She was such a well-rounded teenager, having been a twirler, Future Farmers sweetheart, and secretary of Future Homemakers.

Harlan Ellison ( who began reading van Vogt as a teenager ) wrote, " Van was the first writer to shine light on the restricted ways in which I had been taught to view the universe and the human condition.

As a teenager he was his father ’ s amanuensis and was regularly seen debating theological issues with the learned men of the area.

The film, about an immoral teenager in a respectable small-town setting, was an international success.

" But the teenager made an impact on his first night at the London Coliseum, winning more laughs in his small role than the star, and he was quickly signed to a contract.

Jazz pianist Jim Martinez, who organized her birthday celebration at the Cypress Inn at Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, claims that according to Doris Day's current assistant, when Day was a teenager, she added two years to her age so she would be old enough to sing with big bands.

Although many of his works appeared in print while a teenager, it was the publication of " Light breaks where no sun shines ", published in 1934, that caught the attention of the literary world.

Thomas was a teenager when many of the poems for which he became famous were published: " And death shall have no dominion ", " Before I Knocked " and " The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower ".

Describing Morris as a teenager, Mark Singer wrote that he " read with a passion the forty-odd Oz books, watched a lot of television, and on a regular basis went with a doting but not quite right maiden aunt (" I guess you'd have to say that Aunt Roz was somewhat demented ") to Saturday matinées, where he saw such films as This Island Earth and Creature from the Black Lagoon — horror movies that, viewed again 30 years later, still seem scary to him.

Among the many inspirations for the film include The Three Stooges and other slapstick comedy films ; Ash's fights with his disembodied hand come from a film made by Spiegel as a teenager, entitled Attack of the Helping Hand, which was itself inspired by television commercials advertising Hamburger Helper.

She was introduced anonymously while still a teenager in the third book in the series and plays a larger role in several of the titles of the 1930s and 1940s.

He later stated on They Think It's All Over that as a teenager he idolised former England captain David Gower, who was playing for Leicestershire at the time.

The genre was also a heavy influence on more mainstream writers, such as Charles Dickens, who read Gothic novels as a teenager and incorporated their gloomy atmosphere and melodrama into his own works, shifting them to a more modern period and an urban setting, including Oliver Twist ( 1837-8 ), Bleak House ( 1854 ) ( Mighall 2003 ) and Great Expectations ( 1860 – 61 ).

As a teenager, Cukor frequently was taken to the New York Hippodrome by his uncle.

Chapman met Tomiczek when the teenager was a runaway from Liverpool.

* As a teenager, IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad was directly involved in the pro-Nazi New Swedish Movement ( Nysvenska Rörelsen ) until at least 1948, causing tensions when IKEA began opening stores in Israel, although one source has claimed that the movement was not pro-Nazi.

He was a main character in the first volume of X-Factor, and a star in flashback stories when he was a teenager in X-Men: The Hidden Years and X-Men: First Class.

Rousseau's choice of a Catholic vicar of humble peasant background ( plausibly based on a kindly prelate he had met as a teenager ) as a spokesman for the defense of religion was in itself a daring innovation for the time.

Styne attended Chicago Musical College, but before then he had already attracted attention of another teenager, Mike Todd, later a successful film producer, who commissioned him to write a song for a musical act that he was creating.

While Paganini was still a teenager in Livorno, a wealthy businessman named Livron lent him a violin, made by the master luthier Giuseppe Guarneri, for a concert.

When Cruz was a teenager, she began having an interest in acting after seeing the film Tie Me Up!

In addition, Sadassa Silvia is a character who claims that Ferris Fremont is actually a communist covert agent recruited by Sadassa's mother when Fremont was still a teenager.

Xavier later recruits her as a teenager to be part of his X-Men team as " Marvel Girl ", the team's sole female member.

Produced in Australia, it starred the current senior members of the Young Talent Team-Dannii Minogue, Vince Del Tito, Natalie Miller, Lorena Novoa, Beven Addinsall, and a new member, black teenager Keith Williams, who was imported from Los Angeles.

Like a teenager helping her older sister prepare for prom night, a subordinate turkey may help his dominant brother put on an impressive team display that is only of direct benefit to the dominant member.

As a young teenager in the 1970s Fab 5 Freddy was a member of the Brooklyn based graffiti group " The Fabulous 5.

A member of the Irgun as a teenager, Avnery sat in the Knesset from 1965 – 74 and 1979 – 81.

As a teenager Patterson was a choir member, lead singer in the New Jerusalem Ensemble and a part-time national evangelist.

Other roles have included the mysterious, schizophrenic mother of a teenager in boarding school in On My Own ( 1993 ), the lifelong Australian Communist Party member reacting to the downfall of the Soviet Union in Children of the Revolution ( 1996 ), two more Allen films, Deconstructing Harry ( 1997 ) and Celebrity ( 1998 ), a highly-strung White House chief of staff in Absolute Power ( 1997 ), a supportive mother in Swimming Upstream ( 2003 ) and supporting roles in two 2006 films, The Break-Up and Marie-Antoinette.

His primary stylistic influence was Clifford Brown, who gave the teenager a few lessons before he joined the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band at 18, and remained a member for a year and a half, until the economic situation forced Dizzy to disband the unit in 1958.

Bernstein, who considers himself a secular Jew, is an honorary lifetime member of B ' nai B ' rith and as a teenager served as president of B ' nai B ' rith YOUTH in Washington and the mid-Atlantic states.

After fellow Family member Charles " Tex " Watson shot and killed teenager Steven Parent in his car in the estates ' driveway, Watson, Susan Atkins, and Krenwinkel entered the house, surprising all inside.

When Ralf was only a teenager, he and his father, a SPD member of the German Parliament, were arrested and sent to concentration camps for their Anti-Nazi activities during the National Socialist regime.

An East German teenager, apparently a member of the Free German Youth, wounds one of Polgar's infantrymen with an AK-47 rifle and is killed immediately.

According to his son, Andrew Rosenthal, Rosenthal was a member of the Communist Party youth league briefly as a teenager in the late 1930s.

He appeared in Julian Wiles ' Seize the Street: the Skateboard Musical, a Young Charleston Theater Company ( now Charleston Stage ) production .. As a teenager, he began his classical theater training by becoming a member of the Young Charleston Theater Company and the Footlight Players, often performing at the historic Dock Street Theatre.

This version is a teenager who was a member of the Outsiders, along with Katana and Black Lightning.

As a teenager, Bei Dao was a member of the Red Guards, the enthusiastic followers of Mao Zedong who enforced the dictates of the Cultural Revolution, often through violent means.

As a teenager he was a member of several skinhead gangs.

Masferrer was a member of the Joven Cuba organization as a teenager.

As a teenager McDermott often helped his parents in their community work and was a member of the Marshfield High audio-visual club.

Terrell's career began as a teenager, first recording for Scepter / Wand Records, before spending nearly two years as a member of James Brown's Revue, recording for Brown's Try Me label.

As a teenager, Pardee moved to Christoval, Texas where he excelled as a member of the six-man football team ( Pardee is the only six-man player to later have played or coached in the NFL ).

Taking on his stepfather's surname for his stage name as a teenager, David English-now Melvin Franklin-was a member of a number of local singing groups in Detroit, including The Voice Masters with Lamont Dozier and David Ruffin, and frequently performed with his best friend, Richard Street.

As a teenager he was a member of the Royal Ontario Museum's Toronto Junior Field Naturalists.

Pierce had been a member of the Hollywood music scene as a young teenager.