Also at the centre of many early stories was Ena Sharples ( Violet Carson ), caretaker of the Glad Tidings Mission Hall, and her friends: timid Minnie Caldwell ( Margot Bryant ) and bespectacled Martha Longhurst ( Lynne Carol ).

Almost always wearing a double-breasted coat and hairnet, she spent much of her free time in the series ' early years with her two cronies, Martha Longhurst and Minnie Caldwell, in the snug bar of the Rovers Return Inn, drinking milk stout.

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Kathleen Mary Margaret Bryant ( 8 March 1897 in Kingston upon Hull – 1 January 1988 in Manchester ) was an English actress, best known for playing Minnie Caldwell on the soap opera Coronation Street.

Bryant's most notable television role came later in life, playing timid Minnie Caldwell on the soap opera Coronation Street, a role she occupied from 1960 to 1976 over the course of 990 episodes.

Minnie Caldwell was a diminutive figure, with a distracted manner and often appeared drinking milk stout in the Snug of the soap's public house ' The Rover's Return '.

The fictional Coronation Street character Minnie Caldwell retired to become a housekeeper in Whaley Bridge in 1976.

He compares her to one of Coronation Streets original characters Minnie Caldwell ( Margot Bryant ), as she is " warm and comforting [...] loves cats and has had her share of lodgers "; however, Little notes that " while Minnie wandered through life in a haze, Betty is sharp-witted, blessed with insight and wisdom ".

* 7 April – Margot Bryant makes her last appearance as Minnie Caldwell on Coronation Street.

He took a job as co-caretaker at the local Community Centre and in 1973 suggested to friend Minnie Caldwell that they marry for financial reasons ( Minnie was also struggling with money ).

Albert's closest friends in Coronation Street were Rovers landlady Annie Walker and landlord Jack, Mission caretaker Ena Sharples and one-time fiance Minnie Caldwell.

Clarabelle mostly played bit-part characters in the approximately 30 cartoon shorts in which she appeared, and her character was never as fully developed as Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Donald Duck or Pluto.

Calloway attracted renewed interest in 1980 when he appeared as a supporting character in the film The Blues Brothers, performing " Minnie the Moocher ", and again when he sang " The Jumpin ' Jive " with the Two-Headed Monster on Sesame Street.

She also played the character Minnie The Mini Magician from Series 8 onwards on CITV's ZZZap!

Minnie ' n Me was a 1990s merchandise branding program from The Walt Disney Company featuring the comic character Minnie Mouse in her childhood days.

Minnie the Moocher defined Betty's character as a teenager of a modern era, at odds with the old world ways of her parents.

Minnie the Minx is a fictional character in the British comic The Beano.

Minnie's Teacher also became a regular character during this time, and Minnie now attends what appears to be an all-girls school.

This character like the aforementioned Soppy Susan mainly appeared during Jim Petrie's time as artist however a similar character appeared during Tom Paterson's time as the Minnie artist called PC Pimple this character was similar to PC Thyme but as the name suggests had pimples.

* Minnie is a playable character in Beanotown Racing using her customised skateboard as a vehicle.

* Minnie was a Meet & Greet character in the Beano Land section in Chessington World of Adventures from its opening in 2000 until it was re-furbished into Wild Asia in 2009.

* Minnie Bishop, a character from the anime / manga Strike Witches

" Cab Calloway would dance his inimitable jazz dance and sing ' Minnie the Moocher ' or ' Old Man of the Mountain ', and they would rotoscope him, trace him, turn him into a cartoon character, often transforming him into an animal, like a walrus ," Selick continued.

With Emery she performed in a weekly feature, " Let Minnie Steal Your Joke ," in the Minnie Pearl character and read jokes submitted by viewers, with prizes for the best jokes.

Cannon made a cameo appearance in the film Coal Miner's Daughter, in which she appears at the Opry as her Minnie Pearl character.

After the marriage, Henry Cannon set up his own air charter service for country music performers and took over management of the Minnie Pearl character.

Evans appeared memorably in two 1968 films: as the evolved orangutan, Dr. Zaius in Planet of the Apes ( and the 1970 sequel Beneath the Planet of the Apes ) and as the doomed " Hutch ", who attempts to warn his friend, the title character, Rosemary Woodhouse, in the thriller Rosemary's Baby, of the true Satanic nature of her neighbours, Roman and Minnie Castavet ( played by Sidney Blackmer and Ruth Gordon ).

Bryant suffered severe memory loss-amnesia in March 1976, and was unable to continue in the role ; her penultimate episode involved her reading her lines off prompts and on props such as her handbag and her final episode including no dialogue, just Minnie packing up her things and Bobby and leaving Coronation Street, her on-screen absence was explained by mentioning that her character had moved to live with an old friend, Handel Gartside ( played by Harry Markham ) in Derbyshire.

Minnie Marx ( played by Shelley Winters ) was also the main character in the Broadway musical Minnie's Boys.

The character on boxes of Force cereal was created in the United States in 1902 by writer Minnie Maud Hanff and artist Dorothy Ficken, initially for an advertising campaign.

Dennis the Menace's famous ' red and black ' jersey had formed the colours of a few of the Beano characters ' clothes ( Minnie the Minx has the same, although the placement of the stripes is a bit different ; Ball Boy's was a vertical red and black ; Roger the Dodger has a chessboard design top, and Danny ( from the Bash Street Kids ) has a similar cap ), but they have changed for Minnie and Ball Boy ( Minnie at one point had a red and yellow top and Ball Boy's strip is now black and blue ).

After the Maris trade, Lane acquired 25-year old Norm Cash from the White Sox for Minnie Miñoso and then traded him to Detroit before he ever played a game for the Indians ; Cash went on to hit over 350 home runs for the Tigers.

Meanwhile Robert Zemeckis helmed Who Framed Roger Rabbit, in which featured several famous cartoon characters from the " Golden Age of animation " including Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Droopy, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner, Sylvester the cat, Tweety Pie and Jiminy Cricket among others.

Groucho's mother was Miene " Minnie " Schoenberg, whose family came from Dornum in northern Germany when she was 16 years old.

Smith was born on May 12, 1914 in Ferriday in Concordia Parish in eastern Louisiana near Natchez, Mississippi, to Howard K. Smith, a nightwatchman descended from a poor but " gentleman-farming " family in Lettsworth in Pointe Coupee Parish north of Baton Rouge, and the former Minnie Gates, the daughter of a Cajun riverboat pilot.

In 1874, with Sherman having become world famous, their eldest child, Marie Ewing (" Minnie ") Sherman, also had a politically prominent wedding, attended by President Ulysses S. Grant and commemorated by a generous gift from the Khedive of Egypt.

Some of these accounts came from foreigners who opted to stay behind in order to protect Chinese civilians from harm, including the diaries of John Rabe and American Minnie Vautrin.

* Mickey to the Rescue: Mickey tries to rescue Minnie from Pete's trap-laden hideout.

* Classic Disney Cartoons and Comic Books: Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Minnie Mouse, Daisy Duck, Pluto, Clarabelle Cow, Horace Horsecollar, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, Gus Goose, Pete, Ludwig Von Drake, Clara Cluck, Chip ' n Dale, Scrooge McDuck, The Phantom Blot, April, May and June Duck, Humphrey the Bear, Ranger J. Audubon Woodlore, the Brownstone Park Bears, Pluto's Good and Bad Consciences, Red Riding Hood, Toby Tortoise, Max Hare, Flowers and Trees, Santa Claus, Reindeer, Hobo Cookie, Judge Cookie, the Skeleton Dancers, a Merry Dwarf, a Lamp from " The Whoopee Party ", the Lonesome Ghosts, Ferdinand the Bull, Susie the Little Blue Coupe, Professor Owl, Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom, Babe the Big Blue Ox, Dinah the Dachshund, Louie the Mountain Lion, Salty the Seal, a Rooster, a Hen, Girl Violin, Boy Saxophone, a Robot from " Mars and Beyond ", and various Black-and-White Characters.

* The cartoon " Mickey's Airplane Kit " ( 1999 ) from the series Mickey Mouse Works and House of Mouse featured a similar premise in which Mickey built his own airplane to impress Minnie.

Fifi disappeared from animation but she appeared in the line of merchandise called " Minnie ' n Me " as Minnie's dog.

" In this short, the Blot is now stealing colors from everything in the world, including Minnie Mouse, simply because he's bored with his inky black cloth and plans to become The Phantom Rainbow.

Radio comedy ran the gamut from the small town humor of Lum and Abner, Herb Shriner and Minnie Pearl to the dialect characterizations of Mel Blanc and the caustic sarcasm of Henry Morgan.

" F. W. Dupee, in several well-regarded volumes on the James family, originated the theory that he had been in love with his cousin Mary (" Minnie ") Temple, but that a neurotic fear of sex kept him from admitting such affections: " James's invalidism ... was itself the symptom of some fear of or scruple against sexual love on his part.

In 1909, to ensure the financial stability of the Philharmonic, a group of wealthy New Yorkers led by two women, Mary Seney Sheldon and Minnie Untermyer, formed the Guarantors Committee and changed the Orchestra's organization from a musician-operated cooperative to a corporate management structure.

Minnie Vautrin is from Secor.

Carney's wife Minnie then tried to wrest the barrel from Hamilton and Hamilton struck her as well.

* Minnie Spotted-Wolf, the first Native American woman to enlist in the United States Marine Corps, is from Heart Butte.

Drouet installs her in a much larger apartment, and their relationship intensifies as Minnie dreams about her sister's fall from innocence.

During their partnership, Fred, whose perfectionism earned him the nickname " Moaning Minnie " from her, had always been the dominant creative force.

The women, Minnie " Sis " Miller, Buena Smith, Marian Shortt, Kate Friend, Ida Cunningham and Ferne Skeen were elected to serve the town of Clintwood from 1948-50.