These included Britain's Gainsborough melodramas ( including The Man in Grey and The Wicked Lady ), and films like Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Heaven Can Wait, I Married a Witch and Blithe Spirit.

" Mr. Thomas Scott, who had been so much deluded by the hypocrosy of Monk ... said: ' That though he knew not where to hide his head at that time, yet he durst not refuse to own, that not only his hand, but his heart also was in it ' and after he had produced divers reasons to prove the justice of it, he concluded, ' that he should desire no greater honor in this world, than that the folloing inscritption might be engraved on his tomb ; " Here lies one who had a hand and a heart in the execution of Charles Stuart late King of England.

* 1941 Here Comes Mr. Jordan-Harry Segall

The premise for Quantum Leap was inspired by movies like Heaven Can Wait ( 1978 ), a remake of the 1941 film Here Comes Mr. Jordan.

Here Comes Mr. Jordan ( 1941 ) is a comedy film in which a boxer, mistakenly taken to Heaven before his time, is given a second chance back on Earth.

Here Comes Mr. Jordan was followed by Down to Earth ( 1947 ), in which two of the actors reprised their roles.

It was remade as Heaven Can Wait ( 1978 ), and Down to Earth ( 2001 ) ( sharing the name with the sequel to Here Comes Mr. Jordan ).

* Here Comes Mr. Jordan on Lux Radio Theater: January 26, 1942

A 1978 film, also called Heaven Can Wait, is a remake of an entirely different film, the 1941 Here Comes Mr. Jordan, which was based on a 1938 stage play originally titled Heaven Can Wait.

It is the second film adaptation of Harry Segall's stageplay of the same name, preceded by Here Comes Mr. Jordan ( 1941 ) and followed by Down to Earth ( 2001 ).

The type of instrument he played was also changed ; in Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Pendelton essays " The Last Rose of Summer " on an alto saxophone, but in the 1978 film, he plays Ciribiribin on a soprano saxophone.

Here, Sir Nose is too cool to dance or swim, but Mr. Wiggles and the good citizens of Atlantis ( a place where one can swim underwater without getting wet ) cause Sir Nose to dance the Aqua Boogie.

In 1983, the band mounted an ambitious stage show in support of Kilroy featuring theatrical presentations of three songs utilizing instrumental backing tracks, including " Mr. Roboto ", which featured DeYoung singing live while disguised as a Roboto, " Heavy Metal Poisoning " with James Young as the evangelist Dr. Righteous singing while the Panozzo brothers acted as his henchmen on stage, and " Haven't We Been Here Before " with Tommy Shaw as Jonathan Chance and DeYoung ( as Kilroy in Roboto costume ) duetting.

Here he made the acquaintance of Mr. Aaron Lara, a friend of the

Some of his noteworthy films include The Front Page ( 1931 ), Trouble in Paradise ( 1932 ), Alice in Wonderland ( 1933 ), The Gay Divorcee ( 1934 ), Top Hat ( 1935, one of several Astaire / Rogers films in which Horton appeared ), Danger-Love at Work ( 1937 ), Lost Horizon ( 1937 ), Holiday ( 1938 ), Here Comes Mr. Jordan ( 1941 ), Arsenic and Old Lace ( 1944 ), Pocketful of Miracles ( 1961 ), and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ).

* Down to Earth ( 1947 film ), the follow-up to Here Comes Mr. Jordan

He has written several autobiographical and acting related works, including 1990's It Would Be So Nice If You Weren't Here: My Journey Through Show Business and 1994's We're Ready for You, Mr. Grodin.

The film Here Comes Mr. Jordan, and its sequels and remakes, are a take-off on the older, spiritualist version of the walk-in concept, although the term is never used.

Heaven Can Wait, a 1978 remake of Here Comes Mr. Jordan, was also the inspiration for the television series Quantum Leap, in which Dr. Sam Beckett, involved in a time travel experiment gone awry, " leaps " into events that occurred during his lifetime, displacing another person.

Here Mr. and Mrs. Copley and their son Lord Lyndhurst lived and died.

( In Here Comes Mr. Jordan Bridges is the pilot of the plane in the " heaven " scene.

* Here Comes Mr. Jordan ( 1941 )

Here he made the acquaintance of a Mr Dyson, a civil engineer.

* Here Comes Mr. Jordan ( 1941 )

Here comes Jason.

Here, she dropped the keys on a small table beside the door and went upstairs to her bedroom.

Here in the God-forsaken place, the westerly end of nowhere, Tom Lord looked almost insignificant, almost contemptible.

Here he couldn't be seen by Blue Throat and his gang.

Here, in the old days -- when they had come to see the moon or displays of fireworks -- sat the king and his court while priests, soldiers, and other members of the party lounged in the smaller alcoves between.

Here, on the hottest day, it is cool beneath the stone and fresh from the water flowing in the sluices at the bottom of the vaults.

Here in an evening Persians enjoy many of the things which are important to them: poetry, water, the moon, a beautiful face.

Here in these little rooms -- or stages arched open to the sky and river -- they choose a few lines out of the hundreds they may know and sing them according to one of the modes into which Persian music is divided.

Here artistic realism involves the audience in an impassioned participation in events whose overtones and implications are transcendent.

Here there may be an analogy with cancer: we can detect cancers by their rapidly accelerating growth, determinable only when related to the more normal rate of healthy growth.

Here, on a desk, is a stack of pamphlets representing the efforts of some of the best men of the day to penetrate these questions.

Here Wright gave a slight sigh of weariness, and continued, `` It means more long years lived across the social grain of the life of our people, making shift to live in the face of popular disrespect and misunderstanding as I best can for myself and those dependent upon me ''.

Here, if anywhere, it is not wholly incontrovertible.

Here, in two nations alone, are almost five hundred million people, all working, and working hard, to raise their standards, and in doing so, to make of themselves a strong bulwark against the spread of an ideology that would destroy liberty.

Here, he openly attacked Bang-Jensen and referred to his `` aberrant conduct ''.

Here I do not mean catharsis, the discharge of emotion.

Here we may observe that at least one modern philosophy of history is built on the assumption that ideas are the primary objectives of the historian's research.

Here an important caveat is in order.

Here the war would flame to its focus, and here Lewis Littlepage had come.

Here was Gorton's chance to indulge in something at which he was supreme.

Here the Pennsylvania militia skirmished with the British, but soon fled.

Here was another indispensable tool.

As Courtenay explains, `` Here in this profession we reach into the souls of men and women.

Here I am face to face with the primeval stuff ''.

Here, in the cool, autumn-touched evening, Mr. Podger mentally retraced a day that had left him greatly contented and at peace.