American TV was the setting for the first dramatic portrayal of Miss Marple with Gracie Fields, the legendary British actress, playing her in a 1956 episode of Goodyear TV Playhouse based on A Murder Is Announced, the 1950 Christie novel.

Day subsequently took on more dramatic roles, including her 1955 portrayal of singer Ruth Etting in the biographical film of Etting's life, Love Me or Leave Me, in which she co-starred with James Cagney.

Hanks ' portrayal of Gold offered a glimpse of the far more dramatic roles Hanks would master in films to come.

The pinnacle of Milland's career and acknowledgment of his serious dramatic abilities came in 1946 when he won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of an alcoholic in Billy Wilder's film The Lost Weekend ( 1945 ).

One of the most dramatic such readings brought the poet Virgil to the attention of the imperial family, when Virgil read from his work-in-progress the Aeneid, and flattered the imperial family by his portrayal of Aeneas, whom the Julii Caesares believed to be their direct patrilineal ancestor.

George Călinescu criticized the book for inconsistencies and " excesses in Dostoyevskianism ", but noted that the Lecca family portrayal was " suggestive ", and that the dramatic scenes were written with " a remarkable poetic calm.

This presentation is known for its powerful portrayal of the life of Christ, dramatic resurrection, and ascension scenes.

Michael John Douglas ( born September 5, 1951 ), better known by the stage name Michael Keaton, is an American actor who became known for his early comedic film roles, most notably his performance as the title character of Tim Burton's Beetlejuice, and gained international fame for his dramatic portrayal of Bruce Wayne / Batman in Tim Burton's Batman and Batman Returns.

Field's dramatic portrayal of Sybil, a young woman afflicted with Dissociative Identity Disorder ( previously known as multiple personality disorder ) in the TV film not only garnered her an Emmy Award ( in 1977 ) but also enabled her to break through the typecasting she had experienced from her television sitcom roles.

Next came her role as Angela in romance / thriller Aaron Loves Angela, followed by her portrayal of the title character in Sparkle, Television brought Cara international acclaim for serious dramatic roles in two outstanding mini-series, Roots: The Next Generations and Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones.

A somewhat more mixed ( comedy / dramatic ) role was his portrayal of the philosophical ( yet hapless ) tramp, Vladimir, in a notable TV production of Beckett's Waiting for Godot with Zero Mostel and Kurt Kasznar.

She later gained critical acclaim for dramatic work, with her portrayal of Martha Logan on 24.

Notable performances that reflect this mandate include the Last Empress with its dramatic, musical portrayal of an important figure in Korean history, the Virsky Ukrainian Dance Company, South Africa's Soweto Gospel Choir, Shaolin Warriors, Ricky Cheng, David Rudder & Friends and Club Tropicana.

Lauren Alice Koslow ( born March 9, 1953 ) is a long-time American dramatic actress, best known for her long running portrayal of Kate Roberts on the NBC dramatic serial Days of our Lives, which she has played continuously since 1996.

Angela M. Brown ( born 1964 ) is an African-American dramatic soprano particularly admired for her portrayal of Verdi heroines.

" The similarities choice of subjects, verse structures, character tratement, and dramatic portrayal.

The work is a dramatic oratorio rather than a religious choral Mass or a dramatic opera, and is considered a much more humanistic portrayal of the Christ passion than other settings, such as those by Bach.

Afterward they said they disapproved of the dramatic portrayal of the events.

Her dramatic portrayal won her outstanding reviews and she received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Actually, in terms of style, Rodrigues ' work is a kind of belatedly Expressionism, combining an appearance of empirical reality ( the accurate portrayal of small everyday happenings and the use of the contemporary Brazilian vernacular ) surrounding a kernel of mythologized, intense and unrealistic-to the point of " cartoonish absurdity "-psychological dramatic action.

" And although he credited Shaw with providing an " intellectual stimulant " and " dramatic delight ", he took issue with his portrayal of the heroine: " his Joan of Arc is perhaps the greatest sacrilege of all Joans: for instead of the saint or the strumpet of the legends to which he objects, he has turned her into a great middle-class reformer, and her place is a little higher than Mrs. Pankhurst ", a militant leader of the British suffragettes.

Her portrayal of the famed murder suspect was a dramatic turnaround from the wholesome image she presented on the 1960s sitcom Bewitched.

Although Douglas was always second billed under Lancaster in these films, their roles were usually more or less the same size with the exceptions of I Walk Alone, in which Douglas played a villain, and in Seven Days in May, where Douglas ' part was larger than Lancaster's but not as dramatic.

The most common use of cutaway shots in dramatic films are to adjust the pace of the main action, to conceal the deletion of some unwanted part of the main shot, or to allow the joining of parts of two versions of that shot.

Offering a dramatic increase in fuel efficiency, James Watt's design became synonymous with steam engines, due in no small part to his business partner, Matthew Boulton.

Music may be played and heard live, may be part of a dramatic work or film, or may be recorded.

She possessed vivacity, grace, and charm as an actress of the comédienne type ; but she was not a natural tragédienne, and her attempt at the strongly dramatic part of Norma turned out to be an histrionic failure.

Although music has been a part of dramatic presentations since ancient times, modern Western musical theatre emerged during the 19th century, culminating with the works of Gilbert and Sullivan in Britain and those of Harrigan and Hart in America.

* " Pavane, the Girl with the Flaxen Hair ," a dramatic script written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, inspired in part by Ravel's composition, for the old-time radio series Quiet Please.

A song is also a good example of human synergy, taking more than one musical part and putting them together to create a song that has a much more dramatic effect than each of the parts when played individually.

Evening soap operas and serials that run for only part of the year tend to bring things to a dramatic end-of-season cliffhanger.

The dramatic style is the theatrical performance by Desirée, and this style emphasizes Desirée's feelings of anger and regret, and the dramatic style acts as a cohesive part of the play.

Many factors, including the success of brands like Lindemans ( part of Foster's Group ) and Jacob's Creek in the UK, as well as Rosemount in the US and UK, were responsible for a dramatic expansion of plantings during the 1980s and 1990s ; a similar trajectory occurred in California.

In the one, incidents and agents were to be, in part at least, supernatural, and the excellence aimed at was to consist in the interesting of the affections by the dramatic truth of such emotions, as would naturally accompany such situations, supposing them real.

The meaning of the term changed over time, from the simple single voice madrigal of the early 17th century, to the multi-voice " cantata da camera " and the " cantata da chiesa " of the later part of that century, from the more substantial dramatic forms of the 18th century ( including the 200-odd church and secular cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach ) to the usually sacred-texted 19th-century cantata, which was effectively a type of short oratorio.

A key film which brought Karloff recognition was The Criminal Code ( 1931 ), a prison drama in which he reprised a dramatic part he had played on stage.

He made his talkie debut with a dramatic reading of the big Duke of Gloucester speech from Henry VI, part 3 in Warner Brothers ' musical revue ' The Show of Shows (" Would they were wasted: marrow, bones and all "), and reprised his Captain Ahab role in Moby Dick ( 1930 ).

It has inspired major musical works in other forms, such as the " dramatic legend " The Damnation of Faust by Hector Berlioz, Robert Schumann's Scenes from Goethe's Faust, the second part of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8, Franz Liszt's Faust Symphony and Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony.

The late 19th century saw a dramatic expansion in the size of the orchestra, and in the role of concerts as part of urban society.

This tornado was part of the Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D. C., tornado outbreak of 2001, one of the most dramatic recent tornado events to directly affect the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area.

Ultimately the restructuring of the home and manner of living will allow individuals, especially women, to become an “ integral part of the social structure, in close, direct, permanent connection with the needs and uses of society .” This would be a dramatic change for women who generally considered themselves restricted by family life built upon their economic dependence on men.

During the 1970s, as part of a general west valley suburbanization trend, the community experienced more dramatic growth.

The Maria and Billy Bell ( major modern art collectors and part of the daytime dramatic television dynasty ), are also known to visit, along with the siblings Lauralee Bell and Bradley Bell.

The post-World War II population and building boom, followed by construction of gambling casinos in the Nevada part of the basin during the mid-1950s, and completion of the interstate highway links for the 1960 Winter Olympics held at Squaw Valley, resulted in a dramatic increase in development within the basin.

John's gospel is the only canonical one that gives Thomas the Apostle a dramatic role and spoken part, and Thomas is the only character therein described as having apistos ( unbelief ), despite the failings of virtually all the Johannine characters to live up to the author's standards of belief.

Louis B. Mayer at first refused to allow Loy to play the part because he felt she was a dramatic actress, but Van Dyke insisted.