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 career prize-money earnings totalled US $ 5, 594, 821.

Her status was reflected in her earnings as one of the best paid performers of the 1930s and 1940s.

Her prize money earnings for the year totaled $ 4, 204, 810.

Her earnings on that front were to fund her great subsequent rail-bond purchases.

Her low earnings, in all cases, restrict her escape and function to perpetuate her dependent state.

Her earnings were so low that she did not earn enough to qualify for health insurance.

Her earnings climbed $ 20 million over the previous year, thanks to an economic boom in her homeland of Brazil coupled with a 10 % surge in the value of the Brazilian real against the dollar.

Her earnings would be in the vicinity of twenty-five million dollars a year, making her at the time one of the richest women in the world.

Her family disapproved of her choice to play sports — her father had been disabled on the field so they wanted her to work bringing home part of the earnings her father used to ---

Her earnings between June 2006 and June 2007 were in the order of $ 3. 5 million.

Her success in these areas enabled her family to be able to use some of her earnings to move to Los Angeles.

Formerly Britain's most famous 20th Century prostitute but now retired and confirmed as a Christian, St Clair achieved recognition when she accused the Inland Revenue in the High Court of England of being " Her Majesty's pimps ", and living off immoral earnings, after its classification of prostitution as a trade in a high profile court case.

A 2003 compilation album, Classic Masters, was released only in the US, while 2005 saw the release of the album She Will Have Her Way, a collection of cover versions of Crowded House, Split Enz, Tim Finn and Finn Brothers songs by Australasian female artists.

Her album sales were more than 75 million worldwide, with over 26. 5 million in album sales in the US.

* The Infinite Moment ( 1961 ) ( US edition of Consider Her Ways, with two stories dropped, two others added )

Her autobiography Thank Heaven, was published in 2010 in the UK and US, and in 2011 in a French version.

The UK premiere took place at Her Majesty's Theatre in London on 8 March 1845 followed on 13 April 1847 by its US premiere in New York.

While both " White Rabbit " and " Somebody To Love " were US Top 10 hits, " The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil ", peaked at No. 43 and " Watch Her Ride " stalled at No. 61, though both were listed as being in the top forty in Cash Box.

Her father had given her an annual income of £ 500 ( roughly £ 40, 000 / US $ 65, 000 in present terms ), which allowed her to live comfortably and to pursue her career.

Among the artists represented in the collection are, from Italy, De Chirico ( The Red Tower, The Nostalgia of the Poet ) and Severini ( Sea Dancer ); from France, Braque ( The Clarinet ), Duchamp ( Sad Young Man on a Train ), Léger ( Study of a Nude ), Picabia ( Very Rare Picture on Earth ); from Spain, Dalí ( Birth of Liquid Desires ), Miró ( Seated Woman II ) and Picasso ( The Poet, On the Beach ); from other European countries, Brâncuşi ( including a sculpture from the Bird in Space series ), Max Ernst ( The Kiss, Attirement of the Bride ), Giacometti ( Woman with Her Throat Cut, Woman Walking ), Gorky ( Untitled ), Kandinsky ( Landscape with Red Spots, No. 2, White Cross ), Klee ( Magic Garden ), Magritte ( Empire of Light ) and Mondrian ( Composition No. 1 with Grey and Red 1938, Composition with Red 1939 ); and from the US, Calder ( Arc of Petals ) and Pollock ( The Moon Woman, Alchemy ).

Her new husband, Calvin C. Chaffee, was an abolitionist, who shortly after was elected to the US Congress.

Her performance as " Lola-Lola " in The Blue Angel, directed by Josef von Sternberg, brought her international fame and provided her a contract with Paramount Pictures in the US.

Her mother, June ( née Gamble ), was an Australian property developer and teacher, and her father, Robert DeWitt Blanchett, Jr., was a Texas native who was a US Navy Petty Officer and later worked as an advertising executive.

Her overall record in 56 Grand Slam events was 282 – 34 ( 89 percent ) ( 87 – 10 at the French Open, 75 – 8 at Wimbledon, 73 – 10 at the US Open, and 47 – 6 at the Australian Open ).

Her first hit came in early 1955, with the Latin-tempo " Tweedlee Dee " reaching # 4 on the R & B chart and # 14 on the national US pop charts.

Her 1961 rockabilly release " Let's Jump the Broomstick ", recorded in 1959, did not chart in the US, but went to No. 12 in the UK.

Her next scheduled tournament was the US Open.

Her request was eventually answered by Tionne Watkins, a native of Des Moines, Iowa, who moved to Atlanta with her family at an early age, and Lisa Lopes, a rapper who had just moved to the city from her native Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with only a keyboard and US $ 750 ($ today ).

Her overall record in 67 Grand Slam singles events was 306 – 49. 862 ( 120 – 14 at Wimbledon, 89 – 17 at the US Open, 51 – 11 at the French Open, and 46 – 7 at the Australian Open ).

Her financial difficulties were exacerbated when she pulled out of the controversial film Boxing Helena, resulting in the studio's winning an US $ 8. 1 million judgment against her.

Her first check, dated January 31, 1940 was in the amount of US $ 22. 54.

Her husband joined the military at the outbreak of World War II and spent five years with the US Marines fighting in the Pacific theatre.

Her win-loss performance in all Grand Slam singles tournaments was 82. 09 % ( 133-29 ), at the French Open, 84. 21 % ( 16-3 ), at Wimbledon, 83. 33 %% ( 50-10 ), at the US Open, 81. 25 % ( 26 – 6 ), and at the Australian Open, 80. 39 % ( 41-10 ).

Dudley won the " Best Original Musical or Comedy Score " Oscar for her music ; The Gathering ( 2002 ) a Anthony Horowitz thriller directed by Brian Gilbert and starring Christina Ricci ; The Grotesque ( 1997 ) released in the US as Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets a British film starring Alan Bates, Theresa Russell and Sting ; Hollow Reed ( 1996 ) a drama directed by Angela Pope and set in Bath ; Knight Moves ( 1992 ) American thriller directed by Carl Schenkel and starring Christopher Lambert ; Lucky Break ( 2001 ) a British feelgood comedy starring James Nesbitt and based around a prison escape ; The Miracle Maker ( 2000 ) an animated feature film made for TV by BBC Wales with Russian model makers ; Monkeybone ( 2001 ) an American film combining live-action and stop-motion animation starring Brendan Fraser and Bridget Fonda ; Perfect Creature ( 2007 ) a New Zealand made horror / thriller film starring Leo Gregory ; Pushing Tin ( 1999 ) a comedy-drama film directed by Mike Newell based around air traffic controllers in New York ; The Pope Must Die ( 1991 ) a comedy film starring Robbie Coltrane the score was co-written with Jeff Beck ; Silence Like Glass ( Zwei Frauen ) ( 1989 ) German made but set in a cancer ward at a hospital in America ; Tristan & Isolde ( 2006 ) a Ridley Scott romantic drama based on the medieval romantic legend of Tristan and Iseult and starring James Franco and Sophia Myles ; The Walker ( 2007 ) a drama written and directed by Paul Schrader set in Washington, D. C .; Her TV music includes scores for all episodes of Jeeves and Wooster with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie ; Lynda La Plante's Above Suspicion ; Kavanagh QC with John Thaw and The Tenth Kingdom an American epic fantasy TV miniseries written by Simon Moore.

After 3 sold-out limited 7 " s (" Many Thanks For Your Honest Opinion " on Dance to the Radio, " Watching " on Double Dragon, and " Let Her Go " on Angular Records ) and touring around the UK and Europe with bands such as The Long Blondes and The Research, the group released their debut album Grown-Ups, produced by Alan Smyth and James Ford, in June 2007 on Angular Records in the UK, Slumberland Records in the US, Fabtone in Japan and Speak N Spell in Australia.

Her 30-minute New York-recorded show-to be screened twice an evening-would mean that the US parent network's Piers Morgan Tonight interview show would be ' bumped ' out of its 9: 00pm ( Central European Time ) slot to midnight ( CET ).