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Henri Désiré Landru (12 April 1869 – 25 February 1922) (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi deziʁe lɑ̃dʁy]) was a French serial killer, nicknamed the Bluebeard of Gambais. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He murdered at least seven women in the village of Gambais between December 1915 and January 1919.
Monsieur Verdoux is a 1947 American black comedy film directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin, who plays a bigamist wife killer inspired by serial killer Henri Désiré Landru. The supporting cast includes Martha Raye , William Frawley , and Marilyn Nash .
Landru adopts several aliases and charms several wealthy, middle-aged women one by one, wooing them into marriage before killing them, usually by drugging them and then stabbing them. Landru later sees Odette with her lover and realises she has been stringing him along the entire time. He lures her to his villa where he murders her.
Asked for suggestions by Colombres, Palacio remarked that the satirist, who at the time wore a goatee, resembled the French serial killer Henri Désiré Landru ("Bluebeard," or as he is known in Argentina: "Landrú"). [2] Colombres earned a gold medal from the Argentine Illustrators' Association in 1948, and a Clarín Award in 1954. [5]
A list of cultural depictions of Henri Désiré Landru. Pages in category "Cultural depictions of Henri Désiré Landru" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
The Indonesian Wikipedia (Indonesian: Wikipedia bahasa Indonesia, WBI for short) is the Indonesian language edition of Wikipedia. It is the fifth-fastest-growing Asian-language Wikipedia after the Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Turkish language Wikipedias. It ranks 25th in terms of depth among Wikipedias.
Henri Désiré Landru (1869–1922) was a French serial killer. Landru may also refer to: Landrú, byline of Argentine political cartoonist Juan Carlos Colombres (1923–2017) Landru, a 1963 French film about the serial killer; Landru, a character in the 1967 Star Trek episode "The Return of the Archons
Tarumanagara or Taruma Kingdom or just Taruma was an early Sundanese Indianised kingdom [broken anchor], located in western Java, whose 5th-century ruler, Purnawarman, produced the earliest known inscriptions in Java, which are estimated to date from around 358 CE.