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6 days ago · The Lodger is a 1944 American horror film about Jack the Ripper, based on the 1913 novel of the same name by Marie Belloc Lowndes. It stars Merle Oberon, George Sanders, and Laird Cregar, features Sir Cedric Hardwicke, and was directed by John Brahm from a screenplay by Barré Lyndon .
5 days ago · The film, based on a story by Marie Belloc Lowndes and a play Who Is He? co-written by Belloc Lowndes, concerns the hunt for a "Jack the Ripper" type of serial killer in London.
Aug 11, 2024 · No less than Alfred Hitchcock directed one of the earliest movies about Jack the Ripper when he was still making silent-era films. His movie, as many others were, was based on the 1913 novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes called The Lodger, which was based on the Whitechapel Murders.
6 days ago · Jack the Ripper has been a recurring figure in popular and serious fictions (beginning with Frank Wedekind's Die Busche der Pandora, 1904, and Marie Belloc Lowndes' story "The Lodger," 1913),...
5 days ago · Because of the nature of her martyrdom, the Church honors St. Agnes as the patron saint of girls, chastity, virgins, and victims of rape. On the day of her feast day, two lambs are blessed. The lambs are then shorn, and the wool is used to make palliums, liturgical vestments worn by archbishops.
6 days ago · penerbitdivapress on August 12, 2024: "The Lodger; Si Pembunuh di Tengah Malam Penulis : Marie Belloc Lowndes Hati Ellen Bunting, si induk semang, beberapa malam belakangan ketar-ketir semenjak hadirnya Mr. Sleuth, si pemondok—seorang jentelmen yang jarang berkata-kata—yang menyewa salah satu kamar di rumah-nya. Laki-laki misterius yang sepanjang hari hanya mengurung diri di dalam kamar ...
6 days ago · Belloc, pp. 83, 105, says that £100-£200 a year avoided absolute penury and describes “genteel merchants and second rate professional men” as scraping by on £300-£400 a year with a family ...
6 days ago · “There’s nothing worth the wear of winning,” wrote Hilaire Belloc, “but laughter and the love of friends.” These words are personal favorites and have prompted much contemplation.
5 days ago · SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PUBLISHED LONDON DIARIES. General bibliographies. 1. BATTS, JOHN STUART. Fontwell, Sussex: Centaur P, 1976. xi, 345pp. 2. CLINE, CHERYL. New York: Garland, 1989. xxxviii, 716pp. 3. COX, EDWARD GODFREY. A reference guide to the history of travel.
4 days ago · His sister Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes also became a writer. Belloc's mother Bessie Rayner Parkes (1829–1925) was a writer, activist and an advocate for women's equality, a co-founder of the English Woman's Journal and the Langham Place Group.
