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The painting is central to the plot of the 1997 comedy film Bean, in which Mr. Bean accidentally defaces it during its repatriation to the United States and secretly replaces it with a poster. Actor Hurd Hatfield toured internationally several times with the play Son of Whistler's Mother by playwright Maggie Williams. [28]
Mr. Bean is a well-meaning yet clumsy and destructive security guard at the National Gallery in London. After the gallery's sentimental chairman prevents the board of directors, who despise Bean for his laziness, from firing him, the board instead opts to send Bean on a three-month sabbatical to serve as their representative at an unveiling ceremony of the painting Whistler's Mother, which has ...
Two theatrical feature-length films featuring Mr. Bean have been released, with Atkinson reprising his role as the character in each. The first film, Bean, was directed by Mel Smith, released in 1997 and followed the misadventures of Mr. Bean as he oversaw the transfer of Whistler's Mother to a Los Angeles art gallery. The film broke from the ...
Mr. Bean attends a mathematics exam, where he tries to copy from a student under the nose of the invigilator (Rudolph Walker).Afterwards, he surreptitiously changes into his swimming trunks so as not to be noticed by someone sitting nearby at a beach (Roger Sloman) and later struggles to stay awake during a church service and obnoxiously sings the refrain of the hymn "All Creatures of Our God ...
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Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1, better known as Whistler's Mother, is an 1871 oil-on-canvas painting by American artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler. It depicts the artist's mother, Anna McNeill , and was painted in London.
"Mr. Bean's face comes wrapped with a sly grin, somewhat like the expression of a child when sneaking his hand into the cookie jar," The New York Times noted in a review of his 1954 variety show ...
Anna Whistler circa 1850s. Anna McNeill Whistler was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, to Charles Daniel McNeill (1756–1828), a physician, and Martha Kingsley McNeill, daughter of Zephaniah Kingsley Sr. (one of the founders of the University of New Brunswick) and youngest sister of Zephaniah Kingsley (a slave trader and plantation owner, and the husband of the African Ana Madgigine Jai).