The Gambler
Sergey Prokofiev's The Gambler: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
...Gambler: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden SERGEY PROKOFIEV'S THE GAMBLER: ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN THE GAMBLER: John Tomlinson as the General and Jurgita Adamonyte as Blanche...
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
...from his publisher. He had been left practically penniless after a gambling spree. Dostoyevsky wrote ''The Gambler '' simultaneously in order to satisfy an agreement with his...
Sebastian Shaw (actor)
...rudiments of flying. In 1945, Shaw returned to the Embassy Theatre to direct Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Gambler ''. Significant theatre roles that decade included Hercules in ''The Thracian...
Kurhaus (Baden-Baden)
...the border where they could try their luck at Baden-Baden's gaming tables. Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Gambler was inspired by the Russian author's visit to the Kurhaus casino. At one...
Luise Rainer
...television series Combat! in 1965. She took a dual role in a 1983 episode of The Love Boat. She appeared in ''The Gambler '' (1997) in a small role, marking her film comeback at the age...
Wiesbaden
...money in Wiesbaden's Spielbank casino in 1865. The experience became the inspiration of his 1866 novel The Gambler (Russian Игрок), set in the fictitious place "Roulettenburg". Some...
The Gambler (novel)
...by Karel Reisz starring James Caan , Lauren Hutton, and Paul Sorvino. It was loosely based on the short novel The Gambler by Dostoyevsky. The novel was also the basis of an opera by...
Crime and Punishment
...and Punishment are to a novel. Dostoevsky had to race against time, in order to finish on time both The Gambler '' and ''Crime and Punishment. Anna Snitkina, a stenographer who would...
Interview: Luise Rainer - 'God, or whoever it is, gave so much into my cradle and I have not lived up to it…'
...and Switzerland. Finally, in 1997, Rainer returned to the big screen in an adaptation of Dostoyevsky's The Gambler, in which the Times' reviewer judged her to have "astonishing fire".
History of modern literature
...Haliburton died. Edith Maude Eaton was born. 1866 Dostoyevski published Crime and Punishment, followed by The Gambler '' (1867). Mark Twain published ''The Celebrated Jumping Frog of...
Sophie Blanchard
...of her death was recounted throughout Europe. Jules Verne mentioned her in Five Weeks in a Balloon and, in The Gambler '', Fyodor Dostoevsky likened the thrill of committing oneself in...
Actress Luise Rainer on the glamour and grit of Hollywood's golden era
...she made her comeback, at the age of 86, for a scene-stealing 10 minutes in a version of Dostoevsky's The Gambler. ''I never wanted to make another film, but they asked me..." She...
