While Kipps is closing the boutique in which he works, he is accosted by unsuccessful actor and playwright, Harry Chitterlow.

Eve, who has made an unsuccessful pass at Bill, ensnares the playwright, Buzz, and she rejoices that she now has a man who can help her career (" One Hallowe ' en ").

If this is true, the name was perhaps chosen to reflect the playwright Charles Johnson, who had an unsuccessful play with The Successful Pyrate in 1712, which glamorized the career of Henry Avery and had been something of a scandal for seeming to praise a criminal.

John Tobin ( 28 January 1770 – 7 December 1804 ) was a British playwright, who was for most of his life unsuccessful, but in the year of his death made a hit with The Honey Moon.

Between 1898 and 1900 he pursued an unsuccessful career as an actor and opera singer.

In 1968, Marvin also appeared in another Boorman film, the critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful World War II character study Hell in the Pacific, also starring famed Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune.

Rains became the first actor to receive a million dollar salary, playing Julius Caesar in Gabriel Pascal's lavish and unsuccessful version of Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra ( 1945 ), made in Britain.

During the 1940s Youngman tried to break into the movies and become an actor, but he was unsuccessful in Hollywood.

Though he was often cited as one of the high profile examples of an actor who was unsuccessful in making the transition to talkies, there was speculation that his decline as a star had to do with studio politics and money and not the sound of his screen voice.

Colley Cibber was a rather unsuccessful young actor at the time of the split, with a squeaky voice and without any of the physical attractiveness of the soon-to-be-dead Horden.

After travelling in the provinces as an actor, he came to Paris, where he produced an unsuccessful comedy entitled Les Gens de lettres, ou Le provincial à Paris ( 1787 ).

Casting director Patrick Rush found the role of Ryan Atwood particularly hard to cast and only invited Benjamin McKenzie to an audition after Fox had made them aware of the young actor after his unsuccessful audition for a UPN sitcom.

Upon release, it made no money, leading to a string of unsuccessful films for the actor.

All efforts, however, were unsuccessful until 1985, when ABC was finally able to get the show up and running with British actor Christopher Hewett playing Lynn Belvedere.

The term " palimony " is not a legal or historical term, but rather a colloquial portmanteau of the words pal and alimony coined by celebrity divorce attorney Marvin Mitchelson coined in 1977 when his client Michelle Triola Marvin filed an unsuccessful suit against the actor Lee Marvin.

In an unsuccessful attempt to win the role as Catwoman ( which was offered to Annette Bening but ultimately played by Michelle Pfeiffer after Bening became pregnant ) in the sequel Batman Returns, Young constructed a homemade Catwoman costume and attempted to confront Burton and actor Michael Keaton during production.

Australian actor Rod Taylor was also considered for the part ; although unsuccessful, his screen test impressed MGM enough for them to offer him a long term contract.

Mala gave a memorable performance as the relatively unsympa ­ thetic part of an ambitious woman who chooses to marry a rich man ( played by actor Rehman ) and have a loveless marriage rather than a poor, unsuccessful poet and her impoverished lover ( played by Guru Dutt ) whom she ditches.

Mayo also reprised the role in the unsuccessful 1977 NBC-TV spinoff series Sanford Arms opposite actor Theodore Wilson, as well as for two episodes of Sanford, another NBC-TV Sanford and Son spinoff, this time opposite Redd Foxx and actor Dennis Burkley, in 1981.

Michael T. " Mykelti " Williamson ( born March 4, 1957 ) is an American actor best known for his role as Benjamin Buford ( Bubba ) Blue in the 1994 film Forrest Gump, as Detective Bobby " Fearless " Smith in the critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful crime drama Boomtown, and recently for appearing as the head of CTU for season 8 of the hit TV series 24.

She was a cousin of the actor John Inman, best known for his role in Are You Being Served ?, and featured with him in Odd Man Out ( 1977 ), an unsuccessful sitcom.

In 1958, Durant shot an unsuccessful pilot which caught the attention of actor / director / producer Dick Powell.

She proved to be unsuccessful, and Goldwyn threatened to sue the actor for breaching an oral contract.

However the marriage was unsuccessful, and Elizabeth had a publicly known affair with actor Anthony Webster, with whom she eventually moved to Ireland in 1776.

The actor later went on to star as Dr. Tony Menzies on the unsuccessful sitcom A. E. S.

Bart attempts to set off the bombs but is unsuccessful as the detonator he has won't work.

EVM has no provision to measure project quality, so it is possible for EVM to indicate a project is under budget, ahead of schedule and scope fully executed, but still have unhappy clients and ultimately unsuccessful results.

The film was unsuccessful when initially released but has gradually become regarded as Hawks's masterpiece.

It has even been reported, although apparently without historical documentation, that Adolf Hitler was influenced by concave hollow-Earth ideas and sent an expedition in an unsuccessful attempt to spy on the British fleet by pointing infrared cameras up at the sky

Although the university since planted trees around the park's perimeter in an attempt to make it a more popular place for students to gather, this has been unsuccessful .< ref >

Achieving acquisition success has proven to be very difficult, while various studies have shown that 50 % of acquisitions were unsuccessful.

Richard Wiseman has criticized the parapsychological community for widespread errors in research methods including cherry-picking new procedures which may produce preferred results, explaining away unsuccessful attempted replications with claims of an " experimenter effect ", data mining, and Retrospective data selection.

With the rise of the scientific method and the emphasis on a " plain " style of speaking and writing, even formal oratory has become less polished and ornate than in the Classical period, though politicians today can still make or break their careers on the basis of a successful ( or unsuccessful ) speech.

So far, the quest for a theory of everything is thus unsuccessful on two points: neither a unification of the strong and electroweak forces – which Laplace would have called ` contact forces ' – has been achieved, nor a unification of these forces with gravitation has been achieved.

Gene therapy has been thus far unsuccessful.

History and legend has given René the title " Good King René of Provence ", though he only lived in Provence in the last ten years of his life, from 1470 to 1480, and his political policies of territorial expansion were costly and unsuccessful.

After a first-round defeat by the Polish side Ruch Chorzow and another two widely unsuccessful Bundesliga campaigns, the club disappeared from the top flight again and has yet to return.

Yoda, unsuccessful in his confrontation with Palpatine, then tells Obi-Wan that he has more training for him: Qui-Gon's spirit will teach him how to retain his identity through the Force and commune with the living after death.

* Nicomedes, the son of king Prusias II of Bithynia, who has been sent to Rome to argue for smaller reparations arising from his father's unsuccessful war against Pergamum, gains the support of the Roman Senate to the point where Prusias sends an emissary with secret orders to assassinate Nicomedes.

Unfortunately, the locus typicus has been destroyed by an earthquake and subsequent searches for specimens have been unsuccessful.

When the news that Garraty has been picked as a Walker is revealed, Jan is extremely distraught and fights with Garraty in an unsuccessful attempt to have him back out of the event.

Bart's best friend Milhouse Van Houten has a crush on her, but despite dropping unsubtle hints about his feelings, he has been unsuccessful in winning her affection.

He also has a younger brother named Chet, who owns an unsuccessful shrimp company.

Ventura also stated that he had not left Minnesota for over a month at the time the story was published and that he has refused to fly commercially since filing an unsuccessful lawsuit against the TSA earlier that year.

The idea of building a fixed link across the strait between Labrador and Newfoundland, known as the Newfoundland-Labrador fixed link, has been raised numerous times in recent decades following an unsuccessful attempt to build a tunnel carrying electrical wires in the mid-1970s.

Isaac has the reputation of one of the most unsuccessful princes that occupied the Byzantine throne.

He attempted to do so without reworking the previous arguments within that work but it has been said that he was wholly unsuccessful.