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Susan Mary Cooper (born 23 May 1935) is an English-born American author of children's books. She is best known for The Dark Is Rising, a five-volume contemporary fantasy series set in England and Wales, which incorporates British mythology, such as the Arthurian legends, and Welsh folk heroes. For that work, she won in 2012 the lifetime Margaret A. Edwards Award, which the American Library Association annually confers upon an author and specified writings for "significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature".
Born 1935 in Burnham, Buckinghamshire, Susan Cooper lived in Buckinghamshire, just northwest of London, until she was 21, when her parents moved to her grandmother's village of Aberdovey, Wales. She attended Slough High School and then earned a degree in English from the University of Oxford.
After University graduation, she worked as a reporter for The Sunday Times of London under Ian Fleming, and wrote in her spare time. During that period she began work on the Dark Is Rising series and finished her debut novel, the science fiction Mandrake, published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1964.
Actors: Paul Feig (producer), Rose Byrne (actress), Paul Feig (writer), Paul Feig (director), Jason Statham (actor), Melissa McCarthy (actress), Jessie Henderson (producer),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Margot Kidder (actress), Ed Baran (miscellaneous crew), Chris Anderson (composer), Marc Singer (actor), Christopher Roth (editor), David Heavener (director), David Heavener (writer), Louis Mandylor (actor), Dan Martin (actor), David Heavener (actor), Richard Moll (actor), Amanda Righetti (actress), Don Wallace (actor), Frank Patton (actor), Robert Constant (costume designer),
Genres: Thriller,Actors: Emily Booth (actress), Jeff Fahey (actor), Michael Ironside (actor), Kai Wiesinger (actor), Michael Neilson (composer), Julian Boote (writer), Julian Boote (producer), Michael Derbas (producer), Michael Derbas (writer), Michael Derbas (producer), Alexander Mandra (producer), Heather Douglas (costume designer), Dallas Campbell (actor), Ian David Diaz (director), Ian David Diaz (writer),
Plot: Abandoned and filled with a mysterious past, Holy Angel School for Girls is about to reveal its secrets of betrayal, jealousy, and vengeance. Rumours of haunting, paired with the desire to forget the painful tragedy that took place five years before, have kept the truth of Holy Angel's last days buried with the innocent victims. A documentary crew headed by an aggressive Hollywood agent descends upon the school to boost the faltering fortunes of her client, one of the four survivors of the disastrous fire. Hoping to capitalize on the tragedy, the agent plans to unlock the secrets left behind in the scattered ashes. But someone else has also returned to campus, and with a darker and altogether bloodier purpose in mind.
Genres: Horror, Thriller,Actors: Richard Widmark (actor), Candy Clark (actress), Joe Spinell (actor), Harry Reems (actor), Titos Vandis (actor), Fred Willard (actor), Christopher Lloyd (actor), Dick Miller (actor), Elisha Cook Jr. (actor), Robby Benson (actor), Joe Spinell (actor), Peter Riegert (actor), Robert Culp (actor), Julie Kavner (actress), Olympia Dukakis (actress),
Plot: A National Lampoon anthology of three shorts spoofing everything from personal growth films, glossy soap operas, and police stories. In the first story "Growing Yourself", stars Peter Riegert as a confused family man who throws his wife out of the house in order for him to "grow" a new path in life and raise his four children on his own. In "Success Wanters", Ann Dusenberry stars as Dominique Corsaire, a young college graduate determined to succeed in life in which in a few days time lands a job as a stripper, then the mistress to a margarine company, inherits it when the owner croaks, and is then romanced by a Greek shipping tycoon, and ultimately the US president. In "Municipalians", Robby Benson stars alongside Richard Widmark as a naive rookie Los Angeles policeman paired with a cynical veteran of the force to catch an inept serial killer (Christopher Lloyd).
Keywords: female-nudity, national-lampoon-series, reference-to-take-my-wife-please-joke, spoofActors: Christopher Lee (actor), Ferdy Mayne (actor), Beryl Nesbitt (actress), Victor M. Gover (miscellaneous crew), Mercy Haystead (actress), John Fitchen (composer), John Fitchen (writer), John Fitchen (director), Janet Richards (actress), Abel Goodman (editor), Richard Griffith (writer), Patrick Young (producer),
Genres: Short,Actors: Sherman L. Lowe (writer), Frederick Bain (editor), Robert Frazer (actor), Lee Zahler (composer), Ralph Sanford (actor), Lyle Talbot (actor), Forrest Taylor (actor), Rick Vallin (actor), Lina Basquette (actress), Glenda Farrell (actress), Donald Kirke (actor), Ruby Dandridge (actress), Jimmy Starr (writer), Jimmy Starr (actor), Arthur St. Claire (writer),
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller,Actors: William Desmond Taylor (director), Wesley Barry (actor), Casson Ferguson (actor), Fanny Midgley (actress), Mary Pickford (actress), Zasu Pitts (actress), Lucille Ward (actress), Mary Pickford (producer), Frances Marion (writer), Spottiswoode Aitken (actor), Herbert Standing (actor), Maie B. Havey (actress), Joan Marsh (actress), Lawrence Peyton (actor), Emily Gerdes (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Drama,