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Alice and British
Adding four more Harry Potter and one more Lord of the Rings films plus Alice in Wonderland, and more than half of the top twenty most commercial films, had a substantial British dimension.
British influence can also be seen with the ' English Cycle ' of Disney animated films, which include Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, The Jungle Book, Robin Hood, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Sword in the Stone, The Rescuers and The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.
Margaret Alice Murray ( 13 July 1863 – 13 November 1963 ) was a prominent British Egyptologist and anthropologist.
** Alice Chetwynd Ley, British romance writer ( d. 2004 )
* January 14 – Lewis Carroll, British writer, mathematician ( Alice in Wonderland ) ( b. 1832 )
* Alice Through the Looking Glass ( 1998 film ), a British film
Several notable films based on stories from Australian literature ( generally with strong rural themes ) were made in Australia in the 1950s-but by British and American production companies, including A Town Like Alice ( 1956 ) which starred Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch ; The Shiralee ( 1957 ) also starring Peter Finch with Australian actors Charles Tingwell, Bill Kerr and Ed Devereaux in supporting roles ; Roberry Under Arms, again starring Finch in 1957 ; and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1959 ), starring Ernest Borgnine, John Mills and Angela Lansbury ; and in 1960, The Sundowners was shot in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales with foreign leads Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Ustinov but a supporting cast including Australians Chips Rafferty, John Meillon and Leonard Teale.
* Alice Greene, British olympic tennis player
In July 2011 the visitor centre and observatory hosted " Jodrell Bank Live "-a rock concert with bands including The Flaming Lips, British Sea Power, Wave Machines, OK GO and Alice Gold.
However in 1956 he appeared in two major hits, A Town Like Alice ( 1956 ) and The Battle of the River Plate ( 1956 ), which saw exhibitors vote him the seventh most popular British star at the box office ; the following year his ranking went up to third, being the fifth most popular regardless of nationality.
Eugenie is also the first British Princess since her grandmother's aunt, Princess Victoria Alexandra Alice Mary ( known as Princess Mary ), to bear the name Victoria ; Queen Victoria had requested that her female descendants bear the name Victoria somewhere in their name, however, neither Elizabeth II, the late Princess Margaret, Princess Alexandra, Princess Anne, nor Princess Beatrice hold the name Victoria.
Prince Louis of Battenberg changed his surname to Mountbatten ( its literal English translation ) during the First World War at the request of King George V. When then-Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, a member of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg ( the royal house of Denmark and Norway and the deposed royal house of Greece ) took British citizenship, he used this surname since he descends from the Battenberg family through his mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg.
Princess Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood ( Victoria Alexandra Alice Mary ; 25 April 1897 – 28 March 1965 ) was a member of the British Royal Family ; she was the third child and only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary.
At the time of her death, Princess Mary's full style was: Her Royal Highness The Princess Victoria Alexandra Alice Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood, Companion of the Imperial Order of the Crown of India, Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, Dame Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Dame Grand Cross of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Member ( First Class ) of the Royal Red Cross.
On 29 October 2004, the Duke's mother, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, died at the age of 102, the longest-living member of the British Royal Family in history.
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester ( née Alice Christabel Montagu Douglas Scott ; 25 December 1901 – 29 October 2004 ) was a member of the British Royal Family, the wife and then widow of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, the third son of George V and Mary of Teck.
On 21 August 2003, Princess Alice surpassed Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother's record as the oldest person in the history of the British Royal Family.
At the time of her death, Princess Alice's full style was Her Royal Highness Princess Alice Christabel, Duchess of Gloucester, Countess of Ulster and Baroness Culloden, Dame Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Companion of the Imperial Order of the Crown of India, Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, Dame Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Dame Grand Cross of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem.
British influence can also be seen with the ' English Cycle ' of Disney animated films, which feature Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, The Jungle Book, Robin Hood, The Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Sword in the Stone, The Rescuers and Winnie the Pooh.
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, VA, GCStJ, GCVO, GBE ( Alice Mary Victoria Augusta Pauline ; née Princess Alice of Albany ; 25 February 1883 – 3 January 1981 ) was a member of the British Royal Family.
Major-General Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone ( born Prince Alexander of Teck ; 14 April 187416 January 1957 ), was the husband of Princess Alice of Albany ( a granddaughter of Queen Victoria ) and a British military commander and major-general who served as Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, the country's fourth, and as Governor General of Canada, the 16th since Canadian Confederation.
At the time of her death, she was 94 years, 4 months and 16 days old, making her the longest-lived British Princess of the Blood Royal until Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, a male-line granddaughter of Queen Victoria, broke the record in 1977.

Alice and film
* Communion, a 1976 horror film ( also called Alice, Sweet Alice ) starring Brooke Shields
By 1905, Pathé was the largest film company in the world, a position it retained until World War I. Léon Gaumont began film production in 1896, with his production supervised by Alice Guy.
* 1983 – Alice White, American film actress ( b. 1904 )
Alice in Wonderland ( 2010 film ) | Alice in Wonderland ( 2010 ), the 3rd highest grossing fantasy film worldwide, deals with the common fantasy themes such as the fantasy world | fantastic world setting and the conflict between good and evil.
* 1951 – Walt Disney's 13th animated film, Alice in Wonderland, premieres in London, England, United Kingdom.
In 1933, Pickford underwent a Technicolor screen test for an animated / live action film version of Alice in Wonderland, but Walt Disney discarded the project when Paramount released its own version of the book.
* 1968 – Alice Guy-Blaché, American film director ( b. 1873 )
In the 2010 film The Sorcerer's Apprentice, modern day New Yorker David Stutler, played by Jay Baruchel, discovers he is the last descendant of Merlin and is trained as a sorcerer by Balthazar Blake, portrayed by Nicolas Cage, a former student of the great wizard, so that he may ultimately do battle with Merlin's old nemesis Morganna, played by Alice Krige.
On June 25, 2008, it was announced she is no longer attached to the film version of the video game American McGee's Alice.
He is famous for his dark, quirky-themed movies such as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, 9 and Dark Shadows, and for blockbusters such as Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Batman, Batman Returns, Planet of the Apes, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland, which was the second highest-grossing film of 2010, and the twelfth highest-grossing film of all time.
The Germs are featured in Penelope Spheeris's documentary film The Decline of Western Civilization along with X, Black Flag, Fear, Circle Jerks, Alice Bag Band, and Catholic Discipline.
The book has been adapted several times, in combination with Alice in Wonderland and as a stand alone film or television special.
Television versions include the 1974 BBC TV movie, Alice Through the Looking Glass, with Sarah Sutton playing Alice, a 1982 38-minute Soviet cutout-animated film made by Kievnauchfilm studio and directed by Yefrem Pruzhanskiy, an animated TV movie in 1987, with Janet Waldo as the voice of Alice ( Mr. T was the voice of the Jabberwock ) and the 1998 Channel 4 TV movie, with Kate Beckinsale playing the role of Alice.
The 1999 made-for-TV Hallmark / NBC film Alice in Wonderland, with Tina Majorino as Alice, merged elements from Through the Looking Glass including the talking flowers, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, The Walrus and the Carpenter, and the Chess theme including the snoring Red King and White Knight.
The 1959 film Donald in Mathmagic Land includes a segment with Donald Duck dressed as Alice meeting the Red Queen on a chessboard.

Alice and television
She became familiar to a new generation of film-goers when she played Principal McGee in both 1978's Grease and 1982's Grease 2, as well as making appearances on such television shows as Alice, Maude and Falcon Crest.
Groucho developed friendships with rock star Alice Cooper — the two were photographed together for Rolling Stone magazine — and television host Dick Cavett, becoming a frequent guest on Cavett's late-night talk show.
Florence Jean Castleberry (" Flo ") on the television series Alice became a waitress at Mel's Diner in Phoenix, Arizona, a roadside diner run by one Mel Sharples.
In Season 5 the television series The L Word, the issue of public outing is addressed in the form of Alice Pieszecki, a web-journalist, outing a basketball player who made offensive comments toward gay people while himself being gay.
The primary cast for First Contact is from the Star Trek: The Next Generation television series, to which the film's producers added Alice Krige, Neal McDonough, James Cromwell and Alfre Woodard.
Heckart was familiar to television audiences with starring roles in The Five Mrs. Buchanans, Annie McGuire, Out of the Blue, Trauma Center, Partners in Crime, Backstairs at the White House ( Emmy nomination as Eleanor Roosevelt ), and guest spots on The Fugitive, The Mary Tyler Moore Show ( two Emmy nominations as journalist Flo Meredith, a role she carried over to a guest appearance on MTM's spinoff Lou Grant ), Rhoda, Alice, Murder One, Hawaii Five-O, Gunsmoke, Cybill, The Cosby Show, and many other shows.
She also appeared in Woody Allen's Alice ( 1990 ), and Eugene Levy's Once Upon a Crime ( 1992 ), as well as several television films.
* Alice in Wonderland ( 1985 film ), made for television film
* Alice in Wonderland ( 1999 film ), made for television film
* Films and television based on Alice in Wonderland
Kavner has frequently appeared in Woody Allen films, having roles in Hannah and Her Sisters ( 1986 ), Radio Days ( 1987 ), New York Stories ( 1989 ), Alice ( 1990 ), Shadows and Fog ( 1991 ), the television movie Don't Drink the Water ( 1994 ) and Deconstructing Harry ( 1997 ).
Peters has appeared in 32 feature films or television movies beginning in 1973, including Mel Brooks ' 1976 film Silent Movie ( for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award ), the musical Annie ( 1982 ), Pink Cadillac ( 1989 ), in which she co-starred with Clint Eastwood, and Woody Allen's Alice ( 1990 ).
She has appeared in over 120 roles, on television, and in miniseries and feature films, including Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore ( 1974 ), Wild at Heart ( 1990 ), Rambling Rose ( 1991 ), Touched by an Angel ( 1997 ) ( TV ), Ghosts of Mississippi, Primary Colors, 28 Days ( 2000 ), and American Cowslip ( 2008 ).
The television show Alice used a " diner " as the setting for the program.
* Alice Roberts, anatomist, anthropologist, television presenter and author
* Ann Bradford Davis ( born May 3, 1926 ) is an American television actress " The Brady Bunch " " Alice ".
Helen Slater was born in Bethpage, New York, the daughter of Alice Joan ( née Citrin ), a lawyer and nuclear disarmament peace activist based in New York City, and Gerald Slater, a television executive ;< ref >
In 1981 it was adapted into a popular television miniseries called A Town Like Alice, starring Helen Morse and Bryan Brown ( with Gordon Jackson as Noel Strachan ).
Alice Weston had one of the first live television cooking shows, and Barbara Plummer was " Miss Barbara " for a generation of young viewers on the local version of Romper Room.
* In various film and television versions of the novel, The Queen has been played by May Robson, Ronald Lang, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Eve Arden, Jayne Meadows, and, In the 1999 Alice in Wonderland television movie, Miranda Richardson, whose portrayal is strongly reminiscent of her role as the spoiled Queenie in Blackadder.
* Alice ( TV series ), a popular American television series in the 1970s1980s
In 2003 he appeared in advertisements for the Sky + digital television service alongside Alice Cooper.

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