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 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.

Her best known roles include starring as Jacy in The Last Picture Show, as Betsy in Taxi Driver, as Madeleine Spencer in Psych, as Maddie Hayes in Moonlighting, as Cybill Sheridan in Cybill, and as Phyllis Kroll in The L Word.

Her sister Phyllis ( who never converted to Christian Science ) had given her Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy because she thought Nancy might find it interesting.

In 1961-62, Art Carney played Frank Michaelson in an English comedy by Phoebe & Henry Ephron entitled " Take Her, She's Mine " with Phyllis Thaxter as his co-star in the Biltmore Theatre in New York two seasons before his role in " the Odd Couple " in the Plymouth Theatre in New York ; the character was played by James Stewart in the 1963 film version.

Her wife, Phyllis, was at her side.

" Miss Hurston seems to have no desire whatsoever to move in the direction of serious fiction … can write ; but her prose is cloaked in that facile sensuality that has dogged Negro expression since the days of Phyllis Wheatley … Her characters eat and laugh and cry and work and kill ; they swing like a pendulum eternally in that safe and narrow orbit in which America likes to see the Negro live: between laughter and tears.

Examples include Brigid O ' Shaughnessy, portrayed by Mary Astor, who murders Sam Spade's partner in The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ); Gene Tierney as Ellen Brent Harland in Leave Her to Heaven ( 1945 ), and the cabaret singer portrayed by Rita Hayworth in Gilda ( 1946 ), narcissistic wives who manipulate their husbands ; Phyllis Dietrichson ( Barbara Stanwyck ) in Double Indemnity ( 1944 ), Ava Gardner in The Killers and Cora ( Lana Turner ) in The Postman Always Rings Twice, both based on novels by James M. Cain, manipulate men into killing their husbands.

Her parents ( Gaylord St. James and Cynthia Carr ) express concern both at the band and Mari's friendship with Phyllis.

Her character also dropped the childish epithet of " Cricket ", especially after her rival Phyllis ( Michelle Stafford ) turned it into a pun against her, calling her " the Bug.

Her parents, a psychiatrist father, Julian Janowitz, and literature professor mother, Phyllis Janowitz, divorced when she was ten.

Her full name was Helen Phyllis Shipman.

Her first professional job was as " Baby Phyllis " at the Duquesne Theater in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Her other Broadway credits include The Dozens ( 1969 ), Paul Sills ' Story Theatre ( 1971 ), Ovid's Metamorphoses ( 1971 ), and Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies ( 1981 ) with Gregory Hines and Phyllis Hyman.

Her reappearance in popular media in the 1960s began with the children's book How Mrs. Santa Claus Saved Christmas, by Phyllis McGinley.

Her first starring role was Eileen Cavanagh in the long-running Edwardian musical comedy The Arcadians, which she took over from Phyllis Dare in 1910.

An association with film began: he worked with Bannister Merwin, Jack Buchanan, and Phyllis Monkton on the film Her Heritage, and in the 1920s Lord Northcliffe appointed him film critic for the Daily Mail.

Her grandfather, Jack Kagan, later moved to the Los Angeles area.