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10 unusual facts about Hush


Acoustic coupler

It was not until a landmark court ruling regarding the Hush-A-Phone in 1956 that the use of a phone attachment (by a third party vendor) was allowed for the first time; though AT&T's right to regulate any device connected to the telephone system was upheld by the courts, they were instructed to cease interference towards Hush-A-Phone users.

Customer-premises equipment

With the gradual breakup of the Bell monopoly, starting with Hush-A-Phone v. United States 1956, which allowed some non-Bell owned equipment to be connected to the network (a process called interconnection), equipment on customers' premises became increasingly owned by customers, not the telco.

Hush-A-Phone v. United States

It and the related Carterfone decision were seen as precursors to the entry of MCI Communications and the development of more pervasive telecom competition.

Hush, Hush

On December 4, 2012 Entertainment Weekly revealed that the entire Hush, Hush series had been optioned by LD Entertainment.

Book rights to Hush, Hush have been sold to over 13 countries, with LD Entertainment purchasing film rights.

Hush: An Irish Princess' Tale

Hush: An Irish Princess' Tale is a 2007 young adult novel written by Donna Jo Napoli.

Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte

Kenneth Tynan asserted that, "...(Davis) has done nothing better since The Little Foxes."

Davis suggested her friend Olivia de Havilland to Aldrich as a replacement for Crawford after Katharine Hepburn, Vivien Leigh, Loretta Young and Barbara Stanwyck turned the role down.

The movie was adapted for the screen by Henry Farrell and Lukas Heller, from Farrell's unpublished short story, "What Ever Happened to Cousin Charlotte?"

Housekeeper Velma suspecting that Miriam and Drew are after Charlotte's money seeks help from Mr. Willis (Cecil Kellaway), an insurance investigator who is still interested in the Mayhew murder, and who has visited Mayhew's ailing widow, Jewel (Mary Astor).


Children of Fire

The fourth track, "Hush Yael," narrates the story of Samir Kuntar and the murders that he committed at the age of 16.

Danny D

In 2009, he moved into straight pornographic movies full time: he had worked for major studios like Brazzers, Harmony Films, Eurocreme, Dorcel, Hush Hush Entertainment, Wicked Pictures, Television X and Playboy TV.

Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire!

They have released the independent EPs You Seize the City, I'll Seize the Sky (2006) and Boy, Hush Yr Mouth, Grrl Bare Yr Teeth (2007), and full length studio album Sea Priest (2010).

Gary and the Hornets

The band's first single was a version of "There's a Kind of Hush" (titled "Kind of Hush" on their version) that was a local and regional hit in 1966.

Greatest Love

"The Greatest Love", a song by Billy Joe Royal from his 1967 album, Billy Joe Royal Featuring Hush

Helen Kleeb

She appeared in episodes of, among other television shows, Dennis the Menace, I Love Lucy, Pete and Gladys, Hennesey, and Get Smart, as well as in small film roles in The Manchurian Candidate, and Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte.

Hush Money

Hush Money is a 1931 American comedy-drama film featuring Joan Bennett, Hardie Albright, Owen Moore, Myrna Loy, and George Raft.

Hush Records

Crouch, frontman of the band Blanket Music, organized Hush Records in 1997, when he self-released a solo record called Portland, Or.

Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema

She specialised in highly sentimental domestic and genre scenes of women and children, often in Dutch 17th-century settings and style, like Love's Beginning, Hush-a-bye, The Carol, At the Doorway (c.1898, shown right) and Sunshine.

Melkorka

Melkorka is featured in the 2007 young adult novel Hush: An Irish Princess' Tale by author Donna Jo Napoli.

Oh Hyun-kyung

In 2001 she returned to Korea and later found herself in the public eye once again after a hush-hush wedding in September 2002 to Kemongsa president Hong Seung-pyo (the M&A specialist played by Bae Yong-joon in the TV series Hotelier was based on Hong).

Smile In Your Sleep

"Smile In Your Sleep", sometimes known as "Hush, Hush, Time To Be Sleeping" (Scots: "Hush, Hush, Time Tae Be Sleepin") is a Scottish folk song and lullaby written by Jim McLean and set to the tune of the Gaelic air, "Chi Mi Na Morbheanna" (literally "I will see the great mountains", or "The Mist Covered Mountain").

St Monica Choir

Apart from Magnus Dominus by Benigno Zerafa and the test piece, Quam Dilecta Tabernacula Tua Domine by Carlo Diacono (1876–1942), the choir’s performance included Rhythm of Life from Sweet Charity, The Bare Necessities from the motion picture The Jungle Book and negro spirituals Hush, somebody’s Calling My Name and I Want Jesus.

The Android Invasion

Harry was said to be working with NATO and doing something "hush-hush at Porton Down"; he is later said, in "Death of the Doctor" to have saved many lives and implied to be deceased.

The Fause Knight Upon the Road

Jane Siberry recorded her own variant of the song on her 2000 album Hush.

The Heights of Abraham

Their album Electric Hush was voted one of the Top 20 Dance Albums of 1995 by dance and club-culture magazine, Mixmag.

Electric Hush (Pork Recordings, 1995) - voted one of the Top 20 Dance Albums of 1995 by Mixmag

Theo Green

In 2012 he teamed up with Hush director Mark Tonderai a second time for the Jennifer Lawrence suspense thriller, House at the End of the Street.