Her husband, who was sentenced to 15 years in the federal prison at McNeil Island last April for robbery of the Hillsdale branch of Multnomah Bank, also was charged with the store holdup.

Her reputed last words, uttered as the assassin was about to strike, were " Smite my womb ", the implication here being she wished to be destroyed first in that part of her body that had given birth to so " abominable a son.

Her second and last novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, which is considered to be one of the first sustained feminist novels, appeared in 1848.

* Her fourth and last marriage was to Barry Comden ( born 1935 – died 2009 ), who was roughly a decade younger, from April 14, 1976 until 1981.

Her last courtship was with Francis, Duke of Anjou, 22 years her junior.

Her last novel was Daniel Deronda, published in 1876, whereafter she and Lewes moved to Witley, Surrey ; but by this time Lewes's health was failing and he died two years later on 30 November 1878.

Her last acting role before becoming a director was the 1933 U. S .- German co-productions of the Arnold Fanck-directed, German-language SOS Eisberg and the Tay Garnett-directed, English-language SOS Iceberg.

Her last Broadway appearance was as Mrs. Warren in George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession, produced by Joseph Papp at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre in 1976.

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 last feature film appearance was a cameo as herself in MGM's Main Street to Broadway in 1953.

Her last movie was Regina Roma ( 1982 ), a direct-to-video release.

Her last words ( to her housekeeper Carmen ), were reportedly, " I'm so tired ," before she died of pneumonia at the age of 67.

Her testament of June 6, 1939 states, " I beg the Lord to take my life and my death … for all concerns of the sacred hearts of Jesus and Mary and the holy church, especially for the preservation of our holy order, in particular the Carmelite monasteries of Cologne and Echt, as atonement for the unbelief of the Jewish People and that the Lord will be received by his own people and his kingdom shall come in glory, for the salvation of Germany and the peace of the world, at last for my loved ones, living or dead, and for all God gave to me: that none of them shall go astray.

Her epitaph says, in part, " Her bright, energetic spirit, undaunted by suffering to the last, and ever working for the welfare of those around her, made a short life long.

Her last words were " Pardon me sir, I meant not to do it ", to Henri Sanson the executioner, whose foot she had accidentally stepped on after climbing the scaffold.

Her first three marriages ended in divorce ; the last ended with the death of husband Al Steele.

Her last public appearance was September 23, 1974, at a party honoring her old friend Rosalind Russell at New York's Rainbow Room.

Her last film of the 1980s was opposite partner Kurt Russell for the third time in the comedy Overboard ( 1987 ).

Edward wrote fondly of his mother in his memoirs: " Her soft voice, her cultivated mind, the cosy room overflowing with personal treasures were all inseparable ingredients of the happiness associated with this last hour of a child's day ...

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.

Her last husband was a French banker, Alex Berger, whom she married in 1956.

Her benefactors gone, and her own health in decline, she made her last appearance on the stage in Edinburgh in 1785.

Her first appearance on film is as the baby in the very last shot of her mother's film, In the Good Old Summertime ( 1949 ).

Her vociferous disapproval of Meg's impending engagement to the impoverished Mr. Brooke becomes the proverbial " last straw " that actually causes Meg to accept his proposal.

In Doris Day: Her Own Story, Day asserts " I was named by my mother in honor of her favorite actress, Doris Kenyon, a silent screen star of that year 1924.

Her actual protest, in the mill, is the scene in the film where she writes the sign " UNION " and stands on her worktable until all machines are silent.

Her dreams of becoming a concert violinist were cut short when she injured her wrist, but by 1922 she was employed as a violinist in a pit band accompanying silent films at a cinema in Berlin – her first job, from which she was fired after only four weeks.

Her mother played a part in several films, including Vykrutasy, and the upcoming American silent movie Silent Life ( 2012 ).

Korda made two more sound films at First National: Her Private Life ( 1929 ) and Lilies of the Field ( 1930 ), both of which were remakes of earlier silent films.

Her first MGM feature was The Callahans and the Murphys ( 1927 ), a rowdy silent comedy co-starring Dressler ( as Ma Callahan ) with another former Mack Sennett comedienne, Polly Moran, written by Marion.

Fields wore a scruffy-looking, clip-on mustache in virtually all of his silent films, discarding it only after his first sound feature film, Her Majesty Love, his only Warner Brothers production.

All of her silent films are lost with the exception of The Awakening of Helena Ritchie ( 1916 ) which survives at the Library of Congress and The Call of Her People ( 1917 ) held at George Eastman House, Rochester.

Her next film, The Goddess ( Shennü, 1934 ; dir: Wu Yonggang ), is often hailed as the pinnacle of Chinese silent cinema ; Ruan sympathetically portrayed a prostitute bringing up a child.

Her most notable screen role was in the silent Alfred Hitchcock thriller The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog ( 1927 ) opposite Ivor Novello.

Her creativity enabled the family to get through some very hard times by playing the piano to accompany silent movies, making jams and jellies and crocheting bedspreads to sell, and even cutting off and selling her floor length hair, as it was extremely difficult for a woman of her " class " to find work without violating social mores of the time.

Her silent lines penetrate the marrow like a cry of pain ; such a cry was never heard among the Greeks and Romans.

Her formidable power remained unchallenged until February 14, 1937, when Hedda Hopper, a struggling character actress since the days of silent movies, whom Parsons had been kind to and mentioned occasionally in her column, and who had returned the favor by giving Parsons information on others, was hired to be a gossip columnist by one of Hearst's rival newspapers.

" Her performance was ranked 26th in Premiere Magazines 100 Greatest Performances of All Time, the highest of any silent performance on the list.

Her career began with silent films in 1910, moved to theatre, and ultimately the film that made her famous, No basta ser madre ( It's Not Enough to be a Mother ) in 1937.

Her career flourished until the end of the silent era.

Her father, Samuel Edwin McKim worked as a director at Lubin Studios, and her mother, actress Anna Lehr, found success as the star of many silent features.

Her most famous novel, The Lodger ( 1913 ), based on the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888, has been adapted for the screen five different times ; the first movie version was Alfred Hitchcock's silent film The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog ( 1927 ), followed by Maurice Elvey's in 1932, John Brahm's in 1944, Man in the Attic in 1953, and David Ondaatje's in 2009.

Her long and varied career spanned both silent and sound film, television, stage, and radio.

Her second collection, Die Stil Avontuur (" The silent adventure "), was published in 1939 and was mainly about being a mother.

Her best remembered film is arguably the silent classic The Cat and the Canary ( 1927 ), although she also achieved acclaim for Skinner's Dress Suit ( 1926 ), with Reginald Denny, the part-talkie The Love Trap ( 1929 ), directed by William Wyler, and the 1929 part-talkie film version of Show Boat ( 1929 ), adapted from the novel of the same name by Edna Ferber.

Her first films for this studio, The Dove ( 1927 ) and The Woman Disputed ( 1928 ), were box-office failures and ended up being her last silent movies.

Her only surviving silent film is The Witness for the Defense ( 1919 ) co-starring Warner Oland and performed as a play in 1911 by her friend Ethel Barrymore.

Her relatively short film career began in silent films, and ended in the mid 1930s.