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.

Notable later films include Sister Act and Sister Act 2, The Lion King, Made in America, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Girl, Interrupted and Rat Race.

Her students included John Garfield, Stella Adler, and Lee Strasberg.

Her family called her Stasia, a common Polish diminutive of her Christian name, which later gave birth to the American version of her name, Stella.

* Terry McMillan-How Stella Got Her Groove Back

Her first movie was the Greek language film Stella ( 1955 ), directed by Zorba the Greek director Michael Cacoyannis.

Her first marriage, from which she took the name by which she is generally known, produced two children, Alan " Beo " Urquhart and Stella, and ended with the death of her first husband in the Boer War in 1900.

* How Stella Got Her Groove Back ( 1998 )

Her music has been featured in a number of film soundtracks including How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Lost & Delirious, Batman & Robin, Love Jones, Love & Basketball, Talk To Me, Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls, The Best Man, Higher Learning, Down in the Delta, The Hurricane, Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom, and Soul Men.

* Angela Bassett-( Boseman & Lena, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Meet the Browns, Mr. 300, Sunshine State, Waiting to Exhale, What's Love Got to Do With It?

** Whoopi Goldberg -( How Stella Got Her Groove Back, For Colored Girls )

* How Stella Got Her Groove Back

In 1998, Bassett starred in How Stella Got Her Groove Back, once again collaborating with McMillan.

Her great-uncle was the hymn-writing bishop Reginald Heber and her niece the writer Stella Benson.

Her name is possibly a variant of Stella Maria, a pseudo-Latin phrase that approximates " star of the sea " ( see also Stella Maris ).

* Terry McMillan-Award-winning author of Waiting to Exhale, and How Stella Got Her Groove Back

Her version is a remake of the 2001 version by Stella Soleil.

In 1998, another of McMillan's novels, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, was made into a movie.

He was the inspiration for the love interest of the main character in her novel How Stella Got Her Groove Back.

Her earliest novels partly fit into the ' earthy ' rural category, together with that of Mary E Mann, Mary Webb, D. H. Lawrence, and Thomas Hardy, a genre which inspired Stella Gibbons's parody " Cold Comfort Farm ".

He is perhaps best known for his roles in the Broadway musical Rent, the motion picture How Stella Got Her Groove Back, and the television series Private Practice.

Her first success was the judgment of the episcopal court at Faenza, which in 1824 declared that the Comte Louis de Joinville exchanged his daughter for the son of Lorenzo Chiappini, and that the Demoiselle de Joinville had been baptized as Maria Stella, with the false statement that she was the daughter of L Chiappini and his wife.