Romantic friendships were also popular in the U. S. Enigmatic poet Emily Dickinson wrote over 300 letters and poems to Susan Gilbert, who later became her sister-in-law, and engaged in another romantic correspondence with Kate Scott Anthon.

* 1939 – Kate O ' Mara, English actress

Kate O ' Mara ( born Frances M. Carroll, 10 August 1939, Leicester ) is an English film, stage and television actress.

Michael C. Ford ( born 1939 ), Kate Braverman ( born 1950 ), Eloise Klein Healy, Bill Mohr, Laurel Ann Bogen, met at Beyond Baroque

After finding an audience with Kate Smith's listeners, The Aldrich Family was launched in its own series as a summer replacement program for Jack Benny in NBC's Sunday night lineup, July 2, 1939, and it stayed there until October 1, 1939, when it moved to Tuesday nights at 8 p. m., sponsored by General Foods's popular gelatin dessert Jell-O, which also sponsored Jack Benny at the time.

* Kate Austin ( 1864 – 1902 ), American writer, feminist and anarchist

* 1948 – The Cole Porter Broadway musical, Kiss Me, Kate ( 1, 077 performances ), opens at the New Century Theatre and becomes the first show to win the Best Musical Tony Award.

Joey develops a relationship with his acting partner Kate ( Dina Meyer ), and Monica begins a relationship with millionaire Pete Becker ( Jon Favreau ) which shortly ends because of disagreements between the two.

They have three daughters: Georgia Tatom ( born April 17, 1995 ), Sarah Kate ( September 12, 1997 ), and Charlotte ( born June 26, 2002 ).

" She next appeared in the supporting role of Mary Svevo in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ( 2004 ), alongside Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, and Tom Wilkinson.

" Many important feminist works, such as Koedt's essay The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm ( 1970 ) and Kate Millet's book Sexual Politics ( 1970 ), emerged during this time and in this milieu.

Other songs performed by Amos include The Doors ' " People are Strange ", Depeche Mode's " Personal Jesus ", Joni Mitchell's " The Circle Game ", Madonna's " Live to Tell " and " Like a Prayer ", Björk's " Hyperballad ", Led Zeppelin's " When the Levee Breaks " ( which she debuted in Austin, Texas, just after the events of Hurricane Katrina ), Kate Bush's " And Dream of Sheep " and Crowded House's " Don't Dream It's Over ", dedicating it to drummer Paul Hester who had died a week before.

In the 1970s, Ono and Lennon became close to many radical leaders, including Bobby Seale, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Michael X, John Sinclair ( for whom they organized a benefit after he was imprisoned ), Angela Davis, Kate Millett, and David Peel.

* April 8 – Tilly Armstrong ( alias Tania Langley and Kate Alexander ), British writer ( d. 2010 )

In the mid-1990s, Hoffman starred in — and was deeply involved in the production of — David Mamet's American Buffalo ( also 1996 ), and an early effort of film editor Kate Sanford.

Hoffman played theater owner Charles Frohman in the J. M. Barrie historical fantasia Finding Neverland ( 2004 ), costarring Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet.

After leaving the CFU, Weir made his first major independent film, the short feature Homesdale ( 1971 ), an offbeat black comedy which co-starred rising young actress Kate Fitzpatrick and musician and comedian Grahame Bond, who came to fame in 1972 as the star of The Aunty Jack Show ; Weir also played a small role, but this was to be his last significant screen appearance.

Because of the unusual length of the play ( over three hours ), prior to the opening a matinee company was also hired that performed twice a week and featured Kate Reid as Martha, Shepperd Strudwick as George, Avra Petrides as Honey and Bill Berger as Nick.

In 1971, The Andromeda Strain was the basis for the film of the same name directed by Robert Wise, and featuring Arthur Hill as Stone, James Olson as Hall, Kate Reid as Leavitt ( changed to a female character, Ruth Leavitt ), and David Wayne as Dutton ( Burton in the novel ).

Kate ( Meg Ryan ) is a fastidious and wholesome history teacher living in Canada with her fiancé, Charlie ( Timothy Hutton ), who is a doctor.

Determined to win him back, Kate boards a flight to Paris, despite her fear of flying, and is seated next to a crude Frenchman, Luc Teyssier ( Kevin Kline ), whose every word during the seven-hour flight seems to annoy her.

Both the stage and TV versions starred Jonathan Rigby ( Horne ), Robin Sebastian ( Williams ), Kate Brown ( Marsden ), Nigel Harrison ( Paddick ) and Charles Armstrong ( Smith ).

In 1997, DiCaprio starred in James Cameron's Titanic ( 1997 ), alongside Kate Winslet.

The same year, DiCaprio reunited with Kate Winslet to film the drama Revolutionary Road ( 2008 ), directed by Winslet's then-husband Sam Mendes.

The senior staff of Voyager include Captain Kathryn Janeway ( Kate Mulgrew ), who commands the ship ; Commander ( field commission ) Chakotay ( Robert Beltran ), her first officer, who joined from the Maquis ; Lt. Tuvok ( Tim Russ ) ( later rising to the rank of Lieutenant Commander ), the Security / Tactical officer ; Ensign Harry Kim ( Garrett Wang ), the Operations Officer ; Lt JG ( junior grade ) ( field commission ) B ' Elanna Torres ( Roxann Dawson ), Chief Engineer ; Lt. JG ( falling to ensign as a result of demotion but later rising in rank to full lieutenant ) Tom Paris ( Robert Duncan McNeill ), Helm Officer ; as well as several noncommissioned personnel, the Emergency Medical Hologram ( Robert Picardo ) as the Chief Medical Officer, Neelix ( Ethan Phillips ) as the ship's cook and later Voyager's ambassador, Kes ( Jennifer Lien ) as the EMH's Medical Assistant, and Seven of Nine ( Jeri Ryan ), who plays several roles, generally in Astrometrics or Engineering.

* Kate Chopin writes The Story of An Hour ( fiction ).

* " Ladies And Gentlemen, This Is Your Crisis " ( 1976 ) was a short story by science fiction author Kate Wilhelm about a television show in which contestants ( including a B-list actress who is hoping to revitalize her career ) attempt to make their way to a checkpoint after being dropped off in the Alaskan wilderness, while being filmed and broadcast around the clock through an entire weekend.

Contemporary best-selling fiction writers include David Baldacci, Kate DiCamillo, Adriana Trigiani and Lisa Scottoline.

* Kate Elliott, fantasy and science fiction writer

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Kate O ' Brien, Without My Cloak

Judith Cutler is a writer of crime fiction whose novels are mostly in three series: ten in the series about amateur sleuth and lecturer Sophie Rivers ; six about Detective Sergeant Kate Power ; plus a forthcoming series with Caffy Tyler.

* Daughters of Rome * ( 2011 ) Kate Quinn, historical fiction novel based on the lives of Domitia and her 3 cousins during the Year of the Four Emperorers

She was a regular on the science fiction series Dark Skies ( 1997 ) and the legal drama series Shark ( 2006 – 08 ), Since 2011, she has starred as Dr. Kate Murphy in the ABC drama series Body of Proof and since 2009 she has played occasional guest star Tara Cole on Leverage.

Astor also tried her hand at fiction, writing the novels The Incredible Charley Carewe ( 1960 ), The Image of Kate ( 1962 ), The O ' Conners ( 1964 ), Jahre und Tage ( 1964 ) ( a German translation of The Image of Kate ), Goodbye, Darling, be Happy ( 1965 ), and A Place Called Saturday ( 1968 ).

Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang is a science fiction novel by Kate Wilhelm, published in 1976.

* Australian novelist Kate Grenville wrote an award winning historical fiction novel The Secret River set on the Hawkesbury.

Notable Emerson graduates include Kate Grinold ( 2003 ), who was crowned Miss District of Columbia in June 2008 and who represented the District in 2009's Miss America Pageant, movie actor, and vocalist of the alternative rock band 30 Seconds To Mars Jared Leto ( class of 1989 ), science fiction author William F. Gibson ( 1970 ), and musician Brian Baker ( 1983 ).

Hogan appeared as Kate in the Science fiction film 2 Headed Shark Attack, which was released on January 17, 2012 in the United States.

Writers coming to prominence in the 21st century include Kim Scott, Alexis Wright, Kate Howarth Tara June Winch, in poetry Yvette Holt and in popular fiction Anita Heiss.

The Secret River ( 2005 ) is an historical fiction by Kate Grenville imagining encounters between Aboriginal and colonial Australia which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

; a space tracking agent in the Austin Powers series ; another flight controller Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian ; a cross-dressing man named ' Nipples ' in Little Nicky ; the title character in the 1995 low-budget comedy-horror film Ice Cream Man ; he played Rughead, a nervous and often annoying auto technician in the 1986 science fiction film The Wraith ; the title role of Stanley Coopersmith in the horror movie Evilspeak ; Kate the Caterer in The Cat in the Hat ; featured briefly in Rob Zombie's Halloween ; and appeared in the romantic comedies Play the Game and Speed-Dating.

Orbit was a long-running series of anthologies of new fiction edited by Damon Knight, often featuring work by such writers as Gene Wolfe, Joanna Russ, R. A. Lafferty, and Kate Wilhelm, who was married to Knight.

Warriors is a series of children's fiction novels published by HarperCollins ; it written by authors Kate Cary, Cherith Baldry, and Tui Sutherland with the plot developed by editor Victoria Holmes, who collectively use the pseudonym Erin Hunter.

She played Mariel Underlay in Invasion, Lisa Miller in 24, and Kate Filmore in the cult favorite science fiction movie Cube 2: Hypercube.

In 2002, she played Kate Filmore in the science fiction / horror movie Cube 2: Hypercube.

Included are brainy Maddy, perky Robin, science fiction writer Eddie, socialite snob Melissa, the stoner David, the preppy Russel and his girlfriend Sandra, and Ben and his girlfriend Kate.

Her novels were at first predominantly of the crime and thriller genres, including a series featuring the detective Kate Baeier but she has since written more literary fiction.