#Anastasia 1952

[thephantomofanastasia]

I really wish we could have a production of the original Anastasia play.

[everythingisawayoflife]

hi i am a letterboxd junkie and certified cinephile and i am here to give you what i think the batfam’s four favorites are if letterboxd would like show up at a wayne gala or something. dont think too hard about this, its just silly i didnt TOTALLY psychoanalyse them for these picks (i did a little bit)

bruce

the godfather (1972)

singin’ in the rain (1952)

north by northwest (1959)

dave (1993)

dick

meet the robinsons (2007)

miss congeniality (2000)

grease (1978)

the lost boys (1987)

jason

little women (1994)

10 things i hate about you (1999)

newsies (1992)

dead poets society (1989)

tim

BASEketball (1998)

knives out (2019)

national treasure (2004)

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

steph

tangled (2010)

13 going on 30 (2004)

barbie in the 12 dancing princesses (2006)

cars (2006)

cass

the book of life (2014)

treasure planet (2002)

the parent trap (1998)

chicago (2002)

damian

my neighbor totoro (1988)

the addams family (1991)

brave (2012)

frankenweenie (2012)

alfred

the untouchables (1987)

dial m for murder (1954)

ocean’s eleven (1960)

west side story (1961)

barbara

almost famous (2000)

the nice guys (2016)

when harry met sally (1989)

anastasia (1997)

duke

harlem nights (1989)

romeo must die (2000)

ferris bueller’s day off (1986)

men in black (1997)

some movies i think they all enjoy together include:

mr. peabody and sherman (2014)

the princess bride (1987)

the mummy (1999)

tarzan (1999)

the sound of music (1965)

annie (1982)

shrek 2 (2004)

the lion king (1994)

top gun: maverick (2022)

[princesssarisa]

Do you also know the different names meanings of Beauty and the Beast?

Beauty's names, in versions that don't just call her "Beauty":

Belle (the Jean Cocteau film, the Disney version, and several other adaptations): "Beautiful."

Zémire (the opera Zémire et Azor): "My praise" or "my music."

Nastenka (the 1952 Russian animated film The Scarlet Flower): A nickname for Anastasia, meaning "resurrection."

Althea (the 1962 film): "Healer."

Honour (Robin McKinley's novel Beauty): "Honor," obviously, with British spelling.

Alyona (the 1977 Russian film The Scarlet Flower): A form of Helen, meaning "torch" or "light."

Julie (the 1978 Czech film Panna a Netvor): "Youthful."

Catherine (the 1987 TV series): "Far off" or "pure."

Maria (the anime Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics): "Bitter," "drop of the sea," or "beloved."

Annabelle (Cameron Dokey's novel Belle): "Lovable" or "grace and beauty."

Linda (the 2007 novel and 2011 film Beastly): "Beautiful."

Elsa (the 2012 Märchenperlen adaptation): Derived from Elizabeth, meaning "My God is an oath."

The Beast's names, in versions that reveal it:

Azor (the opera Zémire et Azor): "Helper."

Eduardo (the 1962 film): "Wealthy guard."

Vincent (the 1987 TV series): "Conqueror."

Adam (if we assume this is the Disney Beast's real name): "Man."

Koro (Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child): "Choir."

Gaspard (Cameron Dokey's novel Belle): "Treasurer."

Kyle (Beastly): "Channel" or "strait."

Arbo (the 2012 Märchenperlen adaptation): "Brave army."

Argus (Megan Kearney's webcomic): "Shining."

[sureblamethebat]

Oddly complicated history of Anastasia 1997 because I’m procrastinating

20th century fox let Don Bluth make a movie and he did one about the Grand Duchess Anastasia. Simple right? WRONG

You want to know why they gave him Anastasia? Because they still owned the rights to a little 1956 film Anastasia starring Ingrid Bergman (who won an OSCAR for her performance btw)

Anastasia 1956 was about a reportedly amnesiac girl wandering Paris who is chosen by a conman to pretend to be Anastasia Romanov so he can get the reward money only for the two to fall in love and run away together (sound familiar?)

But that’s not all! The movie was based off of a 1952 French play titled…..Anastasia. I haven’t read it (yet) but to my knowledge the 1956 movie follows the play fairly closely

In conclusion: play—>1956 movie—>1997 animated movie—>Broadway musical, thank you and Goodnight

watch 1956 movie

EDIT: I had a vague memory of another piece of this web but could not for the life of me find proof but thanks to a YouTube video I FINALLY have

In 1965 the play/1956 movie were adapted into a Broadway musical called Anya (finally a different goddamn name) which lasted 16 whole performances! Then the writers spent the next three decades reworking it off and on under four different names

So Anastasia (the play) spawned two movies that each spawned their own musical, and with that the web is complete!

[hallucination1014]

Anastasia Cebulska Vol.1952

[loiladadiani]

Photographs: 1. Grand Duke Mikhail Nicholayevich and his wife, Grand Duchess Olga Fyodorovna, with their two eldest children, Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich and Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna; 2 and 3: Anastasia as a young girl; 4 and 5: Anastasia as a young woman. In one of the photos, she is wearing Russian court dress; 6. Anastasia with her brother Grand Duke Mikhail Mikhailovich (Miche-Miche); 7. Anastasia with her brother Grand Duke Georgiy Mikhailovich; 8. Anastasia with her brother Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovichl 9. Anastasia with her youngest brother, who died at twenty, Grand Duke Alexis Mikhailovich; 10. Anastasia with her brother Grand Duke Alexander "Sandro" Mikhailovich; 11. Anastasia with her niece Princess Irina Alexandrovna; 12 and 13; Two photos of Anastasia with her fiancee/husband Grand Duke Frederick Francis III of Mecklenburg-Schwerin; 14. Anastasia with her three children; 15 and 16: Two pictures of Anastasia; 17: Anastasia's three children and their spouses: From left to right: Her daughter Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin with the future King Christian X of Denmark, Her son, Frederick Francis IV with Alexandra of Hanover and Cumberland, and her daughter Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin with Crown Prince Wilhelm; 18. Her illegitimate son Alexis Louis de Wenden; 19: Villa Wenden in Nice; 20. The formidable Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna.

The other Anastaisa

Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna was born in 1860, the second child and only daughter of Grand Duke Mikhail Nicholaevich and Grand Duchess Olga Feodorovna (nee Princess Cecilie of Baden.) Anastasia was a granddaughter of Nicholas I. The better-known Anastasia (the daughter of Nicholas II) would be born a little over a half-century later, promising to be just as indomitable as her predecessor (she did not have the chance to fulfill that promise.)

Stasi (as her brothers called Anastasia Mikhailovna) was her father's favorite child. Her brothers worshipped her. Her mother was the disciplinarian of the house. The boys were allowed to see their sister only on Sundays.

Anastasia married Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, at 19. Frederick Francis was Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, the Elder's brother. He had very poor health throughout his life; he had asthma and multiple allergies and rashes, and he needed to live during extended periods in the warmer climate of the Mediterranean rather than in Northern Europe; this was just fine with Anastasia, who would never adjust to her adoptive country or gain the affection of the people there. The couple established Villa Wenden in the South of France, and she would live in that area of the world most of her life. Frederick's homosexuality was known throughout Europe, but the couple seemed to have gotten along well. Anastasia spent lavishly at the casinos, and Frederick Francis was glad to provide her with the funds. When the Grand Duke died, she said: "On this day, I have lost my best friend."

They had three children, and all married very well:

Duchess Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1879 –1952); married King Christian X of Denmark. They had two sons.

Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1882 –1945), married Princess Alexandra of Hanover and Cumberland. They had five children.

Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1886 –1954.) She married Wilhelm, the German Crown Prince. They had six children.

Up to the death of her husband, Anastasia's life had transcurred without scandal. However, a few years later, she began an affair with Vladimir Alexandrovitch Paltov, her secretary. She soon became pregnant by him and attempted to hide that fact by claiming she was suffering from a tumor. She claimed to have chickenpox when she delivered the child. Her son, Alexis Louis de Wenden, was born in Nice in 1902. She was able to bring him up herself and wrote to him daily when he was away at school. After the scandal became public, she was advised never to live near her daughter, now the Crown Princess of Germany (she was given special permission to visit her daughter for the birth of her first grandson.)

After her father had a stroke, he went to live with Stasi in Villa Wenden. As the senior member of the Romanov clan, "Uncle Misha" received many visitors, including the Tsar. At least one of her brothers was in residence at Villa Wenden at any given time. When her father died in 1909, Anastasia inherited an enormous fortune. She continued to live as she wished, gambling heavily, going to the theater, and dancing.

World War I split the family apart. Her son was the reigning Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, her daughter was the German Emperor's daughter-in-law, she was a Russian Grand Duchess, and her Russian family was fighting on the opposite side. She settled in neutral Switzerland. The war cost her son and daughter their (prospective) crowns. After the war, she returned to Nice. There she founded a charity to help Russian exiles. Vladimir Paltov was the charity's president, perhaps indicating that the relationship continued. She lived in Villa Fantasia in Eze, which is near Cannes.

Anastasia died suddenly after suffering a stroke in 1922. She rests in Ludwigslust next to her husband. All of her children have living descendants today, including her illegitimate son. She certainly lived as she wished. Which is something that the other Anastasia would have probably done should she have been given the chance.

[radarsteddybear]

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[film-classics]

Helen Hayes - First Lady of American Theater

Helen Hayes MacArthur (born in Washington, D.C. on October 10, 1900) was an American actress of Irish, Dutch, and English descent whose career spanned eighty-two years and regarded as the "First Lady of American Theatre."

Hayes made her stage debut at five with her mother's encouragement. At nine, she made her Broadway debut, and a year later, she was cast in the one-reel Vitagraph film.

She moved to Hollywood in 1931 when her husband became a screenwriter for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where she also became a contract player. She made her film debut in The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1932), for which she received an Academy Award. Although she made a number of later films, within four years she returned to Broadway for the greatest success of her career: Gilbert Miller's production of Victoria Regina.

Hayes would return intermittently to Hollywood with featured roles in films, television, and radio, including a film comeback in disaster film Airport (1970), earning her a second Oscar. She retired in 1985 and spent her remaining years in her longtime home of Pretty Penny, in Nyack, New York, where she died of congestive heart failure at 92.

Legacy:

Was the first woman and second person to have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony Award (an EGOT)

Was also the first person to win the Triple Crown of Acting - the highest awards recognized in American film, television, and theater

Won two Academy Awards: Best Actress for The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) and Best Supporting Actress for Airport (1970)

Won the Primetime Emmy Award for Best Actress in 1953 and nominated for for nine more (1951, 1952, 1958, 1959, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1978)

Has three Tony Awards: two for Best Actress in a Play for Happy Birthday (1947) and Time Remembered (1958); and the Lawrence Langer Award  for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in the American Theatre

Won the Grammy Awards for Best Spoken Word Album for Great American Documents (1977) and nominated for the Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama for Anastasia (1956) and the Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical for Herbie Rides Again (1974)

Selected as Most Favorite Actress at the 1932 Venice International Film Festival for The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931)

Won the Distinguished Performance Award from the Drama League of New York Awards in 1936

Is one of the original inductees in the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1972

Received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1972

Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1973

Selected as one of 10 artists to be commemorated with the American Arts Commemorative Series gold medallions issued by the Treasury Department in 1980

Was the winner of the 1981 Kennedy Center Honors

Is a founding member of the Board of Advisors of the Riverside Shakespeare Company of New York City in 1981

Co-founded the National Wildflower Research Center in 1982 with Lady Bird Johnson

Won the Award for Greatest Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged, given annually by Jefferson Awards, in 1983

Is the namesake for the annual Helen Hayes Awards, which has recognized excellence in professional theatre in Washington, D.C. since 1984

Received the Women's International Center Living Legacy Award in 1985.

Recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor by the Ellis Island Honors Society in 1986

Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Ronald Reagan in 1986

Awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1988

Honored with a US postage stamp in 2011

Has a Broadway theatre named after her: the Helen Hayes Theatre on 44th Street

Served for 49 years on the Board of Visitors for the Helen Hayes Hospital, a physical rehabilitation hospital

Wrote three memoirs: A Gift of Joy, On Reflection: An Autobiography, and My Life in Three Acts

Has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: 6258 Hollywood Blvd for motion picture and 6549 Hollywood Blvd for radio

[conradscrime]

The Disappearance of Mary Agnes Moroney

February 15, 2023

Mary Agnes Moroney was born on May 9, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois to parents Catherine and Michael Moroney. Catherine had married Michael when she was only 13 years old, and they had two daughters together, Mary and Anastasia. 

The Moroney’s lived at 5200 Wentworth Avenue and were extremely poor. Due to this, one of Catherines relatives had wrote to what was known as a needy-family service which was printed publicly. Usually this service did not print out the addresses of the families, however through this a woman had found the Moroney’s address. 

On May 14, 1930, Catherine was scrubbing the floor of the house when she heard a knock at the door. A woman stated that her name was Julia Otis and she had been sent by a social worker to deal with the Moroney’s case from the needy family service. The woman was described as being well-dressed, around 22 years old, with protruding teeth and a “cultured voice.” 

After listening to the Moroney’s problems, Julia asked Catherine if she could take then 2 year old Mary Agnes to California with her, adding that she would be “fat as a butterball.” Catherine said no, and the woman promised she would return and gave Catherine $2 before leaving. 

On May 15, 1930, Julia came back with baby clothes, as Catherine was actually pregnant with her third child at this time. Julia also claimed to have arranged for Michael to have a better job and offered to take Mary to the store to buy her new clothes and shoes. Catherine was reluctant to allow this but eventually gave her permission. 

Catherine later said that Mary Agnes was extremely upset to go off with the woman, and refused to do so through tears. The woman known as Julia took Mary with her and the two were never seen again. 

On May 16, 1930, Julia wrote a letter to the Moroney’s which read: 

“Please don't be alarmed, I have taken your little girl to California with me. I have hired a special nurse to care for her. We'll be back in two months. By that time you will be on your feet again and will be able to care for her. She didn't even cry a bit. She is outfitted like a princess. In the meantime, I'll help all I can to get you on your feet. Don't worry about her or anything else. When you get this letter we'll be on our way already. As ever, Julia Otis.”

This was the last time the Moroney’s ever heard from the woman claiming to be Julia Otis again. 

Two weeks after Mary’s kidnapping, a woman claiming to be called Alice Henderson, sent the Moroney’s a letter saying that Julia was her cousin and was “love hungry” as her own husband and baby had died the year before in 1929. 

However, Alice Henderson was never heard from again after this note and police determined that the letter written by Julia and the letter written by Alice were from the same person as the handwriting was the same. 

Over a year later, in July 1931, an elder Native woman named Martha Thompson was pushing a cart to join a circus. In the cart was a blonde, blue eyed 3 year old girl that looked similar to Mary Agnes Moroney. Martha claimed that the little girl had been abandoned by her mother, a woman named Florence Fuller and begged to be able to keep the girl. The Moroney’s did not identify the girl as being Mary Agnes. 

In 1952, 22 years after Mary was last seen, a 24 year old woman named Mary McClelland saw some photos of Mary Agnes’ siblings (Catherine and Michael had 6 more children after Mary disappeared) and believed she was Mary Agnes herself. 

Mary McClelland claimed she had been adopted within a year of Mary Agnes’ disappearance by a man and woman named Charles and Nora Beck. Her dental casts were compared and through that, plus her skull and blood showed she was a Moroney. 

However, a physician named Dr. E.W. Merrithew stated that he had delivered Mary McClelland to an unknown mother on November 17, 1927, and the mother had provided a baby picture of her from 1928. This proved that she had been adopted 2 years before Mary Agnes had been abducted. 

More evidence was discovered when McClelland did not have the same scar Mary Agnes had from a previous surgery. Further DNA testing proved she was not Mary Agnes. Mary McClelland died in 2005 and the abduction of Mary Agnes Moroney remains unsolved. 

 Further more, Mary Agnes underwent an operation for a ruptured navel, but McClelland did not have the scar Mary Agnes had at the time of her disappearance.[5] Further DNA testing proved she was not Mary Agnes. She died in 2005.[1] The Moroney kidnapping remains unsolved after almost 93 years. 

[childrenofthenightt]

Can you recommend an aesthetic but lighthearted movie (aka romance/comedy/sci-fi/fantasy etc)

helloooo anon!!! i have to preface this by saying that i absolutely do not watch as many movies as people think i do i’m just a cinematography slut <3 and also lighthearted isn’t my area of expertise But!!! here is a little list of some i can think of off the top of my head <33

amelie (2002)

casablanca (1942)

singin in the rain (1952)

the secret garden (1993)

dirty dancing (1987)

corpse bride (2005)

anastasia (1997)

et the extra-terrestrial (1982)

pride and prejudice (2005)

the untouchables (2011)

the princess bride (1987)

little women (2019)

labyrinth (1986)

rocky horror picture show (1975)

these are just some of my favourites and i tried to get a pretty good variety :) thanks so much for letting me go insane <333

[a-modernmajorgeneral]

Duchess Cecilie Auguste Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (20 September 1886 – 6 May 1954) was the last German Crown Princess and Crown Princess of Prussia as the wife of Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, the son of Wilhelm II, German Emperor.

Cecilie was a daughter of Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia. She was brought up with simplicity, and her early life was peripatetic, spending summers in Mecklenburg and the rest of the year in Southern France. After the death of her father, she traveled every summer between 1898 and 1904 to her mother's native Russia. On 6 June 1905, she married German Crown Prince Wilhelm. The couple had four sons and two daughters. Cecilie, tall and statuesque, became popular in Germany for her sense of style. However, her husband was a womanizer and the marriage was unhappy.

After the fall of the German monarchy, at the end of World War I, Cecilie and her husband lived mostly apart. During the Weimar Republic and the Nazi period, Cecilie lived a private life mainly at Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam. With the advance of the Soviet troops, she left the Cecilienhof in February 1945, never to return. She settled in Bad Kissingen until 1952 when she moved to an apartment in the Frauenkopf district of Stuttgart. In 1952, she published a book of memoirs. She died two years later.

Crown Princess Cecilie of Prussia, 1908 by Caspar Ritter (German-born Swiss, 1861–1923)

[thephantomofanastasia]

THE LEGEND OF ANASTASIA

“Perhaps the myth of a surviving Nikolaevna is a lie we tell ourselves because it’s easier than accepting the slaughter of their innocent children for the sins of the parents.”

The Legend of Anastasia is a Pygmalion tale that discusses Russian history & the nuances, ups, and downs of Imperial and Soviet politics in the early 20th century. This is a rewrite and movie adaptation script of Anastasia the musical and the original 1952 French play Anastasia by Marcelle Maurette. I also took inspiration from different aspects of the Anastasia plays, films, ballets, the operetta, and stage musicals (Hartford, Broadway, the North American tours, replica and non-replica productions around the world, & one regional production).

I fell in love with the Anastasia musical (even though it’s extremely flawed) and started writing a script in 2021 of how I’d adapt it into a darker movie musical. If you enjoy Anastasia the musical, dark-mature historical fiction, and Russian history then please check out my adaption script on АО3. I hope you’ll enjoy it!

[ousontlesfemmes]

Alexandrine de Prusse (1915-1980)

Comme a pu l’indiquer la saison 4 de The Crown, les personnes royales et souffrant d’un handicap mental ont tendance à être cachées par leurs familles, par honte, par tabous, par habitude. Mais pas toutes : Alexandrine de Prusse, elle, est restée aux côtés de ses parents malgré sa trisomie 21.

Alexandrine de Prusse ou celle dont les parents ont été résolument modernes dans leur manière de penser !

Si vous avez lu mon article sur Anne de Gaulle, vous savez donc que le sujet de la trisomie 21 me touche particulièrement : mon grand-oncle en est porteur.

Si vous n’avez pas lu mon article, je vous laisse quelques minutes pour aller le découvrir, oui oui, n’ayez pas peur, c’est permis !

C’est bon ?

Alors laissez-moi désormais vous parler de la princesse Alexandrine de Prusse !

Alexandrine Irène de Prusse est née le 07 avril 1915 à Berlin. Elle est le cinquième enfant et surtout la première fille de Guillaume de Prusse (1882-1951), le fils aîné du dernier empereur de Prusse, et de son épouse Cécilie de Mecklembourg-Schwerin (1886-1954), la fille de l’avant-dernier grand-duc de Mecklembourg-Schwerin.

Elle sera surnommée « Adini » par sa famille.

De part sa grand-mère maternelle, Anastasia Mikhaïlovna de Russie (1860-1922), elle est une descendante directe de Catherine II, impératrice de Russie.

De part son père, elle descend de la reine Victoria.

Une lignée prestigieuse, en somme !

On est donc en droit de s’attendre à ce que la jeune princesse ait droit à un mariage royal, à un époux prestigieux… mais très vite après sa naissance, on réalise que l’enfant est atteinte de trisomie 21.

Sa mère, Cécile, est bouleversée et la condition de sa fille, comme l’exige l’étiquette, n’est pas révélée.

Pour rappel, la trisomie 21 est une maladie génétique qui touche toute la personne. Elle résulte d’une anomalie chromosomique : normalement, l’être humain possède 46 chromosomes organisés en 23 paires. Dans la trisomie 21, le chromosome 21 est en trois exemplaires au lieu de deux, portant le nombre total de chromosomes à 47. (Cf le site de la fondation Jérôme Lejeune).

Le handicap d’Alexandrine la retire donc immédiatement du marché conjugal.

Il aurait été attendu de ses parents qu’ils l’envoient dans un centre, comme cela se faisait très souvent, ou alors que l’existence de leur fille soit cachée.

Guillaume et Cécile vont à contre-courant et leur fille reste à leurs côtés.

Alexandrine, malgré son handicap, va à l’école ! Elle étudie à la Trüpersche Sonderschule, le premier établissement d'enseignement en Europe dédié à la formation académique et artistique des enfants atteints de handicaps cognitifs et physiques. La jeune fille est soignée par une infirmière : Selma Boese.

Elle assiste à des événements mondains, comme le mariage de son cousin : le futur Frederick XI de Danemark (1899-1972), en 1935.

En 1936, la princesse s’installe à Niederpöcking, l’un des quartiers de Pöcking. Le plus célèbre quartier de cette ville est sans doute Possenhofen, paysage d’enfance de Sissi ! Alexandrine restera à Niederpöcking pendant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale.

On pourrait s’attendre à ce qu’Alexandrine mène une vie triste et solitaire… Il n’en est rien ! En 1945, elle emménage dans ce qui sera sa dernière maison : une demeure sur les bords du lac de Stanberg, où elle s’adonnera à ce qui la fait le plus vibrer : l’art et la nature !

Alexandrine adore les randonnées ! Elle se plonge aussi dans la musique et la peinture, elle qui a un penchant pour l’expressionnisme allemand, ce que nous précise sa mère dans les mémoires qu’elle rédige en 1952.

Enfin, la princesse reçoit très régulièrement des visites, notamment celles de son frère Louis-Ferdinand (1907-1994).

D’ailleurs, tous ses adelphes se marieront et auront des enfants. Aujourd’hui encore, des petits-neveux et petites-nièces d’Alexandrine vivent : par exemple Antonia de Prusse (née en 1955) est la nièce de Frédéric, le frère d’Alexandrine. Antonia a eu cinq enfants (dont Mary Wellesley, autrice, et Charlotte Santo Domingo) et cinq petits-enfants. Nous pouvons compter aussi Georges-Frédéric de Prusse (1976), l’actuel prétendant au trône de Prusse, le petit-fils de Louis-Ferdinand.

La santé d’Alexandrine décline au début des années 1950, de sorte qu’elle n’assiste plus aux événements. Elle ne sera pas présente non plus aux funérailles de son père, décédé le 20 juillet 1951, à l’âge de 69 ans, d’une crise cardiaque, trois jours avant le décès de son ennemi durant la bataille de Verdun : le Maréchal Philippe Pétain (1856-1951)

Alexandrine mène une vie paisible, routinière, avant de s’éteindre le 02 octobre 1980 à l’âge de 65 ans.

Elle enterre ses deux parents ainsi que l’intégralité de sa fratrie.

Alexandrine est méconnue du grand public et est pourtant, à l’instar d’Anne de Gaulle, la preuve que même jadis, on ne cachait pas toujours les personnes dites différentes.

- Marina Ka-Fai

Si toi aussi tu veux en lire plus sur Alexandrine, tu peux aller regarder ces sources :

-Cecilie von Preußen: Erinnerungen an den deutschen Kronprinzen

-Gareth Russell, The Emperors: How Europe's Rulers Were Destroyed by the First World War

[barkingbonzo]

Olivia de Havilland

Dame Olivia Mary de Havilland DBE July 1, 1916 – July 26, 2020) was a British and American actress. The major works of her cinematic career spanned from 1935 to 1988. She appeared in 49 feature films and was one of the leading actresses of her time. At the time of her death in 2020 at age 104, she was the oldest living and earliest surviving Academy Award winner and was widely considered as being the last surviving major star from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema. Her younger sister was Oscar-winning actress Joan Fontaine.

De Havilland first came to prominence with Errol Flynn as a screen couple in adventure films such as Captain Blood (1935) and The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). One of her best-known roles is that of Melanie Hamilton in Gone with the Wind (1939), for which she received her first of five Oscar nominations, the only one for Best Supporting Actress. De Havilland departed from ingénue roles in the 1940s and later distinguished herself for performances in Hold Back the Dawn (1941), To Each His Own (1946), The Snake Pit (1948), and The Heiress (1949), receiving nominations for Best Actress for each and winning for To Each His Own and The Heiress. She was also successful in work on stage and television. De Havilland lived in Paris from the 1950s and received honours such as the National Medal of the Arts, the Légion d'honneur, and the appointment to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire at the age of 101.

In addition to her film career, de Havilland continued her work in the theatre, appearing three times on Broadway, in Romeo and Juliet (1951), Candida (1952), and A Gift of Time (1962). She also worked in television, appearing in the successful miniseries Roots: The Next Generations (1979) and Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (1986), for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Television Movie or Series. During her film career, de Havilland also collected two New York Film Critics Circle Awards, the National Board of Review Award for Best Actress, and the Venice Film Festival Volpi Cup. For her contributions to the motion picture industry, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She and her sister remain the only siblings to have won major acting Academy Awards.

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Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (24 December 1879 – 28 December 1952) was Queen of Denmark from 1912 to 1947, as well as Queen of Iceland from 1918 to 1944 as the spouse of King Christian X.

Alexandrine was a daughter of Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia. She was brought up with simplicity, and her early life was peripatetic, spending summers in Mecklenburg and the rest of the year in the south of France. She married Prince Christian of Denmark in 1898.

Alexandrine became crown princess in 1906 and queen consort of Denmark in 1912. She is not considered to have played any political role, but is described as being intelligent and a loyal support to her spouse. In spite of her German background, she was loyal to her new country and stood by her husband during the German occupation of Denmark during World War II.

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Holidays 11.21

Holidays

Agriculture Day (Australia)

Air Assault Forces Day (Ukraine)

Armed Forces Day (Bangladesh, Greece)

Community Day

Dignity and Freedom Day (Ukraine)

False Confession Day

Furniture Memory Day

General Framework Agreement Day (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republika Srpska)

Gerard d’Aboville Day

Good Thigh Day (Japan)

International Day of the Bible

Marie Tharp Day

Mayflower Compact Day

National Ask Her To Stand Day (UK)

National Dennis Day

National Red Mitten Day (Canada)

National Tree Day (Italy)

National UTI Awareness Day

No Music Day

Nostalgia For the Future Day

René Magritte Day

Tweety Bird Day

World Day of Cloistered Life

World Day of the Dress

World Fisheries Day

World Hello Day

World Male Day

World Television Day (UN)

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Gingerbread Cookie Day

National Stuffing Day

Pumpkin Pie Day (also 12.25)

Ritz Crackers Day

3rd Tuesday in November

Harassment Day [Tuesday before Thanksgiving]

National Entrepreneurs Day [3rd Tuesday]

National Grief & Bereavement Day (Canada) [3rd Tuesday]

National Working Daughters Day [3rd Tuesday]

Parents Day [3rd Tuesday]

Prematurity Awareness Day [3rd Tuesday]

Presidential Turkey Pardon Day [Tuesday before Thanksgiving]

School Pride Day [Tuesday of American Education Week]

School Related Professional Recognition Day [3rd Tuesday]

Independence Days

General Framework Agreement Day (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

North Carolina Statehood Day (#12; 1789)

Feast Days

Amelberga of Susteren (Christian; Saint)

Ashi Vanguhi (Holy Blessing; Ancient Persia, Zoroastrian)

Clone Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Columban (Christian; Saint)

Digain (Christian; Saint)

Dimpley Fraggle (Muppetism)

Maurus of Parentium (Christian; Saint)

Franciszka Siedliska (Christian; Saint)

Gelasius I, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Mazarin (Positivist; Saint)

Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Christian)

Quetzalcoatl’s Day (Pagan)

Register a Complaint Day (Pastafarian)

René Magritte (Artology)

Rufus of Rome (Christian; Saint)

William Byrd, John Merbecke and Thomas Tallis (Episcopal Church (USA))

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 54 of 60)

Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [55 of 57]

Premieres

An American Tail (Animated Film; 1986)

Anastasia (Animated Film; 1997)

Anthology I, by The Beatles (Compilation Album; 1995)

Anything Goes, by Cole Porter (Broadway Musical; 1934)

The Bank Busters or The Great Vaults (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 127; 1961)

Beautiful Trauma, by Pink (Song; 2017)

The Best Years of Our Lives (Film; 1946)

Black & Blue, by the Backstreet Boys (Album; 2000)

Bolt (Animated Film; 2008)

The Broken Ear, by Hergé (Graphic Novel; 1932) [Tintin #6]

Enchanted (Film; 2007)

Fanny Hill, by John Cleland (Novel; 1748)

Frankenstein (Film; 1931)

Gaucho, by Steely Dan (Album; 1980)

The Ghost of Tom Joad, by Bruce Springsteen (Album; 1995)

Girls! Girls! Girls! (Film; 1962) [Elvis Presley #11]

Golden Years, by David Bowie (Song; 1975)

Happy, by Pharrell Williams (Song; 2013)

Hell’s Bells (Disney Cartoon; 1929)

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 (Film; 2014)

I’m Beginning to See the Light, recorded by Harry James (Song; 1944)

Life of Pi (Film; 2012)

A Night At the Opera, by Queen (Album; 1975)

Pluto’s Christmas Tree (Disney Cartoon; 1952)

Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 (Animated Film; 2018)

Rise of the Guardians (Animated Film; 2012)

Robin Hood (Film; 2018)

Rocky (Film; 1976)

Runaways (TV Series; 2017)

Shadow of the Thin Man (Film; 1941)

Spy Game (Film; 2001)

The String of Pearls: A Domestic Romance, by James Malcolm Ryder and/or Thomas Beckett Prest (Short Story; 1846)

Supergirl (Film; 1984)

Sweet Violence or The Yegg and I (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 128; 1961)

Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, by Dmitri Shostakovich (Symphony; 1937)

Talk Dirty to Me (Adult Film; 1980)

The Thanksgiving Song, by Adam Sandler (Song; 1992)

They Died with Their Boots On (Film; 1941)

Tokyo Mater (Pixar Cartoon; 2008)

Twilight (Film; 2008)

Urkel Saves Santa: The Movie! (WB Animated Film; 2023)

Warlock, by Oakley Hall (Novel; 1958)

Today’s Name Days

Amalie (Austria)

Marija, Mavro, Valentina, Zdravka, Zdravko (Croatia)

Albert (Czech Republic)

Maria (Denmark)

Pilve, Pilvi (Estonia)

Hilma (Finland)

Maur (France)

Amalie, Amelia, Edmund, Rufus (Germany)

Despoina, Maria, Mary, Soultana, Virginia (Greece)

Olivér (Hungary)

Maria (Italy)

Andis, Jonass, Zeltīte (Latvia)

Alberta, Eibartė, Gomantas, Honorijus (Lithuania)

Mariann, Marianne (Norway)

Albert, Alberta, Albertyna, Janusz, Konrad, Konrada, Maria, Piotr, Regina, Rena, Rufus, Twardosław, Wiesław (Poland)

Elvíra (Slovakia)

Celso, Demetrio, María, Presentación (Spain)

Helga, Olga (Sweden)

Cade, Cadence, Cadell, Caden, Caiden, Cayden, Kade, Kaden, Kadence, Kadin, Kadyn, Kaiden, Kayden, Kaydence, Valda, Velda (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 325 of 2024; 40 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 47 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Ngetal (Reed) [Day 22 of 28]

Chinese: Month 10 (Gui-Hai), Day 9 (Gui-Wei)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 8 Kislev 5784

Islamic: 8 Jumada I 1445

J Cal: 25 Mir; Foursday [25 of 30]

Julian: 8 November 2023

Moon: 64%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 17 Frederic (12th Month) [Mazarin]

Runic Half Month: Nyd (Necessity) [Day 11 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 59 of 89)

Zodiac: Scorpio (Day 29 of 29)