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    Elmer Gantry is a 1927 satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis that presents aspects of the religious activity of the United States in fundamentalist...
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  • Elmer Gantry is a 1960 American drama film about a confidence man and a female evangelist selling religion to small-town America. Adapted by director Richard...
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  • Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera, at various times also known as Velvet Opera, was a British rock band active in the late 1960s. Members of the band, Richard...
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  • Elmer Gantry is a 1927 novel by Sinclair Lewis. Elmer Gantry may also refer to: Elmer Gantry (film), a 1960 adaptation of the novel Elmer Gantry (opera)...
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  • as a gantry when used as a support framework Gantry Plaza State Park, in New York City Elmer Gantry, a 1927 novel by Sinclair Lewis Elmer Gantry (film)...
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    (1953), Young Bess (1953), The Robe (1953), The Big Country (1958), Elmer Gantry (1960), Spartacus (1960), and the 1969 film The Happy Ending, for which...
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  • vocalist Elmer Gantry (real name Dave Terry) and guitarist Kirby Gregory (real name Graham Gregory). Gantry had been the frontman of Elmer Gantry's Velvet...
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    popular novels: Main Street (1920), Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), Elmer Gantry (1927), Dodsworth (1929), and It Can't Happen Here (1935). Several of...
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  • Elmer Gantry is a 2007 American opera by Robert Aldridge to a libretto by Herschel Garfein based on the 1927 novel by Sinclair Lewis of the same name....
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    Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing a vengeful prostitute in Elmer Gantry (1960). She played the lead role of Shirley Partridge, the widowed mother...
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    each in very disparate roles. Playing a charismatic biblical con-man in Elmer Gantry in 1960 won him the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for Best Actor...
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    best known for Blackboard Jungle (1955), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Elmer Gantry (1960; for which he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay)...
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    Desperate Hours, Trial, Peyton Place, Some Came Running, A Summer Place, Elmer Gantry, The Man from Laramie, Barabbas, Lawrence of Arabia, Nevada Smith and...
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    author in the United States in the 1920s, with his books Main Street and Elmer Gantry becoming best-sellers. Best-selling books outside the US included the...
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  • film Abigail Elmer Fudd, a Looney Tunes character Elmer Elephant, the titular character of a Disney Silly Symphonies short Elmer Gantry, the title character...
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    Year Actor Role(s) Film Ref. 1960 (33rd) Burt Lancaster ‡ Elmer Gantry Elmer Gantry Trevor Howard Walter Morel Sons and Lovers Jack Lemmon C. C. "Bud"...
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  • Award nomination for Best Actress in a Principal Role in a Musical for Elmer Gantry at the Marriott Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. She performed on Off-Broadway...
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  • (Italy) Strangers When We Meet July 1960 7 July The Brides of Dracula Elmer Gantry Inherit the Wind 10 July 13 Ghosts The Rat Race 13 July The Lost World...
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    beginning with a role on Playhouse 90. Page made her movie debut in 1960 in Elmer Gantry. She also recorded the theme song for Boys Night Out, in which she played...
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  • Center in 2013. In 2014, Morrissey played Sharon Falconer in a play of Elmer Gantry at Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia and Lizzie Borden in Portland...
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  • each in very disparate roles. Playing a charismatic biblical con-man in Elmer Gantry in 1960 won him the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for Best Actor...
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  • Woolfson – keyboards, vocals Chris Rainbow – vocals Lenny Zakatek – vocals Elmer Gantry – vocals Colin Blunstone – vocals The English Chorale – vocals Bob Howes...
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  • by English drummer Cozy Powell, released in 1981. Cozy Powell – drums Elmer Gantry – lead vocals on "Right Side", "Jekyll & Hyde" and "Sooner or Later"...
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    other plays including Temptation (1989), The Heidi Chronicles (1991), Elmer Gantry (1991), Tartuffe (1999), Old Money (2000), The Hollow Lands (2000), Be...
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  • such as Arthur Brown, Steve Harley, Gary Brooker, Dave Terry a.k.a. Elmer Gantry, Vitamin Z's Geoff Barradale, and Marmalade's Dean Ford, recorded only...
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  • Garfein is widely known for his libretto written for Robert Aldridge's Elmer Gantry, which won two 2012 Grammy Awards including "Best Contemporary Classical...
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    the 1960 Hitchcock thriller Psycho and a reverend in the 1960 drama Elmer Gantry starring Burt Lancaster, but though he technically played a supporting...
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    tricks in literature Confidence tricks in film and television Counterfeit Elmer Gantry (novel) – fictional religious cons Gaslighting Graft Hijacked journals...
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    band—who former vocalist Dave Walker said were "very good"—consisted of Elmer Gantry (Dave Terry, formerly of Velvet Opera: vocals, guitar), Kirby Gregory...
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  • Lovers The Alamo The Sundowners Inherit the Wind Sunrise at Campobello Elmer Gantry Home from the Hill The Apartment Wild River The Dark at the Top of the...
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