They all use their powers to torture their teacher Miss DeBoat.

Agatha Christie attributed the inspiration for the character of Miss Marple to a number of sources: Miss Marple was " the sort of old lady who would have been rather like some of my grandmother's Ealing cronies – old ladies whom I have met in so many villages where I have gone to stay as a girl ".

* 1986 – Tara Osseck, American model, Miss Missouri 2009

* 1986 – Rafaela Zanella, Brazilian model, Miss Brasil 2006

* 1978 – Lara Dutta, Indian actress and model, Miss Universe 2000

* 1963 – Lady Miss Kier, American singer-songwriter, producer, and DJ ( Deee-Lite )

* 1987 – Sabrina Herft, Sri Lankan model, Miss Universe Sri Lanka 2012

* 1991 – Jesinta Campbell, Australian model, Miss Universe Australia 2010

* 1983 – Cristina Nardozzi, American model, Miss Massachusetts USA 2005

* 1985 – Rachel Smith, American model, Miss USA 2007

* 1988 – Anagabriela Espinoza, Mexican model, Miss International 2009

* 1984 – Rosanna Davison, model and actress, Miss World 2003

* 1984 – Katie Rees, American model, Miss Nevada USA 2007

* 1981 – Kasie Head, American model, Miss Oklahoma USA 2002

* 1982 – Nicole O ' Brian, American model, Miss Texas USA 2003

Miss Wood passed her research on to her student Belinda Quirey, and also to Pavlova Company ballerina & choreographer Mary Skeaping ( 1902 – 1984 ).

( Bernard ) Berenson, Mrs. Coates tells me, stood in front of the portraits – Miss Beaux's three – and wagged his head.

* The Tic Code ( 1998 ) – Miss Gimpole

* Blue's Big Treasure Hunt ( 1999 ) – Little Miss Muffet ( voice )

* 1976 – Alicia Machado, Venezuelan actress and former Miss Universe

* 1961 – Irene Saez, Miss Universe 1981 and Venezuelan politician

" A & C Black also note that British surgeons – a designation reserved for those who have obtained membership of the Royal College of Surgeons – are addressed as Mr, Mrs or Miss rather than Dr.

She won a listeners ' poll by Radio Mirror magazine as the top ranking comedienne of 1948 – 1949, receiving her award at the end of an Our Miss Brooks broadcast that March.

He married his second wife, Nancy Janice Moore ( born 1946 ), Miss South Carolina of 1965, on December 22, 1968.

This education, history, and background are hinted at in the Margaret Rutherford films ( see below ), in which Miss Marple mentions her awards at marksmanship, fencing and equestrianism ( although these hints are played for comedic value ).

Joan Hickson played the part of the home help in this film and can claim to have appeared in two Miss Marple series.

In 1980, Angela Lansbury played Miss Marple in The Mirror Crack'd ( EMI, directed by Guy Hamilton ), based on Christie's 1962 novel.

( Coincidentally, Hickson had played a housekeeper in the first film in which Margaret Rutherford played Miss Marple.

Angela Lansbury, who had played Miss Marple in the movie, The Mirror Crack'd, directed by Guy Hamilton, went on to star in the TV series Murder, She Wrote as Jessica Fletcher, a mystery novelist who also solves crimes.

In 1974, Barbara Mullen played Miss Marple in Murder at the Vicarage at the Savoy Theatre, London.

In September 1977, veteran actress and authoress Dulcie Gray played the Miss Marple character in a stage adaptation of A Murder Is Announced at the Vaudeville Theatre in London, England that featured also Dinah Sheridan, Eleanor Summerfield, Patricia Brake and Barbara Flynn.

* British — Burnaby, Davy: The Co-Optimists ( revue of 1921 — and revised continually up to 1926 — played in Pierrot costumes, with music and lyrics by various entertainers ; filmed in 1929 ); Cannan, Gilbert: Pierrot in Hospital ( 1923 ); " Cryptos " and James T. Tanner: Our Miss Gibbs ( 1909 ; musical comedy played in Pierrot costumes ); Down, Oliphant: The Maker of Dreams ( 1912 ); Drinkwater, John: The Only Legend: A Masque of the Scarlet Pierrot ( 1913 ; music by James Brier ); Housman, Laurence, and Harley Granville-Barker: Prunella: or, Love in a Dutch Garden ( 1906, rev.

Variations on the theme include the 1954 Miss Robin Crusoe, with a female castaway, played by Amanda Blake, and a female Friday, and the 1964 film Robinson Crusoe on Mars, starring Paul Mantee, with an alien Friday portrayed by Victor Lundin.

Guests included Morticia's older sister Ophelia ( also played by Carolyn Jones in the original television series ), Morticia's cousin Melancholia, and Morticia's mother Hester Frump ( played in the 1960s series by Margaret Hamilton, wearing her Miss Almira Gulch dress from the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz ).

The fictional part includes the discovery of a white blonde jungle queen, the lost daughter of a missionary, played by Miss Booth.

In the 1985 film adaptation of the board game Clue, the character of Miss Scarlet cites Perry Mason to highlight Wadsworth's ( played by Tim Curry ) crime-solving capabilities.

Davis played Miss Moffat, an English teacher who saves a young Welsh miner ( John Dall ) from a life in the coal pits, by offering him education.

The only unusually coated kitten in the litter was ultimately placed with breeder, Jeri Newman, who named her Miss DePesto ( after a curly-haired character in the TV series Moonlighting played by Allyce Beasley ).

She acted late into life, latterly for American television films, including a lavish production of A Tale of Two Cities ( in which she played Miss Pross ).

I played the scene in close-up against two empty chairs as the dialogue coach read Mr. Tracy's and Miss Hepburn's lines from off camera.

When Miss Piggy threw a truck driver ( played by Peter Ustinov ) into a pile of boxes and a pile of trash cans, Oscar emerged from his trash can and demanded " Hey, what's all the racket?

From 1993 to 2001, June Whitfield played Miss Marple in 12 radio adaptations of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple books.

As " First Woman ", according to the script, she played the mother in " The Wolf at the Door ", a woman who insisted Macbeth was a murder mystery, the wife Mr. Preble wanted to get rid of, Miss Alma Winege ( who wanted to ship Thurber 36 copies of Grandma Was a Nudist ), a woman helping to update old poetry, Walter Mitty's wife, and the narrator of " The Little Girl and The Wolf ".

Unlike the series that followed, the intention was to focus on the life of the teacher Miss Bliss, played by Hayley Mills, as the main character.

Jackson was also the home of singers Carl Perkins and Luther Ingram ; game show host Wink Martindale ; football players Ed " Too Tall " Jones, Al Wilson, Trey Teague, and Jabari Greer ; pianist Joe Hunter ( one of the Funk Brothers studio band who played on many Motown hits in the 1960s ) the rock band Full Devil Jacket, American soul singer, songwriter and actress Lauren Pritchard, originating and playing the role of the 15-year-old runaway " Ilse " in the hit Broadway show Spring Awakening for two years, Former Miss Tennessee Allison Leigh Alderson DeMarcus, and American country music artist Whitney Duncan.