Her mother called her Paus'l, a Luxemburg endearment meaning `` pussycat ''.

Her mother was a good manager and established a millinery business in Milwaukee.

Her brother Karl was a very gentle soul, her mother was a quiet woman who said little but who had hard, probing eyes.

Her mother, now dead, was my good friend and when she came to tell us about her plans and to show off her ring I had a sobering wish to say something meaningful to her, something her mother would wish said.

Her mother wrote Kate of her grief at the death of Kate's baby and at Jonathan's decision to go with the South `` And, dear Kate '', she wrote, `` poor Dr. Breckenridge's son Robert is now organizing a militia company to go South, to his good father's sorrow.

Her mother had done it before her, and even her old grandmother, who had collected money for smallpox and unwed mothers.

Her mother also was a person of superior mind and broad interests.

Her eyes became bright as she talked about her father and mother, aunts and uncles, cousins.

Her mother and father, for instance.

Her mother would be fast asleep curled up against that wonderful, big, safe, solid shoulder next to her on the front seat.

Her mother was already considerably concerned over her daughter's future.

Her mother is the former Miss Stella Hayward.

Her young British lawyer, James Dunlop, pleaded that she was sorely needed at her Portland home by her widowed mother, 80, her maiden aunt, also 80 and bedridden for 20 years, and her uncle, 76, who once ran a candy shop.

Her mother was a Greer and her father's family came from the Orkney Isles.

Her mother was Agnes of Rochlitz.

Her mother ’ s marriage to Agrippa was her second marriage, as Julia the Elder was widowed from her first marriage, to her paternal cousin Marcus Claudius Marcellus and they had no children.

Her mother and her siblings had travelled with Agrippa.

Her remaining children were raised between her, Livia Drusilla and Germanicus ’ mother Antonia Minor.

Her mother was Anaxo, daughter of Alcaeus and Astydamia, daughter of Pelops and Hippodameia.

Her mother Cassiopeia boasted that her daughter was more beautiful than the Nereids, the nymph-daughters of the sea god Nereus and often seen accompanying Poseidon.

Her mother, Nadezhda Kalmykova, was the daughter of a former serf who had bought his freedom before serfdom was abolished in 1861, allowing him to become a wealthy Moscow merchant .< ref >

Her father, Joaquín Nin, was a Cuban pianist and composer, when he met her mother Rosa Culmell, who was a classically trained singer in Cuba of French and Danish descent.

Her mother was born Countess Maria-Luisa Yvonne Radha de Wendt de Kerlor, better known as Gogo Schiaparelli, a socialite of Italian, Swiss, French, and Egyptian ancestry.

His mother, Paula ( born Paula Voit ), had German as a mother tongue, but was ethnically of " mixed Hungarian " origin: Her maiden name Voit is German, probably of Saxon origin from Upper Hungary ( Since 1920 in Czechoslovakia, since 1993 in Slovakia ), though she spoke Hungarian fluently.

Her first was in 1994, when she was awarded Best Jazz Vocal Performance for the album Mystery Lady, which consisted of covers of Billie Holiday songs.

Her success in the 1946 stage production of Born Yesterday as " Billie Dawn " led to her being cast in the 1950 film version, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress-Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

Bernard Dick summed up Holliday's acting: " Perhaps the most important aspect of the Judy Holliday persona, both in variations of Billie Dawn and in her roles as housewife, is her vulnerability ... Her ability to shift her mood quickly from comic to serious is one of her greatest technical gifts.

Her encore, " God Bless the Child ," is overlayed with newspaper clippings highlighting subsequent events: the concert fails to sway the Commission to restore her license ; subsequent appeals are denied ; she is later re-arrested on drug charges ; and finally, " Billie Holiday Dead at 44.

Her voice and her personality, however, are extremely close to the Billie Burke version.

* Billie Gets Her Man ( 1948 )

Her sister Billie is nine years older ( and worked as a variety artist until retiring to Antibes in 2003 at the age of 79 ).

Her lazy Uncle Joe Carson ( Edgar Buchanan ), who was the great uncle to Kate's three daughters, helped her in the day-to-day running of the business while she served as a mediator in the various minor crises that befell her daughters Betty Jo ( redhead ), Bobbie Jo ( brunette ), and Billie Jo ( blonde ).

Her uncle, Charles Burrell, a bass player with the Denver Symphony Orchestra, introduced her to the music of jazz singers, from Ella Fitzgerald to Billie Holiday.

Her best known roles include Eve Lambert on Port Charles, Billie Reed on Days of our Lives and Janet Ciccone on As the World Turns.

He was loaned to Warner Bros. to appear in Her Private Life, with Billie Dove and 20th Century Fox, winning critical approval for his comedic performance as Jeanette MacDonald's husband in Don't Bet on a Woman.

Her repertoire includes original compositions and standards drawn mostly from classic rock, including " Ode to Billie Joe ," " A Taste of Honey ," and " Black Magic Woman.

Her father Fritz was a German and her mother Billie Hartwig was Norwegian.

Her songs have been featured in box-office smashes such as Thelma and Louise, Visionquest, Legend of Billie Jean, Mad Max: Beyond The Thunderdome, Stewart Little II, Thirteen Going On Thirty, What The Bleep, and hit TV shows such as Nip / Tuck, The Singing Bee, American Idol, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Simpsons, Family Guy, 30 Rock, South Park, and the finale episode of The Voice finale, wherein Cee Lo performed a duet of " Love Is A Battlefield " with one of the final contestants.

Her father was Dr. Aubrey Bourke of Ballina, County Mayo, while her mother was from Donegal, Dr. Tessa Bourke ( née O ' Donnell ) of Carndonagh, Inishowen.

Her mother, Cynthia Palmer ( née Istas ) is an author, video producer, and editor.

Her parents, Mary Elizabeth " Mollie " ( née Baker ) and Jonas Bailey Gardner, were poor cotton and tobacco farmers.

Her mother, Jane Elizabeth ( née Novis ), worked as a photographer, and her father, Gordon E. Hunt, is a film director and acting coach.

Her mother was Ann Sophie Weigall née Hamilton.

Her mother Sophie ( née Marquis ) who died when Rosa Bonheur was only eleven, had been a piano teacher.

Her mother, Jessie Helen ( née Horspool ), was the head of a school for mentally handicapped children, and her father, Harry Tandy, was a travelling salesman for a rope manufacturer .< ref >

Her father, Walter Augustus de Havilland ( 31 August 1872 – 23 May 1968 ; aged 95 ), was a patent attorney with a practice in Japan, and her mother, Lilian Augusta ( née Ruse ; 11 June 1886 – 20 February 1975 ; aged 88 ) was a stage actress who had left her career after going to Tokyo with her husband – she would return to work after her daughters had already won fame in the 40s, with the stage name of Lillian Fontaine.

Her mother, Mary Elizabeth " Betty " ( née Reese ), is from Harriman, Tennessee, has a Ph. D. in pediatric nursing, and works as a professor of nursing at Vanderbilt University.

Her parents were William Edward Nightingale, born William Edward Shore ( 1794 – 1874 ) and Frances (" Fanny ") Nightingale née Smith ( 1789 – 1880 ).

Her father, Edward Zimmermann ( 1879 – 1977 ), was an accountant with James H. Dunham & Company, a Manhattan wholesale dry-goods company, and her mother, Agnes ( née Gardner ; 1883 – 1974 ), was a school teacher.

Her mother, Sarah Bow ( née Gordon, 1880 – 1923 ), was told by a doctor not to become pregnant again for fear the next baby might die as well.

Her mother, Ilona ( née Mayer ), was Hungarian.

Her mother, Sarah Addams ( née Weber ), died in childbirth when Jane was two years old.

Her parents were Theodore and Florence Miller ( née MacDonald ).

Her mother, June ( née Gamble ), was an Australian property developer and teacher, and her father, Robert DeWitt Blanchett, Jr., was a Texas native who was a US Navy Petty Officer and later worked as an advertising executive.

Casley is married to Shirley ( née Shirley Butler ) who is styled as " Her Royal Highness Princess Shirley of Hutt, Dame of the Rose of Sharon ".

Her father, George Frame, worked for the New Zealand railways, and her mother Lottie ( née Godfrey ), served as a housemaid to the family of writer Katherine Mansfield.

Her mother, Gertrud ( née Lichtwitz ), was a pianist and Budapest native who came from the " Jewish haute bourgeoisie ", and her father, Lemberg-born Emil Kiesler, was a successful bank director.

Her mother was Andrea Louise Simon ( née Heinemann ), a civil rights activist and singer.

Her mother, Catherine Estelle ( née Hayes ), or Essie, was an aspiring actress who worked in touring companies.

Her mother, Rose Hovick ( née Rose Evangeline Thompson ), was a teenage bride fresh from a convent school when she married Norwegian-American John Olaf Hovick, who was a newspaper advertising salesman and a reporter at The Seattle Times.

Her father Peter drove a bread delivery truck, and her mother, Marguerite ( née Maltese ), started her in show business by putting her on the television show Juvenile Jury at the age of three-and-a-half.

Her mother Máire ( better known by her nickname, Baba )( née Ní Dhúgáin or Duggan in English ) was a music teacher and her father Leo Brennan was a member of a cabaret band with whom she performed as a child.