Her extendibles were diverted, connected or augmented and the final, delicate-beyond-description brain taps were completed while Helva remained anesthetically unaware of the proceedings.

Her final work was a poem eulogizing Joan of Arc, the peasant girl who took a very public role in organizing French military resistance to English domination in the early 15th century.

Her final feature, the comedy film With Six You Get Eggroll, was released in 1968.

Her final public appearance was at an after-party at the Sardi's restaurant in New York City, following the premiere of the documentary film Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There.

* " Her stories and novels are humanistic, while her deep concern for male-female ( even human-alien ) harmony ran counter to the developing segregate-the-sexes drive amongst feminist writers ; What her work brought to the genre was a blend of lyricism and inventiveness, as if some lyric poet had rewritten a number of clever SF standards and then passed them on to a psychoanalyst for final polish.

Her final appearance aired Monday, May 5, 2008 (" Rock and a Hard Place ").

* In the final episode of the BBC time travel / cop show Ashes to Ashes ( Series 3, Episode 8 ), it is revealed that the world that Alex Drake awoke to after being shot, which Sam Tyler described and that other major characters inhabit, is a kind of Limbo, one seemingly specifically for members of the police force, who had died in violent or sudden ways, with Gene Hunt taking on a role similar to that of a Psychopomp or Charon of Greek mythology, helping " the troubled souls of Her Majesty's Constabulary " accept their deaths and move on to Heaven.

" Her final 2005 film was Don't Move playing Italia.

Her final screen appearance was in the 1991 film The Shepherd and the Women, directed by her ex-husband Ali Badrakhan.

Her final screen appearance was in 1991, with the movie Al Ra ' i We El Nissa.

Her second and final album for Arista was 1999's Love in the Real World, led off by the No. 29 " Never Been Kissed ", which was followed by " Little Bird.

Her health gradually deteriorated in the final two decades of her life ; a heavy smoker all her adult life, she had a lung operation in 1985, a bout of pneumonia in 1993, and at least three strokes between 1998 and 2001.

Her sixth and final pregnancy ended in tragedy when her infant son died after only a day of life.

" Her final commercial campaign was for American Express, in which she was photographed by Annie Leibovitz.

Her final words to the German Lutheran prison chaplain, Paul Le Seur, were recorded as, " Ask Father Gahan to tell my loved ones later on that my soul, as I believe, is safe, and that I am glad to die for my country.

Her first performing experience on film was at age three where she appeared in the final scene of the 1949 musical In the Good Old Summertime.

Her final stage performance came in 1966 when she played Mrs Malaprop in The Rivals at the Haymarket Theatre, alongside Sir Ralph Richardson.

Although Caine also took better roles, including a BAFTA-winning turn in Educating Rita ( 1983 ), and an Oscar-winning one in Hannah and Her Sisters ( 1986 ) and a Golden Globe-nominated one in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels ( 1988 ), he continued to appear in notorious duds like the thinly veiled skin flick Blame It on Rio, the Dick Clement and Ian Le Frenais comedy Water and the critical-commercial flop Jaws: The Revenge ( 1987 ) ( in which he had mixed feelings about the production and the final cut ) and Bullseye!

Her final years were marred by a long period of ill health, but she continued acting until shortly before her death from breast cancer, with more than 100 films, television and theater roles to her credit.

Her fifth and final husband was director and producer William Marshall.

Her alleged pre-contract of marriage with King Edward IV of England was of great significance to the final fate of the Plantagenet dynasty and outcome of the Wars of the Roses.

Her final gig with the Airplane took place at the Fillmore on October 15, 1966.

A portion of the final production sequence is used near the end of the Woody Allen film Hannah and Her Sisters to give Allen's character a motivation to carry on with life.

Her husband was present for her final confession.

Her final appearance on Broadway was as Miss Tina in the 1962 production of Michael Redgrave's adaptation of The Aspern Papers, from the Henry James novella.

Her creations in fashion are from many designers because she doesn't want a complete wardrobe from any one designer any more than she wants `` all of her pictures by one painter ''.

Her first actual flight, for she and her kind had made mock flights on dummy panels since she was eight, showed her complete mastery of the techniques of her profession.

Her parents, in the meantime, journeyed to Syria to complete official duties.

Her first complete novel, published in 1859, was Adam Bede and was an instant success, but it prompted an intense interest in who this new author might be.

Her line-by-line translations, complete with brackets where the ancient papyrus sources break off, are meant to capture both the original's lyricism and its present fragmentary nature.

Her sister Mary's marriage to Philip brought great contempt to the country, for many of her subjects despised Spain and Philip and feared that he would try to take complete control.

Her long poem The Way of All the Earth or Woman of Kitezh ( Kitezhanka ) was published in complete form in 1965.

Promotional Warner Bros. faux-Beatles Rutles five-song 33 RPM 12-inch ( PRO-E-723 ) complete with recreated Lads-in-Nehru-suits portrait in the same fashion and pose as the real Beatles ' portrait released on the sleeve of the Capitol 45 rpm release " I Want to Hold Your Hand " b / w " I Saw Her Standing There " ( Capitol 5112 ).

Her father is fated to die if she ever marries, so when Culhwch ( Sometimes spelled as Kilhwch ) comes to court her, he is given a series of immensely difficult tasks he must complete before he can win her hand.

Her death was not immediately expected, as Jimmy was touring in New York at the time and returned to Los Angeles right away to complete funeral arrangements.

Her video jockey memoirs have a complete list of all the live music she documented during her VJ breaks.

Her maternal grandmother sent Zita and her sister Franziska to a convent on the Isle of Wight to complete her education.

Her reason is she is trying to complete a series of dolls she lost as a young girl.

Her sister, the architect Adrienne Gorska, designed her Paris apartment and studio in the Art Deco style, complete with chrome-plated furniture.

Her funds began to run low, and although her training was not yet complete she began to look for work to help support her schooling.

Her desperate attempts to restart her film career, combined with her increasing dependence on alcohol and the pressures brought to bear by her mother, result in a complete nervous breakdown.

Her rapid weight loss ( 30 pounds in 2 weeks ) in order to complete the pilot episode caused serious kidney failure.

Her remains were interred in the Medicean necropolis, the Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence, which she helped complete.

Her discography features complete recordings of Die Zauberflöte ( as the Queen of Night, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham, 1937 – 38, for EMI ), and Rigoletto, with Jan Peerce and Leonard Warren, conducted by Renato Cellini ( 1950 ) which was the first RCA Victor complete opera recording ( with a few minor cuts ) made in the United States for commercial release.

Her poems in this meter ( collected in Book I of the ancient edition ) ran to 330 stanzas, a significant part of her complete works ( and of her surviving poetry: fragments 1-42 ).

The critic for The Sunday Times said that " James Bond is what every man would like to be, and what every woman would like between her sheets "; meanwhile the critic for The Times considered that after The Spy Who Loved Me, " On Her Majesty's Secret Service constitutes a substantial, if not quite a complete, recovery.

Her complete set is still in the Royal Collection.

* Legends-Suraiya: Her profile, Interview, complete list of her songs and reviews of her films