Barbara Shelley, actress who became the Queen of Hammer Horror – obituary
She was a model and dancer before consorting with Dracula - and being decapitated by Christopher Lee
Barbara Shelley in Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
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Barbara Shelley, who has died aged 88, found herself hailed “Queen of the Ghoulies and Ghosties” in the 1960s when she appeared in several popular horror films, notably opposite Christopher Lee in Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966).
She became Hammer Horror’s leading lady with appearances in The Gorgon (1964) in which she was decapitated by Lee, Rasputin, the Mad Monk (also 1966), and Quatermass and the Pit (1967) among her credits. She had also appeared opposite George Sanders in Village of the Damned (1960).
Written by Mac Morey on January 14, 2021
Cody high school will be putting on the production of
Romeo and Juliet this weekend on January 15th and 16th at seven o’clock at the Wyona Thompson Auditorium.
The director, Annamarie Victor, along with Hannah Blasco and Justin Wiegand, the two stars of the performance, came onto KODI’s show Partyline on Tuesday to discuss all of the fun putting this production on has been.
Victor said part of the reason she chose the famous Shakespeare play was that it has “an underlying message of how hatred can really cause problems for a community and I just thought that we could maybe learn how to get along a little better.”
Andreas Tille
In
Julius Caesar, Shakespeare did much to render the Roman emperor’s death iconic: in the Roman Senate, Caesar is set upon by a group of conspirators who stab him as he cries out, Et tu, Brute? to his trusted friend Brutus, who has sided with the schemers. It wasn’t until 2012 that archaeologists announced that they had confidently identified the spot where Caesar was killed: the Largo di Torre Argentina, a square in the center of Rome today filled with ancient ruins and stray cats.
Forest of Arden
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In
As You Like It, after a duke is sent into exile by his usurping brother, he and his supporters end up in the Forest of Arden. It is a place of banishment, but it’s also a place of freedom from the constraints of court life. Shakespeare’s Forest of Arden had several real-life precedents: the Ardennes forest on mainland Europe was one, but another was the ancient Forest of Arden in Warwickshire, near the town where Shake
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Born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. Otherwise known as The Bard of Avon, the author wrote approximately 39 plays and 156 poems – including Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet, before he died on April 23, 1616, aged 52. Few records of Shakespeare s private life survived, fuelling considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, his sexuality, his religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others.
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