Many of the best-known writers of whodunits in this period were British — notably Agatha Christie, Nicholas Blake, G. K. Chesterton, Christianna Brand, Edmund Crispin, Michael Innes, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gladys Mitchell, Josephine Tey.

* Gladys Mitchell: Death at the Opera

* Gladys Mitchell, prolific writer of detective fiction, took her eccentric sleuth, the psychiatrist Mrs Lestrange Bradley, to the Fens in several books, notably The Worsted Viper, Wraiths and Changelings and The Mudflats of the Dead.

* Death and the Maiden ( novel ), by Gladys Mitchell

However, in The Blue Lamp, Dixon has a wife named Em ( Gladys Henson ) and it is mentioned that their only son, Bert, was killed in the Second World War – hence Dixon adopts a paternal aspect towards PC Andy Mitchell ( Jimmy Hanley ), a young policeman on his first day.

* Gladys Mitchell, the detective writer and creator of Mrs Bradley, lived in the village at the end of her life.

Gladys Mitchell ( 21 April 1901 – 27 July 1983 ) was an English author best known for her creation of Mrs. Bradley, the heroine of 66 detective novels.

Gladys Maude Winifred Mitchell was born in Cowley, Oxford on 19 April 1901 to James, a market gardener of Scottish parentage, and Annie.

The Gladys Mitchell Tribute Site has reviews of almost all the books in its Bibliography section.

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Sweet married Gladys Mitchell in 1922.

Over the years, the festival has hosted such luminaries as Louis Armstrong, Joan Baez, Anita Baker, The Ballet Russe, The Beach Boys, Tony Bennett, George Benson, Luciano Berio, Leonard Bernstein, Lucrezia Bori, Dave Brubeck, Sandip Burman, Montserrat Caballé, Glen Campbell, Pablo Casals, Chicago, Van Cliburn, Joe Cocker, Judy Collins, Barbara Cook, Aaron Copland, Bill Cosby, Elvis Costello, Deep Purple, Placido Domingo, Doobie Brothers, Jackie Evancho, Horacio Gutierrez, Crosby, Stills, & Nash, Dorothy Dandridge, Duran Duran, Bob Dylan, Duke Ellington, Roberta Flack, Ella Fitzgerald, Renée Fleming, Aretha Franklin, George Gershwin, Jose Greco, Buddy Guy, Hall & Oates, Marvin Hamlisch, Herbie Hancock, Isaac Hayes, Jascha Heifetz, John Houseman, Jennifer Hudson, Janis Joplin, The Judds, Gladys Knight, Diana Krall, Chaka Khan, Lyle Lovett, Patti LuPone, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Yo-Yo Ma, Maroon 5, Sarah McLachlan, Idina Menzel, Joni Mitchell, Moody Blues, Willie Nelson, Aaron Neville, Mandy Patinkin, Luciano Pavarotti, Itzhak Perlman, Peter, Paul & Mary, Robert Plant, Bernadette Peters, Oscar Peterson, Bonnie Raitt, David Sanborn, Beverly Sills, Stephen Sondheim, Isaac Stern, Sting, Elaine Stritch, Donna Summer, James Taylor, Carrie Underwood, Sarah Vaughan, Rufus Wainwright, Clara Ward, Orson Welles, Frank Zappa and Denis Matsuev.

Harlem resident Gladys Bentley was renowned for her blues songs about her affairs with women

During a visit to Australia in 1958, a similar special was made for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, " The Gladys Half-Hour ", which also featured local actors Ray Barrett, and John Bluthal, who would appear in several later Milligan projects.

* Torchlighters: The Gladys Aylward Story ( 2008 )-animated DVD for children ages 8 – 12.

" She also painted the children of relatives as well as Gladys Tidy, the Barkers ' young housekeeper, who posed for the Primrose Fairy in 1923.

At the Catholic school ( run by the Sisters of Charity of Nevers ) which she and her sisters attend, fourteen-year old Bernadette Soubirous ( Jennifer Jones ) is shamed in front of the class by Sister Vauzous, the teacher ( Gladys Cooper ), for not having learned her catechism well.

She was married for more than three decades to Ernest Byfield, a former OSS officer and Chicago hotel heir whose mother, Gladys Tartiere, leased her, Glen Ora estate in Middleburg, Virginia to John F. Kennedy during his presidency.

After Gladys died in 1958, and Vernon married Dee Stanley in 1960, the couple lived there for a time.

Other stage work at this time included The Night of the Ball ( New Theatre, 1955 ), the new Robert Bolt play Flowering Cherry ( Haymarket, 1958, Broadway, 1959 ), Toys in the Attic ( Piccadilly, 1960 ), The Wings of the Dove ( Lyric, 1963 ), A Measure of Cruelty ( Birmingham Repertory, 1965 ), A Present for the Past ( Edinburgh, 1966 ), The Sacred Flame ( Duke of York's Theatre, 1967 ) with Gladys Cooper, The Battle of Shrivings ( Lyric, 1970 ) with John Gielgud and Lies ( Albery, 1975 ).

In November 2008, she earned rave reviews as Gladys Bumps in the Roundabout Theatre Company production of the classical Rodgers and Hart musical Pal Joey on Broadway and garnered her third consecutive Tony nomination, this time for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.

** The Parson – A character who made ecclesiastical quips and, in 1970, officiated at a near-marriage for Tyrone and Gladys.

The school was closed for a period of time but reopened in 1956 with Gladys Heiser as teacher.

The role of Gladys was lucky for Haney's understudy, Shirley MacLaine.

** Gladys Knight for At Last

Gladys Knight & the Pips recorded Mayfield's soundtrack for Claudine in 1974, while Aretha Franklin recorded the soundtrack for Sparkle in 1976.

The following year, the group got their own hour-long musical variety television program, The Gladys Knight & the Pips Show, which ran for four episodes on NBC as a summer-season replacement.

They sang their normal backup verses for the songs " Heard it Through the Grapevine " and " Midnight Train to Georgia ;" during the parts where Gladys would sing, the camera panned on a lone-standing microphone.

** 1988 Gladys Knight & the Pips received the 2nd Annual Soul Train Heritage Award ( Later Renamed To Quincy Jones Award for Career Achievement ).

She is best known for the hits she recorded during the 1960s and 1970s, for both the Motown and Buddah Records labels, with her group Gladys Knight & the Pips, the most famous incarnation of which also included her brother Merald " Bubba " Knight and her cousins Edward Patten and William Guest.

In their early Motown career Gladys Knight and the Pips toured as the opening act for Diana Ross and The Supremes.

In the early 1980s, Johnny Mathis invited Gladys to record two duets – " When A Child Is Born " ( previously a hit for Mathis ) and " The Lord's Prayer ".

In 1989, Gladys Knight recorded the title track for the James Bond movie Licence to Kill, a top 10 hit both in the UK, reaching # 6, and Germany.

In 2008 Gladys, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr. and Ben Stiller performed on American Idol to raise money for charity.

* 1976: The Best of Gladys Knight & the Pips ( US # 36 ; UK # 6 )

The UK Farewell Tour featured higher production value than previous " Gladys Knight, a mic and a light " appearances by Gladys in the UK.

In October 2004, Yoxall became nationally known across the UK after an extremist group of animal rights campaigners stole Gladys Hammond's body from the village's graveyard.

She travelled to Paris for a second time in 1912 with student Gladys Reynell, and with the advent of World War 1, re-located to the UK, where she studied pottery and also the principles of Modernist design at Roger Fry's Omega Workshops.

At this point in his career Presley had a proven sales track record, and up to 300 demos were often submitted for a single film, even given the requisite publishing arrangements favorable toward the companies owned by Elvis and the Colonel, Elvis Presley Music and Gladys Music.