James Hadley Chase wrote a few novels with private eyes as the main hero, including Blonde's Requiem ( 1945 ), Lay Her Among the Lilies ( 1950 ), and Figure It Out for Yourself ( 1950 ).

Her first country single, " Dumb Blonde " ( one of the few songs during this era, that she recorded but did not write ), reached number twenty-four on the country music charts in 1967, followed the same year with Something Fishy, which went to number seventeen.

Her family returned to the United States a few years after she was born ; they moved to Salt Lake City in 1912 and moved to Lark, Utah, in 1914.

Almost all the women who attended this service walked out with her, as well as a few men .” Her works include: The Church and the Second Sex ( 1968 ), Beyond God the Father ( 1973 ), Gyn / ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism ( 1978 ), Pure Lust: Elemental Feminist Philosophy ( 1984 ), Webster ’ s First Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language ( 1987 ), and Outercourse: The Be-Dazzling Voyage ( 1992 ).

Her full siblings were Christiana, known as Chrissey ( 1814 – 59 ), Isaac ( 1816 – 1890 ), and twin brothers who survived a few days in March 1821.

Her parents died within a few hours of each other from malignant fever, whereupon Grace and her two sisters were adopted by John Tonkin, a surgeon in the town.

A few have been filmed ( in some cases rather freely adapted ): Consider Her Ways, Random Quest, Dumb Martian, Jizzle ( filmed as Maria ) and Time to Rest ( filmed as No Place Like Earth ).

Her stories have been included in numerous anthologies and a few have had radio and television adaptations.

Pickford added to her 1909 Biographs ( Sweet and Twenty, They Would Elope, and To Save Her Soul, to name a few ) with films from California.

Her sister, Alexandra, and brother-in-law, the future Edward VII arrived in Russia a few days later.

Her family pointed out that, although she had been omitted, R & B singer / actress Aaliyah, who died a few months earlier, was included though having been in only one moderately successful film, Romeo Must Die ( Queen of the Damned had yet to be released ).

Her arrest on obscenity charges a few days before the election, for publishing an account of the alleged adulterous affair between the prominent minister, Henry Ward Beecher, and Elizabeth Tilton, added to the sensational coverage of her candidacy.

* September 18 – Great Comet of 1882: Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape, David Gill, reported watching the comet rise a few minutes before the Sun and described it as " The nucleus was then undoubtedly single, and certainly rather under than over 4 ″ in diameter ; in fact, as I have described it, it resembled very much a star of the 1st magnitude seen by daylight.

Her downfall was due to having so few like-minded people on European integration amongst her colleagues and that as she had adopted a line that would improve her party's popularity, it was foolish of them to force her out.

Her primary stock in trade consisted of invertebrate fossils such as ammonite and belemnite shells, which were common in the area and sold for a few shillings.

Her work had tailed off during the last few years of her life because of her illness, and as some townspeople misinterpreted the effects of the increasing doses of laudanum she was taking for the pain, there had been gossip in Lyme that she had a drinking problem.

Her limited charms and conventual upbringing were not potent enough to wean Charles away from the society of his mistresses, and within a few weeks of her arrival she became aware of her difficult position as the wife of a licentious king, but, although Charles continued to have children by his mistresses, he insisted she be treated with respect.

Her father, King Philip, known as " le Bel " ( the Fair ) because of his good looks, was a strangely unemotional man ; contemporaries described him as " neither a man nor a beast, but a statue "; modern historians have noted that he " cultivated a reputation for Christian kingship and showed few weaknesses of the flesh ".

Her advantage lasted only a few months.

Her father was executed on 23 July 1794, at the time of the French Revolution, a few days before the end of the Reign of Terror.

Her conditional worsened for the next few days.

Her readership generally did not know her later opus, the railing passion of Requiem or Poem without a Hero and her other scathing works, which were shared only with a very trusted few or circulated in secret by word of mouth ( samizdat ).

Her few projects came via friends, such as the Bliss winter and retirement estate, ' Casa Dorinda ', in Montecito, California and the patronage of Mildred Bliss's mother, Anna Blakely Bliss, for the nearby Santa Barbara Botanic Garden project.

Her tutor, Prof. Perot ( Albert Bassermann ) is sympathetic and, finding that she has no friends or family in Paris, invites her to a soirée his wife is throwing for a " few friends " ( primarily professors and their wives ).

Her father was the ruler of a city called either under his name, as " Tantalis " or " the city of Tantalus ", or as " Sipylus ", in reference to Mount Sipylus at the foot of which his city was located and whose ruins were reported to be still visible in the beginning of the 1st century AD, although few traces remain today.

Her films of the early and mid 1950s were generally lightweight romantic dramas, some historical, in which she was cast as ingénue or siren, often in varying states of undress.

Her French-language films were dubbed for international release.

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 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 films include The Virgin Suicides and Lost in Translation.

Her first film under RKO was The Most Dangerous Game ( 1932 ), co-starring Joel McCrea and shot at night on the same jungle sets that were being used for King Kong during the day, with the leads from both films, Wray and Robert Armstrong, appearing in both movies.

Her films My Best Friend's Wedding ( 1997 ), Mystic Pizza ( 1988 ), Notting Hill ( 1999 ), Runaway Bride ( 1999 ), Valentine's Day ( 2010 ), The Pelican Brief ( 1993 ), Ocean's Eleven ( 2001 ), and Ocean's Twelve ( 2004 ) have collectively brought box office receipts of over $ 2. 4 billion, making her one of the most successful actresses in terms of box office receipts.

Her uncle, Roger Ernest, attended college with Steven Spielberg and co-wrote one of his student films called Slipstream.

Her uncle also appeared in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Sugarland Express, playing a police officer in both films.

Her friend Miriam Cooper helped Lombard land small roles in her husband Raoul Walsh's films.

Her films include: Houseboat ( 1958 ), El Cid ( 1961 ), Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow ( 1963 ), Marriage Italian-Style ( 1964 ), and A Special Day ( 1977 ).

Her first two Hollywood films were The April Fools ( 1969 ), a romantic comedy with Jack Lemmon, and Hustle ( 1975 ), a crime drama with Burt Reynolds.

Her other significant films of the period were Ma saison préférée ( 1993 ) and Les Voleurs ( 1995 ), both directed by André Téchiné.

Her outstanding performance won her the attention of producers, who cast her in a series of films.

Her last films made abroad were Beyond All Limits ( Mexican-American production, 1957 ) with Jack Palance, Faustina ( Spain, 1957 ), Sonatas ( Spain, 1957 ) directed by Juan Antonio Bardem and La Fievre Monte a El Pao ( French-Mexican production, 1959 ) directed by Luis Buñuel.

Notable later films include Sister Act and Sister Act 2, The Lion King, Made in America, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Girl, Interrupted and Rat Race.

In the 1980s, Greenaway's cinema flowered in his best-known films, The Draughtsman's Contract ( 1982 ), A Zed & Two Noughts ( 1985 ), The Belly of an Architect ( 1987 ), Drowning by Numbers ( 1988 ), and his most successful ( and controversial ) film, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover ( 1989 ).

Her physical appearance was such that romantic heroines were out of the question, and she soon established her name in comedy, appearing in many of the most successful British plays and films.

Her earliest films were produced in New York.

Her subsequent films failed to capitalize on her renewed success, with the exception of the suspense film Sleep, My Love ( 1948 ) with Robert Cummings.

Her films of this period received mixed reception.

Her early films cast her as the girl-next-door but for most of the Pre-Code film era beginning with the 1930 film The Divorcee, for which she won an Oscar for Best Actress, she played sexually liberated women in sophisticated contemporary comedies.

With increasing interest in the war in Europe, the film performed well at the box office, but Shearer made errors in judgment, passing up roles in the highly successful films Now, Voyager and Mrs. Miniver, in order to star in We Were Dancing and Her Cardboard Lover ( 1942 ), which both failed at the box office.