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John Hawkesworth
John Hawkesworth 1715?-1773, English author. He succeeded his friend Samuel Johnson in 1744 as reporter of parliamentary debates in the Gentleman's Magazine. With Johnson and Joseph Warton he wrote the periodical Adventurer (1752-54). ... Read more
John Rosamond Johnson
John Rosamond Johnson 1873-1954, American composer and singer, b. Jacksonville, Fla. After a career in music halls and light opera in England and on the Continent, Johnson toured Europe and the United States giving programs of spirituals. He composed several hundred songs, including Lift Every Voi... Read more
Hester Lynch Thrale
Hester Lynch Thrale later Mrs. Piozzi , 1741-1821, Englishwoman, noted for her friendship with Samuel Johnson. Daughter of John Salusbury, she married in 1763 Henry Thrale, a wealthy brewer, whose home at Streatham became a second home to Johnson from 1765 until 1780. Mrs. Thrale's second marria... Read more
Edward Cave
Edward Cave 1691-1754, English publisher. He founded (1731) the Gentleman's Magazine, the first modern magazine in English. Cave gave Samuel Johnson his first regular literary employment when he printed (1741-44) Johnson's parliamentary reports, "Debates in the Senate of Magna Lilliputia," in... Read more
Richard W. Johnson
Richard W. Johnson 1827-97, Union general in the Civil War, b. Livingston co., Ky., grad. West Point, 1849. Before the Civil War he served principally on the frontier. Johnson, made a brigadier general of volunteers in Oct., 1861, served as a division commander in the Armies of the Ohio and the Cum... Read more
Lady Bird Johnson
Lady Bird Johnson 1912-, b. Karnack, Tex., as Claudia Alta Taylor. She married (1934) Lyndon B. Johnson and played an active role in his political career. As first lady (1963-69) she sponsored environmental causes and national beautification projects and later co-founded (1982) what is now the La... Read more
Sir John Johnson
Sir John Johnson 1742-1830, Loyalist leader in the American Revolution, b. Mohawk valley, N.Y.; son of Sir William Johnson. He fought against the Native Americans in Pontiac's Conspiracy and was one of his father's chief lieutenants. For his services he was knighted in 1765. In the Revolution, like... Read more
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson 1696-1772, American clergyman, educator, and philosopher, b. Guilford, Conn., grad. Collegiate School (now Yale), 1714; father of William Samuel Johnson . He became a Congregationalist minister, but in 1722 joined the Church of England. In 1724 he opened the first Anglican church in... Read more
Thomas Johnson
Thomas Johnson 1732-1819, American political leader, b. Calvert co., Md. A lawyer, he served (1762-73) in the Maryland colonial assembly, where he became prominent in the fight against the Stamp Act (1765). He was a member (1774-77) of the Continental Congress, and he nominated (1775) George Washin... Read more
Emily Pauline Johnson
Emily Pauline Johnson 1862-1913, Canadian poet, b. near Brantford, Ont.; daughter of an indigenous chief and his English wife. Although she had little formal training, Johnson's early poems praising native life were highly popular in recitals, and in 1892 she began a series of successful tours thro... Read more

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Johnson, Dame Celia
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre Johnson, Dame Celia (1908–82), English actress. She made her début in Shaw's Major Barbara in Huddersfield in 1928 and...
Home, William Douglas
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...and Dulcie Gray in At the End of the Day (1973); Celia Johnson in The Dame of Sark (1974); and Richardson with Celia Johnson in The Kingfisher (1977; NY, 1978, with Rex Harrison...
Rattigan, Sir Terence Mervyn
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...London and NY, 1952), was a deeply emotional study of a judge's wife (played successively by Peggy Ashcroft , Celia Johnson , and Googie Withers ) who falls in love with a feckless, drunken, ex-RAF fighter pilot and twice attempts suicide...
Billetdoux, François
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...sign of renewed vigour in the Parisian avant-garde theatre. As Chin-Chin it was staged in London (1960) with Celia Johnson and New York (1962) with Margaret Leighton . Billetdoux created unusual situations in order to question the whole...

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Johnson, Celia
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers JOHNSON, Celia Nationality: British. Born: Richmond...book— Fleming, Kate, Celia Johnson: A Biography, London, 1991. On JOHNSON...Encounter also proved to be the climax of Celia Johnson's screen career. No matter what other...
Brief Encounter
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...from the 2nd Piano Concerto of Rachmaninoff. Cast: Celia Johnson (Laura Jesson ); Trevor Howard (Dr. Alec Harvey...Awards: New York Film Critics' Award, Best Actress (Johnson), 1946. Publications Script: Coward, Noë...
Great Expectations
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Guinness," in Films and Filming (London), May 1961. Johnson, Ian, "Mills," in Films and Filming (London...realism— though working-class audiences found Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard's over-delicate sensibilities...
Jones, Jennifer
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Actress: 1939 New Frontier (Frontier Horizon ) (Sherman) (as Celia Braddock, billed as Phylis Isley); Dick Tracy's G-Men...Koster) (title role) 1956 The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (Johnson) (as Betsy Rath) 1957 The Barretts of Wimpole Street (Charles...

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Celia Johnson.
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 12/7/1991; 700+ words ; ...truest compliment ever paid to Celia johnson was in a letter from her husband...draws extensively and movingly on Celia johnson's wartime correspondence, showing...all, there was no "side" to Celia johnson. She loved cricket and a good...
Putting the life back; Celia Johnson-Lund always wanted a home to die for. Little did she know it would be a mortuary.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 7/17/2002; ; 572 words ; ...when she first heard about it, says interior designer Celia Johnson-Lund, but as soon as she clapped eyes on the building...to convert and the mortuary was perfect," explains Celia. "The developer was selling it as a shell and it came...
END OF STORY Her flattened vowels were pure Celia Johnson, and she would occasionall y enliven her conversation with guttural bursts of Arabic
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/28/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...return to England. She had been away so long she was like a relic of a bygone age. Her flattened vowels were pure Celia Johnson, and she would occasionally enliven her conversation with passionate outbursts of guttural, colloquial Arabic. Like...
Would Brief Encounter have been so romantic if Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard had had a quick grope. . .
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo; 2/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...putting the waiting back into wanting is often a lot more effective. Would Brief Encounter have been so romantic if Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard had had a quick grope instead of a cup of tea and a bun? Would Pride and Prejudice have been voted...
THIS CULTURAL LIFE: ROBERT ALTMAN - I'm sitting in the dark, collecting dust The film director digs parties, neckties and Celia Johnson's sensible shoes. But does that make him cool?
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 10/24/2004; 700+ words ; ...s Brief Encounter. I just remember walking out of that theatre in the 1940s and being impressed by the fact that Celia Johnson wore sensible shoes. It was a revelation to me that I could be interested in an old woman like that. She must have...
Coward and the heroes; Counting them out: Celia Johnson, Noel Coward and their co-stars in the 1942 film In Which We Serve.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 6/25/2007; 700+ words ; QUESTION According to Lord Deedes, Noel Coward wrote the poem Lie In The Dark And Listenas a tribute to Bomber Command. Was this so? SIR Noel Peirce Coward (1899-1973) wrote mainly humorous and irreverent verse,but some of his poems were intensely moving and none more so than Lie In TheDark And
The eyes have it; The look of love: Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard in the film Brief Encounter.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 11/7/2007; 643 words ; Byline: David Derbyshire WANT to be a successful flirt? Then you had better master the art ofgood eye contact and a winning smile. Researchers have shown that faces are rated as more attractive if they aregazing directly at the viewer - rather than looking slightly to one side. The powerful effects
Fred Brownell | Celia V. "Sally" Coronado | Carlos Encalada | Victor Grgas | Sandra Gyerman | Corinne McDaniel Hovard | Leona E. Johnson | Clara Lee S.N. | Mildred E. Muncey | Helen Ann Passino | William W. Smith | Edward Bruce Thornley | Frances Roberta Thorpe | Betty Jean (Stamas) Trull | Lydia Mary Urbany | John R. "Jack" Wheeler
Newspaper article from: Daily Breeze; 1/16/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...STLobitart,corona,,x Coronado, Celia "Sally" V. Beloved by so...8351 \STLnobit1\STLdnot Johnson, Leona E. Born in Stockton...the widow of Capt. Harry A. Johnson (Long Beach Harbor Pilot), survived by her son, Carl Johnson of San Pedro; her sister...
What Celia taught me about being in love
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 12/21/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...and pushing against my teeth. Celia Johnson. Why am I thinking of her again...Lang, plays the Virgin Mary as Celia Johnson. (Joseph is played by Hugh Grant...were." In Brief Encounter, the Celia Johnson character is the one who has been...
CELIA IS A MUST-SEE PLAY
Newspaper article from: New Nation; 5/19/2008; ; 365 words ; ...provoking new play called Celia last week at The New Players...London. Set in the early 1800s, Celia tells the story of a slave who...brilliant play, which stars Wil Johnson, Victor Romero Evans, Shango...young women 200 years ago. Celia is showing until 24 May at The...