Forster, born of Quaker parents, was a nephew of the philanthropist Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton and brother-in-law of the poet and scholarMatthew Arnold. A Liberal member of theHouse of Commonsfrom 1861 until his death, he began in 1866 to demand universal education as an essentialcomplementof pa...
William Randolph Hearst. Producer: Zander the Great. William Randolph Hearst was the greatest newspaper baron in the history of the United States and is the person whom Citizen Kane (1941), widely regarded as the greatest film ever made, is primarily bas
Billy Connolly’s story begins in atenement flat in Anderstonon the unloved south western outskirts of Glasgow, where he is raised by his aunts, one of whom is the sadistic Mona, a nasty woman who takes particular delight in physically and verbally assaulting her wee nephew. Connolly finds hi...
C. Maternal nephew D. Paternal great-grandson 11. How old was the Queen when she came to the throne? A. 55 B. 45 C. 35 D. 25 12. Who did the Duke and Duchess of Windsor meet at Berchtesgaden in 1937? A. Adolf Hitler B. Charlie Chaplin C. Tsar of...
…this ad told us that “Mrs. Henry Field” collected fine art, loved to go to parties, and “always smoked Camel cigarettes”…I am unaware of the fate of Mrs. Henry Field, married to the grandnephew of Marshall Field, but this unseemly image suggests she was replaced by a wax figure...
the talentless drunk that Charles Foster Kane's second wife, Susan Alexander was. (Orson Wellessaid that his only regret overCitizen Kane (1941)was the backlash and grief caused to Davies, who was a woman adored by everyone who knew her. Davies nephew actually was the step-father of Welles...
He later completed a newsreel deal with Hitler during the trip. Franklin D. Roosevelt, of course, was as staunchly anti-fascist as Hearst was anti-communist. His pro-intervention policies on the side of Britian during the early days of World War Two rankled the philo-German Hearst.Hearst ...