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Sappho ( /ˈsæfoʊ/; Attic Greek Σαπφώ [sapːʰɔː], Aeolic Greek Ψάπφω [psapːʰɔː]) was an Ancient Greek poet, born on the island of Lesbos. Later Greeks included her in the list of nine lyric poets. Her birth was sometime between 630 and 612 BC, and it is said that she died around 570 BC, but little is known for certain about her life. The bulk of her poetry, which was well-known and greatly admired throughout antiquity, has been lost, but her immense reputation has endured through surviving fragments.
The only contemporary source for Sappho's life is her own poetry, and scholars are skeptical of reading it biographically. Later biographical accounts are also unreliable.
Strabo indicates that Sappho was the contemporary of Alcaeus of Mytilene (born ca. 620 BC) and Pittacus (ca. 645 - 570 BC), and according to Athenaeus, she was the contemporary of Alyattes of Lydia (ca. 610 - 560 BC). The Suda, a 10th century Byzantine encyclopædia, dates her to the 42nd Olympiad (612/608 BC), meaning either that she was born then or that this was her floruit. The versions of Eusebius state that she was famous by the first or second year of the 45th or 46th Olympiad (between 600 and 594 BC). Taken together, these references make it likely that she was born ca. 620 BC, or a little earlier.
Actors: Fletcher N. Brown (director), Philipp Morozov (editor), Fletcher N. Brown (writer), Fletcher N. Brown (composer), Roxy Bugler (actor), Holly Ashman (actor), Simon Willshire (actor), Orwi Imanuel Ameh (actor), Anna Nicholson (actor), Natasha Atherton (actor), Lauren Buckley (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Introducing 'Song of Seasons,' a short lyrical drama reminiscent of the ancient Greek tragedies... With the end of days looming ominously over humankind, naught but a lover's serenade offers hope of a new dawn upon the earth. Join the mortal Sappho, whose courtship of the beautiful Voluptas, goddess of pleasure, takes her to the very edge of doom. Star crossed by violence and deceit, their fate is sealed by sacrifice and thereby elevated to truly Elysian heights.
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Jonathan Gray (miscellaneous crew), André Des Rochers (miscellaneous crew), Terry Leonard (producer), Krysten Ritter (actress), Robert Bogue (actor), Kathy Searle (actress), Monet Mazur (actress), Anne Elora Keller (miscellaneous crew), Carlos Velazquez (actor), Carlos Velazquez (producer), Jason Behr (actor), María Jurado (actress), Alexander Norton (miscellaneous crew), Marlo Carroll (miscellaneous crew), Mike Landry (producer),
Plot: Jack Frost's playboy lifestyle in New York City is rocked by the news that his childhood love is engaged. Amidst his friendships with Scotch Evans, a ribald nightlife correspondent; Ozzy, a troubled but loving heroin addict; and Kate Hardwick, a bewitching, quick-witted reporter, Jack sinks deeper into depression. Haunted by lost-love and his mother's suicide, Jack plunges into whiskey and self-destruction . . . until his eleven-year-old neighbor, Sophie, an unlikely mother figure, leads Jack back into himself, and out of the nostalgia and excess that consumed him.
Keywords: character-name-in-title, one-word-titleActors: Bjørn Puggaard-Müller (actor), Arthur Jensen (actor), Lizzi Weischenfeldt (editor), Paul Hagen (actor), Valsø Holm (actor), Karl Stegger (actor), Holger Vistisen (actor), Benny Hansen (actor), Judy Gringer (actress), Ole Monty (actor), Ulf Pilgaard (actor), Søren Strømberg (actor), Ole Høyer (composer), Gotha Andersen (actor), John Hilbard (director),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Neola Graef (actress), John Bath (composer), Antoinette Maynard (actress), Alain Patrick (writer), Alain Patrick (director), Luanne Roberts (actress), Ed De Priest (producer), Monica Williams (actress), Walt Phillips (actor), E. 'Red' Schryver (editor), E. 'Red' Schryver (producer), Rosemary Chalmers (actress), Fred Hansen (actor), Ron Foreman (costume designer), Robin Courtney (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Enrico Maria Salerno (actor), Tina Louise (actress), Jacques Castelot (actor), Nino Baragli (editor), Elke Sommer (actress), Angelo Francesco Lavagnino (composer), Gaia Romanini (costume designer), Ennio De Concini (writer), Riccardo Garrone (actor), Luciano Martino (writer), Alberto Farnese (actor), Pietro Francisci (director), Pietro Francisci (writer), Pietro Francisci (writer), Gianni Hecht Lucari (producer),
Genres: Adventure, History,Actors: Scotty Beckett (actor), Don Ameche (actor), John George (actor), Bud Geary (actor), Brooks Benedict (actor), Frank Austin (actor), Oscar Apfel (actor), Yakima Canutt (actor), Johnny Carpenter (actor), Hank Bell (actor), Frank Conroy (actor), Ray Corrigan (actor), Alan Dinehart (actor), Jay Eaton (actor), Robert Gleckler (actor),
Plot: Jim Carter moves in on the McWade's carnival concession which shows scenes from Dante's "Inferno". He makes it a going concern, marrying Betty along the way. An inspector calls the amusement pier unsafe but Carter bribes him. The pier collapses, leading to the inspector's suicide, injury to Pop McWade, trial for Carter, and Betty's leaving him. Carter starts over with an unsafe floating casino.
Keywords: 1930s, accident, amusement-park, arcade, auction, author-name-in-title, baby, baseball, blackface, briberyActors: Gertrude Astor (actress), Douglas Gerrard (actor), George Jessel (actor), Theodore Lorch (actor), James Quinn (actor), Tiny Sandford (actor), Anthony Coldeway (writer), Byron Haskin (director), Jack Santoro (actor), Audrey Ferris (actress), Akka the Chimp (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Cyril Raymond (actor), H.B. Parkinson (producer), Alphonse Daudet (writer), W. Courtney Rowden (writer), Hilda Moore (actress),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Charles Dickens (writer), H.B. Parkinson (producer), Clive Brook (actor), Cameron Carr (actor), W. Courtney Rowden (director), H.B. Parkinson (director), Victor Hugo (writer), Alphonse Daudet (writer), Douglas Munro (actor), Milton Rosmer (actor), J. Fisher White (actor), Sybil Thorndike (actress), Lyn Harding (actor), George Wynn (director), Cosmo Kyrle Bellew (actor),
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Keywords: based-on-novelActors: Samuel Goldwyn (miscellaneous crew), Johannes Riemann (actor), Albert Steinrück (actor), Alexandre Dumas père (writer), Dimitri Buchowetzki (director), Alfred Abel (actor), Pola Negri (actress), Elsa Wagner (actress), Dimitri Buchowetzki (writer), Helga Molander (actress), Otto Treptow (actor), Ellinor Gynt (actress),
Genres: Drama,