Her social background was similar to what Ventris ' had been: her family was well-to-do, she had travelled in Europe, and she was interested in architecture, in addition to which she was popular and was considered very beautiful.

Her cynicism grew when one of the two pictures she submitted in 1875 was refused by the jury, only to be accepted the following year after she darkened the background.

Her supposed Mustique indiscretions form an important part of the background of the quasi-historical 2008 film The Bank Job.

Her first professional recording with Ike Turner was singing background for him on Ike's record, " Box Top ".

Her game concept included animated color graphics, a pseudo 3D-perspective where the main character was visible on the screen, a more competent text parser that would understand advanced commands from the player, and music playing in the background through the PCjr sound hardware.

Her father, Robert Goulden, came from a modest Manchester merchant family with its own background of political activity.

Her presence creates an awkward situation, but when Samia, a pompous family friend, ridicules Rayette's background, Robert gives a fiery defense of her.

Her story, retold in the first person, closely mirrors Joan's story and background.

Her speech as Delight in Endless Nights takes the same form, with somewhat orderly lettering and a faint rainbow background.

Her classical educational background is clearly seen in her poetry, which captures her literary talent.

" Her texts usually take place in the South and revolve around morally flawed characters, while the issue of race often appears in the background.

Her Danish background made her situation more difficult ; while Charles was away to inspect his troops or pursuing his pastimes, she was often lonely and sad.

Her mother, Annie Grayce Yarbrough, had a similar background of an uneducated working-class family in Greene County, Georgia.

Her contributions to the songs had been reduced to periodic eight-bar raps, and studio session singers such as Debra Killings often took her place on the background vocals for the group's songs.

Her Jewish background hindered selection of Volynov for space missions.

Her father, from Nebraska, came from an Irish-American Catholic background, and her mother, originally from Kansas, came from a Methodist family.

Her father was a sportswriter for The Denver Post and her mother, from a heavily Irish Catholic background died when she was 16.

Her parents, Adebisi Adu, a Nigerian lecturer in economics of Yoruba background, and Anne Hayes, an English district nurse, met in London, married in 1955 and moved to Nigeria.

Her father, Mont Clair Carpenter ( 1877 – 1974 ), was a dentist who came from a working-class background and attended dental college in Kansas City.

Her first marriage to Jeffrey Ross was revealed in the press for the first time, her educational background was clarified, she appeared in a Barbara Walters interview on 20 / 20, and her estranged relations with Rudy Giuliani's children were examined.

Her business background made the offer at least defensible, but she had no knowledge of Australian politics or economics, and not much experience of managing a large and complex office.

Her parents initially disapproved of him due to the many differences in background, age, and politics.

Her most recent album, Journey to The Snow Queen, is more of an audio book — she reads the Snow Queen fairy tale with Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker in the background.

Her career background includes being the Director of the Greenwich Racial Equality Council as well as a Community and Equal Opportunities Worker.

The West End production opened on February 11, 1953 at Her Majesty's Theatre and ran for 477 performances.

Her episodes featured musical interludes showcasing her singing performances.

Her early performances brought her immediate success in Britain, but she remained largely unknown in other parts of the world until the release of Gone with the Wind.

The 1958 European premiere at the Manchester Opera House transferred to London, where it opened at Her Majesty's Theatre in the West End on Friday December 12, 1958 and ran until June 1961 with a total of 1, 039 performances.

Her live performances of the song throughout the decade began to take on a theatrical intensity not present on the album's single.

It was first performed in England on 24 May 1856 in Italian at Her Majesty's Theatre in London, where it was considered morally questionable, and " the heads of the Church did their best to put an injunction upon performance ; the Queen refrained from visiting the theatre during the performances, though the music, words and all, were not unheard at the palace ".

Her performances in Seventh Heaven ( the first of twelve movies she would make with actor Charles Farrell ) and both Sunrise, directed by F. W. Murnau, and Street Angel ( in 1927, also with Charles Farrell ) earned her the first Academy Award for Best Actress in 1928.

Next, it had a run of 76 performances at Her Majesty's Theatre, in London, beginning on 26 December 1865, in an adaptation by J. R. Planché.

Her recent public performances have included charitable functions to promote products such as Zamu.

Her occasional acting ventures were limited to theater and included performances on Broadway and in London in The Irregular Verb to Love ( 1963 ); The Kingfisher ( 1978 ) in which she co-starred with Rex Harrison, and Frederick Lonsdale's Aren't We All?

The musical's original West End production opened on April 14, 1949, at Her Majesty's Theatre, running for 685 performances.

Her performances often featured elaborate show-dance choreography, and she made many appearances on French and Italian TV.

Her revue, with future TV pioneer Danny Thomas as her opening act, included songs from her films, performances on her musical saw ( a skill she had originally acquired for stage appearances in Berlin in the 1920s ), and a pretend " mindreading " act.

Her performances in the Broadway musical Black and Blue earned Brown a Tony Award, and the original cast recording won a Grammy Award.

Her big screen debut was in Hue and Cry, in 1947, followed with performances in Nicholas Nickleby, The Winslow Boy, The History of Mr Polly, Scott of the Antarctic, Mother Riley Meets the Vampire and Dickens ' The Pickwick Papers.

Her late career includes Oscar-nominated performances in the independent films Afterglow ( 1997 ) and Away from Her ( 2006 ).

Her first televised performances were in the mid-and late 1950s with the Drinkard Singers on local television stations in New Jersey and New York City.

Her Royal Shakespeare Company performances are:

Her National Theatre performances have included:

Her stage experience enhanced many of her film performances when the " silents " segued to the " talkies ".

Her productions were plagued by controversy and other problems, although the controversy ensured that West stayed in the news and most of the time this resulted in packed performances.

Her performances were often heralded by the critics, who cited her diction and stage experience as assets to the then-new medium of " talking pictures ".

Her impromptu performances impressed The Beatles and others.