silvana Mangano Born June 6 1875 Lübeck (Germany) Died August 12 1955 Zürich (Switzerland) Cause of…
(1956–2016) Carrie Frances Fisher Filmography as Actress: Appointment with Death 1988 Director: Michael Winner Starring: Peter Ustinov, Lauren Bacall When Harry Met Sally… 1989 Director: Rob Reiner Starring: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan Born October 21 1956 Beverly…
(1811–1872) Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier “Le bon Théo” Works: • Émaux et camées (1852) ◊ Enamels and Cameos (English) • La Comédie de la mort (1838) • Le Capitaine Fracasse (1863) ◊ Captain Fracasse (English) • Mademoiselle de Maupin (1835) • Ménagerie intime (1869) ◊ My Private Menagerie (English)…
(1821–1889) Jules François Félix Husson Works: • Les chats (1869) • Richard Wagner (1860) Champfleury in Art: Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) L’Atelier du peintre 1854–1855 Musée d’Orsay, Paris Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Hommage à Delacroix 1864 Musée d’Orsay, Paris Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Musique…
(1854–1900) Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde Works: • A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane (1894) • A House of Pomegranates (1891) • A Woman of No Importance (1893) • An Ideal Husband (1895) • De profundis (1897) • Essays and Lectures • For Love of the King,…
(1946) Filmography as Actor: Romeo and Juliet 1968 Director: Franco Zeffirelli Starring: Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey L’histoire d’Adèle H 1975 Director: François Truffaut Starring: Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson Born May 2 1946 London (England) Occupation Actor Film director Occupation Novelist Screenwriter…
(1835–1910) Samuel Langhorne Clemens Works: • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889) • A Horse’s Tale (1907) • A Tramp Abroad (1880) • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) • Complete Letters (1853-1910) • Life on the Mississippi (1883) • Speeches (English) • The Adventures of Tom…