His many plays included Nobody's Widow ( 1910 ), starring Blanche Bates ; Fair and Warmer ( 1915 ), starring Madge Kennedy ( filmed in 1919 ); The Gold Diggers ( 1919 ), starring Ina Claire ( filmed in 1923 as The Gold Diggers, in 1928 as Gold Diggers of Broadway and also as Gold Diggers of 1933 ); Ladies ' Night, 1920, starring Charlie Ruggles ( filmed in 1928 ); the famous mystery play The Bat ( with Mary Roberts Rinehart ), 1920 ( filmed in 1926, 1930 and 1959 ); Getting Gertie's Garter ( with Wilson Collison ), 1921, starring Hazel Dawn ( filmed in 1927 and 1945 ); The Demi-Virgin, 1921, also starring Hazel Dawn ; The Alarm Clock, 1923 ; The Best People ( with David Gray ), 1924 ( filmed in 1925 and as Fast and Loose in 1930 ), the song-farce Naughty Cinderella, 1925, starring Irene Bordoni and The Garden of Eden in 1927 ( filmed in as 1928 ).

May 2010 also saw the funeral of Coronation Street favourite Blanche Hunt, who was written out after the death of her portrayer Maggie Jones on 2 December 2009.

She won the Best Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 ), a role she also played on stage in London's West End, as well as for her portrayal of the southern belle Scarlett O ' Hara, alongside Clark Gable, in the American Civil War drama Gone with the Wind.

Some biographers believed that the character of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire is also based on her.

His first wife, Blanche, was also his third cousin, both being great great grandchildren of King Henry III.

* Leopold II also engaged in a religious ceremony with Blanche Zélia Joséphine Delacroix, also known as Caroline Lacroix, a prostitute, on 14 December 1909, with no validity under Belgian law, at the Pavilion of Palms, Royal Palace of Laken, in Brussels, five days before his death.

The actual Moulin Rouge theatre is also in Pigalle, next to Blanche métro station.

Charles gave his nephew a particularly advanced education by the standards of the day, arranged for his marriage to Blanche of Valois and also bestowed his name upon Václav.

In addition to selling his paintings, van Dongen also gained an income by selling satirical sketches to the newspaper ' Revue Blanche ' and organising very successful costume balls in Montparnasse to gain extra income.

It may be made only from a strict list of grape varieties, if it is to carry the name of one of the crus then it must be at least 90 % Ugni Blanc ( known in Italy as Trebbiano ), Folle Blanche and Colombard, although 10 % of the grapes used can be Folignan, Jurançon blanc, Meslier St-François ( also called Blanc Ramé ), Sélect, Montils or Sémillon.

It was about this time that the brick house now occupied by Mrs. Blanche Welker and also the old stone hotel were built.

She also sang the roles of Blanche in Dialogues of the Carmelites ( 1956 ) and Elle in La voix humaine ( 1958 ).

Blanche Calloway, Cab Calloway's sister, also a bandleader, arranged a gig for Brown at a Washington, D. C. nightclub called Crystal Caverns and soon became her manager.

" Though she never considered portraying Drusilla with a Southern American accent, as James Marsters had considered for Spike, she notes that invited comparisons with Blanche DuBois would also have been interesting.

Fleming's golf partner, John Blackwell, ( a cousin to Blanche Blackwell ) was also a cousin by marriage to Ernő Goldfinger and disliked him: it was Blackwell who reminded Fleming of the name.

Sauvignon Blanc is also known under the synonyms Beyaz Sauvignon, Blanc Doux, Blanc Fume, Bordeaux Bianco, Douce Blanche, Feher Sauvignon, Feigentraube, Fie, Fie dans le Neuvillois, Fume, Fume Blanc, Fume Surin, Genetin, Gennetin, Gentin a Romorantin, Gros Sauvignon, Libournais, Melkii Sotern, Muskat Silvaner, Muskat Sylvaner, Muskatani Silvanec, Muskatni Silvanec, Muskatsilvaner, Painechon, Pellegrina, Petit Sauvignon, Picabon, Piccabon, Pinot Mestny Bely, Pissotta, Puinechou, Punechon, Punechou, Quinechon, Rouchelin, Sampelgrina, Sarvonien, Sauternes, Sauvignon, Sauvignon Bianco, Sauvignon Bijeli, Sauvignon Blanco, Sauvignon Fume, Sauvignon Gros, Sauvignon Jaune, Sauvignon Jeune, Sauvignon Petit, Sauvignon Vert, Sauvignon White, Savagnin, Savagnin Blanc, Savagnin Musque, Savagnou, Savignon, Servanien, Servonien, Servoyen, Souternes, Sovinak, Sovinjon, Sovinjon Beli, Sovinon, Spergolina, Surin, Sylvaner Musque, Uva Pelegrina, Weisser Sauvignon, and Zöld Ortlibi.

Born at Compton Place, Eastbourne, Sussex, Cavendish was the second son of William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire, by his wife Lady Blanche Howard, fourth daughter of George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle, and the brother of Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire, who had also been Chief Secretary.

Magnus additionally held the territories of Tønsberg and Skien, and he was also the real ruler over the territories of Borgar and most of Bohuslän which were held as personal fiefs by Queen Blanche.

He also ensured that cavalry were still trained to fight with sword and lance ( the “ Arme Blanche ”) rather than only being trained to fight dismounted with firearms, as Roberts had preferred.

Other mountains in the region ( Weisshorn, Zinalrothorn, Dent Blanche, Mont Collon ) also belong to the Dent Blanche nappe.

McEwan has also written two children's books, Rose Blanche ( 1985 ) The Daydreamer ( 1994 ).

Blanche Charlet was also captured but later managed to escape to London.

She played the role of Blanche Davis, a girl born to wealth and cursed by her inheritance of physical beauty.

He played a key role in a number of periodicals, including La Vogue, La Revue Indépendante, La Revue Blanche and Le Mercure de France.

* Ravel's Boléro is one of his most famous works, originally written as a ballet score for his patron Blanche Lapin or commissioned by Ida Rubinstein, but now usually played as a concert piece.

When Blanche Bruce was young, he played with his half-brother.

White was originally offered the role of Blanche in The Golden Girls, and Rue McClanahan was offered the role of Rose ( the two characters being similar to roles they had played in Mary Tyler Moore and Maude, respectively ).

She played Blanche ( on the road and on Broadway ) opposite at least four different Stanley Kowalskis, including Anthony Quinn and Marlon Brando.

Benaderet played Blanche Morton, the next-door neighbor to George Burns and Gracie Allen, on both the radio and television incarnations of The George Burns & Gracie Allen Show.

Since then she has played Antigone in a national UK tour, the Blanche Du Bois in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire at the Bristol Old Vic and with Gillian Anderson in A Doll ’ s House at Donmar Warehouse.

She played the character of Olive Springer Gordon Randolph in the soap opera Another World ( 1976 – 1979 ), and Blanche Bouvier in Guiding Light ( 1981 ).

Another famous alumna was the late Rue McClanahan, ( Margaret Jardin ) who went on to bigger fame in Maude playing Maude Findlay's scatterbrained friend, Vivian Cavender Harmon ; and later reteamed with Bea Arthur on The Golden Girls, where she played the lusty Blanche Devereaux.

Born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to English actress Rosemary Harris and American author John Ehle, Ehle made her stage debut as a toddler in a 1973 Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, in which her mother played Blanche Dubois.

Bulman lives only for the day that he can put Scott ( played on TV by Stephen Yardley ) back behind bars, but he and his sidekick Detective Constable Derek Willis ( Dennis Blanche ) are thwarted every time, even gaining some slight sympathy and respect for Scott as they discover how he and they have been used by the secret service.

He attended Blanche Ely High School in Pompano Beach, Florida, where he played for the Ely Mighty Tigers high school football team.

Mr. Bingle first appeared in puppet ( or marionette ) form at the Canal Street Maison Blanche in 1950s, puppeteered by Edwin " Oscar " Isentrout ( who also played the voice of Mr. Bingle ).

* The Golden Girls episode " An Illegitimate Concern " ( season five, episode eighteen ); Upon learning her dead husband, George, fathered an illegitimate son, played by Mark Moses of Desperate Housewives fame, during the course of their marriage, Blanche Devereaux ( Rue McClanahan ) decries this turn of events claiming she once passed up an affair with a noted journalist of 60 Minutes fame to uphold her vows.

Blanche also had a visit from her promiscuous niece, Lucy ( played by Hallie Todd, later of Lizzie McGuire fame ).

At various times over the course of the series, Blanche mentions six different children, including two daughters ( Janet and Rebecca, both of whom appeared in the series ) and four sons ( three of them — Biff, Doug, and Skippy — were mentioned in the episode " Bringing Up Baby ," while the fourth, Matthew, was mentioned in the episode " To Catch a Neighbor " and made an onscreen appearance on an episode of The Golden Palace, played by southern comic Bill Engvall ).

Four years later after her divorce from Gründgens, Hoppe had a great success as Blanche Dubois in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, and increasingly played avant-garde roles, written by authors such as Heiner Muller ( Quartett, 1994 ) and Thomas Bernhard, who became her partner in private life as well.

In the 1965 film A Tale of Two Cities, Madame Defarge is played by Blanche Yurka.

Blanche would awaken John, even at three in the morning, and the feuding would continue with their trademark arguments about John's job, Blanche's domestic abilities, John's alleged eye for neighbor Gloria Gooseby, Blanche's shiftless brother Amos ( played by Thomas ) or John's taste for bourbon.

Brown played the Negro Woman in the 2001 play A Streetcar Named Desire at the Royal National Theatre ( Lyttelton ), in London, directed by Trevor Nunn and starring Glenn Close as Blanche DuBois.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, North appeared in guest spots on Hawaii Five-O, The Streets of San Francisco, Matlock, Magnum, P. I., The Mary Tyler Moore Show — in which she played Lou Grant's girlfriend — and The Golden Girls, in which she played Blanche Devereaux's sister, Virginia, in two episodes.