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59 relations: Alina Cojocaru, Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, Barbados, Baroque, Bond Street, Brian Howard (poet), Caesar and Cleopatra (film), Charles B. Cochran, Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner, Edward Linley Sambourne, Elizabeth Taylor, Eton College, George Orwell, Gigi, Gordon Anthony, Grenadines, Harold Acton, Hawtreys, Heinz, House of Flowers (musical), Jews, Julian Trevelyan, Kinescope, Les Jolies Eaux, List of camoufleurs, Margot Fonteyn, Mustique, On Such a Night (1955 film), Peter Farmer (set designer), Pillbox (military), Preparatory school (United Kingdom), Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, Producers' Showcase, Punch (magazine), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Rashomon (play), Rococo, Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet (1936 film), Scenic design, Sergei Diaghilev, Slade School of Fine Art, Suddenly Last Summer, Thames & Hudson, The Country Wife, The Dorchester, The Honourable, The Lady's Not for Burning, The Observer, The Private Life of Don Juan, ..., The Royal Ballet, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Sleeping Beauty (ballet), The Thief of Bagdad (1940 film), Theatre Museum, University College London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Westminster School, World War II. Expand index (9 more) »
Alina Cojocaru
Alina Cojocaru (born 27 May 1981) is a Romanian ballet dancer.
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Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon
Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (7 March 193013 January 2017), commonly known as Lord Snowdon, was a British photographer and film-maker.
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Barbados
Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of North America.
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Baroque
The Baroque is a highly ornate and often extravagant style of architecture, art and music that flourished in Europe from the early 17th until the late 18th century.
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Bond Street
Bond Street is a major shopping street in the West End of London.
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Brian Howard (poet)
Brian Christian de Claiborne Howard (13 March 1905 – 15 January 1958) was an English poet and later a writer for the New Statesman.
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Caesar and Cleopatra (film)
Caesar and Cleopatra is a 1945 British Technicolor film directed by Gabriel Pascal and starring Claude Rains and Vivien Leigh.
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Charles B. Cochran
Sir Charles Blake Cochran (25 September 187231 January 1951), generally known as C. B. Cochran, was an English theatrical manager and impresario.
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Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner
Colin Christopher Paget Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner (1 December 1926 – 27 August 2010) was a British aristocrat.
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Edward Linley Sambourne
Edward Linley Sambourne (4 January 1844 – 3 August 1910) was an English cartoonist and illustrator most famous for being a draughtsman for the satirical magazine Punch for more than forty years and rising to the position of ‘First Cartoonist’ in his final decade.
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Elizabeth Taylor
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was a British-born American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian.
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Eton College
Eton College is an English independent boarding school for boys in Eton, Berkshire, near Windsor.
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George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic whose work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism and outspoken support of democratic socialism.
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Gigi
Gigi is a 1944 novella by French writer Colette.
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Gordon Anthony
Gordon Anthony (23 December 1902 – 21 July 1989) was a British photographer, known particularly for his photographs of ballet and theatre in Britain.
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Grenadines
The Grenadines are a chain of small island that lie on a line between the larger islands of Saint Vincent and Grenada in the Lesser Antilles.
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Harold Acton
Sir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton, CBE (5 July 1904 – 27 February 1994) was a British writer, scholar, and aesthete.
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Hawtreys
Hawtreys Preparatory School was an independent boys' preparatory school, first established in Slough, later moved to Westgate-on-Sea, then to Oswestry, and finally to a country house near Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire.
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Heinz
The H. J. Heinz Company, or Heinz, is an American food processing company with world headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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House of Flowers (musical)
House of Flowers is a musical by Harold Arlen (music and lyrics) and Truman Capote (lyrics and book), based on his own short story, first published in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958).
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Jews
Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.
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Julian Trevelyan
Julian Otto Trevelyan (20 February 1910 – 12 July 1988) was a British artist and poet.
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Kinescope
Kinescope, shortened to kine, also known as telerecording in Britain, is a recording of a television program on motion picture film, directly through a lens focused on the screen of a video monitor.
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Les Jolies Eaux
Les Jolies Eaux is a former private royal residence on a headland on the island of Mustique, St Vincent.
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List of camoufleurs
A camoufleur is a person who designed and implemented military camouflage in one of the world wars of the twentieth century.
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Margot Fonteyn
Dame Margot Fonteyn, DBE (18 May 191921 February 1991), stage name of Margaret Evelyn de Arias was an English ballerina.
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Mustique
Mustique is a small private island that is one of the Grenadines, a chain of islands in the West Indies, and like most of these it is part of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
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On Such a Night (1955 film)
On Such a Night is a 1955 British short semi-documentary film directed by Anthony Asquith which lists 1955 as year of release which offers a snap-shot of the Glyndebourne opera house in the 1950s, including extracts from Le nozze di Figaro, and a fictional first visit to the opera house by an American.
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Peter Farmer (set designer)
Peter Farmer (3 November 1936 – 1 January 2017) was a British set designer, theatre artist, and book illustrator.
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Pillbox (military)
Pillboxes are concrete dug-in guard posts, normally equipped with loopholes through which to fire weapons.
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Preparatory school (United Kingdom)
A preparatory school (or, shortened: prep school) in the United Kingdom is a selective, fee-charging independent primary school that caters primarily for children up to approximately the age of 13.
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Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, (Margaret Rose; 21 August 1930 – 9 February 2002) was the younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth and the only sibling of Queen Elizabeth II.
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Producers' Showcase
Producers' Showcase is an American anthology television series that was telecast live during the 1950s in compatible color by NBC.
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Punch (magazine)
Punch; or, The London Charivari was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and engraver Ebenezer Landells.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English.
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Rashomon (play)
Rashomon is the name of several different stage productions, all ultimately derived from works by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.
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Rococo
Rococo, less commonly roccoco, or "Late Baroque", was an exuberantly decorative 18th-century European style which was the final expression of the baroque movement.
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Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families.
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Romeo and Juliet (1936 film)
Romeo and Juliet is a 1936 American film adapted from the play by Shakespeare, directed by George Cukor from a screenplay by Talbot Jennings.
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Scenic design
Scenic design (also known as scenography, stage design, set design, or production design) is the creation of theatrical, as well as film or television scenery.
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Sergei Diaghilev
Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (sʲɪˈrɡʲej ˈpavɫovʲɪtɕ ˈdʲæɡʲɪlʲɪf; 19 August 1929), usually referred to outside Russia as Serge Diaghilev, was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, from which many famous dancers and choreographers would arise.
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Slade School of Fine Art
The UCL Slade School of Fine Art (informally The Slade) is the art school of University College London (UCL) and is based in London, United Kingdom.
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Suddenly Last Summer
Suddenly Last Summer is a one-act play by Tennessee Williams.
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Thames & Hudson
Thames & Hudson (also Thames and Hudson and sometimes T&H for brevity) is a publisher of illustrated books on art, architecture, design, and visual culture.
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The Country Wife
The Country Wife is a Restoration comedy written in 1675 by William Wycherley.
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The Dorchester
The Dorchester is a five-star luxury hotel on Park Lane and Deanery Street, London, to the east of Hyde Park.
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The Honourable
The prefix The Honourable or The Honorable (abbreviated to The Hon., Hon. or formerly The Hon'ble—the latter term is still used in South Asia) is a style that is used before the names of certain classes of people.
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The Lady's Not for Burning
The Lady's Not for Burning is a 1948 play by Christopher Fry.
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The Observer
The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.
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The Private Life of Don Juan
The Private Life of Don Juan is a 1934 British comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Douglas Fairbanks, Merle Oberon and Benita Hume.
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The Royal Ballet
The Royal Ballet is an internationally renowned classical ballet company, based at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, England.
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Scarlet Pimpernel is the first novel in a series of historical fiction by Baroness Orczy, published in 1905.
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The Sleeping Beauty (ballet)
The Sleeping Beauty (Спящая красавица / Spyashchaya krasavitsa) is a ballet in a prologue and three acts, first performed in 1890.
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The Thief of Bagdad (1940 film)
The Thief of Bagdad is a 1940 British Technicolor Arabian fantasy film, produced by Alexander Korda, directed by Michael Powell, Ludwig Berger, and Tim Whelan, with additional contributions by Korda's brothers Vincent and Zoltán and William Cameron Menzies.
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Theatre Museum
The Theatre Museum in the Covent Garden district of London, England, was the United Kingdom's national museum of the performing arts.
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University College London
University College London (UCL) is a public research university in London, England, and a constituent college of the federal University of London.
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Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.3 million objects.
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Westminster School
Westminster School is an independent day and boarding school in London, England, located within the precincts of Westminster Abbey.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Messel
