A pleasure garden is a park or garden that is open to the public for recreation and entertainment. Pleasure gardens differ from other public gardens by...
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The Pleasure Garden may refer to: The Pleasure Garden (1925 film), a British silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock The Pleasure Garden (1953 film)...
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The Pleasure Garden is a 1926 British–German silent drama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock in his feature film directorial debut. Based on the 1923 novel...
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The Pleasure Garden is a 1953 short film written and directed by James Broughton, starring Hattie Jacques, Lindsay Anderson, and John Le Mesurier. Filmed...
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The Pleasure Garden (Swedish: Lustgården), is a 1961 Swedish comedy film directed by Alf Kjellin and written by Ingmar Bergman. Sickan Carlsson as Fanny...
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Pleasure Garden (1932) is a watercolour painting by Frances Hodgkins. When it was rejected as a gift to the Robert McDougall Art Gallery in Christchurch...
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a pleasure garden and one of the leading venues for public entertainment in London from the mid-17th century to the mid-19th century. The Gardens consisted...
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Bonnington Square (redirect from Bonnington Square Pleasure Garden)
the garden into a "Pleasure Garden" (named in homage to the nearby Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens), and in the process formed the Bonnington Square Garden...
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Alfred Hitchcock (redirect from The Master of Suspense)
directorial debut was the British–German silent film The Pleasure Garden (1925). His first successful film, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927),...
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during the early 1920s. His directorial debut was the 1925 release The Pleasure Garden. Hitchcock followed this with The Lodger: A Story of the London...
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Der Fluyten Lust-hof (redirect from The Flute's Pleasure Garden)
Lust-hof (The Flute's Pleasure Garden, or Garden of Delights) is a two-volume collection of music for recorder by Jacob van Eyck. It is the largest collection...
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the pleasure ground or pleasure garden was the parts of a large garden designed for the use of the owners, as opposed to the kitchen garden and the wider...
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or group of subjects. Amusement parks evolved from European fairs, pleasure gardens, and large picnic areas, which were created for people's recreation...
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Spanish City (redirect from The Spanish City)
as a smaller version of Blackpool's Pleasure Beach, it opened in 1910 as a concert hall, restaurant, roof garden and tearoom. A ballroom was added in...
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Hattie Jacques (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
provided the lead alongside Le Mesurier in the 38-minute "movie-masque" The Pleasure Garden; filmed in 1952, it won the Prix de Fantasie Poétique at the 1954...
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Ranelagh Gardens (/ˈrænɪlə/; alternative spellings include Ranelegh and Ranleigh, the latter reflecting the English pronunciation) were public pleasure gardens...
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Florence Court (section Pleasure Garden)
the top of the pleasure garden, with views of the garden and Benaughlin mountain. The structure was rebuilt by the National Trust in the late-1980s to...
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Song of Songs (redirect from The Scroll of the Song of Songs)
masterwork The Pleasure Garden (1976) concludes with a reading of the first three chapters of the Song. Rose of Sharon (an epithet in the Song) is a major...
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Crystal Palace, London (category Districts of the London Borough of Bromley)
also been used as the setting for a number of concerts and films, such as The Italian Job and The Pleasure Garden and contains the Crystal Palace Park...
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The Mountain Eagle is a 1926 silent film, and Alfred Hitchcock's second as director, following The Pleasure Garden. The film, a romantic drama set in...
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Garden is a historic walled garden in Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England. The garden was built by Thomas Parr around 1830 as both a pleasure garden...
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Jonah (redirect from Jonah and the Whale)
visit to the Holy Land, and wrote: "There is a beautiful palace built over it. Near it is a pleasure garden wherein all kinds of fruit are found. The keeper...
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The earliest recorded Japanese gardens were the pleasure gardens of the Emperors and nobles. They were mentioned in several brief passages of the Nihon...
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While pleasure gardens hosted shows of minstrelsy and burlesque, the era of American vaudeville can be traced back to 1836, at a pleasure garden called...
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the end of her life, Roshanara was sidelined in Aurangzeb’s court. Today, however, Roshanara is best known for the Roshanara Bagh, a pleasure garden located...
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Kroměříž Castle (redirect from Gardens and Castle at Kroměříž)
with renovating the palace in a Baroque style. The chief monument of Lucchese's work in Kroměříž is the Pleasure Garden in front of the castle. Upon Lucchese's...
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Ann's Well. Many people came to the area to enjoy the shore, and other attractions. There were pleasure gardens at the Georgian and Regency Seaside Resorts...
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History of gardening (redirect from Oldest garden)
heaven flow in the pleasure garden.... Like a squirrel, I pick fruit in the garden of delights." The city garden reached its zenith with the palace design...
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The Pleasure Gardens Theatre was a theatre in Folkestone in Kent. It was opened in 1886 in a building that had previously been constructed as an Exhibition...
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pieces for public entertainments, such as the pleasure garden concerts much in vogue. He revised his father's The Dancing Master and published Thomas d'Urfey's...
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