Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
"The Landlady" won "Best Short Story Mystery" at the 1960 Edgar Awards.This was the second time Dahl was honoured, the first having been for his collection of short stories, Someone Like You (Best Short Story, 1954).
Only during the climax of the play does Leroy realize that she actually did kill him. To protect her secret, Rhoda sets fire to Leroy's shed and kills him. Monica Breedlove is the Penmarks' landlady and Christine's confidante.
The Notorious Landlady is a 1962 American comedy mystery film starring Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, and Fred Astaire. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The film was directed by Richard Quine , with a script by Blake Edwards and Larry Gelbart based on the short story "The Notorious Tenant" by Margery Sharp .
The Landlady (Russian: Хозяйка, romanized: Khozayka) is a novella by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, written and published in 1847.Set in Saint Petersburg, it tells of an abstracted young man, Vasily Mikhailovich Ordynov, and his obsessive love for Katerina, the wife of a dismal husband whom Ordynov perceives as a malignant fortune-teller or mystic.
“Hemet, or the Landlady Don’t Drink Tea,” a micro-budget horror satire from BayView Entertainment — the studio behind the underground experimental horror phenomenon “Skinamarink ...
Leroy Jessup: The crude maintenance man who works for the elderly landlady, Monica Breedlove. He is a depraved individual and sees Rhoda as a kindred spirit. Due to his crude mind and dark sense of humor, he is the only adult character, other than Christine, who notices that Rhoda is unlike other children and enjoys teasing her.
The Tramp fights for the attention of the landlady with the Rival (played by Chester Conklin). The Rival makes his attempt first. While he is talking to the Landlady (played by Helen Carruthers), the Tramp pokes him with a fork from behind a curtain. The Rival gets upset and the landlady becomes annoyed. The Tramp goes on to talk to her.
Struggling young actors (three males and three females) share an apartment to make ends meet. This scenario is pretty daring considering the conservative and censorious attitudes of that period. The landlady provides a play to the actors that turns out to have been left behind long ago by a destitute, evicted tenant (Robert Benchley).