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The Whales of August, the Glossary

The Whales of August is a 1987 American drama film directed by Lindsay Anderson and starring Bette Davis and Lillian Gish (in her final film appearance) as elderly sisters.^[1]

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Films directed by Lindsay Anderson
Films shot in Maine

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.

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Akira Kurosawa

was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed 30 films in a career spanning over five decades.

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Alan Price

Alan Price (born 19 April 1942) is an English musician who first found prominence as the original keyboardist of the English rock band the Animals.

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Ann Sothern

Ann Sothern (born Harriette Arlene Lake; January 22, 1909 – March 15, 2001) was an American actress who worked on stage, radio, film, and television, in a career that spanned nearly six decades.

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Barbara Stanwyck

Barbara Stanwyck (born Ruby Catherine Stevens; July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990) was an American actress, model and dancer.

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Bette Davis

Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress of film, television, and theater.

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Bette Davis filmography

This is a complete filmography of Bette Davis.

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Carolyn Pfeiffer

Carolyn Pfeiffer is an American film producer.

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Casco Bay

Casco Bay is an inlet of the Gulf of Maine on the southern coast of Maine, New England, United States.

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Chicago Sun-Times

The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily nonprofit newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Cliff Island

Cliff Island is an island in Casco Bay, Maine, United States.

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David Berry (writer)

David Adams Berry (July 8, 1943 – December 16, 2016) was an American screenwriter and playwright.

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Drama (film and television)

In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone.

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Embassy Pictures Corporation (also and later known as Avco Embassy Pictures as well as Embassy Films Associates) was an American independent film production and distribution studio, active from 1942 to 1986.

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Frances Dee

Frances Marion Dee (November 26, 1909 – March 6, 2004) was an American actress.

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Frank Grimes

Frank Grimes (born 1947) is an Irish stage and screen actor.

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Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz, May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American dancer, actor, singer, musician, choreographer, and presenter.

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Harry Carey Jr.

Henry George Carey Jr. (May 16, 1921 – December 27, 2012) was an American actor.

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Joel McCrea

Joel Albert McCrea (November 5, 1905 – October 20, 1990) was an American actor whose career spanned a wide variety of genres over almost five decades, including comedy, drama, romance, thrillers, adventures, and Westerns, for which he became best known.

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John Gielgud

Sir Arthur John Gielgud, (14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000) was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned eight decades.

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Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress whose career as a Hollywood leading lady spanned six decades.

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Lillian Gish

Lillian Diana Gish (October 14, 1893 – February 27, 1993) was an American actress.

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Lillian Gish filmography

These are the films of Lillian Gish.

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Lindsay Anderson

Lindsay Gordon Anderson (17 April 1923 – 30 August 1994) was a British feature-film, theatre and documentary director, film critic, and leading-light of the Free Cinema movement and of the British New Wave.

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List of Vincent Price works

This is the filmography of Vincent Price (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993), which includes appearances in theatre and television.

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Maine

Maine is a state in the New England region of the United States, and the northeasternmost state in the Lower 48.

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Margaret Ladd

Margaret Ladd (born November 8, 1942) is an American actress, best known for her role as Emma Channing in the CBS primetime soap opera, Falcon Crest (1981–90).

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Mary Steenburgen

Mary Nell Steenburgen (born February 8, 1953) is an American actress, comedian, singer, and songwriter.

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National Board of Review Award for Best Actress

The National Board of Review Award for Best Actress is one of the annual film awards given (since 1945) by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures.

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Paul Henreid

Paul Henreid (January 10, 1908 – March 29, 1992) was an Austrian-American actor, director, producer, and writer.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.

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Rhode Island

Rhode Island (pronounced "road") is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Shirley Booth

Shirley Booth (born Marjory Ford; August 30, 1898October 16, 1992) was an American actress.

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The Comedians is a 1967 American political drama film directed and produced by British filmmaker Peter Glenville, based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Graham Greene, who also wrote the screenplay.

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References

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

Also known as Whales of August.

The Whales of August, the Glossary

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See also

Films directed by Lindsay Anderson

Films shot in Maine

References