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A semi-serious literary document entitled `` The Wings Of Henry James '' is noteworthy, if only for a keenly trenchant though little-known comment on the master's difficult later period by modest Owen Wister, author of `` The Virginian ''.
* Powell is an Honorary Board Member of the humanitarian organization Wings of Hope
" Norris transformed the club's logo into the first version of the Red Wings logo as it is known today.
The Red Wings kept their design as close as possible, with a few exceptions: On the road ( white ) jersey, there is more red on the sleeves as the color panel begins closer to the shoulder.
The " Legend of the Octopus " is a sports tradition during Detroit Red Wings playoff games, in which an octopus is thrown onto the ice surface for good luck.
İstanbul Kanatlarımın Altında ( Istanbul Under My Wings, 1996 ) is a film about the lives of Hezarfen Ahmet Çelebi, his brother Lagari Hasan Çelebi, and the Ottoman society in the early 17th century, during the reign of Murad IV, as witnessed and narrated by Evliya Çelebi.
He is popular for his films from a wide range of genres such as Scarface ( 1932 ), Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), Only Angels Have Wings ( 1939 ), His Girl Friday ( 1940 ), Sergeant York ( 1941 ), To Have and Have Not ( 1944 ), The Big Sleep ( 1946 ), Red River ( 1948 ), The Thing from Another World ( 1951 ), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ( 1953 ), and Rio Bravo ( 1959 ).
The trophy is named in honour of James E. Norris, owner of the National Hockey League's Detroit Red Wings from 1932 to 1952.
Grammer is most widely known for his two-decade portrayal of psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane on the hit NBC sitcoms Cheers, Wings, and Frasier.
Istanbul Beneath My Wings is a film about the lives of Hezarfen Ahmet Çelebi, his brother Lagari Hasan Çelebi, and Ottoman society in the early 17th century as witnessed and narrated by Evliya Çelebi.
The Walleye is a farm team for the Grand Rapids Griffins and the Rockford Icehogs of the AHL, and the Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Blackhawks of the NHL.
Wings of Desire ( Der Himmel über Berlin, translated literally as The Heavens Over Berlin ) is a 1987 Franco-German romantic fantasy film directed by Wim Wenders.
** A Minor League Baseball game between the Rochester Red Wings and the Pawtucket Red Sox at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, becomes the longest professional baseball game in history: 8 hours and 25 minutes / 33 innings ( the 33rd inning is not played until June 23 ).
Wings are long and narrow ; feet are webbed, and the hind toe is undeveloped or non-existent.
The film, a war picture, was rewritten to accommodate Clara Bow, as she was Paramount's biggest star, but wasn't happy about her part: "( Wings is ).. a man's picture and I'm just the whipped cream on top of the pie ".
The following year, the Academy instituted a single award called Best Production, and decided retroactively that the award won by Wings had been the equivalent of that award, with the result that Wings is often listed as the winner of a sole Best Picture award for the first year.
It is also an Original Six franchise, along with the Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, and Toronto Maple Leafs.
One line is a variant on the old Negro spiritual " All God's Chillun Got Wings " ( and was reportedly considered for deletion for the film's current DVD release, for fear of offending African Americans ):
The standard insignia uses the design of the Air Corps Prop and Wings, except that it is all silver instead of the gold wings and silver prop of the earlier design.
In winning the Academy Award for Unique and Artistic Production it shared what is now the Best Picture award with the movie Wings.
Currently, Perth is represented by the Blue Wings in the Eastern Ontario Junior " B " Hockey League.
It remained the official airline of Walt Disney World, which even had an Eastern-themed ride at its park ( If You Had Wings in Tomorrowland where Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin is currently located ), until its contracting route network forced Disney to switch to Delta shortly before Eastern's 1989 bankruptcy filing.

Wings and 1927
Other films focused on the drama inherent in the new technology and fading chivalry of aerial combat in films such as Wings ( 1927 ), Hell's Angels ( 1930 ) and The Dawn Patrol ( 1930 and 1938 versions ).
Wings was an immediate success, premiering on August 12, 1927 at the Criterion Theatre in New York and playing 63 weeks before being moved to second-run theaters.
Instead, there were two separate awards for production, the Most Artistic Quality of Production, won by Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans ( 1927 ) and the Most Outstanding Production, won by Wings as well as Best Effects, Engineering Effects for Roy Pomeroy.
Only three films have won Best Picture without their directors being nominated ( though only one since the early 1930s ): Wings ( 1927 / 28 ), Grand Hotel ( 1931 / 32 ), and Driving Miss Daisy ( 1989 ).
She appeared in 46 silent films and 11 talkies, including hits such as Mantrap ( 1926 ), It ( 1927 ) and Wings ( 1927 ).
In 1927 Bow appeared in six Paramount releases: It, Children of Divorce, Rough House Rosie, Wings, Hula and Get Your Man.
Wings ( film ) | Wings ( 1927 )
In 1927, Bow starred in Wings, a war picture rewritten to accommodate her, as she was Paramount's biggest star, but wasn't happy about her part: "( Wings is ).. a man's picture and I'm just the whipped cream on top of the pie ".
* Wings ( 1927 ); Extant
* Wings ( film ), a 1927 film about World War I fighter pilots
* Ernest Lough sold millions with his rendition of " O for the Wings of a Dove " in 1927, recorded when he was 16.
In 1927, the Temple Choir under George Thalben-Ball became world famous with its recording of Mendelssohn's Hear my Prayer, including the solo " O for the Wings of a Dove " sung by Ernest Lough.
Detroit Olympia | Olympia Stadium, home of the Detroit Red Wings from 1927 to 1979
Wings ( 1927 ) earns the first Academy Award for Best Picture.
Wellman told Cowan that he " hated the infantry " because of his own experiences as a fighter pilot in World War I, and because the infantry commander assigned by the War Department to assist in the making of Wellman's acclaimed Wings in 1927 so disliked the Air Corps that he had attempted to renege on the cooperation and obstruct the filming.
Although Ronald Coleman was originally to be cast as the lead actor in The Dawn Patrol, Richard Barthelmess, who had gained fame as a pilot in Wings ( 1927 ) became available.
Films shown in roadshow format before 1953 included silent epics such as The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ), Intolerance ( 1916 ), The Covered Wagon ( 1923 ), The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1923 ), The Ten Commandments ( 1923 ), Ben-Hur ( 1925 ), The Big Parade ( 1925 ), and other films such as The Phantom of the Opera ( 1925 ), the first Oscar winner Wings ( 1927 ), the very first feature length part-talkie The Jazz Singer ( 1927 ), the silent film Chicago ( 1927 ) ( based on the play that inspired the Kander and Ebb Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film ), Show Boat ( 1929 ) ( a part-talkie based not on the 1927 stage musical but on Edna Ferber's original novel from which the musical was adapted ), The Desert Song ( 1929 ), Rio Rita ( also 1929 ), Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross ( 1932 ), the all-star Oscar winning Grand Hotel ( 1932 ), the Oscar-winning biopic The Great Ziegfeld ( 1936 ), the classic films Lost Horizon ( 1937 ), Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), Fantasia ( 1940 ), For Whom the Bell Tolls ( 1943 ) and The Song of Bernadette ( 1943 ), the wartime tear-jerker Since You Went Away ( 1944 ), Samuel Goldwyn's Oscar-winning postwar epic The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ), the flamboyant Western Duel in the Sun ( also 1946 ), and the biopic Joan of Arc starring Ingrid Bergman ( 1948 ), as well as some other DeMille epics, such as Samson and Delilah ( 1949 ).
Ernest Arthur Lough ( 17 November 1911-22 February 2000 ) was an English boy soprano who sang the famous solo O for the Wings of a Dove from Mendelssohn's Hear My Prayer for the Gramophone Company ( later HMV and then EMI ) in 1927.

Wings and silent
* Paramount has retained the rights to some of its silent films, including 1927's Wings, the first Academy Award winner for Best Picture, and Josef von Sternberg films Underworld, The Last Command, and The Docks of New York.
Wings was the first of two silent films, the other being The Artist at the 84th Academy Awards in 2012, to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Lautner's client was the famous movie director Lucien Hubbard, the winner of the very first " Best Picture " Oscar for the silent movie " Wings ".
It is similar to the action sequences of the 1927 silent film Wings, but the story shown before each mission is different from the plot of the movie.
" Wings " received the first Academy Award for " Best Production of the Year " for 1927 – 1928, the only silent film ever to win this honor.

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