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* Daphne du Maurier: Jamaica Inn ( 1936 ) – a novel about both smugglers and wreckers in CornwallPoster for an 1896 American production of Carmen
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Daphne du Maurier, a former resident, chose Bolventor as the setting for her novel about Cornish smugglers titled Jamaica Inn.
However others, including Daphne du Maurier ( in her biography of Bacon ), have argued there is no substantive evidence to support claims of involvement with the Rosicrucians.
Many modern writers of horror ( or indeed other types of fiction ) exhibit considerable Gothic sensibilities — examples include the works of Anne Rice, as well as some of the sensationalist works of Stephen King The Romantic strand of Gothic was taken up in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca ( 1938 ) which is in many respects a reworking of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.
Daphne du Maurier, the well known novelist, was at one point a member of Mebyon Kernow, as was Andrew George, the Liberal Democrat MP ; he still remains sympathetic to many Cornish issues, but is no longer a member of the political party.
The insignia was designed by famous English novelist Daphne du Maurier, who was married to the commander of the 1st Airborne Division ( and later the expanded British Airborne Forces ), General Frederick " Boy " Browning.
In the United Kingdom, Daphne du Maurier wrote suspense stories like The Birds ( 1952 ) and Don't Look Now ( 1971 ).
In 1952, Burton successfully made the transition to a Hollywood star ; on the recommendation of Daphne du Maurier, he was given the leading role in My Cousin Rachel opposite Olivia de Havilland.
Totally against type, she played the sinister housekeeper Mrs Danvers in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca at the Queen's Theatre in 1940.
After I, Claudius, he and the ex-patriate German film producer Erich Pommer founded the production company Mayflower Pictures in the UK, which produced three films starring Laughton: Vessel of Wrath ( US Title The Beachcomber ) ( 1938 ), based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham, in which his wife Elsa Lanchester co-starred ; St. Martin's Lane ( US Title Sidewalks of London ), about London street entertainers, which featured Vivien Leigh and Rex Harrison ; and Jamaica Inn, with Maureen O ' Hara and Robert Newton, about Cornish smugglers, based on Daphne du Maurier's novel, and the last film Alfred Hitchcock directed in Britain before moving to Hollywood in the late 1930s.
The firm, Gollancz Ltd., published pacifist and socialist nonfiction as well as, by the mid 1930s, a solid selection of contemporary fiction, including authors such as Elizabeth Bowen, Daphne du Maurier, and Franz Kafka.
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Other screen credits include Hitchcock's adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn ( with Charles Laughton ), Gabriel Pascal's film version of George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara ( with Wendy Hiller and Rex Harrison ), José Ferrer's I Accuse!
She was born Daphne Barbara Hubbard in Kingston, Jamaica, where her father was an insurance executive.
Amongst those outraged were theatre mogul Gerald du Maurier, father of the more famous author Daphne du Maurier of Jamaica Inn and Rebecca fame.
For adults, Lawrence has recorded tapes of Rosie Thomas's Sun at Midnight, Lynee Truss's Going Loco and Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn.
He was contracted to write the score for Alfred Hitchcock's Jamaica Inn ( from Daphne du Maurier's novel ), but his film career was interrupted by World War II ; after joining the Royal Artillery, he was transferred to the education corps at Bulford, where he conducted the Southern Command Orchestra, and was later commissioned to run Royal Army Education Corps courses in Lancashire.
Daphne du Maurier * lived in Fowey, Cornwall and many of her novels had Cornish settings, including Rebecca, Jamaica Inn, Frenchman's Creek, My Cousin Rachel, and The House on the Strand.
Daphne du Maurier wrote most of her fourth novel, Jamaica Inn, in 1935 in Frimley where her soldier husband Frederick Browning was based.
She gained the title of screenwriter when she wrote the film Jamaica Inn ( 1939 ) based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier.
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Die schweigsame Frau ( 1934 ), was composed with Stefan Zweig as librettist ; Friedenstag ( 1935 – 6 ) and Daphne ( 1937 ) both had a libretto by Joseph Gregor and Stefan Zweig ; and Die Liebe der Danae ( 1940 ) was with Joseph Gregor.
Apollo and Daphne by Antonio del Pollaiolo, c. 1470 – 80 ( National Gallery ( London ) | National Gallery, London )
The citizens of Bay Minette moved the county records from Daphne in the middle of the night on October 11 – 12, 1901 and delivered them to the City of Bay Minette-where Baldwin County's County Seat remains to this day.
Foley is a principal city of the Daphne – Fairhope – Foley Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Baldwin County.
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