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3 unusual facts about Babette's Feast


Clos de Vougeot

Clos de Vougeot 1845 was the featured wine in the film Babette's Feast, which is set in 1871.

Gabriel Axel

Gabriel Axel (born 18 April 1918) is a Danish film director, actor, writer and producer, best known for Babette's Feast (1987), which he wrote and directed.

Journal of Religion and Film

Although "art house," foreign and English language, films such as Babette's Feast and Adam's Apples, have been discussed in the Journal, scholars have also turned their attention to blockbuster films, such as Armageddon and Backdraft.


Babette Bensoussan

Apart from her active business responsibilities, Babette has taught Competitive Intelligence at both the Sydney Graduate School of Management, University of Western Sydney and at Bond University in the undergraduate business and MBA programs.

Birgitte Federspiel

She had a notable film roles as Inger in Ordet (1955) and, in later life, as Martina in Babette's Feast (1987), while on TV she played "Baroness von Rydtger" in three episodes of Matador.

Cecilia Young

She appeared in several of his productions including the role of Morgana in the world premier of Alcina (1735) and in the world premiers of the oratorios Alexander’s Feast (1736) and Saul (1739).

Charles Samuel Myers

In 1904 Myers married Edith Babette, youngest daughter of Isaac Seligman, a merchant in London; they had three daughters and two sons.

Craig Fleisher

This included Strategic and Competitive Analysis with his colleague and fellow Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals Meritorious award winner Babette Bensoussan Babette Bensoussan, Prentice Hall, 2003) and Business and Competitive Analysis also with Bensoussan, FT Press, 2007), and "Analysis without Paralysis".

Fritzi Scheff

Toward the end of the following year's season Schiff became ill and was replaced by her understudy Ida Hawley to close out the remaining performances of Babette.

Hoffnung Music Festival

They included works such as Haydn's Surprise Symphony 'with extra surprises' added by Donald Swann, an 'excerpt from Belshazzar's Feast, with full orchestra and chorus conducted by William Walton himself (with a fly swat), which turned out to consist of just a single chord with the word "Slain!", and humorous works specially commissioned from well-known composers of the day.

Iklin

St. Michael's feast is celebrated the Sunday before the 29 September by the Lija fireworks team.

Patricia Llewellyn

Her recent credits include Heston's Feast for chef Heston Blumenthal (winner of Royal Television Society Award for Best Features Programme in 2008), and Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (winner of BAFTA for Best Features programme in both 2004 and 2007, an International Emmy for Best Non Scripted Entertainment Programme in 2006 and the Grierson Award for Most Entertaining Documentary also in 2006) plus long running food magazine series The F Word for chef, Gordon Ramsay.

Peter G. Fletcher

At Dalhousie, he was conductor of the Dalhousie Chorale and the Dalhousie Orchestra, and with the chorale gave performances of several large works including the St. John Passion of Johann Sebastian Bach and Belshazzar's Feast by William Walton.

René Hall

Throughout his career, Hall was the featured guitarist on such tracks as Number 000 (Otis Blackwell), "That's It" (Babette Bain), "Cincinnati Fireball" (Johnny Burnette), "Chattanooga Choo Choo" (Ernie Fields), "In The Mood" (Ernie Fields), "Hippy Hippy Shake" (Chan Romero), and "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" (Larry Williams).

Robin Milford

In September 1931 his oratorio A Prophet in the Land Op. 21 was performed in Gloucester Cathedral as part of the Three Choirs Festival - the work was somewhat overshadowed by the splash made by William Walton's Belshazzar's Feast performed the same year.

The Slave-girl from Jerusalem

The events of the novel are mentioned in the collection Trimalcho's Feast in the short story "Death by Vespasian", which takes the form of a letter from Bato to the Emperor.


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