Alice Pleasance Liddell (4 May 1852 – 16 November 1934), known for most of her adult life by her married name, Alice Hargreaves, inspired the children's classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
Alice Liddell was the fourth child of Henry Liddell, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, and his wife Lorina Hanna Liddell (née Reeve). She had two older brothers, Harry (born 1847) and Arthur (born 1850, died of scarlet fever in 1853), and an older sister Lorina (born 1849). She also had six younger siblings, including her sister Edith (born 1854) with whom she was very close. One of her younger brothers died in infancy.
At the time of her birth, Liddell's father was the Headmaster of Westminster School but was soon after appointed to the deanery of Christ Church, Oxford. The Liddell family moved to Oxford in 1856. Soon after this move, she met Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who encountered the family while he was photographing the cathedral on 25 April 1856. He became a close friend of the Liddell family in subsequent years.
Liddell grew up primarily in the company of the two sisters nearest to her in age: Lorina, who was three years older, and Edith, who was two years younger. She and her family regularly spent holidays at their holiday home Penmorfa, which later became the Gogarth Abbey Hotel, on the West Shore of Llandudno in North Wales.
On 4 July 1862, in a rowing boat travelling on The Isis from Folly Bridge, Oxford to Godstow for a picnic outing, 10-year-old Liddell asked Charles Dodgson (who wrote under the pen name Lewis Carroll) to entertain her and her sisters, Edith (age 8) and Lorina (age 13), with a story. As the Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed the boat, Dodgson regaled the girls with fantastic stories of a girl, named Alice, and her adventures after she fell into a rabbit-hole. The story was not unlike those Dodgson had spun for the sisters before, but this time Liddell asked Mr. Dodgson to write it down for her. He promised to do so but did not get around to the task for some months. He eventually presented her with the manuscript of Alice's Adventures Under Ground in November 1864.
In the meantime, Dodgson had decided to rewrite the story as a possible commercial venture. Probably with a view to canvassing his opinion, Dodgson sent the manuscript of Under Ground to a friend, the author George MacDonald, in the spring of 1863. The MacDonald children read the story and loved it, and this response probably persuaded Dodgson to seek a publisher. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, with illustrations by John Tenniel, was published in 1865, under the name Lewis Carroll. A second book about the character Alice, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, followed in 1871. In 1886, a facsimile of Alice's Adventures Under Ground, the original manuscript that Dodgson had given Liddell, was published.
When Alice Liddell was a young woman, she set out on a grand tour of Europe with Lorina and Edith. One story has it that she became a romantic interest of Prince Leopold, the youngest son of Queen Victoria, but the evidence for this is sparse. It is true that years later, Leopold named his first child Alice, and acted as godfather to Alice's son Leopold. (A recent biographer of Leopold suggests it is far more likely that Alice's sister Edith was the true recipient of Leopold's attention.) Edith died, possibly of measles or peritonitis (accounts differ), shortly before she was to be married to another suitor.
Alice Liddell married Reginald Hargreaves on 15 September 1880, at the age of 28 in Westminster Abbey. They had three sons: Alan Knyveton Hargreaves and Leopold Reginald "Rex" Hargreaves (both were killed in action in World War I); and Caryl Liddell Hargreaves, who survived to have a daughter of his own. Liddell denied that the name 'Caryl' was in any way associated with Charles Dodgson's pseudonym. They also had one daughter: Rose Liddell Hargreaves[citation needed]. Reginald Hargreaves inherited a considerable fortune, and Alice became a noted society hostess.
After her husband's death, the cost of maintaining their home, Cuffnells, was such that she deemed it necessary to sell her copy of Alice's Adventures Under Ground. The manuscript fetched £15,400, nearly four times the reserve price given it by Sotheby's auction house. It became the possession of Eldridge R. Johnson and was displayed at Columbia University on the centennial of Carroll's birth. (Alice was present, aged 80, and it was on this visit to America that she met Peter Llewelyn-Davies, one of the brothers who inspired J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan). Upon Johnson's death, the book was purchased by a consortium of American bibliophiles and presented to the British people "in recognition of Britain's courage in facing Hitler before America came into the war." The manuscript now resides in the British Library.
Late in life, she lived in and around Lyndhurst in the New Forest, and is buried in the graveyard of the church of St. Michael & All Angels, Lyndhurst.
Several later writers have written fictional accounts of Liddell. She is one of the main characters of the Riverworld series of books, by Philip José Farmer. She plays a small but critical role in Lewis Padgett's short story "Mimsy Were The Borogoves." Canadian poet Stephanie Bolster also wrote a collection of poems, White Stone, based on her. Katie Roiphe has written a fictional (claimed to be based on fact) account of the relationship between Alice and Carroll, titled Still She Haunts Me. In Alice I Have Been, author Melanie Benjamin has written a fictional account of Alice's life from childhood through old age - focusing on her relationship with Lewis Carroll and the way the publication of Alice's Adventures Under Ground affected her. The 1985 movie Dreamchild deals with her trip to America for the Columbia University presentation described above; through a series of flashbacks, it promotes the popular assumption that Dodgson was romantically attracted to Alice. Frank Beddor wrote The Looking Glass Wars, which reimagines the Alice in Wonderland story and includes real-life characters such as the Liddells and Prince Leopold. Liddell and Dodgson are used as protagonists in Bryan Talbot's 2007 graphic novel Alice in Sunderland to relay the history and myths of the area. The 2008 opera by Alan John and Andrew Upton Through the Looking Glass covers both the fictional Alice and Liddell. Alice Liddell is also the name of the heroine's ship in the book Take Back Plenty by Colin Greenland. In "A Witch's Tale" Liddell is a Witch who wants to be the greatest witch as Alice.
Don't Go Near the Park (also known as Curse of the Living Dead, Nightstalker and Sanctuary for Evil) is a 1981 American horror film directed by Lawrence D. Foldes. The film gained notoriety when it was successfully prosecuted in the UK and placed on the video nasty list.
Synopsis
A brother and sister couple prey on young people, killing and eating them in order to stay young. They try to lift a curse on them by finding a virgin's soul they can sacrifice, with the brother fathering a daughter for that purpose.
Cast
Aldo Ray as Taft Meeno Peluce as Nick Tamara Taylor as Bondi Barbara Monker as Patty / Tra / Griffith's Wife / Petranella Crackers Phinn as Mark / Gar Linnea Quigley as Bondi's Mother Chris Riley as Cowboy
Deathsport (1978) Futuristic Science Fiction about a sport to the death, using "destructocycles."
Tagline:
In the year 3000 there'll be no more Olympic Games, World Series, or Superbowl. There'll be only... Deathsport!
Directed by
Allan Arkush Nicholas Niciphor (as Henry Suso) Roger Corman (uncredited)
Writing credits
Frances Doel story Nicholas Niciphor writer (as Henry Suso) Donald Stewart writer
Cast
David Carradine ... Kaz Oshay Claudia Jennings ... Deneer Richard Lynch ... Ankar Moor William Smithers ... Doctor Karl Will Walker ... Marcus Karl David McLean ... Lord Zirpola Jesse Vint ... Polna H.B. Haggerty ... Jailer John Himes ... Tritan President Jim Galante ... Tritan Guard Peter Cooper ... Mr. Bakkar (as Peter Hooper) Brenda Venus ... Adriann Gene Hartline ... Enforcer Sergeant Chris Howell ... Stateman Officer Valerie Rae Clark ... Dancer Archie Freeman ... Mutant Paul Kimatian ... Range Warrior (uncredited) Linnea Quigley ... Courtesan (uncredited)
George Pal (February 1, 1908 – May 2, 1980), born György Pál Marincsák, was a Hungarian-born American animator and film producer, principally associated with the science fiction genre. He became an American citizen after emigrating from Europe.
He was born in Cegléd, Austria–Hungary, the son of George Pál Sr. and his wife Maria. He graduated from the Budapest Academy of Arts in 1928. From 1928 to 1931, he made films for Hunnia Films of Budapest, Hungary.
In 1931 he married Elisabeth "Zsoka" Grandjean, and moving to Berlin, founded Trickfilm-Studio Gmbh Pal und Wittke, with the UFA Studios as its main customer from 1931 to 1933. During this time, he patented Pal-Doll (known as Puppetoons in the USA).
In 1933 he worked in Prague; in 1934, he made a film advertisement in his hotel room in Paris, and was invited by Philips to make two more ad shorts. He started to use Pal-Doll techniques in Eindhoven, in a former butchery, then at villa-studio Suny Home.
He made five films before 1939 for the British company Horlicks Malted Milk. He left Germany as the Nazis came to power. In 1940, he emigrated from Europe, and began work for Paramount Pictures At this time, his friend Walter Lantz helped him obtain American citizenship.
As an animator, he made the Puppetoons series in the 1940s, then switched to live action filmmaking with The Great Rupert in 1950. He was awarded an honorary Oscar in 1944 for "the development of novel methods and techniques in the production of short subjects known as Puppetoons."
He is best remembered as the producer of landmark science fiction films in the 1950s and 1960s, four of which were collaborations with director Byron Haskin. His background with the whimsical Puppetoons set the foundation for the imaginative production designs for his films during this period.
He died in Beverly Hills, California of a heart attack at the age of 72, and was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California.
"The Voyage of the Berg," on which he was working at the time, was never completed.
He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1722 Vine St. In 1980 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences founded the "George Pal Lecture on Fantasy in Film" series in his memory.
Live action feature films
The Great Rupert (1950) (producer) Destination Moon (1950) (producer) (Oscar: Special Effects 1950) When Worlds Collide (1951) (producer) (Oscar: Special Effects 1951) The War of the Worlds (1953) (producer; directed by Haskin) (Oscar: Best Special Effects 1953) Houdini (Tony Curtis version) (1953) (producer) The Naked Jungle (with Charlton Heston) (1954) (producer; directed by Haskin) Conquest of Space (1955) (producer; directed by Haskin) tom thumb (1958) (producer–director) (Oscar: Best Special Effects 1958) The Time Machine (1960) (producer–director & "Morlock" designer) (Oscar: Best Special Effects 1960) Atlantis, the Lost Continent (1961) (producer–director) The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962) (producer–director)(Cinerama Production) (Oscar: Best Costume Design 1962) 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964) (producer–director) (Oscar: Makeup Honorary Award 1964 - first film to receive this award) The Power (with Michael Rennie) (1968) (producer; directed by Haskin) Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze (1975) (producer).
Unreleased, unfinished, or projected films
The Puppetoon Revue of 1933 (1933) /MGMs' tenth color talkie / After Worlds Collide (1955) Odd John (1967) (rights acquired only) Logan's Run (1968) When the Sleeper Wakes (1972) War of the Worlds (~1974-75) Unfinished TV pilot Doc Savage: The Arch Enemy of Evil (1976) The Time Traveller (1977-78) aka Time Machine II The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1979) The Disappearance (1980) (only in preproduction) Voyage of the Berg (1980) (only in preproduction) *The King of Kings (1989) (began 1939, resumed 1987) Bibliography Gail Morgan Hickman. The Films of George Pal (South Brunswick, NJ: A.S. Barnes & Co., 1977)
Linnea Barbara Quigley (born May 27, 1958) is an American scream queen, B movie actress, and film producer.
Linnea Quigley was born in Davenport, Iowa, the daughter of Dorothy and W. Heath Quigley, a chiropractor and psychologist. She moved to Los Angeles in the late 1970s to pursue her dreams of acting. She quickly established herself in the arena of independent films and appeared in almost one hundred feature films.
Quigley is best known for her role in The Return of the Living Dead. She has also starred in dozens of other horror films including Nightmare Sisters, Creepozoids, Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama, Night of the Demons (the 1988 original and the 2010 remake), and A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master. Quigley is the author of two books about her career as a B-movie actress, Chainsaw and I'm Screaming as Fast as I Can.
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