Sir John Falstaff is a fictional character who appears in three plays by William Shakespeare and is eulogised in a fourth. His significance as a fully developed character is primarily formed in the plays Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2, where he is a companion to Prince Hal, the future King Henry V of England. Falstaff is also featured as the buffoonish suitor of two married women in The Merry Wives of Windsor. Though primarily a comic figure, he embodies a depth common to Shakespeare's major characters. A fat, vain, and boastful knight, he spends most of his time drinking at the Boar's Head Inn with petty criminals, living on stolen or borrowed money. Falstaff leads the apparently wayward Prince Hal into trouble, and is repudiated when Hal becomes king.
The town drunk is a stock character in Anglo-Saxon culture, almost always male, who is drunk more often than exhibiting sobriety.
Annette Crosbie is a Scottish actress. She is best known for her role as Margaret Meldrew in the BBC sitcom One Foot in the Grave (1990–2000). She twice won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress, for The Six Wives of Henry VIII in 1971 and in 1976 for Edward the Seventh.
Judith Davis is an Australian actress. In a career spanning over four decades of both screen and stage, she has been commended for her versatility and regarded as one of the finest actresses of her generation. Frequent collaborator Woody Allen described her as "one of the most exciting actresses in the world". Davis has received numerous accolades, including nine AACTA Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards.
1984 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1984th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 984th year of the 2nd millennium, the 84th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1980s decade.
Joanna Cassidy is an American actress and former model. She began working as a model in the 1960s and made her professional acting debut in 1973, appearing in the thriller films The Laughing Policeman and The Outfit. She later starred in films Bank Shot (1974), The Late Show (1977) and went to star in the short-lived television series The Roller Girls (1978) and 240-Robert (1979). In 1982, she played replicant Zhora Salome in science fiction film Blade Runner.
Fate most commonly refers to destiny, a predetermined course of events.
Our Town is a play by Thornton Wilder.
The Six Wives of Henry VIII were the wives of Henry VIII, i.e. the six queens consort wedded to Henry between 1509 and 1547.
Our Wives is a 1913 comedy short silent film directed by James Lackaye for Vitagraph Studios. It premiered on September 20, 1913.The film's story was adapted from Anthony E. Wills's three act play Our Wives (1910). Wills was a playwright and novelist who died young in 1912. Vitagraph Studios purchased the film rights to all of Wills's works in 1913.
Daniel Taradash was an American screenwriter.
Robert Alexander Atkins Jr. was an English actor, producer and director.
Maurice Elvey was one of the most prolific film directors in British history. He directed nearly 200 films between 1913 and 1957. During the silent film era he directed as many as twenty films per year. He also produced more than fifty films – his own as well as films directed by others.
"The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" is a popular song published in 1913, with lyrics by Ballard MacDonald and music by Harry Carroll. It was inspired by John Fox Jr.'s 1908 novel of the same title, but whereas the novel was set in the Cumberland Mountains of Kentucky, the song refers to the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. In it, the singer expresses his love for his girl, June, who is waiting for him under the titular pine tree. It was performed by Laurel and Hardy in the 1937 film Way Out West. This version became a UK Singles Chart hit in 1975, some years after both actors had died.
Nat M. Wills was a popular American stage star, vaudeville entertainer, and recording artist at the beginning of the 20th century. He is best known for his "tramp" persona and for performing humorous or satirical musical numbers, including parodies of popular songs of the day.
Anthony E. Wills, sometimes given as Anthony E. Willis, was an American playwright, novelist, author of short stories, and theatrical producer. A native of Brooklyn, New York, Wills began his career as an author writing short stories. In 1901 his only novel, Monsieur Paul De Fere, was published by The Abbey Press. From 1902 until his death eight years later he devoted himself to writing plays; producing nearly forty works for the theatre. Several of his plays were performed by the Wills Amusement Company; a professional theatre troupe which Wills founded in 1907. The first play the organization performed was Wills' The Lost Trail which the company brought to Broadway in 1908. After his death in 1912 at the age of 32, Vitagraph Studios purchased the film rights to his entire body of work in 1913. That studio made three silent films based on stories by Wills: A Regiment of Two (1913), Our Wives (1913), and Too Many Husbands (1914).
Bridget Boland was a British screenwriter, playwright and novelist.
The Merry Wives of Windsor is an English play by William Shakespeare which was first published in 1602.
The Little Minister may refer to:
