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Decameron Nights, the Glossary

Decameron Nights is a 1953 anthology Technicolor film based on three tales from The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, specifically the ninth and tenth tales of the second day and the ninth tale of the third.^[1]

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British anthology films
Cross-dressing in British films
Films based on works by Giovanni Boccaccio
Films scored by Antony Hopkins
Films set in Tunisia
Films set in the 14th century
The Decameron

Antony Hopkins

Antony Hopkins (born Ernest William Antony Reynolds; 21 March 1921 – 6 May 2014) was a composer, pianist, and conductor, as well as a writer and radio broadcaster.

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Astrology

Astrology is a range of divinatory practices, recognized as pseudoscientific since the 18th century, that propose that information about human affairs and terrestrial events may be discerned by studying the apparent positions of celestial objects.

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Binnie Barnes

Gertrude Maud Barnes (25 March 1903 – 27 July 1998), known professionally as Binnie Barnes, was an English actress whose career in films spanned from 1923 to 1973.

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Carlos Villarías

Carlos Villarías (7 July 1892 – 27 April 1976) was a Spanish actor who was born in Córdoba, Spain, and died in California, United States.

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Don (honorific)

The term Don (literally 'Lord') abbreviated as D., is an honorific prefix primarily used in Spain and Hispanic America, and with different connotations also in Italy, Portugal and its former colonies, and formerly in the Philippines.

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Eliot Makeham

Harold Elliott Makeham (22 December 1882 – 8 February 1956) was an English film and television actor.

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Eros Films

Eros Films was a British film distribution and, later, production company, in operation from May 1947 to June 1961.

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Florence

Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.

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Gérard Tichy

Gerhard Johannes Alexander Tichy Wondzinski (11 March 1920 – 11 April 1992), known as Gérard Tichy, was a German-Spanish actor who appeared in numerous films, including several international productions.

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George and Bert Bernard

George and Bert Bernard, sometimes credited as The Bernard Brothers, were a duo of American comedy dancers and mime artists, who were popular in variety shows from the 1930s to the 1960s.

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George Oppenheimer

George Seligman Oppenheimer (February 7, 1900 in New York City – August 14, 1977) was an American screenwriter, playwright, and journalist.

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Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio (16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist.

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Godfrey Tearle

Sir Godfrey Seymour Tearle (12 October 1884 – 9 June 1953) was a British actor who portrayed the quintessential British gentleman on stage and in both British and US films.

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Guy Green (filmmaker)

Guy Mervin Charles Green OBE BSC (5 November 191315 September 2005) was an English film director, producer, screenwriter, and cinematographer.

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Hugh Morton (actor)

Hugh Morton (28 June 1903 – 11 July 1984) was an English actor, best known for his work on BBC Radio for which he made more than 3,000 broadcasts, beginning in the 1920s.

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Hugo Fregonese

Hugo Geronimo Fregonese (8 April 1908 – 11 January 1987) was an Argentine film director and screenwriter who worked both in Hollywood and his home country.

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Joan Collins

Dame Joan Henrietta Collins (born 23 May 1933) is an English actress, author and columnist.

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Joan Fontaine

Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland (October 22, 1917 – December 15, 2013), known professionally as Joan Fontaine, was an English-American actress who is best known for her starring roles in Hollywood films during the Golden Age of Hollywood.

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Louis Jourdan

Louis Jourdan (born Louis Robert Gendre; 19 June 1921 – 14 February 2015) was a French film and television actor.

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M. J. Frankovich

Mike Frankovich (born Mitchell John Frankovich, September 29, 1909 – January 1, 1992), also known professionally as M. J. Frankovich, was an American football player turned film actor and producer.

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Mallorca

Mallorca, or Majorca, is the largest island of the Balearic Islands, which are part of Spain, and the seventh largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Mara Lane

Mara Lane (born Dorothy Bolton; 1 August 1930 – 2014) was an Austrian-British actress.

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Marjorie Rhodes

Marjorie Rhodes (9 April 1897 – 4 July 1979) was a British actress.

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Meinhart Maur

Meinhart Maur (Grünbaum Menyhért, 18 August 1891 – 27 November 1964) was a Hungarian-German film actor.

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Melissa Stribling

Melissa Stribling (7 November 1926 – 22 March 1992) was a Scottish film and television actress.

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Noel Purcell (actor)

Patrick Joseph Noel Purcell (23 December 1900 – 3 March 1985) was a distinguished Irish actor of stage, screen, and television.

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RKO Pictures

RKO Radio Pictures Inc., commonly known as RKO Pictures or simply RKO, was an American film production and distribution company, one of the "Big Five" film studios of Hollywood's Golden Age. Decameron Nights and RKO Pictures are RKO Pictures films.

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Russell Lloyd (film editor)

Russell Lloyd (16 January 1916 – 21 January 2008) was a British film editor who amassed fifty credits on feature films.

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Summary of Decameron tales

This article contains summaries and commentaries of the 100 stories within Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron. Decameron Nights and summary of Decameron tales are the Decameron.

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Technicolor

Technicolor is a series of color motion picture processes, the first version dating back to 1916, and followed by improved versions over several decades.

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The Decameron

The Decameron (Decameron or Decamerone), subtitled Prince Galehaut (Old Prencipe Galeotto) and sometimes nicknamed l'Umana commedia ("the Human comedy", as it was Boccaccio that dubbed Dante Alighieri's Comedy "Divine"), is a collection of short stories by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decameron_Nights

Decameron Nights, the Glossary

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See also

British anthology films

Cross-dressing in British films

Films based on works by Giovanni Boccaccio

Films scored by Antony Hopkins

Films set in Tunisia

Films set in the 14th century

The Decameron

References