In 1977, a film version of A Little Night Music was released, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Lesley-Anne Down and Diana Rigg, with Len Cariou, Hermione Gingold and Laurence Guittard reprising their Broadway roles.

" At a meeting of the PLP I accused Ian Mikardo of being ' out of his tiny Chinese mind '— a phrase of the comedienne Hermione Gingold, with which I thought everyone was familiar.

However the sketch was also staged elsewhere, for example in 1953 in John Murray Anderson's Almanac ( the show that also featured Harry Belafonte in the early days of his career ) at Imperial Theatre with Hermione Gingold playing Miss Sophie, Billy DeWolfe as the butler, and apparently featuring four dead friends.

His second teacher was Mimi Zweig, and then he switched to the violinist and pedagogue Josef Gingold after Bell's parents assured Gingold that they were not interested in pushing their son in the study of the violin but simply wanted him to have the best teacher for his abilities.

Satisfied that the boy was living a normal life, Gingold took Bell on as his student.

Maschwitz was married twice: first to Hermione Gingold, who was granted a divorce in 1945, and then immediately to Phyllis Gordon, who remained his wife until his death.

The phrase was coined by Oliver Gingold of Dow Jones sometime in 1923 or 1924.

Company folklore recounts that the term apparently got its start when Gingold was standing by the stock ticker at the brokerage firm that later became Merrill Lynch.

It was revealed in Invasion # 3 that it was a metagene reaction to the Gingold elixir that had always provided him with his stretching powers, meaning that he is, in fact, a metahuman and that an ordinary human would not develop such powers through ingesting the extract.

Josef Gingold ( Russian: Джозеф Гингольд ; January 11, 1995 ) was a Russian-Jewish-born classical violinist and teacher, who lived most of his life in the United States.

In 1937, Gingold won a spot in the NBC Symphony Orchestra, with Arturo Toscanini as its conductor ; he then served as the concertmaster ( and occasional soloist ) of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and later was the Cleveland Orchestra's concertmaster under conductor George Szell.

Gingold was a founder of the quadrennial Indianapolis Violin Competition.

The winners were announced at an awards show in Los Angeles, California, which was produced by Fangoria's managing editor, Michael Gingold.

Things improved slightly during the Philadelphia run, but by the time the production reached New York, Bergen – who was fighting bitterly with co-star Hermione Gingold – was experiencing serious vocal problems, and some of her songs would be cut during each performance, creating confusion for the rest of the cast.

Hermione Gingold ( pronounced with a hard G, not as Jingold ; 9 December 1897 – 24 May 1987 ) was an English actress known for her sharp-tongued, eccentric persona, an image enhanced by her sharp nose and chin, as well as her deepening voice, a result of vocal nodes which her mother reportedly encouraged her not to remove.

Born Hermione Ferdinanda Gingold in London, she was the daughter of a high-standing Vienna-born Jewish financier James Gingold and Kate Walter or Walters, an English-born housewife.

Her paternal grandparents were the Turkish-born British subject, Moritz " Maurice " Gingold, a London stockbroker, and his Austrian-born wife, Hermine, after whom Hermione Gingold was named.

Gingold was a childhood friend of Noël Coward until her mother warned her away from him.

Chaim Gingold ( born January 15, 1980 in Haifa, Israel ) is noted for his work with the computer game Spore, where he designed the game's creators, including the Spore Creature Creator.

The cast included Glynis Johns ( Desiree Armfeldt ), Len Cariou ( Fredrik Egerman ), Hermione Gingold ( Madame Armfeldt ), Victoria Mallory, Judith Kahan, Mark Lambert, Laurence Guittard, Patricia Elliott, George Lee Andrews, and D. Jamin Bartlett.

Some notable musicians who were members of the orchestra include violinists Samuel Antek, Henry Clifton, Felix Galimir, Josef Gingold, Daniel Guilet ( concertmaster 1952-54 ), Harry Lookofsky, Mischa Mischakoff ( concertmaster 1937-1952 ), Albert Pratz, David Sarser, Oscar Shumsky, Herman Spielberg and Andor Toth ; violists Carlton Cooley, Milton Katims, William Primrose, and Tibor Serly ; cellists Frank Miller, Leonard Rose, Harvey Shapiro and Alan Shulman ; double bassists Homer Mensch and Oscar G. Zimmerman ; flutists Carmine Coppola, Arthur Lora and Paul Renzi ; clarinetists Augustin Duques, Al Gallodoro, David Weber and Alexander Williams ; saxophonist Frankie Trumbauer ; oboists Robert Bloom and Paolo Renzi ; bassoonists Elias Carmen, Benjamin Kohon, William Polisi, Leonard Sharrow and Arthur Weisberg ; French horn players Arthur Berv, Harry Berv, Jack Berv and Albert Stagliano ; and tuba player William Bell, among others.

** Stephen Sondheim ( composer ), Goddard Lieberson ( producer ) & the original cast ( Glynis Johns, Len Cariou, Hermione Gingold, Victoria Mallory, Patricia Elliott & Teri Ralston ) for A Little Night Music

Among his more respected pupils are Josef Gingold, former concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra and Professor at Indiana University, the viola virtuoso William Primrose, the violin virtuoso Nathan Milstein ( who primarily studied with Pyotr Stolyarsky ), Louis Persinger, Alberto Bachmann, Mathieu Crickboom, Jonny Heykens, Charles Houdret, Jascha Brodsky, Oscar Shumsky and Aldo Ferraresi.

* The Artistry of Josef Gingold, a two-CD set on Enharmonic ENCD03-015 contains otherwise unavailable performances of music by Bloch, Arensky, Beethoven ( a live recording of the Concerto from Ohio State ), Francaix, Mozart, Schubert, Tchaikovsky and Ysaye.

Gingold played Mayor Shinn's ( Paul Ford ) snooty wife Eulalie Mackechnie Shinn in The Music Man ( 1962 ) ( in which her son Roy Dean ( Leslie Joseph ) also had a small role ), starring Robert Preston and Shirley Jones, and was part of the original 1973 Broadway cast of A Little Night Music in the role of the elderly Madame Armfeldt, a former courtesan, this time Swedish, which she reprised in London ( 1975 ) and in the unsuccessful film version of the musical ( 1977 ).

The stars of the original cast were Hermione Gingold ( as Mrs. Bennet ), Polly Bergen ( as Elizabeth Bennet ), and Farley Granger ( as Mr. Darcy ), supported by Phyllis Newman ( Jane Bennet ), Ellen Hanley ( Charlotte Lucas ), Christopher Hewett ( Mr. Collins ), Donald Madden ( Charles Bingley ), and James Mitchell ( Capt.

To escape, he turns to another witch, Bianca de Passe ( Hermione Gingold ), who breaks the spell.

* Rabbi Pinchas Gingold ( 1893-1953 ), Grodno-born U. S. Labor Zionist and Yiddish educator

When Leila was 13 the Josefowiczes moved to Philadelphia so she could attend the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Jaime Laredo, Jascha Brodsky, Felix Galimir and Joseph Gingold.

He then studied at the Juilliard School in New York City, Indiana University and the University of Southern California, where his teachers included Ivan Galamian, Josef Gingold and Jascha Heifetz, respectively.

After college, Gingold headed to the Georgia Institute of Technology where he joined the Information Design and Technology Masters program.

He also studied at Indiana University with Josef Gingold, János Starker, William Primrose and Menahem Pressler.

Gingold edited numerous violin technique books and orchestral excerpt collections.

After winning Leventritt, he was invited by George Szell to take second chair in the Cleveland Orchestra's first violin section ( next to concertmaster Josef Gingold ).

The musical premiered in the West End at the Adelphi Theatre on April 15, 1975 and starred Jean Simmons, Joss Ackland, David Kernan, Liz Robertson, and Diane Langton, with Hermione Gingold reprising her role as Madame Armfeldt.

Chevalier appeared in the movie musical Gigi ( 1958 ) with Leslie Caron and Hermione Gingold, with whom he shared the song " I Remember It Well ", and several Walt Disney films.

He learned that all of the body-benders he spoke with drank a popular soda called " Gingold.

* The Primrose Quartet CD ( Biddulph Recordings LAB052-53 ) reissue of the 1940-1941 78 rpm recordings, with Josef Gingold, William Primrose, Harvey Shapiro, Oscar Shumsky, and Jesus Maria Sanroma of Toscanini's NBC Symphony Orchestra, performing works of Haydn, Schumann, Brahms, Smetana, and Tchaikovsky.

Celebrity guest Hermione Gingold with host Garry Moore.

He also starred in the London production of Stephen Sondheim's and Hugh Wheeler's A Little Night Music with Jean Simmons and Hermione Gingold, performing on the RCA Victor original London cast album.

Hermione Gingold sings " I Remember It Well " with King Louie ( performed by Jim Henson ).

" Rowlf the Dog plays charades with Freddie Garrity, Hermione Gingold, Marty Allen, and Mike Douglas.

Gingold first appeared on stage in 1908 in Pinkie and the Fairies by W. Graham Robertson with Ellen Terry, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Frederick Volpe, Marie Lohr and Viola Tree.

" Gingold soon followed this with another hit film Bell, Book and Candle ( also 1958 ).

The most successful was her teaming with namesake Hermione Gingold in Coward's comedy Fallen Angels.

His wartime radio programme A Date with Nurse Dugdale was popular, and he wrote numerous revue sketches for performers such as Hermione Gingold.

" She would go on to appear with Sinatra and other notable guests such as Ella Fitzgerald, Peter Lawford, Hermione Gingold, the Hi-Lo's, Red Norvo, Nelson Riddle and his orchestra on the 1959, Frank Sinatra Show.