Her father, Robert Lawrence Berenson, was an American career diplomat turned shipping executive ; he was of Lithuanian Jewish descent, and his family's original surname was Valvrojenski.

Her popularity as a radio performer and vocalist, which included a second hit record " My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time ", led directly to a career in films.

Her impact on him was immediate, and her involvement in his career far-reaching, leaving Pitt with limited influence which he found frustrating.

Her movie career included a bit part in It Happened One Night ( 1934 ) and roles in Outlaw Women ( 1952 ), Glen or Glenda ( 1953 ), Body Beautiful ( 1953 ), The Blue Gardenia ( 1953 ), Count the Hours ( 1953 ), Mesa of Lost Women ( 1953 ), College Capers ( 1954 ), Jail Bait ( 1954 ), The Raid ( 1954 ), This Is My Love ( 1954 ), The Opposite Sex ( 1956 ), The Ironbound Vampire ( 1997 ), and Dimensions in Fear ( 1998 ).

Her almost 60-year career crossed most media frontiers with both supporting and leading roles, but she may be best-remembered for playing the sardonic but engaging title character, a high school teacher, on Our Miss Brooks, and as the Rydell High School principal in the films Grease and Grease 2.

Her film career began in earnest in 1937 when she appeared in the films Oh Doctor and Stage Door.

Her husband's academic fraud had been exposed by one of his fellow dons there, destroying his career and driving him to suicide.

Her pediatrician was Benjamin Spock early in his career.

Her singing career received a boost with the help of songwriter / producer / arranger Lee Hazlewood, who had been making records for ten years, notably with Duane Eddy.

Her mother worked in the city as a schoolteacher, while her father pursued a promising career as a homoeopathic doctor and surgeon.

Her first starring role at the studio, in the title role as Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ), revived her career and earned her an Oscar for Best Actress.

Her show business career began when a dance teacher urged her parents to find an agent for her.

Her book, My Chicago ( ISBN 0-8101-2087-9 ), was published in 1992, and covers her life through her political career.

Her career as the primary actress of Fox Studios continued with the advent of sound film, and she achieved a notable success in the original version of A Star Is Born ( 1937 ).

Her career in fashion includes designing a line of jeans for Rock & Republic and later designing her own denim brand, dVb Style.

Her distinctive colours of blue with buff stripes were carried by horses such as Special Cargo, the winner of the 1984 Whitbread Gold Cup, and Devon Loch, which spectacularly halted just short of the winning post at the 1956 Grand National and whose jockey Dick Francis later had a successful career as the writer of racing-themed detective stories.

Her true professional career began at that 1959 Newport Folk Festival ; following that appearance, she recorded her first album for Vanguard, Joan Baez ( 1960 ), produced by Fred Hellerman of The Weavers, who produced many albums by folk artists.

Her sensual performance in her English-language debut The Unbearable Lightness of Being ( 1988 ), directed by Philip Kaufman, launched her international career.

Her role required just two days on set, but was enough to inspire Binoche to pursue a career in film.

Her career spanned more than six decades.

Her career went through several periods of eclipse, and she admitted that her success had often been at the expense of her personal relationships.

Her stage work in the late 1950s laid the foundation for her film career in the 1960s.

Tree also pursued four Shakespeare film projects during his career at Her Majesty's.

Her sister Betty sang in a duo with Clooney for much of her early career.

Her coach throughout her athletic career was Peter Fortune.

Her reputed last words, uttered as the assassin was about to strike, were " Smite my womb ", the implication here being she wished to be destroyed first in that part of her body that had given birth to so " abominable a son.

Some of his most memorable film roles include knight Antonius Block in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal ( the first of his eleven films with Bergman, and the film that includes the iconic scenes in which he plays chess with Death ), Jesus in The Greatest Story Ever Told, Oktober in The Quiller Memorandum, Father Merrin in The Exorcist, Karl Oskar in The Emigrants, Joubert the assassin in Three Days of the Condor, Ming the Merciless in the 1980 version of Flash Gordon, the villain Blofeld in Never Say Never Again, Frederick in Hannah and Her Sisters, and Lassefar in Pelle the Conqueror, for which he received his first Academy Award nomination.

Her father urges her to kill Jiraiya with poison ( after a hired assassin failed to kill him also ).

Her next role was in a leading role opposite Ryan Gosling in the romantic drama All Good Things ( 2010 ) in which she portrays a woman from a run-down neighborhood who goes missing.

Her water breaks and while attempting to clean it up, she goes into labor.

Her actress – vain, scared, a woman who goes too far in her reactions and emotions – makes the whole thing come alive.

In each one, a murder takes place at one of Queen Elizabeth's estates, and Her Majesty asks Jane to solve the crime, giving her some clues and helpful information as she goes along.

Her appearances were sometimes foreshadowed by Molly excusing herself to the kitchen or to have a nap and Fibber wistfully delivering a compliment to her starting, " Ah, there goes a good kid ", upon which the doorbell would ring and Teeny would appear.

Her pregnancy is a scandal as she is betrothed to Sualtam mac Róich, and the Ulstermen suspect Conchobar of being the father, so she aborts the child and goes to her husband's bed " virgin-whole ".

Her family convince her to return to earth and marry Tafa ' i, to whom she bears La, the sun, who goes to live with her mother in the sky.

Her peevish cry goes out: " Oh, my weak heart!

Her captain Robert Wright, is piloting a shuttle to a research station orbiting the planet when the star goes supernova, destroying the planet, killing the captain, and severely damaging the Dauntless.

: Her addiction to karaoke is ceaseless, and she even goes as far as to raid the cash register in order to buy a new high-end personal computer, mistaking it for a high-tech karaoke machine.

Her identity is a mystery until the end, when the audience sees Ellen's flashback to Herod lynching her father, a sheriff, and giving her a chance to save her father by shooting the rope and severing it, but it goes wrong.

Her husband Rama goes on a quest to rescue her, with the help of the monkey-god Hanuman.

Her relationship with Mike ends officially after she goes home with Delinda's bachelorette party strippers.

Her mood worsens when her new assistant Paula Murphy ( Stiles ) is 45 minutes late to the meeting, which as a result goes badly.

Her Alcinous made his wife, and honored her as no other woman on earth is honored, of all those who in these days direct their households in subjection to their husbands ; so heartily is she honored, and has ever been, by her children and by Alcinous himself and by the people, who look upon her as upon a goddess, and greet her as she goes through the city.

Her husband dies of grief when his enemy Claudas attacks his city, and Elaine goes to attend to him.

Her name goes on for several pages ( evolving long names is a well known vampiric hobby ) and Sally is afflicted with the belief ( which again seems to beset many Discworld vampires ) that she can disguise secret messages by signing her name backwards as Aicalas.

Her bragging about her father backfired another time when 555 95472 fired back at her with " My dad goes to PTA meetings!

Her departure goes unnoticed because Garry, Henry and Morris have become embroiled in what for them is a much more serious row when it emerges that Henry and Morris have committed Garry to appear at what he considers a shockingly unsuitable theatre.

Her actions play right into Satan's trap, who doesn't care whether she goes to Heaven or Hell, only that she dies and is no longer a threat to his plots.

Her participation in the Miss Earth beauty pageant in 2003 was condemned by the Afghan Supreme Court, saying such a display of the female body goes against Islamic law and Afghan culture.

Her first telenovelas were Esmeralda, about a blind young woman, Mariana de la Noche ( 1975 ), about the forbidden love of Mariana Montenegro and Ignacio Lugo Navarro ( José Bardina ), María Teresa, a woman who goes insane after the loss of her little daughter, La Zulianita, and Cristal.

She is sometimes imagined as “ an old woman who insults the month of March when she goes out with a herd of sheep or goats .” Her name probably originates from the Byzantine calendar, which celebrates the 2nd century martyr-saint Eudokia of Heliopolis ( Evdokia ) on March 1.