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The Student Prince is an American operetta by Sigmund Romberg. Originally staged in 1924, it enjoyed a record-breaking sixty-eight performances on Broadway. The work tells a romantic story set in Heidelberg, Germany, during the 18th century. It’s notable for its popular songs and enduring appeal wit...

Richard S. Kayne is an American linguist and a prominent theoretical syntactician, currently serving as a professor at New York University. He is widely recognized for his work in generative grammar, particularly his research on comparative Romance syntax, especially French. Kayne is most famous for...

Rose-Marie is an American operetta composed by Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stothart. It premiered in 1924 and achieved significant popularity through the iconic ballad "Indian Love Call." The story centers on a romance between a Canadian frontiersman and a Native American girl, exploring themes of cult...

The Desert Song, composed by Sigmund Romberg, is an American operetta from 1926. It draws on the Moroccan Rif War for dramatic inspiration and achieved significant popularity with a Broadway run of over four hundred performances. The work explores themes of romance and conflict within a desert setti...

Don Q, Son of Zorro is a 1925 silent film adaptation of Kate and Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard’s novel. Starring Douglas Fairbanks, it reimagined the story as a vehicle for the Zorro character, with Jack Cunningham and Lotta Woods handling the screenwriting under Donald Crisp's direction. United Artists...

Mlle. Modiste, composed by Herbert in 1905, is an American operetta centered around Fritzi Scheff’s performance. The work explores a romance set within a Parisian fashion house and includes the memorable tune "Kiss Me Again." It was primarily intended for audiences interested in early 20th-century A...

Sigmund Romberg’s *The New Moon* premiered in 1928 and represents a significant work within the American operetta tradition. Featuring lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, the piece is notable as one of the final major successes of the operetta genre on Broadway. It tells an adventure romance set in the...

Raising Victor Vargas is a 2002 American coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Peter Sollett. Set on Manhattan's Lower East Side, it follows Victor, a Dominican-American teenager, as he navigates family pressure, peer dynamics, and first love. The film features a largely non-professional...

Sweethearts is an American operetta with music by Victor Herbert and a libretto and lyrics by Harry B. Smith, Fred de Gresac, and Robert B. Smith. It premiered in Baltimore in 1913 before moving to Broadway, where it played at the New Amsterdam and Liberty theatres. Set partly in the fictional kingd...

The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg is a 1927 American silent romantic drama film directed by Ernst Lubitsch for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Based on the 1901 play "Old Heidelberg" by Wilhelm Meyer-Förster, the story follows Karl Heinrich, a young prince sent to study in Heidelberg where he falls in...

The Vagabond King is a 1925 operetta composed by Rudolf Friml, featuring a libretto by Brian Hooker and William H. Post. It is based on the 1901 novel and play If I Were King by Justin Huntly McCarthy, which dramatizes the life of the 15th-century French poet and criminal François Villon. The origin...

The Red Mill is a 1906 Broadway operetta composed by Victor Herbert with libretto by Henry Blossom, set in 17th-century Holland. The operetta tells the story of two American travelers who become entangled with the innkeeper of the Red Mill and his daughter, featuring such musical numbers as "Moonbea...

The New York Hat is a 1912 American silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith for the Biograph Company. Written by Anita Loos, the short film stars Mary Pickford as a young woman whose purchase of a fashionable hat sparks malicious village gossip. The production also features early screen appeara...

Saving Face is a 2004 American romantic comedy-drama written and directed by Alice Wu, her feature directorial debut. The film follows Wilhelmina, a Chinese-American surgeon (played by Michelle Krusiec) navigating her relationship with a dancer while her traditionally-minded mother (Joan Chen) faces...

Evidence of the Affair is an epistolary novella written by American author Taylor Jenkins Reid and published in 2018. The narrative is set in the late 1970s and unfolds entirely through a series of letters exchanged between two strangers. They initiate their correspondence after discovering that the...

The Strong Man is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Frank Capra, starring the prominent vaudevillian comedian Harry Langdon. The narrative follows a timid, diminutive Belgian soldier who immigrates to the United States after World War I to locate his American pen pal, eventually taking...

The Night Circus is a 2011 fantasy novel by American author Erin Morgenstern, published by Doubleday. The narrative centers on two young illusionists, Celia Bowen and Marco Alisdair, bound in a magical competition set within a mysterious traveling circus that operates only at night. The book is writ...

The Firefly is an operetta in three acts by Rudolf Friml, with book and lyrics by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II, premiering on Broadway in 1912. It was Friml's first stage success and helped establish him as a major composer of American operetta. The story follows a street singer in 18th-cen...

The Fortune Teller is Victor Herbert's 1898 Broadway operetta, written for soprano Alice Nielsen and remembered for the Gypsy Love Song. The story is set in Hungary and involves romantic intrigue, mistaken identity, and fortune-telling. It was a commercial success in its original run and has seen pe...

The Mysterious Lady is a 1928 American silent romantic drama film directed by Fred Niblo and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Based on a novel by Ludwig Wolff, the narrative stars Greta Garbo as Tania Fedorova, a Russian spy operating in Vienna during World War I. She seduces and steals documents...

Why Change Your Wife? is a 1920 American silent comedy directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Gloria Swanson, Thomas Meighan, and Bebe Daniels. Its story follows a married couple who divorce after the husband becomes interested in another woman, then reconsider their choices after encountering ea...

*The Kiss* is an 1896 American silent film produced by Thomas Edison and directed by William Heise. Lasting approximately 18 seconds, the film features stage actors May Irwin and John C. Rice reenacting the final scene from the Broadway musical comedy *The Widow Jones*. It is historically significan...

Almost Like Being in Love is a 2004 epistolary novel by Steve Kluger that chronicles a multi-decade romance using letters, receipts, and various documents.

Beyond the Rocks is a 1922 American silent romantic drama directed by Sam Wood and based on a novel by Elinor Glyn. Gloria Swanson plays a young woman who marries a wealthy older man to assist her family but falls in love with an aristocrat played by Rudolph Valentino. Long classified as a lost film...

Anna and the French Kiss is a 2010 young adult novel by American author Stephanie Perkins. It follows Anna Oliphant, an Atlanta teenager whose father sends her to a boarding school for American students in Paris for her senior year, where she develops feelings for classmate Étienne St. Clair. The co...

The Affairs of Anatol is a 1921 American silent comedy-drama directed and produced by Cecil B. DeMille, with Wallace Reid as Anatol and Gloria Swanson as his wife. Adapted from Arthur Schnitzler's 1893 play Anatol, the film follows a wealthy newlywed whose disillusionment leads him into a series of...

The Kempton-Wace Letters is a 1903 epistolary novel written jointly by Jack London and Anna Strunsky. It takes the form of correspondence between two men, Herbert Wace and Dane Kempton, whose letters debate competing views of love, marriage, and human nature. The book is notable for presenting a sus...

Attachments is a 2011 romantic novel by American author Rainbow Rowell. Its story is presented through workplace emails exchanged by two coworkers, which are read by a security analyst who becomes emotionally involved with the people behind them. The email-based structure makes private correspondenc...

Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas is a 2001 novel by American author James Patterson that combines a contemporary framing story with diary entries. Katie Wilkinson receives a diary after her relationship with the writer, Matthew Harrison, ends abruptly; the diary was written by Suzanne for her young son...