Her quarters were on the right as you walked into the building, and her small front room was clogged with heavy furniture -- a big, round, oak dining table and chairs, a buffet, with a row of unclaimed letters inserted between the mirror and its frame.

Her mother would be fast asleep curled up against that wonderful, big, safe, solid shoulder next to her on the front seat.

Her observations about the sharing of garden plots amongst the Arapesh, the egalitarian emphasis in child rearing, and her documentation of predominantly peaceful relations among relatives are very different from the " big man " displays of dominance that were documented in more stratified New Guinea cultures — e. g., by Andrew Strathern.

Her father also told Baleka that Shaka spoke as though " his tongue were too big for his mouth.

Her one scene role as pregnant checkout girl Nancy in 1991's City Slickers earned her " more attention than all previous roles combined ," and taught her that " that it's far better to have small parts in big movies that everyone sees.

Her maternal grandparents were Millicent Green, a dancer with the George White's Scandals, a series of 1920s musical revues similar to the Ziegfeld Follies, and Johnny McAfee, a multireedist and vocalist of the big band era ; her grandparents met while touring with Johnny Hamp and his orchestra.

Her nickname was " la tragédienne de la chanson ", and amongst her big hits were " Les goélands ", " Johnny Palmer ", " C ' est mon gigolo " and " Tu ne sais pas aimer "-- the latter song became a theme for French sufferers of AIDS.

Her mythic connections to Dionysus are minimal and late, but both cults focused on the foreigner-deity's arrival in a chariot, drawn by exotic big cats – Dionysus by tigers, Cybele by lions.

Her first big break was a lead role in the radio comedy Take It From Here, and television followed, including appearances with Tony Hancock throughout his television career.

Her big break came in 1953 when she replaced the emigrating Joy Nichols on the hit Muir and Norden radio comedy Take It From Here, co-starring Jimmy Edwards and Dick Bentley.

Her big guns quickly silenced most of Arnold's fleet.

Her big break came in 1983 when she was cast by Martin Scorsese to star as stalker and kidnapper Masha in the film The King of Comedy for which she won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Her big break came in the 1985 film The Goonies, in which she played cheerleader-turned-adventurer Andrea " Andy " Carmichael.

Her biographer, Jan Dalley, believes that, " Unity found life in her big family very difficult because she came after these cleverer, prettier, more accomplished sisters.

Her last big family gathering took place at Zizers, in 1987, when her children and grandchildren joined in celebrating Empress Zita's 95th birthday.

Modern swing dance bands active in the U. S. during the 1990s and 2000s include many contemporary jazz big bands, swing revival bands with a national presence such as Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers ( based in San Francisco ), and local / regional jazz bands that specialize in 1930s-1940s swing / Lindy dance music, such as The Swingout Big Band, White Heat Swing Orchestra, and Beantown Swing Orchestra ( Boston ), The Boilermaker Jazz Band ( Pittsburgh ), the Southside Aces ( Minneapolis ), Gordon Webster Septet ( New York ), Jonathan Stout and His Campus Five ( Los Angeles ) and The Jonathan Stout Orchestra featuring Hilary Alexander ( Los Angeles ), The Flat Cats ( Chicago ), The Gina Knight Orchestra ( Chicago and Joliet, IL ), the Solomon Douglas Swingtet and the Tom Cunningham Orchestra ( Washington, D. C .), Sonoran Swing ( Arizona ), and The Bill Elliott Swing Orchestra ( Los Angeles ).

Her first assignments were stories that did not interest " the big boys.

Her big break came in the 1961 BBC serial A for Andromeda.

Her last big hit was " September in the Rain " in 1961 ( Number 23 pop, Number 5 R & B ).

Her big break came the following year, when she received her first starring role in Public Wedding.

On the big screen she became a Bond girl in On Her Majesty's Secret Service ( 1969 ), playing Tracy Bond, James Bond's only wife.

Her recordings of several Serge Gainsbourg songs also were big sellers.

Her big break came in 1970, when she was in her mid-thirties.

Her father, Donald Wade Basinger, was a big band musician and loan manager who as a U. S. Army soldier landed in Normandy on D-Day ( June 6, 1944 ).

In Doris Day: Her Own Story, Day asserts " I was named by my mother in honor of her favorite actress, Doris Kenyon, a silent screen star of that year 1924.

Her first screen appearance was at the age of 10, when she appeared briefly in Frank Capra ’ s It Happened One Night.

Her many memorable screen roles include a supporting role as Joan Crawford's wise-cracking friend in Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ) for which she received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress, and James Stewart's wistful secretary in Otto Preminger's then-explicit murder mystery, Anatomy of a Murder ( 1959 ).

Her son-in-law is Glenn Wilhide the producer and screen writer.

Her performance was well received by critics, with BBC film critic Brandon Graydon saying that Cruz " is an enchanting screen presence ," and Ethan Alter of the Film Journal International noting that Cruz and her co-star Cruise were " able to generate some actual chemistry.

Her final screen appearance was in the 1991 film The Shepherd and the Women, directed by her ex-husband Ali Badrakhan.

Her final screen appearance was in 1991, with the movie Al Ra ' i We El Nissa.

Her on screen chemistry with Alec Baldwin was either criticized or praised, with Eye For Film commenting, " The film works best when Baldwin and Gellar are together – aside from the fact that Gellar seriously needs to eat a bun or two ".

Her screen test with Macnee showed that the two immediately worked well together, and a new era in Avengers history began.

Her screen persona as " a cold, remote erotic object which dreams are made on " reached a peak, according to the critic Philip French, in her second Buñuel film Tristana ( 1970 ).

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 first professional screen experience was as an extra in the three part TF1 television series Dorothée, danseuse de corde ( 1983 ) directed by Jacques Fensten, which was followed by a similarly small role in the provincial television film Fort bloque directed by Pierrick Guinnard.

Her reticence and fear of strangers perpetuated the mystery and mystique that she projected both on screen and in real life.

Her first screen role was in 1967 in The Happening.

Hannah and Her Sisters opened on February 7, 1986 in 54 theatres, where it gained a stellar $ 1, 265, 826 ($ 23, 441 per screen ) in its opening weekend.

Her earliest theatrical influences were the teenaged actress Deanna Durbin, screen star Irene Dunne and Lansbury's mother, who encouraged her daughter's ambition by taking her to plays at the Old Vic.

" Her screen test was directed by Harold S. Bucquet, and she later recalled that she was hired because of a close-up he took of her.

Her inaugural screen performance was popular with both the public and critics alike and was the catalyst for not only a sequel, Claudia and David ( both movies co-starring Robert Young ), but also for numerous other film roles.

Her entrepreneurial spirit became evident as she began to screen and distribute her films in the United States, Canada, and Cuba, lecturing and writing on avant-garde film theory, and Vodoun as well.

Her other notable screen roles included Academy Award-nominated performances in Tennessee Williams ' Summer and Smoke, Sweet Bird of Youth, You're a Big Boy Now, Pete ' n ' Tillie, Woody Allen's Interiors, and The Pope of Greenwich Village.

Her distinctive warbling voice and round cheeks made her a familiar and much-loved personality to British theatre and film audiences at the beginning of World War II, but her popularity waned in the 1940s after several years ' absence from the screen followed by an unsatisfactory thriller, Candles at Nine.

Her screen debut however was as the lead in the Anna Campion directed film Loaded, and has subsequently stated that she had a " miserable time with the director ( Anna Campion )... it was my first film job, I needed to be mollycoddled, I needed to be helped through it, and I wasn't.

Her screen name is often translated as Stainless Steel Mouse.