NOUN | a happy ending | happy endings | |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- He rewrote Corneille's "Le Cid" with a happy ending as "Ximena" in 1712.
- Simmons did "Heidi" (1968) for TV, then Brooks wrote and directed "The Happy Ending" (1969) for her, and she received her second Oscar nomination.
- All sing a merry song in praise of Athene, goddess of wisdom and chastity, whose citadel provided a refuge for the women during the events of the comedy, and whose implied blessing has brought about a happy ending to the play.
- In the printed script, he indicated he felt that Bertram kissing Helena is a happy ending, but in press material for the US broadcast, he said he found the end to be sombre because none of the young characters had learnt anything.
- He guest starred in the anthology series "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" episode "A Very Happy Ending" in the same year, playing a child who blackmails a hitman into killing his father.
- They typically ended with a wedding or happy ending.
- Most often seen in dramatic literature, the term can describe either a tragic play which contains enough comic elements to lighten the overall mood or a serious play with a happy ending.
- The novel also gives no indication that any of the couples will work through their problems (the film, ambiguities notwithstanding, has a decidedly happy ending as per the prevailing social mores and film censorship code), and the identity of the errant husband is different although not his rationale.
- In the happy ending, Atlantis succumbs to the eruption of the still active volcano as the duo flees from the city.
- The success of the television version of "Talent" led to Wood writing the follow-up "Nearly a Happy Ending".
- To date, all of the film and TV adaptations have strayed somewhat from the original plot, some going as far as to give it a happy ending, including in the classic 1939 film and the 1996 Disney animated film.
- They are written about things that children can understand, and situations they will face such as going to the hospital and going to school, and they always have a happy ending.
- Tragicomedies made a pretence at "grave stuff" but invariably provided a happy ending with light entertainment.
- Hitchcock later stated that he thought the conventional happy ending of the film (with the wife discovering her husband is innocent rather than him being guilty and she letting him kill her with a glass of poisoned milk) "a complete mistake because of making that story with Cary Grant.
- "The Getaway" was remade in 1994 with Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger in the lead roles; the film retained the happy ending of the earlier film and received comparably poor reviews.
- is very similar to "Candide", only with a happy ending; supporters of another claim that Voltaire provided Sciascia with only a starting point from which to work, that the two books are quite distinct.
- The English version "Rickshaw Boy" became a US bestseller in 1945; it was an unauthorized translation that added a bowdlerized happy ending to the story.
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