Her first appearance with Ronald Reagan came in one of the latter, Ford Theatre, during a 1953 episode titled " First Born ".

Her main competitor for the prize was Judy Garland's much heralded comeback performance in A Star Is Born ; playing not only the part of an up and coming actress-singer, but also ironically, the wife of an alcoholic movie star.

Her career as the primary actress of Fox Studios continued with the advent of sound film, and she achieved a notable success in the original version of A Star Is Born ( 1937 ).

Born a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, Mary was styled Her Highness Princess Mary of York from birth ( this was later changed to Her Royal Highness by Queen Victoria ).

Her success in the 1946 stage production of Born Yesterday as " Billie Dawn " led to her being cast in the 1950 film version, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress-Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

Her efforts paid off, earning Elsa worldwide fame at the time, when her life's story, up to this point, was published in the book Born Free.

Her songs " When the Rain Came Down " on the album Ecto, and " Winter " on Many Worlds Are Born Tonight exhibit this range.

Her last major tour was in support of her album Many Worlds are Born Tonight in 1998, playing the El Flamingo Club in New York City, the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall in Troy, New York, the Painted Bride Arts Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the Bearsville Theater in Bearsville, New York.

Johannes Reidt, a Hessian soldier from Raboldshausen, Germany, Born, January, 06, 1757, Salzberg Hesse Cassel Germany, mother, Anna Elizabeth Reid Her father, Johannes Reidt and mother, Anna Catherine Engel were married August 5, 1764 in Germany and his father, Johann Jacob Helmerich d. May 28, 1845, in Cabarrus County, N. C., served during the American Revolution in Company C ( Col. Friedrich von Porbeck ) of the Garrison Regiment von Wissenbach.

Her 1937 film debut was as an extra in A Star Is Born ; she also appeared in various horse operas.

Her most popular ' talkies ' included Almost a Divorce ( 1931 ), The Old Dark House ( 1932 ), Leave It to Smith ( 1933 ), I Was a Spy ( 1933 ), Jew Süss ( 1934 ), A Cup of Kindness ( 1934 ), Vintage Wine ( 1935 ), The Divorce of Lady X ( 1938 ), which starred her son-in-law Laurence Olivier, A Son Is Born ( 1946 ) and Of Human Bondage ( 1946 ).

In 1994, one of these recordings, Me and Her Outside ( No No Man ), was used in the film Natural Born Killers.

* A Shantotto Ascension: The Legend Torn, Her Empire Born ( 2009 ): plot conception

Born in 1987 in Retford, Nottinghamshire, Adam Walker studied at Chethams School of Music and the Royal Academy of Music with Michael Cox graduating with distinction in 2009 and Her Royal Highness Princess Alice Prize for exemplary studentship.

Her other films include I Don't Want to Be Born ( 1975 ), Equus ( 1977 ), The Dresser ( 1983 ), Wolf ( 1994 ), Jack and Sarah ( 1995 ), Gosford Park ( 2001 ), Cold Mountain ( 2003 ), Vanity Fair ( 2004 ) and Ask the Dust ( 2006 ).

Born in Montreal, the daughter of Émile Chaput and Rosalie Loranger, she received her education from the Couvent d ' Outremont, the Sorbonne and the Institut Catholique de Paris. Her brother, Yves Chaput was the husband of Françoise Poliquin, daughter of Jean Poliquin, grandfather of Jean-Nicolas De Surmont.

Her maternal great-grandfather is Nobel prize-winning physicist Max Born.

Her great grandfather was German physicist and Nobel Prize winner Max Born.

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Her article, " A Star Is Born ," highlighted the illegalities committed by former U. S. Senator Carol Moseley Braun and her then fiancee, Kgosie Matthews, who worked illegally in the US while on a student visa.

Born in Royal Oak, Michigan, Bonewits had been heavily involved in occultism since the 1960s.

Born in Southampton into a seafaring family, Jellicoe joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1872 and was posted to HMS Britannia.

Born Aikaterini ( Catherine ) Konstantopoulou in Piraeus, Greece, she trained as an opera singer, and appeared in the operatic version of Maeterlinck's " Sister Beatrice ," with a score by Dimitri Mitropoulos, but changed career and joined the Greek Royal Theater in 1929.

Born in Dronrijp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there.

Born in London, Niven attended Heatherdown and Stowe before gaining a place at Royal Military College at Sandhurst.

Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Nielsen enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force and worked as a disc jockey before receiving a scholarship to Neighborhood Playhouse.

Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the sixth child and third son of John Stairs and Mary Morrow, he attended school at Fort Massey Academy in Halifax, Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario, Student # 52

Born in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, Hailey served in the Royal Air Force from the start of World War II during 1939 until 1947, when he went to live in Canada.

Born at the Royal Palace of Turin, he was a son of Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia and his second wife Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg.

His roles include Brutus in Julius Caesar ( 1953 ), Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel and The Desert Rats, the amoral valet turned spy in Joseph Mankiewicz's 5 Fingers, the declining actor in the first remake of A Star Is Born ( 1954 ), Captain Nemo in 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea ( also 1954 ), a small town school teacher driven insane by the effects of cortisone in Bigger Than Life ( 1956 ), a suave master spy in North by Northwest ( 1959 ), a determined explorer in Journey to the Center of the Earth ( also 1959 ), Humbert Humbert in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita ( 1962 ), a river pirate who betrays Peter O ' Toole's character in Lord Jim ( 1965 ), the evil Doctor Polidori in Frankenstein: The True Story ( 1973 ), the vampire's servant, Richard Straker, in Salem's Lot, and surreal Royal Navy Captain Hughes in Yellowbeard ( 1983 ).

Born in Scotland, where he attended parish school and graduated from the Tain Royal Academy in 1869.

Born in Neufchâtel, Quebec, Bédard learned marksmanship as a member of the Royal Canadian Army Cadets ' 2772 cadet corps, which she joined at the age of 15, and participated in her first biathlon event at age 15.

Born in Hadleigh, Suffolk, Woolner trained with the sculptor William Behnes, exhibiting work at the Royal Academy from 1843.

Born in Chelsea, she studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Born on 31 July 1858 to Thomas Oldham, a Fellow of the Royal Society and geologist, Oldham was educated at Rugby School and the Royal School of Mines.

Born Lord Edmund FitzAlan-Howard, he assumed in 1876 by Royal license the surname of " Talbot " as part of an unsuccessful attempt to succeed to the estates of the Earl of Shrewsbury.

Born at the Royal Alcázar of Madrid, his youth was a time of sadness for Ferdinand.

Born in South Woodford, Essex, Skeaping studied at Goldsmith's College, London, and later at the Royal Academy.

Born Mansfield George Smith on 1 April 1859 in British India, the youngest in the family of five sons and eight daughters of Colonel John Thomas Smith ( 1805 – 1882 ) of the Royal Engineers, of Föelallt House, Cardigan Kent, and his wife, Maria Sarah Tyser.

Born at Port Royal in Jamaica, he crossed over to England and in 1819 entered the Record Office in the Tower of London.

Born in London, Cusins entered the Chapel Royal in his tenth year and studied music in Brussels under François-Joseph Fétis and later at the Royal Academy of Music ( RAM ) in London, under Cipriani Potter, William Sterndale Bennett, Charles Lucas and Prosper Sainton.