"I think that squash by itself is a little blandish, but the soup fixes it by adding more flavor to it," he said.
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This one was to be based on "The Soft Centre," a book by James Hadley Chase (who wrote the lurid and scandalous "No Orchids for Miss Blandish" in 1939, as well as "Eva," which was made into a notable film by Joseph Losey in 1962).
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The Blandish family secretary, Mr. Lucie, hires the private detective Dave Fenner to help rescue Miss Blandish. After the bloody rescue attempt. in which Slim is killed, Miss Blandish commits suicide. In 1950, a French adaptation was presented in Paris starring Nicole Riche, Jean-Marc Tennberg, Renée Gardes and Sacha Tarride, which a review in Carrefour called a masterpiece.
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"Raffles and Miss Blandish" is an essay by English writer George Orwell first published in Horizon in October 1944 as "The Ethics of the Detective Story from Raffles to Miss Blandish". Dwight Macdonald published the essay in politics in November 1944. It was reprinted in Critical Essays, London, 1946. The essay contrasts the A. J. Raffles crime stories with the 1939 novel No Orchids for Miss Blandish by the crime writer James Hadley Chase and observes the "immense differences in moral atmosphere".
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Emily Blandish has been murdered by an unknown assailant, but when Honoré Lechasseur turns up to see the body, he is surprised to be met by... Emily Blandish. They soon find themselves embroiled in a revolutionary plot stretching into their own futures, with the freedom of the entire world at stake.
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The story, set in Kansas City, follows the wealthy American Miss Blandish who is kidnapped after a failed robbery, during which her fiance is killed. Her initial captors are subsequently killed during a run-in with another gang, led by Ma Grisson and her son, Slim. Ma sexually molests Miss Blandish and plans to kill her after extorting a ransom from her family. However, Slim opposes his mother's plan as he has fallen in love with Miss Blandish and she subsequently falls in love with Slim.
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20 years after the events in No Orchids for Miss Blandish, Miss Blandish's daughter and John Blandish's teenage grand daughter Carol Blandish is lodged in a lunatic asylum. John Blandish refuses to have anything to do with her as she is an illegitimate grand daughter born to his now deceased daughter and Slim Grisson when she was held captive by the latter 20 years ago. Carol is sent to the asylum when she begins to display homicidal tendencies like Slim Grisson and a tendency to attack people's eyes. Nevertheless, John Blandish, before his demise, puts his entire fortune in her name and in the care of a trust that wishes to keep the fortune and ensure that she is confined in the asylum as an 'insane person', lest Carol decides to claim her due inheritance one day.
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Gene D. Phillips of Loyola University of Chicago wrote that Slim Grisson of No Orchids for Miss Blandish was "modeled after Popeye." \- Cited: p. 273.
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The book follows events 20 years after those in No Orchids for Miss Blandish, with Ms Blandish's daughter Carol Blandish as the main protagonist, apparently alone and helpless, but with homicidal and aggressive tendencies, who as fate would have it, sets off into the world with unscrupulous people behind her for selfish reasons, and Carol tackling them for survival. With time, from being the 'hunted', Carol soon becomes the 'hunter'.
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Her career consisted mainly of supporting roles, but she also played occasional lead roles, such as Miss Blandish in both the well received 1942 stage adaptation and widely panned 1948 film version of James Hadley Chase's 1939 novel No Orchids for Miss Blandish. She retired in 1948, after her second marriage. In 1999, she took part in the television programme Reputations: Alfred Hitchcock, paying tribute to the man who had directed her sixty years earlier.
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The film was based on the novel No Orchids for Miss Blandish which had been controversial ever since originally published. It had been turned into a controversial British film in 1948. Gene D. Phillips of Loyola University of Chicago wrote that "It is a matter of record that [the novel] No Orchids for Miss Blandish was heavily indebted to Sanctuary for its plot line." Therefore, he considers this film to be inspired by Sanctuary.
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She was also friends with Enid Bagnold, but the friendship came to an abrupt end when Bagnold satirized the Baroness in the 1924 novel Serena Blandish as Countess Flor di Folio.
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The novel provided the basis for the films The Story of Temple Drake (1933) and Sanctuary (1961). It also inspired the novel No Orchids for Miss Blandish as well as the film of the same title and The Grissom Gang, which derived from No Orchids for Miss Blandish. The story of the novel can also be found in the 2007 film Cargo 200. Faulkner later wrote Requiem for a Nun (1951) as a sequel to Sanctuary.
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The Flesh of the Orchid is a 1948 thriller novel by British author James Hadley Chase. It is a sequel to the book No Orchids for Miss Blandish by the same author.
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Barondess MacLean, Barbara. One Life Is Not Enough. Hippocrene Books: New York, 1986. In 1929, actress Ruth Gordon was starring in Harris's production of Serena Blandish when she and Harris began a long romance.
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His essay "Raffles and Miss Blandish" also casts a light on how he thought an English murder was in a different class from any other murder and compares a 'partly Americanised' sensibility to former times.
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In 1931, a Missourian meat heiress is robbed by three men, who panic after murdering her boyfriend and kidnap her. At their hideout, the three are ambushed and killed by Eddie Hagan, who happened to witness the crime, and the rest of the notorious Grissom Gang. Barbara Blandish is held captive by the gang, including Slim Grissom, a mentally handicapped thug who falls in love with her. Ma Grissom, the gang's boss, sends a ransom note to the girl's father, John P. Blandish, demanding a million dollars for her return.
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In 1949, Honoré was hired by a woman posing as Emily Blandish to find her "husband", the Doctor. During the course of his investigations, Honoré met a young amnesiac woman dubbed "the girl in the pink pyjamas" by the press, and together they help save the Cabinet of Light (in actuality, the TARDIS) from a Nazi cult desperate to possess it for their own ends. He also helped the girl to remember her real name: Emily Blandish. Following this adventure, Emily and Honoré kept in touch and built a strong, platonic relationship.
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According to Phillips, that means both film adaptations, No Orchids for Miss Blandish and The Grissom Gang, received inspiration from Sanctuary. A Russian film with a similar plot – Cargo 200, set in 1984 Russia – was made in 2007.
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In 1948, it was adapted into a British film No Orchids for Miss Blandish and given a contemporary New York City setting. The 1971 American film The Grissom Gang was also based on the novel, moving the setting of events back several years to 1931 Kansas City. In 1944, it was also the subject of an essay by George Orwell, Raffles and Miss Blandish, and parodied by Raymond Queneau in We Always Treat Women Too Well. In 1962 the novel was extensively rewritten and rearranged by the author because he thought the world of 1939 too distant for a new generation of readers.
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Raffles and Miss Blandish, review of No Orchids for Miss Blandish by George Orwell Chase and Robert Nesbitt adapted it to a stage play of the same name which ran in London's West End to good reviews. The 1948 film adaptation was widely denounced as salacious due to the film's portrayal of violence and sexuality. Robert Aldrich did a remake, The Grissom Gang, in 1971. During the war, Raymond edited the RAF's official magazine and from that period comes Chase's short story "The Mirror in Room 22", in which he tried his hand outside the crime genre.
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No Orchids for Miss Blandish is a 1942 British stage adaptation by James Hadley Chase and Robert Nesbitt of Chase's 1939 novel of the same name. It ran for 203 performances at the Prince of Wales Theatre in the West End. The play starred Robert Newton as Slim Grisson, Mary Clare as Ma Grisson, and Linden Travers, who reprised her role as Miss Blandish in the 1948 film adaptation. The stage version was well received, particularly in comparison to the film, which was widely denounced as salacious due to the film's portrayal of violence and sexuality.
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She pretends to look after him, takes him and drops him midway in the city traffic, getting him killed by speeding vehicles. Max learns of Frank's death but is remorseless. He eventually learns that Carol Blandish is behind him and Frank for revenge.
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First edition, published by Jarrolds. No Orchids For Miss Blandish is a 1939 crime novel by the British writer James Hadley Chase.Bloom p.144 The novel was influenced by the American crime writer James M. Cain and the stories in the pulp magazine Black Mask.
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An encounter with the mysterious Catherine Howkins warns Honoré Lechasseur that Emily Blandish is about to die. However, even with this knowledge, can he prevent her death? At the same time, the Albino, a gangster operating in post-rationing London, has also taken an interest in Emily.
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Local goon Riley and his sidekicks decide to hit a jackpot by stealing multimillionaire John Blandish's daughter's necklace. They do manage to get her until things begin to go murky when they have to kidnap her and her compatriot, and the latter gets accidentally killed during the kidnap; and an even more deadly gangster mob headed by Ma Grisson and her psychopathic son Slim Grisson decide to snatch Miss Blandish from Riley's gang and hold her ransom instead. Soon the police are on the trail of the kidnappers, and Dave Fenner, an ex journalist and now a private investigator, is roped in by John Blandish himself to rescue his daughter and deal with the gangsters.
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No Orchids for Miss Blandish, a British gangster film adapted from the 1939 novel by James Hadley Chase, received a very hostile reception from the press. This was mainly due to the film's high (for the time) level of sexual and violent content, but also because its attempt to portray Americans using a largely British cast (including an early role for Sid James) was seen as unconvincing. The British film journal Monthly Film Bulletin called it "the most sickening exhibition of brutality, perversion, sex and sadism ever to be shown on a cinema screen". The Sunday Express film reviewer called No Orchids for Miss Blandish "the worst film I have ever seen".
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"At that time, I had thought that we were working off of an original screenplay." The film originally ended with Blandish committing suicide by jumping in the river. But after test screenings this was changed as it was felt unnecessary since "her life was lost and useless anyway" according to Aldrich.
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Chase reportedly wrote the book as a bet to out-do The Postman Always Rings Twice. The 1948 novel The Flesh of the Orchid by the same author is a sequel to this novel. No Orchids for Miss Blandish provoked considerable controversy because of its explicit depiction of sexuality and violence.Stableford pp.
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Honoré Lechasseur and Emily Blandish become embroiled in the endgame of a plot which began a generation ago, with the birth of the superhuman children known as "the Peculiar". While Emily encounters their chronicler, the elderly science-fiction novelist Erik Clevedon, Honoré is pitched against his will into an unimaginably distant future.
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200px The Time Hunter series of books is published by Telos Publishing Ltd. and features the characters Honoré Lechasseur and Emily Blandish from Daniel O'Mahony's Doctor Who novella The Cabinet of Light. Each novella is issued in a standard format paperback format, and a deluxe hardback edition signed by the novella's author.
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Throughout the novels, Alleyn is clearly a member of the gentry. He is the younger brother of a baronet, and was raised in Buckinghamshire where his mother, Lady Alleyn, continued to live. Lady Alleyn is unseen until the sixth novel, Artists in Crime (1938). In Surfeit of Lampreys (1941) Alleyn states that his mother's maiden name was Blandish.
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Phillips wrote that the novel "earned him the reputation of being a sordid Gothic writer that he still holds in the popular mind." Phillips wrote that "It is a matter of record that James Hadley Chase's lurid novel No Orchids for Miss Blandish was heavily indebted to Sanctuary for its plot line."Phillips, p. 271, 273.
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Along with Elmer Rice, Maxwell Anderson, Robert E. Sherwood, and Sidney Howard, he was later one of the five founding members of the Playwright's Company. Among his greatest Broadway successes were Biography (1932), End of Summer (1936), and No Time for Comedy (1939). His stage adaptation of Enid Bagnold's novel Serena Blandish became a success for actress Ruth Gordon.
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Also, as a form of relaxation between novels, he put together highly complicated and sophisticated Meccano models. Prohibition and the ensuing Great Depression in the US (1929–39) had given rise to the Chicago gangster culture prior to World War II. This, combined with Chase's book trade experience, made him realise that there was a big demand for gangster stories. After reading James M. Cain's novel The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934), and having read about the American gangster Ma Barker and her sons, and with the help of maps and a slang dictionary, he wrote No Orchids for Miss Blandish in his spare time, allegedly over a period of six weekends (though his papers suggest it took longer.) The book achieved remarkable notoriety and became one of the best-selling books of the decade. It was the subject of the 1944 essay "Raffles and Miss Blandish" by George Orwell.
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The production, directed by David Hayman, premiered at Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre in August 1979 and went on to appear in London. John Breck enjoyed a successful acting career until he died very suddenly, aged 30, on 8 January 1984, of Haemophilus B influenza. John is buried in Glasgow next to his parents. John Breck in the Citizens' Company production of No Orchids for Miss Blandish by James Hadley Chase.
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By 1922 she was playing Lady Lerode in the stage play John Glayde's Honour at the Grand Theatre in Derby,\- Review of John Glayde's Honour - Derby Daily Telegraph 16 June 1922 and also appeared in Dracula at the Theatre Royal, Lincoln (1926). Cast of Dracula - Lincolnshire Echo 13 November 1926 In 1929 she toured the United States in a theatrical company as an actress. Minnie Malinda Braunton on UK, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 - Ancestry.com She was Mrs Smith in Suspect, played the 101-year-old Adelaide Whiteoak in Whiteoaks at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham (1939),'Nan Braunton to Play A Centenarian' - Nottingham Evening Post 15 July 1939 appeared in No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1943), firstly in the West End and then on tour,No Orchids for Miss Blandish on the History of Bristol Hippodrome website played Jessica in Michael and Roland Pertwee's The Paragon at the Fortune Theatre (1948) and appeared in The Boy David with the Birmingham Repertory Theatre (1953).
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Nicole Rischmann (1 November 1925 – 26 May 1990), better known by her stage name of Nicole Riche, was a French stage and film actress. Riche was born in November 1925 in Villeneuve-le-Roi, France. In 1950 she starred in a French stage adaptation of No Orchids for Miss Blandish which a review in Carrefour called a masterpiece. Time described her performance as "two hours in panties and a bra, successfully pursued by drooling Gangster Slim Grisson".
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The Grissom Gang is a 1971 American crime neo noir directed and produced by Robert AldrichVariety film review; May 26, 1971 from a screenplay by Leon Griffiths. The film is the second adaptation of the 1939 novel No Orchids for Miss Blandish by James Hadley Chase; a previous version had been made in Britain in 1948. The cast includes Kim Darby, Scott Wilson, Tony Musante, Robert Lansing, Irene Dailey, Connie Stevens, Wesley Addy, Joey Faye and Ralph Waite.
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Honoré only manages to escape thanks to the aid of a mysterious stranger who identifies himself only as "The Doctor". Honoré follows the Doctor to his confrontation with Mestizer, but fails to understand much of what he sees. The Cabinet of Light turns out to be the Doctor's TARDIS, and it is used to vanquish the enemy and allow the Doctor to escape. Mestizer disappears, leaving Abraxas to complete his mission: killing the real Emily Blandish.
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Frank Sullivan is blind and having a nervous breakdown, and Max Sullivan is getting tired of him. He continues to work, leaving Frank in a house to take care of himself with a maid. Frank is one day visited by a lady, who befriends him and convinces him to relieve his maid. This lady happens to be Carol Blandish in a new 'Avatar', who has been hunting the Sullivans and has found Frank, who cannot recognise her.
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La Chair de l'orchidée (The Flesh of the Orchid) is a 1975 film, an adaptation of the 1948 novel The Flesh of the Orchid by British writer James Hadley Chase, "a pulp-novel sequel to No Orchids for Miss Blandish" (1939). The story was selected by French author Patrice Chéreau, in his directorial debut and already well known for his stage direction, as the subject for his first film. The film stars Charlotte Rampling, Simone Signoret, Bruno Cremer and Edwige Feuillère.
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She also played Miss Blandish in his Last Tango in Paris (1972), though her scenes were deleted. In 1973 she dubbed the voice of the Devil for the Italian version of William Friedkin's The Exorcist. Betti with Franco Franchi (1965) From the 1960s, Betti dedicated much of her time to literature and politics. She became the muse for a number of leading political and literary figures in Italy and came to personify the revolutionary and Marxist era of 1970s Italy.
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Here he met Elspeth March, a leading actress with the company, who became his first wife. His productions at Birmingham included The Courageous Sex and Victoria, Queen and Empress; he also acted at the Malvern Festival in The Millonairess and The Apple Cart and was in the movie Under Secret Orders (1937). Granger began to get work on stage in London. He appeared in The Sun Never Sets (1938) at the Drury Lane Theatre and in Serena Blandish (1938) opposite Vivien Leigh.
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During the war, he starred in the West End in No Orchids for Miss Blandish, which was a hit. Newton had the star role in a thriller Night Boat to Dublin (1946), then had a showy cameo role in Odd Man Out (1947); this performance later was immortalised in Harold Pinter's play Old Times. He stayed in leads for Temptation Harbour (1947) and Snowbound (1948). Lean cast him as Bill Sikes in Oliver Twist (1948), a huge success critically and commercially.
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Honoré is portrayed as a moral character – he prides himself on never having swindled any of his customers – who develops from struggling to understand and live with his abilities, to embracing them through his platonic relationship with Emily Blandish. Through the novellas, he progresses from using alcohol on a regular basis as a "painkiller", to eventually becoming teetotal. The character continued in the Time Hunter range for 11 novellas, before Telos announced that the range was to be closed due to poor sales.
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Kelly died of heart disease in 1927, at the age of 36. Gordon at the time had been enjoying a comeback, appearing on Broadway as Bobby in Maxwell Anderson's Saturday's Children, performing in a serious role after being typecast for years as a "beautiful, but dumb" character. In 1929, Gordon was starring in the hit play, Serena Blandish, when she became pregnant by the show's producer, Jed Harris. Their son, Jones Harris, was born in Paris that year and Gordon brought him back to New York.
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Honoré Lechasseur is one of two main characters in the Doctor Who spin-off Time Hunter series published by Telos Publishing Ltd. He is a time sensitive, which means that he possess the ability to see into people's pasts and futures when he is in their vicinity. He is also able to physically travel along people's timelines when he is working with a time channeller, such as his friend Emily Blandish. Honoré has appeared on some of the covers of the Time Hunter novellas.
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Set in the Ligurian Riviera during the 1980s, it features Paolo Villaggio as Ugo Maria Volpone, a rich but apparently ill ship company owner. He is surrounded by a series of relatives and friends (played by Enrico Maria Salerno, Renzo Montagnani, Alessandro Haber) who blandish him in order to inherit his estate. The shrewd Volpone, in return, organizes a hoax against them to betray their greed. In the movie, he is joined by a new waiter, Bartolomeo Mosca (Enrico Montesano), who quickly shows himself to be as cunning as Volpone in arranging humiliations.
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Sometime after the events of The Cabinet of Light, Honoré has come to terms with his time sensitive ability, and is even using it to his advantage: spying on a man named Brown who his wife suspects is having an affair. The investigation is curtailed as Honoré is called to identify the murdered body of his friend Emily Blandish. As he does, though, Emily herself turns up alive and well. As they try to investigate this strange paradox, they are caught in a shootout in the street between a plainclothes policeman and a mysterious stranger.
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The Albino's Dancer is the ninth in the series of "Time Hunter" novellas, and features the characters Honoré Lechasseur and Emily Blandish from Daniel O'Mahony's Doctor Who novella The Cabinet of Light. It is written by Dale Smith, author of the BBC Books Past Doctor Adventure Heritage. The novella is also available in a limited edition hardback, signed by the author () The series is not formally connected to the Whoniverse. It has been suggested that the Ninth Doctor makes a brief cameo in the novella, although Smith has neither confirmed nor denied it.
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The character was created by Daniel O'Mahony for the Telos Doctor Who novella The Cabinet of Light. Shortly after the novella was published it was announced that BBC Enterprises would not be renewing Telos's licence to produce Doctor Who novellas. Telos subsequently announced that they would begin producing a series of "Part mystery, part detective story, part dark fantasy, part science fiction" novellas that would continue the spirit of the Doctor Who novellas. This was the Time Hunter range, which continued the adventures of Honoré and Emily Blandish.
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The novella featured an unspecified future incarnation of the Doctor who appears to be travelling without a companion, although it is hinted that Emily Blandish may have been travelling with him. The story focuses mostly on Honoré Lechasseur, an ex-GI turned spiv who is searching for the Doctor. Although the novella is now out of print, the characters of Emily and Honoré continued their adventures in the Telos Time Hunter series of novellas. The book was not written with a spinoff series in mind, but was created by Telos after their licence to publish Doctor Who came to an end.
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However, he also wrote the short story "Nothing at the End of the Lane" (in Short Trips and Side Steps in March 2000) and the 2003 novella The Cabinet of Light for Telos as part of their range of Doctor Who novellas. These are fabulations based around Doctor Who elements rather than Doctor Who stories proper, and feature the Doctor minimally if at all. The Cabinet of Light introduced the characters of Honoré Lechasseur and Emily Blandish, who were later to star in Telos' Time Hunter range of novellas. O'Mahony had very little creative involvement with this series.
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Inn for Trouble is a 1960 British comedy film - a spin-off of the 1950s sitcom The Larkins - starring Peggy Mount, David Kossoff and Leslie Phillips; the title makes silent allusion to the real Trouble House Inn in Gloucestershire near Tetbury. The Larkin family takes over a run-down country public house, "The Earl Osbourne", but their efforts to rejuvenate business are impeded by the long-standing tradition of free beer being distributed by the local Earl. The film is notable for the final credited appearance of Graham Moffatt in the role of Jumbo and the final appearance of A. E. Matthews as Sir Hector Gore- Blandish.
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While their address may be ritzy, Greta, Mike and Loco struggle to make the rent, are constantly faced with the threat of eviction and barely make ends meet. In the series' initial episodes, Dabbs Greer portrayed Mr. Blandish, the Tower House's building manager who frequently threatens the women with eviction due to their failure to pay the rent on time. Midway through the first season, Joseph Kearns was cast as the building manager, Augustus P. Tobey. Mr. Tobey is regularly annoyed by Greta, Mike and Loco because their inability to pay their rent on time and is constantly trying to get the women evicted.
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In April 1921, Daniell appeared at the Empire Theatre in New York City, as Prince Charles of Vaucluse in Clair de Lune, and subsequently toured for the next three years, reappearing in London at the Garrick Theatre in August 1925 as Jack Race in Cobra. Daniell returned to Broadway in The Woman on the Jury (1923) and The Second Mrs. Tanqueray (1924). He again went to New York for the first six months of 1929, appearing at the Morosco Theatre in January as Lord Ivor Cream in Serena Blandish, returning in July to London where he played John Carlton in Secrets at the Comedy Theatre.
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This leads to him being kidnapped by Mestizer's servant, a hulking cyborg named Abraxas, and learn about the Doctor's apparent connection to "the girl in the pink pyjamas", a mysterious amnesiac who appeared in the East End of London after what was assumed to be the detonation of an unexploded bomb. In speaking to her, Honoré helps her regain a small part of her lost memory: her name - Emily Blandish. Honoré confronts his employer, the faux Emily, but doesn't manage to get much information before she is killed by Abraxas. His investigation lead him back to Walken's club, but he is caught in the crossfire as Mestizer attacks.
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Set in 1949, the novella tells the story of Honoré Lechasseur, an ex-GI who is living and working in London as a spiv. He is hired by a woman claiming to be Emily Blandish to track down her husband, the Doctor, and soon becomes embroiled in the machinations of a Nazi named Walken and a mysterious woman named Mestizer. Both are looking for the Doctor and something called "The Cabinet of Light", which is connected to him somehow. Honoré is mistaken for the Doctor on more than one occasion because, as a time sensitive, his aura bears a passing similarity to the Time Lord's.
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ABC wanted Aldrich to make a war film in the vein of The Dirty Dozen so he produced and directed Too Late the Hero (1970), a "patrol" film, which he had been developing since 1959. Despite starring Michael Caine and Cliff Robertson and location work in the Philippines, the film made an overall loss of $6,765,000, making it one of the biggest money losers in the history of ABC Films. Aldrich's next film for ABC was The Grissom Gang (1971), an adaptation of No Orchids for Miss Blandish set in the 1930s, with Scott Wilson and Kim Darby. It was another flop, losing ABC $3,670,000.
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Deus Le Volt is the eighth in the series of Time Hunter novellas and features the characters Honoré Lechasseur and Emily Blandish from Daniel O'Mahony's Doctor Who novella The Cabinet of Light. It is written by Jon de Burgh Miller, co-author of the Virgin Publishing Bernice Summerfield novel Twilight of the Gods and author of the BBC Books Past Doctor Adventure Dying in the Sun. The novella is also available in a limited edition hardback, signed by the author () The series is informally connected to the Whoniverse, as it includes the Fendahl, which originally appeared in the Doctor Who television story Image of the Fendahl and in a number of sequels.
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On Broadway,Ruth Waterbury, "Merely 'Julia Hoyt' of Broadway" Detroit Free Press (December 17, 1922): Magazine Sec., p. 13. via Newspapers.com she was in a revival of The Squaw Man (1921) by Edwin Milton Royle,"Mrs. Lydig Hoyt Makes Stage Debut with Faversham in 'The Squaw Man'" Sacramento Union (December 18, 1921): 25. Rose Briar (1922–23) by Booth Tarkington, The Virgin of Bethulia (1925) by Gladys Buchanan Unger, The School for Scandal (1925), The Pearl of Great Price (1926), The Dark (1927), Mrs. Dane's Defense (1928), Within the Law (1928) by Bayard Veiller, Sherlock Holmes (1928), Serena Blandish (1929), The Rhapsody (1930) by Louis K. Anspacher, The Wiser they Are (1931), and Hay Fever (1931–32) by Noël Coward, with Constance Collier.
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Little Blighty on the Down was a satirical radio comedy series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 1988 and 1992. It was a parody of contemporary life in Britain as seen in the small village of Little Blighty. (Blighty being an old affectionate nickname for Britain; a down is a chalk hill, such as in England's South Downs; the village's name is thus suggestive of a Britain which is "little" rather than "great" in terms of importance or governance, and which shouldn't be described as being "on the up"). Comedian Jo Kendall starred as Mrs Roberts, domineering leader of the Parish Council, who engaged in rather one-sided battles with her tongue-tied rival, Working men's club president Mr Blandish.
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Gail was born Zoe Margaret Stapelton in Cape Town, South Africa. She was an actress known for Tonight at the London Palladium (1955), No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948), Lady Luck (1948) and Here's Looking at You Gail was also known for her comedic abilities. She was married to Hubert Gregg with whom she had one child, Stacey Gregg, and also married to Bert Bernard. Gail was chosen to switch on the lights at the West End of London in 1949 nearly a decade after they were turned off at the outbreak of World War II. She stood in a spotlight on the balcony of the Criterion Restaurant at Piccadilly Circus, dressed in black top hat, white tie and tails, she sang her hit song I’m Going to Get Lit Up When the Lights Go Up in London.
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Bart DeLorenzo is a Los Angeles-based theater director and producer. He is the founding artistic director of the Evidence Room theater, a 17-year-old company renowned in Los Angeles for contemporary theater productions. He has directed many local and world premieres at the Evidence Room including David Greenspan’s She Stoops to Comedy, David Edgar’s Pentecost, Kelly Stuart’s Mayhem (starring Megan Mullally) and Homewrecker, Gordon Dahlquist’s Delirium Palace and Messalina, John Olive’s Killers, Philip K. Dick’s Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said, Naomi Wallace’s One Flea Spare, Charles L. Mee’s The Imperialists at the Club Cave Canem, Robert David MacDonald’s No Orchids for Miss Blandish, Keith Reddin’s Almost Blue, and Harry Kondoleon’s The Houseguests. He has also directed his own adaptation of Charles Dickens's Hard Times, Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, Friedrich Schiller's Don Carlos (as adapted by John Rafter Lee), and Edward Bond’s Saved and Early Morning.
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"David Tree: Film star of the pre-war years who worked with David Lean, Alexander Korda and Anthony Asquith". The Independent (3 December 2009) Joining the repertory company at Oxford Playhouse, he remained there, on and off, for three seasons and, by March 1937, was at the Embassy and Savoy theatres, playing Mago in The Road to Rome. In 1938, he was Robin in Only Yesterday at the Intimate Theatre during February, Ferdinand in The Tempest and Feste in Twelfth Night at Regent Park's Open Air Theatre during June–July, Edgar Malleson in Serena Blandish at the Gate Theatre Studio during September, and Gerald in Ma's Bit O'Brass at the Q Theatre during October. In 1939 he had a notable success portraying Mervyn Brudge in Little Ladyship at the Strand Theatre during February and, during March, played Christopher Hatton in Drake at the Coliseum Theatre for King George's Pension Fund for Actors.
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