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 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 performance of the song " Embraceable You " impressed Styne and his partner, Sammy Cahn and they recommended her for a role in Romance on the High Seas, which they were working on for Warner Brothers.

Her performance rating for the tournament was 2778 against an opposition rated at 2672.

Her best known and most controversial performance was the lead role in the erotic film Emily

" Her performance earned her the MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance, the Saturn Award for Best Young Actress, and her first Golden Globe Award nomination.

Her performance of the " sleepwalking " scene in the fifth act was especially noted ; Leigh Hunt called it " sublime.

Her performance in Aaja Nachle earned her the record-setting thirteenth nomination for the Filmfare Best Actress Award.

* 1986 – The musical The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.

Her performance was well received by critics, with BBC film critic Brandon Graydon saying that Cruz " is an enchanting screen presence ," and Ethan Alter of the Film Journal International noting that Cruz and her co-star Cruise were " able to generate some actual chemistry.

Her performance was praised by a number of critics, including Rob Blackwelder for SPLICEDwire, who wrote about the " dazzling performance by Sarah Michelle Gellar who plunges headlong into the lascivious malevolence that makes Kathryn so delightfully wicked.

School performance in Scotland is monitored by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education.

Her performance received little acclaim, but it convinced Bell, who hated pop music, that Twain should stay well away from it and concentrate on country music.

Her performance was seen on the subsequent televised version of this concert, and can be seen on the CD and DVD releases.

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.

For example, Elvis Costello recorded a version of Ono's song " Walking on Thin Ice ," the B-52's who drew from her early recordings covered " Don't Worry, Kyoko ( Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow )" ( shortening the title to " Don't Worry ") and Sonic Youth included a performance of Ono's early conceptual " Voice Piece for Soprano " in their experimental album SYR4: Goodbye 20th century.

It was first performed in England on 24 May 1856 in Italian at Her Majesty's Theatre in London, where it was considered morally questionable, and " the heads of the Church did their best to put an injunction upon performance ; the Queen refrained from visiting the theatre during the performances, though the music, words and all, were not unheard at the palace ".

* Melbourne: 13 July 1901 ( Her Majesty's Theatre ; first performance in Australia )

Her performance at one club impressed a theatrical producer, and he cast her in a play in New York, but that production did not open.

Her performance was called " memorable ... funny and poignant in turns ", and she earned a Tony Award. Richard Watts, Jr. of the New York Post wrote: " nothing I have ever seen her do prepared me for the loveliness, humor, gift for joyous characterization, and sheer lovableness of her portrayal of Nellie Forbush ....

Her main competitor for the prize was Judy Garland's much heralded comeback performance in A Star Is Born ; playing not only the part of an up and coming actress-singer, but also ironically, the wife of an alcoholic movie star.

Her performance attracted the attention of The Philosopher Kings singer Gerald Eaton, who then approached her to write with him.

Her performance as Maxine Faulk in The Night of the Iguana ( 1964 ), was well reviewed, and she was nominated a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe.

Her performance earned Lombard an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

Her performance won her a Youth In Film Award.