Her grandfather, Andrew F. Stewart, was a master mechanic with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway.

Her maternal grandparents are Francisco Julio Rocasolano Camacho ( Madrid, 21 July 1918 -), a mechanic and a cab driver in Madrid for over 20 years, and half-Filipino wife ( m. Madrid, 1950 ) Enriqueta Rodríguez Figueredo ( Oviedo, 2 March 1919 – Madrid, 22 June 2008 ); by her maternal grandfather she is of French and Occitan origin.

Her husband, Stanley ( Phil Davis ), is a car mechanic.

Her father abandoned the family and her mother remarried a mechanic ( who went on to have a long career with the railroad ), and in 1966 the family to Vancouver, Washington.

Her parents met on a blind date at a snowmobile event in the 1970s when Bev was a mechanic for a friend's snowmobile.

He generally worked as an auto mechanic and then a construction laborer Her mother, Winnie McMillin ( 1899-1952 ), was born in Tennessee and grew up in an Oklahoma farming community as well.

Her relationship with the tower has been the subject of extensive global publicity.

Her divorce earned her negative publicity, and she was romantically linked with several men.

Her official reason was that she wanted to visit her mother but unofficially she intended to generate publicity for her husband's invention ( which had only been used on short test drives before ), which succeeded as the automobile took off greatly afterwards and the Benz's family business eventually evolved into the present day Mercedes-Benz company.

Her style was disciplined and unpretentious, and she disliked personal publicity.

Her daringly sheer " nude dress " — a heavily beaded evening gown of silk soufflé, which gave the illusion of transparency — designed by Jean Louis, attracted a lot of publicity.

" Her publicity still for the film became a bestselling poster, and helped her be seen as one of the leading sex symbols of the 1960s and 1970s.

Her flying skill, desire for publicity and photogenic qualities made her a star of Nazi party propaganda.

Her 1964 Catholic wedding in Rome was granted great publicity but no one was informed that the marriage only lasted a couple of months.

Her 2001 album Face Up charted but with less publicity and featured the singles " Let's Just Call It Love " UK number 46 and " 8-3-1 ".

Her greatest success was in the title role in The Wicked Lady ( 1945 ), a film which was controversial in its day and brought her considerable publicity.

Her sudden walkout was for a long time rumoured to be a publicity stunt to promote the sequel to Peyton Place, Return to Peyton Place ( 1961 ), to which Varsi was a long time attached.

Her husband helped with writing the publicity and set up a small publishing house, published Lady Chatterley's Lover and hired Samuel Putnam to translate famous model Kiki's memoirs.

* Her name is used as the love of Imhotep, the titular mummy in the original 1932 film The Mummy, which was made after the publicity surrounding the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb.

Her manager, Toni Miller ( Lingen ), who is completely unaware of her married state and the husband she is hiding in her hotel suite, has arranged a publicity stunt — an auction to be held at a ball where Edda Vivian is supposed to give a kiss to the highest bidder, with the money to be given to charity.

Her escape reignited publicity surrounding her case, and she became something of a folk hero.

Her mature role allowed adult form-fitting fashions and hairstyles, as shown in publicity photos of the TV series.

Her popularity and fame increased after the incident, though afterwards she stated that the whole idea of " skimpy " clothing on-court was a publicity stunt dreamed up by the members of WISPA.

In 1935, after a complaint about a health book entitled The Single Woman and Her Emotional Problems, a Home Office memo noted: " It is notorious that the prosecution of the Well Of Loneliness resulted in infinitely greater publicity about lesbianism than if there had been no prosecution.

Her popularity with baseball fans grew to the point that minor-league clubs began inviting her to kiss their players as a way of drumming up publicity.

Her star power brought the PTC publicity and boosted ticket sales.

Her first feature The Cruise of the Make-Believes garnered the seventeen year old starlet much public acclaim and Lasky quickly sent Lee on an arduous publicity campaign.

Her father, a businessman and car dealer in her home town of Bendigo, orchestrated a publicity campaign with " Vote for Kate " stickers and buttons appearing all over central Victoria.

Her agent Al Levy convinced her to attend a party at the home of composer Jule Styne.

Her stage name derives from Mitch Ryder, a soul and rock singer her father happened to be listening to when her agent called and asked how she wanted to appear on the credits of her first film.

Her show business career began when a dance teacher urged her parents to find an agent for her.

Her mother, Billie ( née Early ), is an import-export agent, and her father, Emilio Diaz ( 1949 – 2008 ), worked for the California oil company UNOCAL for more than 20 years as a field gauger.

Her agent confirmed that she was suffering from anxiety and depression.

Her agent Mike Dawson helps get Ken and piano accompanist Steve Anderson a spot on a radio show singing cowboy songs.

Her agent told her it was " the best romantic comedy she had ever read ".

Her death is faked, and a secret government agent named Bob ( Gabriel Byrne ) informs her that she is to become an operative.

Her sympathetic agent at the welfare bureau finds her and reunites her with her ne ' er-do-well husband who deserted her decades ago.

Her agent Jon Roseman stated that he had been interviewed as a suspect by police.

Her father was a Navy pilot who completed two tours of duty in the Vietnam War, and her mother worked as a real estate agent.

Her novel The Passion was inspired by her affair with Pat Kavanagh, her literary agent.

* James Bond ( fictional agent on Her Majesty's Secret Service )

Her agent happened to be the London representative of the Myron Selznick talent agency, headed by David Selznick's brother, Myron.

Her first husband was her agent, Anthony Soglio, to whom she was married from 1955 to 1957.

Her agent allegedly had to fight to even get a reading for the part, since the role had been cast for an " older woman " to a " coming of age " 15 year old boy, and the director was only considering actresses over the age of thirty, Barbra Streisand being at the top of the list.

Her father, a shoemaker, was a key figure in the Underground Railroad and a subscription agent for William Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator.

Although Lazenby had been offered a contract for seven movies, his agent, Ronan O ' Rahilly, convinced him that the secret agent would be archaic in the liberated 1970s, and as a result he left the series after the release of On Her Majesty's Secret Service in 1969.

Her mother, Hannah G. Storen, is a successful real estate agent in Houston, Texas.

Her family was able to invalidate the will, but her estate proved to be insolvent due to years of lavish living, overgenerosity towards " friends ", and embezzlement by an agent.

Her mother, Charlotte ( née Baum ), was a writer and press agent who was involved in women's and civil rights movements, and her father, John J. Sheedy, Jr., was a Manhattan advertising executive .< ref >

Her mother married agent and producer Noel Marshall, and Griffith grew up with three stepbrothers.

Her father was a top agent at one time with the William Morris Agency.