The Lost Weekend ( 1945 ), directed by Billy Wilder, yet another Vienna-born, Berlin-trained American auteur, tells the story of an alcoholic in a manner evocative of neorealism.

A half-decade after Double Indemnity and The Lost Weekend, Billy Wilder made Sunset Boulevard ( 1950 ) and Ace in the Hole ( 1951 ), noirs that were not so much crime dramas as satires on, respectively, Hollywood and the news media.

The deal included such notable Paramount films as the early Marx Brothers films, most of the Bob Hope-Bing Crosby " Road " pictures, and such Oscar contenders as Double Indemnity, The Lost Weekend, and The Heiress.

The theremin was used in movie soundtracks such as Miklós Rózsa's for Spellbound and The Lost Weekend and Bernard Herrmann's for The Day the Earth Stood Still and as the theme tune for the ITV drama Midsomer Murders.

* Oscar winners: Rebecca ( 1940 ), How Green Was My Valley ( 1941 ), Mrs. Miniver ( 1942 ), Casablanca ( 1943 ), Going My Way ( 1944 ), The Lost Weekend ( 1945 ), The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ), Gentleman's Agreement ( 1947 ), Hamlet ( 1948 ), All the King's Men ( 1949 ).

** The motion picture The Lost Weekend, starring Ray Milland, is released.

It has been described as " perhaps the most unsparing tract against drink that Hollywood has yet produced, more pessimistic than Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend.

Charles R. Jackson, author of The Lost Weekend, committed suicide in his room on September 21, 1968.

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In 2011, The Lost Weekend was deemed " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant " by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

At the 18th Academy Awards in May 1946, The Lost Weekend received seven nominations and won in 4 categories.

His screen career ran from 1929 to 1985, and he is best remembered for his Academy Award – winning portrayal of an alcoholic writer in The Lost Weekend ( 1945 ), a sophisticated leading man opposite a corrupt John Wayne in Reap the Wild Wind ( 1942 ), the murder-plotting husband in Dial M for Murder ( 1954 ), and as Oliver Barrett III in Love Story ( 1970 ).

The pinnacle of Milland's career and acknowledgment of his serious dramatic abilities came in 1946 when he won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of an alcoholic in Billy Wilder's film The Lost Weekend ( 1945 ).

Rigby tracks down alcoholic Sam ( Ray Milland, from Lost Weekend ) and gets Dr. Forrest's dollar, which has " FOC " ( Friends of Carlotta ) names scrawled on it — including Kitty Collins and Swede Anderson ( Kitty's boyfriend ).

* The Lost Weekend ( 1945 )

1977 also saw the release of the Godley & Creme album " Consequences ", on which Vaughan sang one of the few tracks to achieve popularity outside of the album: " Lost Weekend ".

* The Lost World: Jurassic Park grosses a record $ 90, 161, 880 on Memorial Weekend.

The music festival Lost Weekend is held on the island every summer in Kollevågen.

Kollevåg have one of Norway ` s most beautiful beaches where The Lost Weekend festival is held.

Wyman finally gained critical notice in the film noir The Lost Weekend ( 1945 ).

* Charles R. Jackson – The Lost Weekend

Such moments as the bar scene from The Lost Weekend, the duel scene from The Prisoner of Zenda or the beach scene from From Here to Eternity were used, with Adams directing and a celebrity guest playing the other lead in the scene.

#" The Lost Weekend " ( 20 January 1986 ) — Tom tangles with drug traffickers on the way to visit Alison's parents.

In 1985, Wynn and Dan Stuart of Green on Red wrote 10 songs together which were recorded with Dennis Duck, among others, and released by A & M as Danny and Dusty: The Lost Weekend.

* 1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's " The Lost Chord ", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.

* Absalom is the name of Stephen Kumalo's son in " Lost in the Stars ", Kurt Weil's play based on the novel " Cry the Beloved Country ".

In John Milton's epic Paradise Lost it is given a more fitting neighbour:

Ambergris is key to the Ian Cameron novel The Lost Ones, from which came the 1974 Disney film, The Island at the Top of the World.

* The Ark of the Covenant is the main focus of Steven Spielberg's 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the same prop also appears in a cameo in a later sequel in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

Among other composers who set Housman songs were John Ireland ( song cycle, Land of Lost Content ), Michael Head ( e. g. ' Ludlow Fair '), Graham Peel ( a famous version of ' In Summertime on Bredon '), Ian Venables ( Songs of Eternity and Sorrow ), and the American Samuel Barber ( e. g. ' With rue my heart is laden ').

While blind and visually impaired people had contributed to the body of common literature for centuries, one notable example being the author of Paradise Lost, John Milton, the creation of autobiographical materials, or materials specific to blindness, is relatively new.

Additionally, in a section in the book entitled, " Open Letter to My Lost France ", Bardot writes that " my country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims ".

The conception bears a remarkable resemblance to that of Paradise Lost ; and it is nearly certain that Milton, whose sympathies with the Italian Reformation were so strong, must have been acquainted with it.

He is perhaps best known for his role as Will Robinson on the CBS science fiction television series Lost in Space ( 1965 – 1968 ), as well as for his role as ambassadorial aide Lennier in the syndicated series Babylon 5 ( 1994 – 1998 ).

" Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire ( 2001 ) had a disappointing box office performance but is considered to be a " cult favorite " because of its unique art and animation style inspired by comic book artist Mike Mignola.

Thus C ' Mell (" The Ballad of Lost C ' Mell ") is cat-derived ; and D ' Joan (" The Dead Lady of Clown Town "), a Joan of Arc figure, is descended from dogs.

An example is John Milton's Paradise Lost, an " epic elaboration of the Judeo-Christian mythology " and also a " veritable encyclopedia of myths from the Greek and Roman tradition ".

Corum discovers one of the " Lost Gods ", the being Kwll, who is imprisoned and cannot be freed until whole.

In Hunters of Dune ( 2006 ), the continuation of the original series by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, the Baron is resurrected as a ghola ( 5, 029 years after the death of Alia ) by the Lost Tleilaxu Uxtal, acting on orders from the Face Dancer Khrone.

( The title is a reference to Lost in the Andes !, a Donald Duck story by Carl Barks, first published in April, 1949.

* Bad Twin ISBN 1-4013-0276-9 is a canon tie-in novel for the TV series Lost

The Giza pyramid complex, which includes among other structures the pyramids of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure, is surrounded by a cyclopean stone wall, the Wall of the Crow, and outside of which Mark Lehner has discovered a worker's town, otherwise known as " The Lost City ", dated by pottery styles, seal impressions, and stratigraphy to have been constructed and occupied sometime during the reigns of Khafre ( 2520 – 2494 BC ) and Menkaure ( 2490 – 2472 BC ).

In his works, Cesbron tended to illustrate and describe relevant social topics such as: juvenile delinquency in Chiens perdus sans collier (" Lost Dogs Without Collars "), violence in Entre chiens et loups (" Between Dogs and Wolves "), euthanasia in Il est plus tard que tu ne penses (" It is Later than You Think "), and working priests in Les Saints vont en enfer (" Saints go to Hell ").

She is shown as kidnapped in The Lost Hero by Porphyrion after taking Jason's memories.

He is also the subject of the novel The Lost Throne by American author Chris Kuzneski.

* In a Lost in Space episode, Dr. Smith quotes the poem in the line " each man is the master of his fate, the captain of his soul ".

The land is similar to the false paradise of Mount Amara in Paradise Lost, especially the Abyssinian maid's song about Mount Abora that is able to mesmerise the poet.