Edith Cavell - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

The song "Que Sera" on the album Silent June by O'Hooley & Tidow was inspired by the execution of Edith Cavell.

The song "Amy Quartermaine" by Manning from the 2011 album Margaret's Children is based on the life of Edith Cavell.

The French singer Édith Piaf is said to have been named after Edith Cavell. In general, it was due to Cavell that "Edith" became a common female first name in France.

The 1939 US film Nurse Edith Cavell starring Anna Neagle and George Sanders.

In the second episode of the 1980 television series To Serve Them All My Days Edith Cavell is mentioned in a speech to the school's Officers' Training Corps.

Read more about this topic:  Edith Cavell

Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:

    Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    It is among the ranks of school-age children, those six- to twelve-year-olds who once avidly filled their free moments with childhood play, that the greatest change is evident. In the place of traditional, sometimes ancient childhood games that were still popular a generation ago, in the place of fantasy and make- believe play . . . today’s children have substituted television viewing and, most recently, video games.
    Marie Winn (20th century)

    Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life—its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness—conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.
    Susan Sontag (b. 1933)