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The Dreyfus affair (French: affaire Dreyfus, pronounced [afɛːʁ dʁɛfys]) was a political scandal that divided the Third French Republic from 1894 until its resolution in 1906. The scandal began in December 1894 when Captain Alfred Dreyfus , a 35-year-old Alsatian French artillery officer of Jewish descent , was convicted of treason for ...
Mar 20, 2024 · AMERICAN GRAFFITI, Cindy Williams, Ron Howard, 1973. She’s been quiet in TV and film in recent years, only holding minor roles. However, she had been very much into theater. Cindy Williams made her Broadway debut in 2007’s The Drowsy Chaperone, succeeding in a role originated by the late Georgia Engel.
Jul 3, 2015 · An encore of a conversation with Ben and Emily Dreyfuss, the adult children of actor Richard Dreyfuss, after they re-watched Jaws. This story originally aired on Morning Edition on July 8, 2014.
May 20, 2024 · Dreyfus affair, political crisis, beginning in 1894 and continuing through 1906, in France during the Third Republic. The controversy centred on the question of the guilt or innocence of army captain Alfred Dreyfus, who had been convicted of treason for allegedly selling military secrets to the Germans in December 1894.
Richard Dreyfuss was 24 in American Graffiti when he played the character 'Curt Henderson'. That was over 51 years ago in 1973. Today he is 76, and has starred in 117 movies in total, 109 of those since American Graffiti was released.
Jun 16, 2022 · The Dreyfus Affair, or L'Affaire as it has become known, demonstrated the competing forces at work to either reestablish the monarchy and the Church in power or to solidify and advance the unfulfilled ideals of the 1789 French Revolution. This event is considered the trigger for the movement which led to the Law of Separation of Churches and ...
Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the 1974 novel by Peter Benchley.It stars Roy Scheider as police chief Martin Brody, who, with the help of a marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss) and a professional shark hunter (Robert Shaw), hunts a man-eating great white shark that attacks beachgoers at a summer resort town.
