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Gloria Foster ( November 15, 1933-September 29, 2001 ) was an American actress, most known for her stage performances portraying an array of African-American characters, including her acclaimed roles in plays In White America and Having Our Say, winning three Obie Awards during her career.
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Dahomey was chosen for some of the filming locations in the movie, The Comedians ( 1967 film ), with an all-star cast that included Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Lillian Gish, James Earl Jones, Roscoe Lee Brown, Alec Guinness, Raymond St. Jacques, Gloria Foster, Zakes Mokae, Paul Ford, Georg Stanford Brown, Peter Ustinov, Douta Seck and Cicely Tyson.
The film helped launch Antonio Fargas, Clarence Williams III, Carl Lee, and Gloria Foster, who married Williams three years later.
Gloria Foster, the original actress, had died of complications related to diabetes early in the production of The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions.
Gloria Foster never knew who her father was and she moved to Janesville, Wisconsin after her mother was hospitalized for a mental illness.
Gloria Foster was not sure what occupation to pursue, until her godmother introduced her to the Goodman Theatre in Chicago.
Instead of Gloria Foster having to audition for roles, people started to make parts for her to be in.
Gloria Foster, instead of searching for fame by trying to be in many different productions, searched for roles in which she would be able to perform at the best of her ability.
Nothing But a Man ( 1964 )- Gloria Foster plays a woman named Lee, who lives with the main character ’ s ( Duff Anderson ) father.
The Matrix Reloaded ( 2003 )- Gloria Foster continued to act the role of the Oracle, but unfortunately died during the filming and Mary Alice continued the role in The Matrix Revolutions and Enter the Matrix.
Judith Rutherford James, a well-known producer and also good friend who worked with Gloria Foster on In White America and Having Our Say was a huge part in the memorial service and helped to oversee that it ran smoothly.
Many of the speeches given at the service, showed and spoke about how Gloria Foster not only played her part, but also embodied the character, both emotionally and also physically.
Gloria and November
Lorde died on November 17, 1992, in St. Croix ( where she had been living with Gloria I. Joseph ), of liver cancer, though she dealt with a 14-year struggle with breast cancer.
Pink voiced the character of Gloria in Happy Feet Two, which premiered on November 18, 2011 in the United States.
Gloria Winters ( November 28, 1931, Los Angeles, California – August 14, 2010, Vista in San Diego County, California ) was an actress most remembered for having portrayed the well-mannered niece, Penny King, in the 1950s-1960s American television series Sky King.
On November 24, 2003, the then Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo conferred on Pacquiao the Presidential Medal of Merit at the Ceremonial Hall of Malacañan Palace for his knockout victory over the best featherweight boxer of the world.
A new version of that work, expanded through the addition of a new ( third ) movement, ' Gloria ( with Bird )', was premiered at the Barbican Centre on 26 November 2010 with Susan Bickley as the soloist.
Markowitz was re-elected on November 8, 2005, with 79 % of the vote, compared to 13 % for Republican challenger Theodore Alatsas, and 7 % for Gloria Mattera, the Green Party candidate.
In November 2009, José David Lapuz was appointed by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as commissioner / board member of the National Historical Institute.
This episode which was aired on November 19, 2011 is directed by Jeffrey Jeturian and stars Philippine veteran actors Eddie Garcia and Gloria Romeo .< ref >
Typhoon Gloria became fully extratropical on November 16, having weakened back into a tropical storm.
In November, 2006, he was awarded the Gusi Peace Prize for political achievement in the Republic of the Philippines by president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
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Gloria Gaynor returned to the recording studio in 2002, releasing her first album in over 15 years, entitled, I Wish You Love.
Cilea's last opera, premièred at La Scala in Milan on 15 April 1907 under the baton of Arturo Toscanini, was the 3-act tragedy Gloria, again with a libretto by Colautti, based on a play by Victorien Sardou.
On September 15, 2001, coming home from her state visit to Japan, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo flew to Legazpi non-stop from Tokyo using a chartered PAL Airbus A320, highlighting the capability of the airport to handle international air traffic.
Some counterexamples are: Andrzej Panufnik ( 10 ; if one includes two early lost symphonies, 12 ), Hans Werner Henze ( 10 ; his ninth symphony was actually choral ), Eduard Tubin ( 10, died writing his eleventh symphony ), William Schuman ( 10 ; his first two were withdrawn ), Alun Hoddinott ( 10 ), David Diamond ( 11 ), Joachim Raff ( 11, as well as an early destroyed one ), Edmund Rubbra ( 11 ; his ninth symphony was choral ), Robert Simpson ( 11 ; his planned final 12th symphony was to be choral ), Heitor Villa-Lobos and Darius Milhaud ( 12 each ), Vagn Holmboe ( 13, as well as four additional symphonies for strings alone ), Roy Harris ( 13 ; he was more superstitious about the number 13 than the number 9, and so labelled his 13th as 14th ), Glenn Branca ( 14, although Branca's definition of " symphony " is somewhat untraditional ), Gloria Coates ( 15, although she only recognized and numbered her first six symphonies as " symphonies " after completing her 7th ), Dmitri Shostakovich ( 15 ), Rued Langgaard ( 16 plus an unnumbered choral symphony, Sinfonia Interna ), Henry Cowell ( 17 ), Allan Pettersson ( 17 ), Lev Knipper ( 20 ), Jānis Ivanovs ( 21 ), Mieczysław Weinberg ( 22 ), Nikolai Myaskovsky ( 27 ), Havergal Brian ( 32 ), Alan Hovhaness ( 67 ), Derek Bourgeois ( 72 ), and Leif Segerstam ( 253 ).
* Maria ( Maya ) Felicitas Flick, born Gräfin ( Countess ) von Schönburg-Glauchau August 15, 1958-daughter of the late politician and author, Joachim, Count von Schönburg-Glauchau, and sister of socialite Gloria, Princess of Thurn and Taxis and of the author Alexander, Count of Schönburg-Glauchau.
* Gloria Trevi, born Gloria de los Ángeles Treviño Ruiz, February 15, 1968 in Monterrey, Nuevo León, a Mexican singer and songwriter
Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa ( September 26, 1942 – May 15, 2004 ) was a scholar of Chicano cultural theory, feminist theory, and Queer theory.
* Gloria Maria Bogdana Paloma Regina Fiona Gabriela, born 15 October 1999 in Salzburg ; her godmother is Gloria, Princess of Thurn and Taxis.
Pamela started making the rounds at 15, using the name Gloria Jane Owen, but found that as soon as people knew who her mother was they expected her to be as accomplished as the respected dramatic actress.
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