• Vigil in the Night is a 1940 RKO Pictures drama film based on the 1939 serialized novel Vigil in the Night by A. J. Cronin. The film was produced and...
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    than midnight. Most likely the best known vigil is the Easter Vigil held at night between Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday. The Midnight Mass held on Christmas...
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    The All-Night Vigil (Pre-reform Russian: Всенощное бдѣніе, Vsénoshchnoye bdéniye; Modern Russian: Всенощное бдение) is an a cappella choral composition...
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    The All-night vigil is a service of the Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic churches consisting of an aggregation of the canonical hours of Compline...
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    In Christian liturgy, a vigil is, in origin, a religious service held during the night leading to a Sunday or other feastday. The Latin term vigilia,...
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  • Vigil in the Night is a serial novella by A. J. Cronin, initially published in 1939 in Good Housekeeping. It tells the tale of two nurses: Anne Lee, who...
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    Carnations (serial novel, 1935), ISBN 0-450-03631-6 The Citadel (novel, 1937), ISBN 0-450-01041-4 Vigil in the Night (serial novella, 1939) ISBN 978-0-9727439-6-9...
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  • the death of Carole Lombard in a plane crash while selling war bonds in the Midwest. Stevens, who had directed Lombard in the 1940 film, Vigil in the...
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    Anne Shirley (actress) (category Deaths from lung cancer in California)
    nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her later roles came in films such as Vigil in the Night, Anne of Windy Poplars, The Devil and...
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    The Easter Vigil, also called the Paschal Vigil, the Great Vigil of Easter, or Holy Saturday at the Easter Vigil on the Holy Night of Easter is a liturgy...
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    Carole Lombard (category Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in the United States)
    Award, and selected her next project with the expectation that it would bring her the trophy. Vigil in the Night (1940), directed by George Stevens, featured...
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  • Look up vigil in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A vigil is a period of purposeful sleeplessness or watchfulness. Vigil may also refer to: Vigil (film)...
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  • Vigiles or more properly the Vigiles Urbani ("watchmen of the City") or Cohortes Vigilum ("cohorts of the watchmen") were the firefighters and police...
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    Brian Aherne (category English expatriate male actors in the United States)
    gave Aherne the star role in Captain Fury (1939) as a bushranger in colonial Australia. He supported Carole Lombard in Vigil in the Night (1940) at RKO...
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    actress who appeared in 56 feature films and 18 short films in a career spanning 21 years before her death in an airplane crash at the age of 33. Gehring...
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    George Stevens (category Presidents of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)
    the studio feared its ballooning budget, it ended up a profitable success.: 23:00, 27:00  In 1940, he directed Carole Lombard in Vigil in the Night....
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    Frankenstein The Forgotten Woman (1939) as Terry Kennedy Jr. Tower of London (1939) as Baby Prince Vigil in the Night (1940) as Tommy (uncredited) Meet the Chump...
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  • Slavonic: панихида, panikhída, from Greek παννυχίς, pannychis, "vigil" (etymologically "all-nighter"); Romanian: parastas and Serbian парастос, parastos, from...
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  • The All-Night Vigil for choir (Russian: Всенощное бдение для хора, Vsyenoshchnoye bdyeniye dlya khora), Op. 52, is an a cappella choral composition by...
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  • The Vigil is a 2019 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Keith Thomas in his feature directorial debut. It stars Dave Davis, Menashe...
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  • Good Housekeeping (category Monthly magazines published in the United States)
    1940). "THE SCREEN; 'Vigil in the Night,' a Sobersided Drama of Nursing, Opens at the Roxy--'Three Cheers for the Irish'". The New York Times. Retrieved...
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    Cushing might be good for a part in Stevens' upcoming film Vigil in the Night (1940). Adapted from a serial novella of the same name, it was a drama film...
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    November. Since the time of the early Church, major feasts in Christianity (such as Christmas, Easter and Pentecost) had vigils that began the night before, as...
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    Vigil night (spending the night in prayer) is one of the most important traditions among Shia Muslims. According to most commentators, vigil for the purpose...
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  • Sheridan, Pat O'Brien Turnabout, starring John Hubbard and Carole Landis Vigil in the Night, starring Carole Lombard Virginia City, starring Errol Flynn and Miriam...
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    Hajj (redirect from Pilgrims in Islam)
    the hills of Safa and Marwah seven times, then drinks from the Zamzam Well, goes to the plains of Mount Arafat to stand in vigil, spends a night in the...
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    Matins (redirect from Night Hours)
    significance. The quotation from Tertullian above refers to the all-night vigil liturgy held at Easter. A similar liturgy came to be held in the night that led...
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    Paschal candle (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference)
    celebrate the Easter Vigil on the night of Holy Saturday, the ceremonial preparation, dedication and lighting of the Paschal candle is one of the most solemn moments...
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    Doris Lloyd (category English expatriate actresses in the United States)
    Barricade (1939) as Mrs. Ward Vigil in the Night (1940) as Mrs. Martha Bowley 'Til We Meet Again (1940) as Louise The Boys from Syracuse (1940) as Woman...
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    Missouri (1939) – Miss Wildhack The Star Maker (1939) – Voice Teacher We Are Not Alone (1939) – Mrs. Raymond Vigil in the Night (1940) – Matron East Irene...
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