Tchaikovsky biography movie on marilyn
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Ken Russell offered the leading role of Sister Jeanne to Glenda Jackson in The Devils (1971), his follow-up rulle to The Music Lovers. Jackson refused, as she did not want to play another over-the-top sexually neurotic hona character so soon after Antonina. The role went to Vanessa Redgrave.
In a biography of Alan Bates, director Ken Russell mentions that he offered Bates the lead role of Tchaikovsky during the filming of Women in Love (1969). Although Bates admired the script, he turned the role down.
The extras playing (miming) the orchestra in the scene featuring Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky playing the 1st Piano Concerto were mostly from the Bristol University Music Department Orchestra. They were paid 7 guineas a day (£7 and 7 shillings) each - the extras in the audience were only on 5 guineas. The en plats där en händelse inträffar ofta inom teater eller film was filmed in the Music Room of Bath Spa.
Many years after appearing in this film as "Alexei", Bruce Robinson remembered it bygd remarking (of dir
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer (1840–1893)
"Tchaikovsky" redirects here. For other persons (including the composers André, Alexandr & Boris), see Tchaikovsky (surname). For other uses, see Tchaikovsky (disambiguation).
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky[n 1] (chy-KOF-skee;[2] 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893)[n 2] was a Russian composer during the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally. Tchaikovsky wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his First Piano Concerto, Violin Concerto, the Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy, several symphonies, and the opera Eugene Onegin.
Although musically precocious, Tchaikovsky was educated for a career as a civil servant as there was little opportunity for a musical career in Russia at the time and no public music edu
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Death of Marilyn Monroe
1962 death of Marilyn Monroe by overdose
New York Daily Mirror front page article, | |
| Date | August 4, 1962; 62 years ago (1962-08-04) |
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| Time | Late evening |
| Location | 12305 Fifth Helena Drive, Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Cause | Barbiturate overdose |
| Burial | August 8, 1962, at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Inquest | August 17, 1962, Los Angeles |
| Coroner | Theodore Curphey |
| Charges | None |
| Verdict | Probable suicide |
On the evening of August 4, 1962, American actress Marilyn Monroe died at age 36 of a barbiturate overdose inside her home at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California. Her body was discovered before dawn the following morning, on August 5. Monroe had been one of the most popular Hollywood stars during the 1950s and early 1960s, and was a top-billed actress for the preceding decade. Her films had grossed $200&#