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.

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 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.

Her ostensible indifference to and rebellion against suggestions and criticisms by anyone except peer friends during adolescence are the manifestations, in her adolescence, of her having been indoctrinated in childhood to feel shame, if not guilt, for failing to behave in a manner acceptable to, and judged by, the performance of her nursery- and elementary-school peer friends.

Her day starts early, but no matter how many pressing letters there are to be written ( and during May, which is National Salvation Army Week, there are plenty ), schedules to be made or problems to be solved, Mrs. Marr's office is always open and the welcome mat is out.

Her days as an art student at the University of Budapest came to a sudden end during the Hungarian uprisings in 1957 and she and her husband Stephen fled to Vienna.

Her father's grandfather had fled France during the Revolution, going first to Saint-Domingue, then New Orleans, and finally to Cuba where he helped build that country's first railway.

Her output during this period was prolific.

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 albums during this period were developed specifically for pop-crossover success.

Her memory was also revived during the Napoleonic Wars, when the nation again found itself on the brink of invasion.

Her husband cited " illicit conduct " during the divorce proceedings.

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Her story was greatly developed, during the Middle Ages, in the tradition of Aggadic midrashim, the Zohar and Jewish mysticism.

Her sister Susan reactivated her playing status during this period, and temporarily became the world's No. 1 ranked women's player again.

Her 1951 marriage to Charles Dye ended in divorce a year later, but during that time, one of her stories was published under Dye's name.

Her declared priorities include the diversification of the United States-Mexico agenda, heavily concentrated on immigration and security issues, and the rebuilding of diplomatic relations with Cuba and Venezuela, which were heavily strained during the Fox administration.

Her expressions when her lover dumps her, during the course of the play, proves what a magnificent actress she is.

Her first appearance with Ronald Reagan came in one of the latter, Ford Theatre, during a 1953 episode titled " First Born ".

Her revolt, during which she captured the capital Mbanza Kongo, was short lived.

Her work is known to have been canonized during the 3rd century B. C., at which time papyrus copies were held in the House of the Muses, the library in Alexandria.

Two second-magnitude stars, Alpha Pavonis and Epsilon Carinae, were assigned the proper names Peacock and Avior respectively in 1937 by Her Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office during the creation of The Air Almanac, a navigational almanac for the Royal Air Force.

Amos performed solo each night on her iconic Bösendorfer piano, and on a prepared piano during " Bells for Her ".

Her performance in the West End production of A Streetcar Named Desire, described by the theatre writer Phyllis Hartnoll as " proof of greater powers as an actress than she had hitherto shown ", led to a lengthy period during which she was considered one of the finest actresses in British theatre.

Her dangerous work required tremendous ingenuity ; she usually worked during winter months, to minimize the likelihood that the group would be seen.

Her autobiography Der geschenkte Gaul-Bericht aus einem Leben ( The Gift Horse-Report of a Life ) from 1970 was a candid recount of her life in Germany during and after World War II.