Missamma
Missamma  is a 1955 Indian Telugu-language romantic comedy film directed by L. V. Prasad.
Produced by B. Nagi Reddy and Aluri Chakrapani Vijaya Vauhini Studios, its script was adapted by Chakrapani from two Bengali-language works: Rabindranath Maitra's play "Manmoyee Girls School" and Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay novel "Detective".
The film stars N. T. Rama Rao, Savitri, Akkineni Nageswara Rao and Jamuna.
"Missamma" tells the story of two unemployed people — M. T. Rao (Rama Rao) and Mary (Savitri) — who pose as a married couple to obtain employment in a high school founded by Gopalam (S. V. Ranga Rao), a zamindar.
As Rao and Mary fall in love, Gopalam's nephew A. K. Raju (Nageswara Rao) learns that Mary is Gopalam's missing elder daughter Mahalakshmi; she is unaware of her true identity.
Production began in early 1954 with Bhanumathi Ramakrishna cast as the female lead, though she would eventually be replaced by Savitri.
The film was simultaneously shot in Tamil as "Missiamma", with an altered cast.
Principal photography ended that December; filming was delayed because of Bhanumathi's exit after filming a few reels, and the difficulty of managing two casts simultaneously.
C. P. Jambulingam and Kalyanam edited the film; Marcus Bartley was the cinematographer, and S. Rajeswara Rao composed the music.
"Missamma" focused on social issues such as unemployment, corruption, and freedom of worship.
"Missamma" was released theatrically on 12 January 1955, two days before "Missiamma".
Both versions were commercially successful, completing 100-day theatrical runs.
The bilingual film brought recognition to its cast and studio, and words and phrases from "Missamma" became part of Telugu vernacular.
The film was remade in Hindi as "Miss Mary" (1957), again directed by Prasad.
In the same year, it was adapted into the Marathi film "Jhakli Mooth".
Bapu, Mullapudi Venkata Ramana and Raavi Kondala Rao rewrote and adapted "Missamma" as "Pelli Pustakam" in 1991, with the premise of the original inverted: a married couple pretend to be unmarried to obtain employment.
Dennis Rawlins
Dennis Rawlins( born 1937) is an American astronomer and historian who has acquired the reputation of skeptic primarily with respect to historical claims connected to astronomical considerations.
He is known to the public mostly from media coverage of his investigations of the two most, successful science hoaxes of the twentieth century.
In his first book," Peary at the North Pole: fact or fiction?"( 1973), Rawlins argued that Robert Peary never made it to the North Pole in 1909.
His second book( 1993) is the standard critical edition of Tycho Brahe's 1598 catalogue of 1004 stars which detected ten star places faked partially or entirely.
In 1976, as the only astronomer on the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, he looked into the so- called Mars effect.
In 1996 he made headlines when page one of the" New York Times" covered his report to Ohio State University which concluded that in 1926 Richard E. Byrd's airplane flight towards the North Pole turned back 150 miles from the pole.
Rawlins's third book, his detailed report on Byrd's trip and on the competence of lingering defenses of it, was co-published simultaneously in 2000 by" DIO" volume 10, 2000 and by the polar research center at the University of Cambridge.
Because explorer Frederick Cook's story of reaching the North Pole in 1908 is generally rejected, the elimination of Peary and Byrd leaves fourth North Pole claimant Roald Amundsen as first there in 1926 in the airship" Norge"( Norwegian for Norway).
Having attained the South Pole in 1911, Amundsen thus became the first to reach each geographical pole of the earth, as proposed in Rawlins's 1973 book.
Robert Aldrich
Robert Burgess Aldrich( August 9, 1918 – December 5, 1983) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.
His notable credits include" Vera Cruz"( 1954)," Kiss Me Deadly"( 1955)," The Big Knife"( 1955)," Autumn Leaves"( 1956)," Attack"( 1956)," What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"( 1962)," Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte"( 1964)," The Flight of the Phoenix"( 1965)," The Dirty Dozen"( 1967) and" The Longest Yard"( 1974).
Aldrich was portrayed by Alfred Molina in the television miniseries" Feud"( 2017).
Dmitry Shparo
Dmitry Shparo( born August 23, 1941) is a Russian Arctic explorer and endurance skier.
He is internationally known for twice reaching the North Pole on snow skis.
In 1979, Shparo led the first ski expedition from Eurasia to the North Pole.
In 1988, he completed a full traverse across the Arctic Ocean from Russia to Canada via the North Pole.
In 1998, Shparo and his son, Matvey, became the first people in modern times to ski across the Bering Strait, from Russia into North America.
Tshibinda Ilunga
Tshibinda Ilunga( born 17th century) was a Luba Prince and Emperor of the Lunda and their civilizing hero.
Emperor of the North Pole
Emperor of the North Pole is a 1973 American DeLuxe Color film directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, and Keith Carradine.
It was later re-released on home media( and is more widely known) under the shorter title Emperor of the North, ostensibly chosen by studio executives to avoid being mistaken for a heartwarming holiday story.
This original title is an homage to the historic joke among Great Depression- era hobos that the world's best hobo was" Emperor of the North Pole", a way of poking fun at their own desperate situation, since somebody ruling over the North Pole would reign over nothing but a vast, barren, cold, empty, and stark wasteland.
The film depicts the story of two hobos' struggle( esp. vs." The Establishment") during the US' Great Depression in 1930s Oregon.
Its screenplay is quite significantly inspired by three separate, yet inter-related self- published seminal writings from earlier decades:
Jack London's better- known 1907 travel memoir," The Road", and, two lesser- known books, both by legendary hobo" A- No.- 1", pen-name of Leon Ray Livingston," The Trail of the Tramp", and his 1917 travelogue," From Coast to Coast with Jack London".
Carradine's character, Cigaret, uses the moniker that Jack London used during his hobo escapades, and like London, is portrayed as a young traveling companion to the older Livingston's A- No.- 1( played by Marvin), but that is where( some assert) the similarity between Carradine's character and Jack London ends, as Cigaret is portrayed in the film as immature, loud- mouthed, and not bright, opposite A- No.- 1's gracious and graceful seasoned veteran.
Frances Phipps
Frances Phipps was a Canadian, and the first woman who reached the North Pole( on April 5, 1971).
Phipps grew up in Ottawa, Ontario as Frances Coolin.
She was married to the Canadian bush pilot" Weldy" Welland Phipps, who had been her flight instructor, and the couple had nine children.
Along with her husband, she founded Atlas Aviation in Resolute Bay, Nunavut, which was at the time the most northerly charter air service in Canada.
The Phipps couple flew together to the North Pole in a Twin Otter ski plane to the North Pole, to install a radar beacon and to promote northern travel.
Because no woman had been to the North Pole before, Frances' trip was included in the" Guinness Book of World Records".
In 1972, Fran and Weldy bought a 48- foot sailboat, and for over a decade traveled the world by sea.
Phipps died in July 2013 at New Glasgow, Prince Edward Island.
Aleksandr Kuznetsov (explorer)
Aleksandr Kuznetsov was the expedition leader of the first undisputed team to set foot on the North Pole.
Other claimants, notably Frederick Cook( 1908) and Robert Peary( 1909) have been criticized for a lack of supporting logs, having no one to confirm sextant readings or other reasons.
Kuznetsov led the Sever- 2 team of Soviet scientists who flew and landed three Lisunov Li- 2s at the North Pole on April 23, 1948.
Soundings made by the team were the first to indicate an underwater mountain ridge beneath the ice and water at the North Pole.
Børge Ousland
Børge Ousland( born 31 May 1962) is a Norwegian polar explorer, photographer and writer.
He was the first person in the world to do a solo crossing of the Antarctic.
He started his career as a Norwegian Navy Special Forces Officer with Marinejegerkommandoen, and he also spent several years working as a deep sea diver for the oil industry in the North Sea.
On 4 May 1990 Ousland and Erling Kagge became the first explorers ever to reach the North Pole unsupported, after a 58- day ski trek from Ellesmere Island in Canada, a distance of 800 km.
In 1994, he made the first solo and unsupported journey to the North Pole from Cape Arktichevsky in Russia.
Between 15 November 1996 and 17 January 1997 he became the first in the world to do an unsupported solo crossing of the Antarctic, 1,864 miles from the edge of the Ronne Ice Shelf to the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
The ski journey was made with kite assistance and also holds the record for the fastest unsupported journey to the South Pole taking just 34 days.
On 22 January 2006, together with Mike Horn he began a journey to the North Pole in full Arctic night, successfully concluded on 23 March.
In September 2010, Ousland's team aboard" The Northern Passage" completed the circumnavigation of the North Pole.
A Russian team aboard the" Peter I" achieved the same feat in that season.
These were the first recorded instances of the circumnavigation of the North Pole without an icebreaker.
In December 2011 he traversed Antarctica to the South Pole for the centennial celebration of the first expedition to reach the Pole.
Ousland married at the North Pole in 2012 having been flown in by helicopter with" 20 or 30 people".
L. V. Prasad
Akkineni Lakshmi Vara Prasada Rao (17 January 1908 – 22 June 1994), known popularly as "L. V. Prasad", was an Indian film producer, actor, director, cinematographer and businessman.
He was one of the pioneers of Indian cinema and is the recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, the highest Award for films in India.
In 1980, he was awarded the Raghupathi Venkaiah Award, for his contribution to Telugu cinema.
He founded "Prasads Group" in 1956, which include the Prasad Art Pictures, Prasad Studios, Prasads IMAX and L V Prasad Eye Institute.
L. V. Prasad was the chairman of the 27th National Film Awards Selection Committee held at New Delhi in 1980.
He was the chairman of the All India Selection Panel of Indian Panorama section for the 8th International Film Festival of India from 3 to 17 January 1981.
Prasad was also the chairman of the International Jury for Children's Film Festival held in November 1981 at Madras.
He was elected as the President of The South Indian Film Chamber of Commerce for the year 1982–83.
He was a Member of the Board of Film Censors from October 1980 to February 1987.
L. V. Prasad was Chairman of the Studio Owners, Council, a wing of Film Federation of India.
The Government of India released a Commemorative postage stamp in his memory in 2006.
Prasad also had the unique distinction of acting in the first talkies of three different languages of Indian cinema; "Alam Ara" (Hindi), "Bhakta Prahlada" (Telugu) and "Kalidas" (Tamil).

Question: Do both Missamma and Emperor Of The North Pole films have the directors from the same country?
Answer: no