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2 unusual facts about Frances H. Flaherty


Frances H. Flaherty

Frances worked alongside her husband on several of his films, including Louisiana Story (1948), for which she earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Story.

Frances Johnson Hubbard was born in Bonn, Germany into "a household of erudition, gentility, and privilege," the daughter of Lucius L. Hubbard (1849-1933), who was studying mineralogy at the University of Bonn, and his wife Frances (1852-1927).


Dapper O'Neil

In 1999, O'Neil finished fifth (behind Francis Roache, Stephen J. Murphy, Peggy Davis-Mullen, Michael F. Flaherty) in an at-large race in which the top four make the council.

Francis Flaherty

Francis C. Flaherty (1919–1941), United States Naval Reserve officer and Medal of Honor recipient

Gaga'ifomauga

The Safune traditional village district was the location for Moana (1926), one of the earliest documentaries directed by Robert J. Flaherty.

Lawrence J. Flaherty

Flaherty was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth Congress and served from March 4, 1925, until his death in New York City, June 13, 1926.

Michael Flaherty

Michael F. Flaherty, Sr. (born 1936), former judge and former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives

Michelle Madoff

Caliguiri was serving as President of Pittsburgh City Council and became mayor when Peter Flaherty was appointed Deputy Attorney General of the United States in the Jimmy Carter Presidential Administration.

Paul Rotha

Robert J. Flaherty: A Biography, edited by Jay Ruby (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983)

Peter F. Flaherty

John Flaherty, a lawyer and also no relation to Pete, was elected a Judge on the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County and then Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Flaherty's City management brought accolades from David Rockefeller and Fortune Magazine.

Pete Flaherty's son, Shawn, was elected to succeed Jeff Habay, for the remainder of Habay's term, after Habay was convicted of criminal activity and sentenced to jail in 2006.

Richard Arnell

Arnell composed the music for The Land (1942), a 45-minute documentary film directed by Robert J. Flaherty for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Richard J. Welch

Welch was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Lawrence J. Flaherty.

The Romance of the Far Fur Country

These narrative and filmic techniques used in HBC's film were, in fact, later employed by Robert J. Flaherty, who made commercially successful Nanook of the North and also hailed as father of documentary films by John Grierson.


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