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 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 relationship with the Capitol label spanned almost three decades, aside from her brief but artistically rich detour ( 1952 – 1956 ) at Decca Records, where in 1956 she recorded one of her most acclaimed albums, Black Coffee.

Her career has spanned television, comedy recordings, Broadway, and motion pictures, enjoying acclaimed success in each medium.

Her style spanned a variety of music genres including blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, soul, gospel and jazz.

Her career has spanned eight decades and earned an unsurpassed number of performance Tony Awards ( tied with Julie Harris and Audra McDonald ), with five wins.

Her tenure on the show spanned the last nine stories of the programme's original run, which ended in 1989.

Her career spanned sixty years during which she played over 150 different roles, in works by Shakespeare, Congreve, Ibsen, Wycherley, Wilde and dramatists of her era including George Bernard Shaw, Enid Bagnold, Christopher Fry and Noël Coward.

Her on-and-off relationship with actor Jack Nicholson spanned from 1973 to 1989.

Her career spanned from the late 1940s until the early 1990s.

Her career spanned seven decades.

Her pilgrimage spanned almost three decades beginning January 1, 1953, in Pasadena, California.

Her career spanned five decades, and included comedies, dramas and television variety shows such as Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town, The Garry Moore Show and The Carol Burnett Show.

Her career spanned four decades and she has been the recipient of several Grammy awards and nominations, including three nominations which will be decided posthumously.

Her career spanned decades before the Revolution, as well as many years after the Revolution took over Cuba.

Her career began as a child actress in radio and television, and has spanned virtually all forms of stage and screen ( large and small ) dramatic and comic entertainment --- including, as a teenager, playing the daughter of a lawyer and a former fashion buyer ( Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy ) on the short lived NBC radio comedy-drama, The Marriage ( 1953 – 1954 ).

Her operatic career spanned from 1960 ( her debut in Paris as Amneris ) to 1997 ( as Klytämnestra, in Lyon, France ).

Her performances spanned a wide array of literature from the Baroque period to contemporary compositions.

Her long and varied career spanned both silent and sound film, television, stage, and radio.

Her career on stage and in film spanned six decades, and she was active in the women's suffrage movement.

Her acting career spanned from 1957 to 1992 and included smaller roles in largely forgettable films such as Black Patch ( 1957 ), The Cry Baby Killer ( 1958 ), The Wasp Woman ( 1960 ), The Girls on the Beach ( 1965 ), Son of Hitler ( 1978 ) and Lovelines ( 1984 ).

Her career has spanned 35 years and over 60 films.

Her acting career spanned more than 50 years, and she acted in more than 250 films.

Her tenure at SNL spanned 1999 to 2006.

Her coaching career spanned 38 years, with the last 31 years at UT from 1976 to 2007.

Her career on stage, screen and television has spanned over six decades.