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The Christie Film Company eventually took over operation of Nestor Studios and filmed comedies on the site, originally the location of an early Hollywood roadhouse.
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In the 1920s Sennett's Bathing Beauties remained popular enough to provoke imitators like the Christie Studios ' Bathing Beauties ( counting Raquel Torres and Laura La Plante as alumni ) and Fox Film Corporation's " Sunshine Girls " ( counting Janet Gaynor as alumni ).
Christie at the Toronto Film Festival in 2006
* Murder on the Orient Express ( 1974 ), ( 2001 ) and ( 2010 ): Film adaptations of the Agatha Christie novel.
In 1910, at Horsley's Centaur Film Company, Christie began turning out one single reel of a Mutt and Jeff comedy picture every week.
Al Christie then formed a partnership with his brother Charles to form Christie Film Company which lasted until 1933 when the company went into receivership.
* List of films made by Christie Film Company at IMDB
* Al Christie ( 1881 – 1951 ), co-founder of Christie Film Company, director / producer / screenwriter
* Charles Christie ( 1880 – 1955 ), co-founder of Christie Film Company ; builder of Hollywood's first luxury hotel
In Hollywood, California, they made enough money working in films to purchase a property in Los Angeles and set up their own Christie Film Company to make comedy movies.
* List of films made by Christie Film Company at IMDB
Tillie's Punctured Romance is the first feature-length comedy film from Keystone Film Company and the Christie Film Company, produced in 1914.
Born Charles Joseph Parrott in Baltimore, Maryland, Chase began performing in vaudeville as a teenager and started his career in films by working at the Christie Film Company in 1912.
His most recent feature film, Glorious 39, starring Romola Garai, Bill Nighy and Julie Christie, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2009 and was released in the UK that November.
The Big Chill has, over the years, seen contributions from and collaborations with Spencer Tunick, Pete Fowler, Gavin Turk, Cedric Christie, Peter Blake, Rankin, Bob & Roberta Smith, Vivienne Westwood, Tate Britain, the British Film Institute, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Bompas & Parr, the Roundhouse, Apples & Snakes, Penguin Books, The World Famous, Film4, and the Art Car Boot Fair, to name but a few.
The movie, starring Julie Christie, debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2006 as part of the TIFF's Gala showcase.
Christie Film Company was an American pioneer motion picture company founded in Hollywood, California by Al Christie and Charles Christie, two brothers from London, Ontario, Canada.
In June 1912, Nestor Studios became part of the newly formed Universal Film Company and Al Christie was put in charge of the comedy companies.
He remained with Universal Film until January 1916 at which time he and his brother, Charles Christie, formed their own movie studio named the Christie Film Company.
Christie and Company
* Agatha Christie: play, Akhnaton ( written in 1937, published by Dodd, Mead and Company York, 1973, ISBN 0-396-06822-7 ; Collins, 1973, ISBN 0-00-211038-5 )
Compson worked for the Christie Company as a newcomer in films, followed by Famous Players-Lasky.
* The Adventure Company developed a point-and-click adventure based on Agatha Christie's novel, Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express.
Cards on the Table is a detective novel by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on November 2 1936 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year
Death in the Clouds is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company on March 10 1935 under the title of Death in the Air and in UK by the Collins Crime Club in the July of the same year under Christie's original title.
Sleeping Murder: Miss Marple's Last Case is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1976 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.
acquired the Shredded Wheat Company ( maker of Triscuit and Shredded Wheat cereal ) and Christie, Brown & Company of Toronto in 1928, but all of the Nabisco products in Canada still use the name Christie.
The Mutt and Jeff serial was extremely popular and after the Nestor Company established a studio in Hollywood, in late October 1911, Christie continued to oversee a weekly production of a one-reel episode.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by William Collins & Sons in June 1926 and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company on the 19th of the same month.
Murders is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on January 6, 1936 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company on February 14 of the same year.
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His frequent false starting eventually led to his disqualification from the 1996 Summer Olympics 100 m final in Atlanta, Georgia, USA due to a second false start by Christie.
Christie eventually visited Edmund Cork's offices at 40 Fleet Street, London, on 14 October 1940 and signed the document transferring ownership of the copyright of Murder in Retrospect to her husband in consideration of what was termed her " natural love and affection for him ".
Ingraham studied law in Nassau, called to the Bahamas Bar in December 1972 and eventually became senior partner in the law firm of Christie, Ingraham and Co.
Christie has also acted in child apprehension cases most notably that of Paul and Zabeth Bayne, a Hope, BC couple whose children were seized by the Ministry of Children and Family Development for four years, then eventually returned.
After being strongly linked with Liverpool in the 2001 – 02 season, he eventually joined Middlesbrough, along with Malcolm Christie for a combined fee of 3 million pounds in January 2003, with the potential to rise to 5 million.
Evans at first claimed that Christie had killed his wife in a botched abortion operation, but under police questioning he eventually confessed to the murder himself.
Houts, a prolific author who would eventually publish 44 books, was threatened with a lawsuit by Sir Harold Christie, who was the only other person staying overnight in Oakes's home when Oakes was killed.
Sullivan, who eventually became a naturalized US citizen, won a Tony Award in 1955 for the Agatha Christie play Witness for the Prosecution.
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The most common explanation suggests that the name was taken from the railway station in Marple, Stockport, through which Christie passed, with the alternative account that Christie took it from the home of a Marple family who lived at Marple Hall, near her sister Madge's home at Abney Hall.
Whilst working at the Institute, Childe took up residence at Lawn Road Flats near to Hampstead, an apartment block perhaps recommended to him by the popular crime fiction author Agatha Christie ( the wife of his colleague Max Mallowan ), who had lived there during the Second World War.
" Hamlet calls this new play The Mouse-trap ( a title that Agatha Christie later took for the long-running play The Mousetrap ).
In 1910 Wormwood Scrubs became part of aviation history when a pioneer airship took flight from an improvised landing ground ; The Daily Mail Airship Garage was built shortly afterwards — the site is now occupied by the Linford Christie Stadium.
In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican Chris Christie received 58. 5 % of the vote ( 3, 550 ballots cast ), leading Democrat Jon Corzine who received around 33. 1 % ( 2, 008 votes ) and Independent Christopher Daggett who took 6. 9 % ( 420 votes ), with 6, 073 of the 11, 127 registered voters in the township participating, yielding a 54. 6 % turnout rate.
In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican Chris Christie received 59. 5 % of the vote ( 6, 124 ballots cast ), leading Democrat Jon Corzine who received around 25. 6 % ( 2, 639 votes ) and Independent Christopher Daggett who took 13. 9 % ( 1, 427 votes ), with 10, 293 of the 18, 244 registered voters in the township participating, yielding a 56. 4 % turnout rate.
In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican Chris Christie received 61. 7 % of the vote ( 9, 542 ballots cast ), leading Democrat Jon Corzine who received around 29. 0 % ( 4, 491 votes ) and Independent Christopher Daggett who took 8. 0 % ( 1, 238 votes ), with 15, 462 of the 27, 822 registered voters in the township participating, yielding a 55. 6 % turnout rate.
It took several months of persuasion by Polley before Christie finally accepted the role, which was written with her in mind.
It is generally believed that Christie wrote Curtain ( Hercule Poirot's last mystery, which concludes the sleuth's career and life ) and Sleeping Murder during World War II to be published after her death, and that Sleeping Murder was most probably written sometime during the Blitz, which took place between September 1940 and May 1941.
Christie took French citizenship in 1995.
In April 2003 Alli took over as chairman of the media rights company Chorion Ltd, which owns rights to Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie, and has offices beyond the UK in New York, Sydney, and Tokyo.
Jeff Christie kept the group's name alive well into 1973 with replacement members, and cut songs for Mercury Records in the mid 1970s — he kept using the group name as an alias on material recorded for the Epic and Wizard, and took back his full name for records on the RK label in the 1980s.
Ludovic Kennedy provided one possible reconstruction of how the murder took place, where an unsuspecting Beryl lets Christie into her apartment, expecting the abortion to be carried out, but is instead attacked and then strangled.
Other hosts included Fiona Kennedy, Cheryl Baker, Fearne Cotton, Kriss Akabusi and Ronald Reagan Jr. After Castle's death in 1994, the show was hosted by Baker and Akabusi, then Linford Christie took over in 1999.
The sculpture took its name from a quotation of British sprinter Linford Christie, in which he said that he started his races not merely at the " bang " of the starting pistol, but at " the B of the Bang ".
It took its name from a quotation of British sprinter Linford Christie in which he said that he started his races not merely at the ' bang ' of the starting pistol, but at ' The B of the Bang '.
The official unveiling by Linford Christie took place on 12 January 2005.
There could be little doubt that Christie had murdered them all, that Timothy Evans was innocent, and that he had been wrongly executed, although it took many years to establish the truth of the matter.
Christie was 22 years old, and a lance-corporal in the 1 / 11th ( County of London ) Battalion, The London Regiment ( Finsbury Rifles ), British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.
Lance-Corporal Christie, seeing what was happening, took a supply of bombs and went alone about 50 yards in the open along the communication trench and bombed the enemy.
The first clinical study took place at the Christie Hospital in 1971, and showed a convincing effect in advanced breast cancer, but nevertheless ICI's development programme came close to termination when it was reviewed in 1972.
During their time together, however, Rear Admiral Christie took Dealey aside and noted his opinion that after five successful war patrols, it was time for Dealey to relinquish command of the to his Executive Officer and move on to another job.
It is alleged that before attacking, Christie would haul his victims from their mounts with a hook on a rod: this implement was the ' cleke ' ( i. e., ' crook ') from which he took his sobriquet.
Buffalo's defense took over the rest of the third quarter, holding the Dolphins offense to 2 offensive yards while Christie added two more field goals to increase their lead to 26-3.
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