Anybody Here Seen Kelly?
Anybody Here Seen Kelly? is a 1928 American silent comedy film directed by William Wyler.
This was the first non-Western film to be directed by Wyler and is now considered to be a lost film.
This is Bessie Love's final silent film.
It was produced by Universal Pictures.
Mr. Right (2009 film)
Mr. Right is a 2009 British film directed by David Morris and Jacqui Morris.
The jointly- made gay- themed film is the debut for both directors.
Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?
" Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?", music and lyrics by C.W. Murphy and Will Letters( 1908), is a British music hall song, originally titled" Kelly From the Isle of Man".
The song concerns a Manx woman looking for her boyfriend during a visit to London.
It was adapted for American audiences by William McKenna in 1909 for the American musical" The Jolly Bachelors".
Kelly is the commonest surname on the Isle of Man.
In the American adaptation of the song, lyrics were changed to describe Kelly as being from Ireland and visiting New York -- Irish songs and performers being popular with vaudeville audiences.
In Nora Bayes' 1910 recording of the song, she gives a wink to her own Jewish heritage by" accidentally" singing" Has anybody here seen Levi ... I mean Kelly."
In 1926, Max Fleischer produced an animated short in the DeForest Phonofilm sound- on- film process as part of his" Song Car- Tunes" series.
In 1928, William Wyler directed a feature film starring Bessie Love with this title.
In 1943, the song was performed in the film musical" Hello, Frisco, Hello".
An instrumental rendition can be heard throughout the 1949 film" It Happens Every Spring".
It functions like a theme song for the main character- a science professor who becomes a baseball star under the pseudonym' King Kelly'. In 1978's" Ziegfeld: The Man& His Women", Inga Swenson, as Nora Bayes, sings the song during the scene of the first" Ziegfeld Follies" in 1908.
In 1917, the British composer Havergal Brian based much of the opening scene of his opera" The Tigers" around the song( or rather round the refrain), which runs beneath and through the action as policeman search for a missing person during a Bank Holiday carnival on Hampstead Heath.
A few years later he extracted the music, without the vocal parts or transferring those parts to instruments, as an independent orchestral work," Symphonic Variations on' Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?"'.
Maurice de Canonge
Maurice de Canonge( March 18, 1894 – January 10, 1979) was a French actor and film director.
He is also sometimes known by the name Maurice Cannon.
Clarence Wainwright Murphy
Clarence Wainwright Murphy, is a misidentification of Charles William Murphy( 1870 – 1913), who as C. W. Murphy was a prolific British composer of music hall and musical theatre tunes.
He was born in Manchester on 14 February 1870 and died in Blackpool on 18 or 19 June 1913.
He is perhaps best known for the song" Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?" with lyric by Will Letters( 1908).
In 1926," Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?" was made into an animated short of the same title directed by Dave Fleischer, and in 1928 into a feature film directed by William Wyler.
The song was also performed in the 1943 film" Hello Frisco, Hello".
With frequent collaborator Dan Lipton( 1873 – 1935) he also wrote" My Girl's a Yorkshire Girl", mentioned by James Joyce in his novel" Ulysses" and also turned into a 1909 short sound film of the same name.
Another song," Little Yellow- bird",( aka" Goodbye, Little Yellow Bird") written with lyricist W. Hargreave, can be seen performed by Scottish comedian Charlie Naughton in the 1938 film" Alf's Button Afloat" and by Angela Lansbury in the 1945 film" The Picture of Dorian Gray" and again by Lansbury in the 1985 episode" Sing a Song of Murder" from her TV series" Murder, She Wrote".
Three Sailors (1957 film)
Three Sailors (French: Trois de la marine) is a 1957 French comedy film directed by Maurice de Canonge and starring Marcel Merkès, Henri Génès and Jeannette Batti.
The film's art direction was by Claude Bouxin.
It was shot in Eastmancolor.
The Living Idol
The Living Idol is a 1957 film.
Clarence Wainwright Murphy
Clarence Wainwright Murphy, is a misidentification of Charles William Murphy( 1870 – 1913), who as C. W. Murphy was a prolific British composer of music hall and musical theatre tunes.
He was born in Manchester on 14 February 1870 and died in Blackpool on 18 or 19 June 1913.
He is perhaps best known for the song" Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?" with lyric by Will Letters( 1908).
In 1926," Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?" was made into an animated short of the same title directed by Dave Fleischer, and in 1928 into a feature film directed by William Wyler.
The song was also performed in the 1943 film" Hello Frisco, Hello".
With frequent collaborator Dan Lipton( 1873 – 1935) he also wrote" My Girl's a Yorkshire Girl", mentioned by James Joyce in his novel" Ulysses" and also turned into a 1909 short sound film of the same name.
Another song," Little Yellow- bird",( aka" Goodbye, Little Yellow Bird") written with lyricist W. Hargreave, can be seen performed by Scottish comedian Charlie Naughton in the 1938 film" Alf's Button Afloat" and by Angela Lansbury in the 1945 film" The Picture of Dorian Gray" and again by Lansbury in the 1985 episode" Sing a Song of Murder" from her TV series" Murder, She Wrote".
William Wyler
William Wyler (born Willi Wyler ; July 1, 1902 – July 27, 1981) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter.
Notable works include "Ben-Hur" (1959), "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946), and "Mrs. Miniver" (1942), all of which won Academy Awards for Best Director, as well as Best Picture in their respective years, making him the only director of three Best Picture winners as of 2019.
Wyler received his first Oscar nomination for directing "Dodsworth" in 1936, starring Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton and Mary Astor, "sparking a 20-year run of almost unbroken greatness."
Film historian
Ian Freer calls Wyler a "bona fide perfectionist", whose penchant for retakes and an attempt to hone every last nuance, "became the stuff of legend.
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His ability to direct a string of classic literary adaptations into huge box-office and critical successes made him one of "Hollywood's most bankable moviemakers" during the 1930s and 1940s and into the '60s.
Through his talent for staging, editing, and camera movement, he turned dynamic theatrical spaces into cinematic ones.
He helped propel a number of actors to stardom, finding and directing Audrey Hepburn in her Hollywood debut film, "Roman Holiday" (1953), and directing Barbra Streisand in her debut film, "Funny Girl" (1968).
Both of these performances won Academy Awards.
He directed Olivia de Havilland to her second Oscar in "The Heiress" (1949) and Laurence Olivier in "Wuthering Heights" (1939), for his first Oscar nomination.
Olivier credited Wyler with teaching him how to act for the screen.
And Bette Davis, who received three Oscar nominations under his direction and won her second Oscar in "Jezebel" (1938), said Wyler made her a "far, far better actress" than she had ever been.
Other popular Wyler films include: "Hell's Heroes" (1929), "Dodsworth" (1936), "The Westerner" (1940), "The Letter" (1940), "Friendly Persuasion" (1956), "The Big Country" (1958), "The Children's Hour" (1961) and "How to Steal a Million" (1966).
The Living Idol
The Living Idol is a 1957 film.

Question: Do both directors of films Anybody Here Seen Kelly? and Three Sailors (1957 Film) share the same nationality?
Answer: no