This series includes, for example, Ethel Lina White's novel The Wheel Spins ( 1936 ), which Alfred Hitchcock — before he went to Hollywood — turned into a much-loved movie entitled The Lady Vanishes ( 1938 ), and Ira Levin's ( born 1929 ) science fiction thriller The Boys from Brazil ( 1976 ), which was filmed in 1978.

* Ethel Lina White-The Wheel Spins ( later The Lady Vanishes )

* Ethel Lina White ( 1876 – 1944 ), British crime writer

The Spiral Staircase is a 1946 American psychological thriller film directed by Robert Siodmak, based on Ethel Lina White's novel Some Must Watch.

Ethel Lina White ( 1876 – 13 August 1944 ) was a British crime writer, best known for her novel, The Wheel Spins ( 1936 ), on which the Alfred Hitchcock film, The Lady Vanishes ( 1938 ), was based.

* Works by Ethel Lina White at Project Gutenberg Australia

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The Big Broadcast of 1936 starred Bing Crosby, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Ethel Merman, Jack Oakie, and Bill " Bojangles " Robinson and also featured other performances by Dorothy Dandridge and the Nicholas Brothers, who would appear with Miller again in two movies for Twentieth Century Fox in 1941 and 1942.

He also became engaged to Ethel Mary Boyce ( 1863 – 1936 ) from Chertsey, Surrey, who was also a promising composition student at the Academy.

In May 1936, John Lomax, Gordon's successor as head of the Library of Congress's folk archive, discovered a woman named Ethel Best singing " Come by Here " with a group in Raiford, Florida.

Between 1931 and 1936, at least seventeen of Butler's stories published in newspapers were enhanced by noted illustrator Ethel Hays.

The original Broadway production, directed by Robert B. Sinclair, opened on December 26, 1936 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, where it ran for 666 performances with an all-female cast that included Arlene Francis, Ilka Chase, and Marjorie Main.

# Ethel Jane Cain, first permanent voice: from July 24, 1936 to 1963.

* Anything Goes ( 1936 ) with Bing Crosby and Ethel Merman

By 1936, she owned 16 dwelling which were used by several artist including ; Noël Coward, Laurence Olivier, John Houseman, Ethel Barrymore.

), Dorothy Young ( 1913 – 1916 ), and Ethel Smith ( 1916 – 1936 ).

By 1936 he was immobile and being cared for by Ethel and some nurses whom she supervised at Eden Lodge ; he continued to keep up with politics.

In 1930, the legendary Ethel Merman made her Broadway debut in Girl Crazy ; in 1934, she appeared again in Cole Porter's Anything Goes and again in 1936 in Porter's Red, Hot and Blue.

* Red, Hot and Blue, a 1936 musical by Cole Porter, originally starring Ethel Merman, Jimmy Durante, and Bob Hope

The rich orchestral accompaniment that became identified with the disco era conjured up the memories of the big band era — which brought out several artists that recorded and disco-ized some big band arrangements including Perry Como, who re-recorded his 1929 and 1939 hit, " Temptation ", in 1975, as well as Ethel Merman, who released an album of disco songs entitled The Ethel Merman Disco Album in 1979.

* French — Alleaume, Ludovic: Poor Pierrot ( 1915 ); Derain, André: Pierrot ( 1923 – 1924 ), Harlequin and Pierrot ( c. 1924 ); Gabain, Ethel: Many works, including Pierrot ( 1916 ), Pierrot's Love-letter ( 1917 ), and Unfaithful Pierrot ( 1919 ); La Fresnaye, Roger de: Study for " Pierrot " ( 1921 ); La Touche, Gaston de: Pierrot's Greeting ( n. d .); Laurens, Henri: Pierrot ( c. 1922 ); Matisse, Henri: The Burial of Pierrot ( 1943 ); Mossa, Gustav Adolf: Pierrot and the Chimera ( 1906 ), Pierrot Takes His Leave ( 1906 ), Pierrot and His Doll ( 1907 ); Picabia, Francis: Pierrot ( early 1930s ); Renoir, Pierre-Auguste: White Pierrot ( 1901 / 1902 ); Rouault, Georges: Many works, including White Pierrot ( 1911 ), Pierrot ( 1920 ), Pierrot ( 1937 – 1938 ), Pierrot ( or Pierrette ) ( 1939 ), Aristocratic Pierrot ( 1942 ), The Wise Pierrot ( 1943 ), Blue Pierrots with Bouquet ( c. 1946 ).

Many were movie folk — Actresses Louise Beavers, Hattie McDaniel, Ethel Waters, etc.

The events of the late 1940s — the trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, the Iron Curtain ( 1945 – 1991 ) around Eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union ’ s nuclear weapon — surprised the American public, influencing popular opinion about U. S. national security, that, in turn, connected to fear of the Soviet Union hydrogen-bombing the United States, and fear of the Communist Party of the United States of America ( CPUSA ).

* Heir to an Execution — An HBO documentary by Ivy Meeropol, the granddaughter of Ethel and Julius.

* April 22 — Ethel Smyth, composer ( d. 1944 )

* The life and letters of George John Romanes ( 1898 ) — Biography by his wife, Ethel Romanes.

Named after her father ’ s favorite character — Ethel in William Makepeace Thackeray ’ s The Newcomes — she was one of the twentieth century ’ s most elegant, beautiful and gifted actresses.

The only two films that featured all three siblings — Ethel, John and Lionel — were National Red Cross Pageant ( 1917 ) and Rasputin and the Empress ( 1932 ).

* Kathleen Kennedy — Ethel Firecracker

* Evie Ethel Garland ( Maureen Flannigan ) — Evie is a half-human, half-alien girl who lives with her mother in Marlowe, California, in a house overlooking the sea.

Ethel Shutta ( pronounced " shoo-tay ") ( December 1, 1896 — February 5, 1976 ) was an American actress and singer, who came to prominence through her performances on Jack Benny's radio show, her role in the early Eddie Cantor musical Whoopee !, and her Broadway comeback in Follies at the age of 74.

* From 1976 to 2007 the rock band Genesis played the Ethel Merman recording at the end of gigs — it can be heard at the end of their 1977 live album Seconds Out.

The Trusts, a single entity, is the successor to, and sole beneficiary of, seven charitable funds established between 1948 and 1979 by J. Howard Pew, Mary Ethel Pew, Joseph N. Pew, Jr., and Mabel Pew Myrin — the adult sons and daughters of Sunoco founder Joseph N. Pew and his wife, Mary Anderson Pew.

In addition to her earthly employer, Ethel is under the constant eye of her heavenly boss ( and their successors ), who watch her every move — and her every mistake.

According to historian Robin Bruce Lockhart, Sidney Reilly — a Russian-born adventurer and secret agent employed by the British Secret Intelligence Service — met Ethel Voynich in London in 1895.

Mrs. Robert O. Spurdle is chairman of the committee, which includes Mrs. James A. Moody, Mrs. Frank C. Wilkinson, Mrs. Ethel Coles, Mrs. Harold G. Lacy, Mrs. Albert W. Terry, Mrs. Henry M. Chance, 2d, Mrs. Robert O. Spurdle, Jr., Mrs. Harcourt N. Trimble, Jr., Mrs. John A. Moller, Mrs. Robert Zeising, Mrs. William G. Kilhour, Mrs. Hughes Cauffman, Mrs. John L. Baringer and Mrs. Clyde Newman.

The couple had at first exchanged letters, which Beatty signed ' Jack ', as Ethel was still a married woman and discretion was advised.

For the hit Broadway show, " Hot Chocolates ", he and Razaf wrote "( What Did I Do to Be So ) Black and Blue " ( 1929 ), which became a hit for Ethel Waters and Louis Armstrong.

The most successful of these was the 1969-70 revival at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, starring Robert Ryan and Bert Convy as Burns and Johnson, which ran 222 performances.

She also performed for black regiments as the only white member of an acting troupe formed by Hattie McDaniel, which included Lena Horne and Ethel Waters.

Many of the era's stars including Ethel Barrymore, Joe E. Brown, Claude Rains, Burgess Meredith, and Joan Bennett made appearances on the show, which had an audience of more than 8 million before it left the air in 1942.

More laughter was generated on such shows as Abbott and Costello, Amos ' n ' Andy, Burns and Allen, Easy Aces, Ethel and Albert, Fibber McGee and Molly, The Goldbergs, The Great Gildersleeve, The Halls of Ivy ( which featured screen star Ronald Colman and his wife Benita Hume ), Meet Corliss Archer, Meet Millie, and Our Miss Brooks.

In 1904 he married Ethel Hester Moore ( 1878 – 1961 ), and in 1907 he moved with his family to " Sopers ", a house in the village of Ditchling in Sussex, which would later become the centre of an artists ' community inspired by Gill.

The sailing barque Ethel, which ran aground on 2 January 1904, was well preserved on the beach for many years but little now remains.

In 1927, Mrs. Ethel Slagle Clarkson acquired her brother ’ s share and she and her husband, Jabez, operated the store together until his death in 1947, at which time she continued alone until her marriage to Ed Pittman in 1950.

* The original Kaufman-Ferber play The Royal Family, which opened on Broadway in 1927, angered Ethel Barrymore to the point of a threatened lawsuit.

His other Broadway performance was as Walter Cole in David Marnet's American Buffalo, which opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on 16 February 1977 and closed at the Belasco Theatre on 11 June 1977.

* Ethel Rosenberg is a major supporting character in Tony Kushner's critically acclaimed play Angels in America ( 1993 ), in which her ghost haunts a dying Roy Cohn.

Though Stevenson reassures an anxious Theodora that only he and his secretary know her identity, his wife Ethel ( Nana Bryant ) pressures him into an introduction, which the book's illustrator, Michael Grant ( Melvyn Douglas ), overhears.

His last will, which was eventually set to music by Ethel Raim, founder of the group The Pennywhistlers, reads:

Margaret, Duchess of Argyll ( born Ethel Margaret Whigham, 1 December 1912 – 25 July 1993 ), was a notorious British Socialite, best remembered for her 1963 divorce case against her second husband, the 11th Duke of Argyll, which featured salacious photographs and scandalous stories.

They include Leslie Uggams thinking lemonade was hot cocoa, singer Anne Murray and a magic eggnog container, Oscar adopting a kitten with a broken leg who was never seen again on the television series ( which is out of character for Oscar, even on Christmas ), and Ethel Merman calling Imogene Coca an idiot.

These productions included four Cole Porter musicals in which Gold starred in roles that had been written for Ethel Merman.

In 1950, the owner of the estate, Kenneth Ward, donated the pleasure grounds around the building to the village ( which is now part of the City of York ), to build the Ethel Ward Memorial Playing Field.

In the 1930s, the company presented standard repertoire works including operas by Mozart, Verdi, Wagner and Puccini, lighter works by Balfe, Donizetti, Offenbach and Johann Strauss, some novelties, among which were operas by Holst, Ethel Smyth and Charles Villiers Stanford, and an unusual attempt at staging an oratorio, Mendelssohn's Elijah.