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It published works by Charles Chesnutt before he collected them in The Conjure Woman.
* Charles Waddell Chesnutt-The Conjure Woman
* Author Charles W. Chesnutt makes significant use of Hoodoo in his 1899 short story collection The Conjure Woman ( stories ).
" His first book was a collection of short stories entitled The Conjure Woman, published in 1899.
One of Chesnutt's most important works was The Conjure Woman ( 1899 ), a collection of stories set in postbellum North Carolina in which Uncle Julius, a freed slave, entertains a white couple from the North with fantastical tales of antebellum plantation life.
Seven of the Uncle Julius tales were collected in the The Conjure Woman.
Chesnutt wrote a total of fourteen Uncle Julius tales, the remainder of which were later collected in The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales, published in 1993.
In 2002, the Library of America added a major collection of Chesnutt's fiction and non-fiction to its important American authors series, under the title Stories, Novels And Essays: The Conjure Woman, The Wife of His Youth & Other Stories of the Color Line, The House Behind the Cedars, The Marrow of Tradition, Uncollected Stories, Selected Essays ( Werner Sollors, ed.
* 1926, The Conjure Woman ( film version by Oscar Micheaux was entitled The Spider's Web )
* The Conjure Woman, and Other Conjure Tales ( 1899 )
* Stories, Novels and Essays: The Conjure Woman, The Wife of His Youth & Other Stories of the Color Line, The House Behind the Cedars, The Marrow of Tradition, Uncollected Stories, Selected Essays ( Werner Sollors, ed., Library of America, 2002 ) ISBN 978-1-931082-06-8.
Micheaux adapted two works by Charles W. Chesnutt, which he released under their original titles: The Conjure Woman ( 1926 ) and The House Behind the Cedars.
* The Conjure Woman ( 1926 ), adapted from work of the same name by Charles W. Chesnutt
* The Conjure Woman
Other writers, especially African-American writers, soon satirized the genre: Charles W. Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman ( 1899 ), for example, " consciously evoke the conventions of the plantation novel only to subvert them ".
These included The Brute ( 1920 ), The Gunsaulus Mystery ( 1921 ), Deceit ( 1923 ), Birthright ( 1924 ), The Devil ’ s Disciple ( 1925 ), The Conjure Woman ( 1926 ) and The Spider ’ s Web ( 1926 ).
* The Conjure Woman ( 1926 )

Conjure and by
( screenplay co-written with Richard Matheson and George Baxt based on the novel Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber ).
Conjure One is a Canadian electronic music project, headed by Rhys Fulber, better known as a member of Front Line Assembly and Delerium, as well as other musical groups alongside Bill Leeb.
* Mojo: Conjure Stories, an anthology edited by Nalo Hopkinson
* " Pilgrimage ", a song by Conjure One from Extraordinary Ways

Woman and film
She started her acting career in 1952 and, after appearing in 16 films, became world-famous due to her role in her then-husband Roger Vadim's controversial film And God Created Woman.
Looking for something more like an art film to push her as a serious actress, he showcased her in And God Created Woman ( 1956 ) with Jean-Louis Trintignant.
The filmmaker was hurt by this failure — he had long wanted to produce a dramatic film and was proud of the result — and withdrew A Woman of Paris from circulation as soon as he could.
Chaplin considered the musical accompaniment of a film to be important, and from A Woman of Paris onwards, he took an increasing interest in this area.
Examples of this style of film include It's a Wonderful World ( 1939 ), The Shop Around the Corner ( 1940 ), Sabrina ( 1954 ), Annie Hall ( 1977 ), When Harry Met Sally ... ( 1989 ), Pretty Woman ( 1990 ), and Four Weddings and a Funeral ( 1994 ).
Mikio Naruse directed the wide screen melodrama When a Woman Ascends the Stairs in 1960 ; his final film was 1967's Scattered Clouds.
In 1931, after Woman in the Moon, Lang directed what many film scholars consider to be his masterpiece: M, a disturbing story of a child murderer ( Peter Lorre in his first starring role ) who is hunted down and brought to rough justice by Berlin's criminal underworld.
He also directed another of his favorite actresses, Greta Garbo, in Two-Faced Woman ( 1941 ), her last film before she retired from the screen.
Falk was a close friend of independent film director John Cassavetes and appeared in Cassavetes ' films Husbands, A Woman Under the Influence., and, in a cameo, at the end of Opening Night.
Gordon was signed to an MGM film contract for a brief period in the early 1930s but did not make a movie for the company until she acted opposite Greta Garbo in Two-Faced Woman in 1941.
* The Woman in the Window ( 1944 ), Professor Richard Wanley pulls this book off a shelf in the gentleman's club and sits to read it after his friends leave early in the film.
* November 28 – Roger Vadim's drama film And God Created Woman released in France as Et Dieu … créa la femme, propels Brigitte Bardot into the public spotlight as a " sex kitten ".
In Moe's autobiography, he said they each got $ 600 per week on a one-year contract with a renewable option ; in the Ted Okuda – Edward Watz book The Columbia Comedy Shorts, the Stooges are said to have received $ 1, 000 among them for their first Columbia effort, Woman Haters, and then signed a term contract for $ 7, 500 per film ( equal to $ today ), to be divided among the trio.
Hollywood film studios even made several movies inspired by his exploits ; Marked Woman starred Humphrey Bogart as a Dewey-like DA and Bette Davis as a " party girl " whose testimony helps convict the gang boss.
I Take This Woman with Hedy Lamarr was a critical and commercial failure, but the historical drama Northwest Passage — Tracy's first film in Technicolor — proved popular.
Jane Seymour, OBE ( born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg ; 15 February 1951 ) is an English actress best known for her performances in the James Bond film Live and Let Die ( 1973 ), Somewhere In Time ( 1980 ), East of Eden ( 1982 ), Onassis: The Richest Man in the World ( 1988 ), War and Remembrance ( 1988 ), the ill-fated queen Marie Antoinette in the 1989 political thriller La Révolution française, Wedding Crashers ( 2005 ), and the American television series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman ( 1993 – 1998 ).
In 1955, he was chef on the set of the film And God Created Woman when actress Brigitte Bardot suggested he name the cake La Tropézienne.
He received an Emmy award nomination for best supporting actor for the TV film A Woman Called Golda ( 1982 ).
Some plants are in reality inmates or prisoners of war who have been promised better treatment and conditions in return for helping with the interrogation, as in the character played by William Hurt in the film Kiss of the Spider Woman.
Laughton soon gave up the stage in preference for a film career and returned to Hollywood where his next film was White Woman ( 1933 ) in which he co-starred with Carole Lombard as a Cockney river trader in the Malaysian jungle.
* Nancy Archer, title character of the film Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
Two-Faced Woman was her last film ; she was thirty-six and had made only twenty-eight feature films in sixteen years.
On occasion, he has acted on screen, as in 1960's Roger Corman sci-fi film Last Woman on Earth, which Towne also wrote.
There are various examples of remakes which are most associated with the reimagine or renovate terms, and these include Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes, Nora Ephron's Bewitched, Marcus Nispel's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th, Rob Zombie's Halloween, Samuel Bayer's A Nightmare on Elm Street, Ronald D. Moore's Battlestar Galactica, David Eick's Bionic Woman, Nelson McCormick's Prom Night, Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead, and Kenneth Johnson V. Tim Burton has denied that his 2010 film Alice in Wonderland is a renovation of Lewis Carroll's classic novel ; however, the plot line of the film bears very little resemblance to the original or derivatives of it, such as the classic 1951 animated film from Walt Disney.

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