Tag: NYC

Richard Rodgers

(1902–1979) Richard Charles Rodgers Works: • Rodgers & Hammerstein • Rodgers & Hart (1940) Filmography as Composer: The Sound of Music 1965 Director: Robert Wise Starring: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer   Born June 28 1902 New York, NY (USA) Died December 30 1979…

Russel Crouse

(1893–1966) Russel McKinley Crouse Filmography as Librettist: The Sound of Music 1965 Director: Robert Wise Starring: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer   Born February 20 1893 Findlay, OH (USA) Died April 3 1966 New York, NY (USA) Occupation Librettist Playwright Occupation Screenwriter Writer Awards…

Howard Lindsay

(1889–1968) Herman Nelke Filmography as Librettist: The Sound of Music 1965 Director: Robert Wise Starring: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer   Born March 29 1889 Waterford, NY (USA) Died February 11 1968 New York, NY (USA) Occupation Actor Librettist Occupation Playwright Producer Occupation Screenwriter…

Ernest Lehman

(1915–2005) Ernest Paul Lehman Filmography as Screenwriter: Sabrina 1954 Director: Billy Wilder Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn     The Sound of Music 1965 Director: Robert Wise Starring: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer     Family Plot 1976 Director: Alfred Hitchcock…

Alan Jay Lerner

(1918–1986) Filmography as Screenwriter: My Fair Lady 1964 Director: George Cukor Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison   Born August 31 1918 New York, NY (USA) Died June 14 1986 New York, NY (USA) Cause of death Cancer (lung) Occupation Composer Librettist Occupation Lyricist…

Rex Harrison

(1908–1990) Sir Reginald Carey “Rex” Harrison Filmography as Actor: Major Barbara 1941 Director: Gabriel Pascal Starring: Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison     Midnight Lace 1960 Director: David Miller Starring: Doris Day, Rex Harrison     Cleopatra 1963 Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton…

George Cukor

(1899–1983) George Dewey Cukor Filmography as Director: Little Women 1933 Director: George Cukor Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett     The Philadelphia Story 1940 Director: George Cukor Starring: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn     Gaslight 1944 Director: George Cukor Starring: Charles Boyer, Ingrid…

Gabriel Pascal

(1894–1954) Gábor Lehel Filmography as Director: Major Barbara 1941 Director: Gabriel Pascal Starring: Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison     Caesar and Cleopatra 1945 Director: Gabriel Pascal Starring: Vivien Leigh, Claude Rains     Filmography as Producer: Pygmalion 1938 Director: Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard Starring: Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller   Born…

Ona Munson

(1903–1955) Owena Elizabeth Wolcott Filmography as Actress: Gone with the Wind 1939 Director: Victor Fleming Starring: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh   Born June 16 1903 Portland, OR (USA) Died February 11 1955 New York, NY (USA) Cause of death Suicide (barbiturate overdose)…

Majas al balcón (c.1800-1810)

Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Majas al balcón (Majas on a Balcony) c.1800–1810 Oil on canvas, 194.9 x 125.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Attributed to Goya. The women known as majas visually distinguished themselves through opulent, exaggerated traditional dress that…