The Prisoner of Zenda is an 1894 adventure novel by Anthony Hope, in which the King of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation and thus is unable...
24 KB (3,189 words) - 21:16, 17 October 2024
The Prisoner of Zenda is a 1937 American black-and-white adventure film based on Anthony Hope's 1894 novel and the 1896 play. A lookalike has to step in...
18 KB (2,062 words) - 04:49, 5 October 2024
The Prisoner of Zenda is a 1913 silent film adaptation of a play by Edward E. Rice, which was in turn based on the 1894 Anthony Hope novel of the same...
5 KB (365 words) - 09:08, 4 September 2024
The Prisoner of Zenda is a 1979 American comedy film directed by Richard Quine that stars Peter Sellers, Lynne Frederick, Lionel Jeffries, Elke Sommer...
13 KB (1,561 words) - 05:06, 4 October 2024
The Prisoner of Zenda is a 1952 American Technicolor adventure film version of the 1894 novel of the same name by Anthony Hope and a remake of the 1937...
15 KB (1,820 words) - 05:19, 4 October 2024
The Prisoner of Zenda, Inc is a 1996 television film starring Jonathan Jackson and William Shatner. It was produced for Showtime Networks under their...
3 KB (202 words) - 05:16, 4 October 2024
The Prisoner of Zenda is an 1894 adventure novel by Anthony Hope. The Prisoner of Zenda may also refer to one of its many film adaptations: The Prisoner...
1 KB (162 words) - 20:14, 19 February 2020
The Prisoner of Zenda is a 1922 American silent adventure film directed by Rex Ingram, one of the many adaptations of Anthony Hope's popular 1894 novel...
10 KB (1,097 words) - 04:49, 5 October 2024
Anthony Hope (category Members of the Middle Temple)
especially of adventure novels but he is remembered predominantly for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau (1898)...
14 KB (1,658 words) - 22:50, 17 October 2024
a Ph.D in Mathematics. The title and the story's main subplot is a reference to the 1894 adventure novel The Prisoner of Zenda by English novelist Anthony...
21 KB (2,711 words) - 21:41, 30 August 2024
(horse), a racehorse USS Zenda (SP-688), a patrol vessel that served in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919 The Prisoner of Zenda, an 1894 novel by Anthony...
913 bytes (144 words) - 05:23, 28 May 2024
The Prisoner of Zenda is a 1961 American television play based on the novel The Prisoner of Zenda starring Christopher Plummer. Plummer said "We hope...
2 KB (159 words) - 22:24, 19 October 2024
Prisoner of Zenda is a 1988 Australian animated adventure film from Burbank Films Australia. It was originally released in 1988. The film is based on Anthony...
5 KB (562 words) - 04:38, 5 October 2024
C. Aubrey Smith (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
film actor, acquiring a niche as the officer-and-gentleman type, as in the first sound version of The Prisoner of Zenda (1937). In Hollywood, he organised...
30 KB (1,797 words) - 07:04, 30 August 2024
Lewis Stone (category American military personnel of the Spanish–American War)
as Georges de Valmorin The Prisoner of Zenda (1952) as The Cardinal All the Brothers Were Valiant (1953) as Capt. Holt List of actors with Academy Award...
22 KB (2,478 words) - 23:15, 6 August 2024
romance. This collection of linked short stories is a prequel: it was written immediately after the success of The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and was published...
4 KB (418 words) - 14:35, 15 July 2024
Ruritanian romance (section History of the genre)
Prisoner of Zenda (1894) which set the type, with its handsome political decoy restoring the rightful king to the throne, and resulted in a burst of similar...
13 KB (1,420 words) - 10:53, 25 September 2024
in The Roman Mysteries Princess Flavia, a character in The Prisoner of Zenda and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau Flavia de Luce, a character in the Alan...
4 KB (360 words) - 19:35, 9 July 2024
(1935) The Bold Caballero (1936) The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) The Man in the Iron Mask (1939) The Sea Hawk (1940) The Mark...
17 KB (1,449 words) - 18:43, 22 September 2024
Swashbuckler (redirect from List of swashbucklers)
Anthony Hope's 1894 The Prisoner of Zenda initiated an additional subset of the swashbuckling novel, the Ruritanian romance. The perceived significant...
19 KB (1,938 words) - 01:12, 5 August 2024
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (category Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany)
naval officer of World War II. He is best-known for starring in such films as The Prisoner of Zenda (1937), Gunga Din (1939), and The Corsican Brothers...
55 KB (5,072 words) - 22:28, 7 October 2024
John Cromwell (director) (category Presidents of the Directors Guild of America)
Selznick on The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) and In Name Only (1939). Still, everybody knew that Selznick was the real power on the picture. For the first time...
85 KB (11,120 words) - 19:52, 29 September 2024
Ruritania (redirect from Kingdom of Ruritania)
Europe as a setting for novels by Anthony Hope, such as The Prisoner of Zenda (1894). Nowadays, the term connotes a quaint minor European country or is used...
9 KB (1,019 words) - 11:42, 15 August 2024
Gregory Sierra (category American actors of Puerto Rican descent)
Nun (1969), Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), Papillon (1973), The Towering Inferno (1974), The Prisoner of Zenda (1979) and The Trouble with Spies...
15 KB (1,570 words) - 06:40, 31 August 2024
November 2023. "The Consultant". BBC. Retrieved 4 November 2023. "The Prisoner of Zenda". BBC. Retrieved 4 November 2023. "The Prisoner of Zenda Episode 1 (Original)"...
63 KB (4,048 words) - 19:33, 22 June 2024
Barbara La Marr (category American people of English descent)
his production of The Three Musketeers (1921). After two further career-boosting films with director Rex Ingram (The Prisoner of Zenda and Trifling Women...
29 KB (3,105 words) - 16:29, 7 October 2024
Rupert of Hentzau is a sequel by Anthony Hope to The Prisoner of Zenda, written in 1895[contradictory] but not published in book form until 1898. The novel...
8 KB (850 words) - 14:27, 16 July 2024
Madeleine Carroll (category Alumni of the University of Birmingham)
love interest in the 1937 box-office success The Prisoner of Zenda. Walter Wanger put her in Blockade (1938) with Henry Fonda, about the Spanish Civil War...
31 KB (2,798 words) - 03:09, 10 July 2024
Graustark (redirect from The Inn of the Hawk and the Raven)
Hope's 1894 novel, The Prisoner of Zenda, and its sequels. They were popular best-sellers at the time they were published and the original editions are...
10 KB (1,202 words) - 01:00, 1 July 2024
David Niven (redirect from Bring on the Empty Horses)
pictures followed, including Dodsworth (1936), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), and The Prisoner of Zenda (1937). By 1938, he was starring as a leading...
59 KB (7,018 words) - 20:49, 15 October 2024