Witness for the Prosecution

Witness for the Prosecution is a play by Agatha Christie, which has been twice made into a film. It tells the story of Sir Wilfred, a master criminal barrister who takes the case of a man on trial for murder. While he expects that the defendant's wife will stand up for him in court, she unexpectedly agrees to appear for the prosecution in a trial while multiple twists and turns occur that will test the lawyer's skill to the limit. The play itself was based on one of Christie's short stor ...

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The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. The winners are chosen by the Academy membership as a whole. Following the Academy's practice, the films below are listed by release year: for example, the Oscar for "Best Supporting Actress in 1999" was announced during the award ceremony held in 2000. Winners are listed first, followed by the ...

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• Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress - 1950s
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• Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress - 1980s
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The Academy Award for Directing is an accolade given to the person that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences feels was best director of the past year. The expression of approval is given, along with an Oscar Statuette and a chance for the director to speak, at an annual Academy Awards ceremony. All but twenty of the seventy-seven Oscars for best director (before 2006) were for films that also won the award for best picture. The Academy has selected one director from five nominees each year for the past seven decades ...

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• Academy Award for Directing - 1950s
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• Academy Award for Directing - 1980s
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A witness is someone who has first-hand knowledge about a crime or dramatic event through their senses (e.g. seeing, hearing, smelling, touching) and can help certify important considerations to the crime or event. A witness who has seen the event first-hand is known as an eye-witness. Witnesses are often called before a court of law to testify in trials. A subpoena commands a person to appear. In many jurisdictions it is compulsory to comply, to take an oath, and tell the truth, under penalty of perjury. I ...

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The Academy Award for Film Editing was first given for films issued in 1934. Academy Award for Film Editing - 1930s. 1934 Eskimo - Conrad A. Nervig Cleopatra - Anne Bauchens One Night of Love - Gene Milford 1935 A Midsummer Night's Dream - Ralph Dawson David Copperfield - Robert J. Kern The Informer - George Hively Les Misérables - Barbara McLean L ...

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• Academy Award for Film Editing - 1950s
• Academy Award for Film Editing - 1960s
• Academy Award for Film Editing - 1970s
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Billy Wilder (June 22, 1906–March 27, 2002) had a career as a screenwriter, film director and producer that spanned more than 50 years and more than 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant film-makers during Hollywood's old age and many of his films achieved both critical and public acclaim. Billy Wilder - Life and work. He was born Samuel Wilder in Sucha, Austria-Hungary (now Poland). His parents, Max Wilder and Eugenia Dittler, were Jewish. He started work in late 1920s as sc ...

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Charles Laughton (July 1, 1899 - December 15, 1962) was a British-born American stage and film actor of partial Irish Catholic extraction. Born in 1899 in Scarborough, Yorkshire, Laughton attended the famed Jesuit school, Stonyhurst College, in Lancashire, England, and later he served during World War I and was gassed, which may have had something to do with his untimely death later in life from cancer at the age of only 62. At first he went into the family business, not making his first stage appearance until 1926. Desp ...

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The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; the awards are voted on by other people within the industry. As is the customary practice in Wikipedia for listing Oscar results, the winner of the award for that year is listed first, followed by the runners-up. The films below are listed with their production year, so fo ...

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Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, DBE (September 15, 1890 – January 12, 1976), was a British crime fiction writer. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott. Agatha Christie is possibly the world's best-known mystery writer and all-time best-selling author of any genre other than William Shakespeare. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 45 foreign languages (as of 2003). As an example of her broad appeal, she is the all-time best-selling author in ...

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Verdict of Twelve is a novel by Raymond Postgate first published in 1940 about a trial by jury seen through the eyes of each of the twelve jurors as they listen to the evidence and try to reach a unanimous verdict of either “Guilty” or “Not guilty”. Verdict of Twelve is set in England in the late 1930s (Hitler, Nazism and in particular anti-Semitism are referred to several times). Up to the final pages of the novel, till after the trial is over, the reader does not know if the defendant—a mid ...

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Co-authored works: 1931 The Floating Admiral written together with G. K. Chesterton, Dorothy L. Sayers and certain other members of the Detection Club. Plays adapted into novels by Charles Osborne: 1998 Black Coffee 2001 The Unexpected Guest 2003 The Spider's Web Works written as Mary Westmacott: 1930 Giant's Bread 1934 Unfinished Portrait 1944 Absent in the Spring 1948 The Rose a ...

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Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie - Biography, Agatha Christie - Works, Agatha Christie - Movie Adaptions, Agatha Christie - Television Plays, Agatha Christie - Video Games, Agatha Christie - Agatha Christie in fiction

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He was born Samuel Wilder in Sucha, Austria-Hungary (now Poland). His parents, Max Wilder and Eugenia Dittler, were Jewish. He started work in late 1920s as screenwriter in Germany, but allegedly he was also a taxi dancer, then left for France, then the United States after the rise of Adolf Hitler. His mother, grandmother, and stepfather all died at Auschwitz. Sharing an apartment with Peter Lorre, he broke into writing in Hollywood with classics like Ninotchk ...

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Co-authored works: 1931 The Floating Admiral written together with G. K. Chesterton, Dorothy L. Sayers and certain other members of the Detection Club. Writing with Charles Osborne: 1998 Black Coffee 2001 The Unexpected Guest 2003 The Spider's Web Works written as Mary Westmacott: 1930 Giant's Bread 1934 Unfinished Portrait 1944 Absent in the Spring 1948 The Rose and the Yew Tree< ...

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Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie - Biography, Agatha Christie - Works, Agatha Christie - Movie Adaptions, Agatha Christie - Television Plays, Agatha Christie - Video Games, Agatha Christie - Agatha Christie in fiction

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Best Production 1927-28 Wings - Paramount Famous Lasky - Lucien Hubbard The Racket - Caddo, United Artists - Howard Hughes Seventh Heaven - Fox - William Fox Best Picture, Unique and Artistic Production also known as "Best Artistic Quality of Production" was only presented in the first year. 1927-28 Sunrise - Fox - William Fox Chang - Paramount - Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack The Crowd - ...

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The full list of fictional detectives would be immense. The format is well suited to dramatic presentation, and so there are also many television and film detectives, besides those appearing in adaptations of novels in this genre. Fictional detectives generally fall within one of four domains: the amateur or dilettante detective (Marple, Jessica Fletcher); the private investigator (Holmes, Marlowe, Spade, Rockford); the police detective (Ironside, Kojak, Morse); more recently, the medical examiner, criminal psychologist, forensic evidence expe ...

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Detective fiction, Detective fiction - Whodunit?, Detective fiction - The Private Eye Novel, Detective fiction - Cosies, Detective fiction - Police procedural, Detective fiction - Other subgenres, Detective fiction - Suspense - the core tenet of detective fiction, Detective fiction - The unresolved problem of plausibility and coincidence, Detective fiction - Famous fictional detectives, Detective fiction - Amateurs, Detective fiction - Private eyes, Detective fiction - Police detectives, Detective fiction - Medical examiners etc., Detective fiction - Others, Detective fiction - And for younger readers, Detective fiction - Historical, Detective fiction - In science fiction and fantasy, Detective fiction - Other notable authors, Detective fiction - Detective debuts and swansongs, Detective fiction - Books, Detective fiction - External resources

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She was born Edith Claire Posener in Searchlight, Nevada, the daughter of Max Posener and Anna E. Levy. Whether her parents were married is unknown, but in 1901, her mother married Frank Spare and Edith was passed off as his child. Though her birth parents were Jewish, Head would claim to be a Catholic later in life. She graduated from university in 1919 and became a school teacher in Los Angeles, California. On July 25, 1923, she married Charles Head, whom she would divorce in 1936. With no experience, Head answered an adverti ...

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Unlike her professional celebrity, which was carefully crafted and maintained, Dietrich's personal life was kept out of public view. She married once, to director's assistant Rudolf Sieber, a Roman Catholic who later became a director at Paramount Pictures in France. Her only child, Maria Sieber (married name Maria Riva), was born on December 13, 1924. When Maria Riva gave birth to a son in 1948, Dietrich was dubbed "the world's most glamorous grandmother." The great love of the actress's life, however, was the French actor and milita ...

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Marlene Dietrich, Marlene Dietrich - Early life, Marlene Dietrich - Hollywood, Marlene Dietrich - The singer, Marlene Dietrich - 1930s and World War II, Marlene Dietrich - Personal life, Marlene Dietrich - Stage and cabaret, Marlene Dietrich - Final years, Marlene Dietrich - Her place in Hollywood, Marlene Dietrich - Filmography, Marlene Dietrich - Radio

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Rosalia van Beer is a widowed, childless woman who gets into money when all the relatives of her late husband unexpectedly die in a plane crash. The only surviving member of the family is her 11 year-old nephew Philip, and van Beer considers herself to be his “natural guardian”. She moves into the house in Devon that was built by her father-in-law and leads a quiet life there with Philip, a sickly child for whom she engages a private tutor. The household is run by an older couple who were devoted to their former employer but who dislike, and cheat on, Rosalia van Beer. It soon turns out that Philip is a difficult child, and th ...

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Verdict of Twelve, Verdict of Twelve - The case, Verdict of Twelve - The jury, Verdict of Twelve - Read on

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She was born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer in Helensburgh, Scotland, and originally trained as a ballet dancer, first appearing on stage at Sadler's Wells in 1938. Having switched careers, she found immediate success as an actress. Her debut in the British film, Contraband, in 1940 was left on the cutting room floor. But that was followed by a series of other films and it was her role as a troubled nun in Michael Powell's Black Narcissus in 1947 which brought he ...

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The ten men and two women who have been picked randomly to do jury service are: an unmarried middle-aged journalist; a young left-wing intellectual, newly married and happy; a hard-working and honest publican; a travelling salesman unsuccessfully trying to flog encyclopaedias; a young attractive widow of Jewish descent whose husband was killed when he was attacked in the street by hooligans; a young hairdresser sharing a house with three workmates; an old, fat, homosexual uni ...

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Verdict of Twelve, Verdict of Twelve - The case, Verdict of Twelve - The jury, Verdict of Twelve - Read on

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