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 face was very thin, and burned by the sun until much of the skin was dead and peeling, the new skin under it red and angry.

Her blond hair was frowzy, her dress torn in several places, and her shoes were so completely worn out that they were practically no protection.

Her form was silhouetted and with the strong light I could see the outlines of her body, a body that an artist or anyone else would have admired.

Her mouth, which had been so much in my thoughts, was warm and moist and tender.

Her heart, her maternal feeling, in fact her being was too busy expressing itself, as quietly thrilled by this sight of her Nicolas curled asleep under a blanket, in a park like a scene from Poussin.

Her white blond hair was clean and brushed long straight down to her shoulders.

Her thick hair was the color and texture of charcoal.

Her laugh was hard.

Her face was pale but set and her dark eyes smoldered with blame for Ben.

Her stern was down and a sharp list helped us to cut loose the lifeboat which dropped heavily into the water.

Her name was L'Turu and she told me many things.

( Her account was later confirmed by the Scobee-Frazier Expedition from the University of Manitoba in 1951.

Her mother was a good manager and established a millinery business in Milwaukee.

Her name was Esther Peter.

Her brother Karl was a very gentle soul, her mother was a quiet woman who said little but who had hard, probing eyes.

Her mother, now dead, was my good friend and when she came to tell us about her plans and to show off her ring I had a sobering wish to say something meaningful to her, something her mother would wish said.

Her action was involuntary.

Her name was Mollie.

Her speech was barren of southernisms ; ;

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 hair was dyed, and her bloom was fading, and she must have been crowding forty, but she seemed to be one of those women who cling to the manners and graces of a pretty child of eight.

Her voice was ripe and full and her teeth flashed again in Sicilian brilliance before the warm curved lips met and her mouth settled in repose.