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William Thomas Pritchard (13 October 1829 – 1 November 1907) was a British consul and adventurer. Pritchard was born in Papeete , Tahiti , the son of George Pritchard and Eliza Aileen. He was educated in Britain before returning to join his father, the British consul in Samoa.
The Tuttles of Tahiti This page was last edited on 8 March 2024, at 20:15 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4 ...
The PÅmare Dynasty, patrons of the British Protestant missionaries, established their rule over Tahiti and Moorea as part of the Kingdom of Tahiti. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Western concepts of kingdoms and nation states were foreign to the native Tahitians or Maohi [ note 1 ] people who were divided into loosely defined tribal units and districts before ...
Films shot in Tahiti (18 P) Pages in category "Films shot in French Polynesia" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Promotional still with Conchita Montenegro. In 1931, Leslie Howard was new to Hollywood, having only appeared in two films, Outward Bound (1930) and Devotion (1931). In the spring of 1931, he was filming Never the Twain Shall Meet, A Free Soul with Norma Shearer and Clark Gable, and Five and Ten with Marion Davies—shooting one movie in the morning and another in the afternoon. [3]
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He became the British consul in Tahiti and persuaded the queen, Pomare IV, to expel Catholic missionaries from the islands. This prompted France to take control of the islands and to establish a protectorate over them in 1843 leading to the Franco-Tahitian War. Pritchard was expelled, leading to diplomatic tension between France and Britain.
The Tuttles of Tahiti is a 1942 American adventure comedy romance film directed by Charles Vidor and starring Charles Laughton and Jon Hall. It was based on the novel No More Gas by James Norman Hall and Charles Nordhoff .