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Edna May Oliver's most popular star vehicles were mystery-comedies starring Oliver as spinster sleuth Hildegarde Withers from the popular Stuart Palmer novels.
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Stars featured in the film included Charlotte Henry as Alice, W. C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty, Edna May Oliver as the Red Queen, Cary Grant as the Mock Turtle ( Grant's star was still on the ascent at the time ), Gary Cooper as the White Knight, Edward Everett Horton as The Hatter, Charles Ruggles as The March Hare, and Baby LeRoy as The Joker.
Charlotte Mitchell ( born Edna Winifred Mitchell ; 23 July 1926 – 2 May 2012 ) was an English actress and poet.
According to My Gorgeous Life, and statements Edna has made over the years, she was born Edna May Beazley in the city of Wagga Wagga, with a sibling who would give birth to Barry McKenzie.
They catch the eye of influential agent Maggie Sutton ( Edna May Oliver ), who arranges a tryout for them at the prestigious Café de Paris, where they become an overnight sensation.
Laxer was born in Montreal, Quebec, and is the son of Edna May ( née Quentin ) and Robert Laxer, a psychologist, professor, author, and political activist.
Edna May Oliver played Withers, a schoolteacher with a yen for sleuthing who becomes involved with a police inspector.
With no home and winter approaching, the Martins accept work on the farm of wealthy widow Mrs. McKlennar ( Edna May Oliver ).
The film was nominated for two awards: Best Supporting Actress ( Edna May Oliver ) and Best Cinematography ( Ray Rennahan and Bert Glennon ).
After Edward Stratemeyer's death in May 1930, his two daughters, Harriet Stratemeyer Adams ( 1892 – 1982 ) and Edna C. Squier ( 1895 – 1974 ), ran the company, with the result that Garis stopped writing for the Syndicate in 1933 after several disagreements.
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Early twentieth-century American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay also wrote most of her sonnets using the Italian form.
( Edna Ferber's novel, on which the musical is based, had already been filmed as a part-talkie in 1929, and the musical would be remade in Technicolor in 1951, but the 1936 film is considered by most critics and many film buffs to be the definitive motion picture version.
Dame Edna Everage is undoubtedly one of the most enduring Australian comic characters of all time, and one of the longest-lived comedic characterisations ever devised.
Originally conceived in 1956, Edna has long since transcended her modest origins as a satire of Australian suburbia to become one of the most successful, best-known and best loved comedy characters of all time.
Harry and Edna are the most obvious escapees as they run from their own home and set up camp in the home of Agnes and Tobias.
In 1933, he co-wrote Dinner at Eight, which was based on the George S. Kaufman / Edna Ferber play, and became one of the most popular comedies at that time and remains a " classic " comedy.
The community centre is now surrounded by colourful mosaics and street art, including a stencil art representation of Mooroolbark's most famous citizen, the early 20th Century landscape designer Edna Walling.
In 2001 a biography of Emma was published written by Edna Healey, though it has been criticised for attempting to give credit to Emma for her husband's ideas, whereas most other historians agree she had little, if any, scientific input.
" Edna Gundersen of USA Today reported: " The most obvious example is Madonna's Blond Ambition World Tour, a visually preoccupied and heavily choreographed spectacle.
Humphries ' outlandish Australian caricatures, including Dame Edna Everage, Barry McKenzie and Les Patterson have starred in books, stage and screen to great acclaim over five decades and his biographer Anne Pender described him in 2010 as the most significant comedian since Charles Chaplin.
Performance equipment is gradually wheeled out and wired up to the bare stage between and throughout the performances, as Talking Heads continue to be augmented by several additional musicians, most of whom had extensive experience in funk: back-up singers Lynn Mabry and Edna Holt, keyboardist Bernie Worrell ( formerly of Parliament-Funkadelic ), percussionist Steve Scales, and guitarist Alex Weir ( of The Brothers Johnson ).
In New York City, it was to be considered " a miracle " if Edna did not strike the area directly, and the storm was predicted to be one of the most severe hurricanes in the history of the New York Weather Bureau.
Her most substantial television appearance was in the title role of Edna, the Inebriate Woman ( Play for Today, 1971 ) for which she won a BAFTA award.
Perhaps most importantly, Edna helped John to overcome his shyness and develop into a gregarious " man of the people ", which would factor greatly in his future political successes.
( The two earlier film versions of Show Boat, and most stage productions of it, feature a historically accurately designed vessel, rather than the kind built for the 1951 film, and Edna Ferber, in the novel on which the musical is based, gives a description of the " Cotton Blossom " that accurately reflects the real design of a nineteenth-century showboat.
Edna Margaret Walling ( born 1895 and died 8 August 1973 ) was one of Australia's most influential landscape designers.
The most prolific poetry contest winner was Edna St. Vincent Millay, who had seven poems published in the League.
* The Edna Murphy Shield ( presented to the most promising couple, as decided by the Chairman of Adjudicators )
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