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Mr Selfridge è una serie televisiva anglo-statunitense creata da Andrew Davies in onda su ITV dal 6 gennaio 2013, basata sul romanzo Shopping, Seduction & Mr Selfridge di Lindy Woodhead, che racconta la storia dell'imprenditore Harry Gordon Selfridge e della sua catena di negozi Selfridge & Co.
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Mr Selfridge is a British period drama television series about Harry Gordon Selfridge and his department store, Selfridge & Co, in London, set from 1908 to 1928. It was co-produced by ITV Studios and Masterpiece / WGBH [1] for broadcast on ITV. The series began broadcasting on ITV on 6 January 2013 and 30 March 2016 on PBS in the United States.
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Selfridge was born to Robert Oliver Selfridge and Lois Frances Selfridge (née Baxter) in Ripon, Wisconsin, on 11 January 1858,Note 1 one of three boys. Within months of his birth, the family moved to Jackson, Michigan, as his father had acquired the town's general store. At the outbreak of the American Civil War, his father joined the Union Army. H...
At the age of 10, Selfridge began to contribute to the family income by delivering newspapers. Aged 12, he started working at the Leonard Field's dry-goods store. This allowed him to fund the creation of a boys' monthly magazine with schoolfriend Peter Loomis, making money from the advertising carried within.[citation needed] Selfridge left school ...
In 1890, Selfridge married Rosalie "Rose" Buckingham of the prominent Buckingham family of Chicago. Her father was Benjamin Hale Buckingham, who was a member of a very successful family, with a real estate business established by her grandfather, Alvah Buckingham. At 30 years old, Rose was a successful property developer, having inherited money and...
During the years of the Great Depression, Selfridge's fortune rapidly declined and then disappeared—a situation not helped by his free-spending ways. He gambled frequently and often lost. He also spent money on various showgirls. On 8 May 1947, Selfridge died of bronchial pneumonia at his home in Putney, south-west London, aged 89.His funeral was h...
Selfridge wrote a book, The Romance of Commerce, published by John Lane—The Bodley Head, in 1918, but actually written several years prior. In it are chapters on ancient commerce, China, Greece, Venice, Lorenzo de' Medici, the Fugger family, the Hanseatic League, fairs, guilds, early British commerce, trade and the Tudors, the East India Company, n...
The British period television drama series Mr Selfridge began its first season in 2013, starring Jeremy Pivenas Harry Gordon Selfridge. Secrets of Selfridges, produced by the independent UK company Pioneer Productionsin its "Secrets of Britain" series, was an hour-long documentary about the London store and Harry Selfridge.
Online facsimile of The Romance of Commerce by H. Gordon Selfridge, from the Internet Archive (digitized by Google from the library of the University of California)Biography from the DNB[permanent dead link]Mr Selfridge: Created by Andrew Davies, Kate Brooke. With Ron Cook, Jeremy Piven, Tom Goodman-Hill, Amy Beth Hayes. Centers on the real-life story of the flamboyant and visionary American founder of Selfridge's, London's department store.
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Eugenio Spagnuolo. Dopo un passaggio sul satellite, domenica alle 21 arriva su Raitre Mr Selfridge, serie in 10 episodi basata sulla vita del geniale Harry Gordon Selfridge, fondatore degli...
29 mag 2013 · Mr Selfridge è una serie televisiva anglo-statunitense creata da Andrew Davies in onda su ITV dal 6 gennaio 2013, basata sul romanzo Shopping, Seduction & Mr Selfridge di Lindy Woodhead, che racconta la storia dell'imprenditore Harry Gordon Selfridge e della sua catena di negozi Selfridge & Co.
