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Her performance in Jean Cocteau's play La Machine à écrire in 1956 was admired by the author who called her " The finest dramatic temperament of the Postwar period ".
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Her performance of the song " Embraceable You " impressed Styne and his partner, Sammy Cahn and they recommended her for a role in Romance on the High Seas, which they were working on for Warner Brothers.
" Her performance earned her the MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance, the Saturn Award for Best Young Actress, and her first Golden Globe Award nomination.
Her performance of the " sleepwalking " scene in the fifth act was especially noted ; Leigh Hunt called it " sublime.
Her performance in Aaja Nachle earned her the record-setting thirteenth nomination for the Filmfare Best Actress Award.
* 1986 – The musical The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.
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Her performance was praised by a number of critics, including Rob Blackwelder for SPLICEDwire, who wrote about the " dazzling performance by Sarah Michelle Gellar who plunges headlong into the lascivious malevolence that makes Kathryn so delightfully wicked.
Her performance received little acclaim, but it convinced Bell, who hated pop music, that Twain should stay well away from it and concentrate on country music.
Her performance was seen on the subsequent televised version of this concert, and can be seen on the CD and DVD releases.
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.
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It was first performed in England on 24 May 1856 in Italian at Her Majesty's Theatre in London, where it was considered morally questionable, and " the heads of the Church did their best to put an injunction upon performance ; the Queen refrained from visiting the theatre during the performances, though the music, words and all, were not unheard at the palace ".
Her performance at one club impressed a theatrical producer, and he cast her in a play in New York, but that production did not open.
Her performance was called " memorable ... funny and poignant in turns ", and she earned a Tony Award. Richard Watts, Jr. of the New York Post wrote: " nothing I have ever seen her do prepared me for the loveliness, humor, gift for joyous characterization, and sheer lovableness of her portrayal of Nellie Forbush ....
Her main competitor for the prize was Judy Garland's much heralded comeback performance in A Star Is Born ; playing not only the part of an up and coming actress-singer, but also ironically, the wife of an alcoholic movie star.
Her performance attracted the attention of The Philosopher Kings singer Gerald Eaton, who then approached her to write with him.
Her performance as Maxine Faulk in The Night of the Iguana ( 1964 ), was well reviewed, and she was nominated a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe.
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Her success stems from a wide range of innovative writing and rhetorical techniques that critically challenged renowned male writers, such as Jean de Meun who incorporated misogynist beliefs within their literary works.
Her critique primarily stems from her belief that Jean de Meun was purposely slandering women through the debated text.
Her favorite author was Jean Ingelow and her favorite readings were A Legend of Bregenz and The Judas Tree.
Her tomb, placed on the south side of the Chapel of Edward the Confessor, displays her alabaster effigy which was executed by sculptor Jean de Liège.
Upon her death, writer Jean Cocteau observed in an obituary, " Her voice, slightly off-key, was that of the Parisian street hawkers — the husky, trailing voice of the Paris people.
Her polished manners and superior attitude make her no friends among the rest of the aspiring actresses living there, particularly her new roommate, flippant, cynical dancer Jean Maitland ( Ginger Rogers ).
After returning to work in Europe, Renoir made a trilogy of color musical comedies on the subjects of theater, politics and commerce: Le Carrosse d ' or ( The Golden Coach ) ( 1953 ) with Anna Magnani, French Cancan ( 1955 ) with Jean Gabin and María Félix and Eléna et les hommes ( Elena and Her Men, 1956 ) with Ingrid Bergman and Jean Marais.
Her first acting role was in 1991, an off Broadway theater play entitled Club Twelve, a Hip-hop twist on The Twelfth Night alongside Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill and Lisa Nicole Carson.
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.
The title Prince of Bourbon-Parma was relinquished by Grand Duke Jean in 1986, but he and his relatives kept the style of His / Her Royal Highness.
Her greatest success onstage came in 1914 when she starred in the play Daddy Long Legs, adapted from the novel by Jean Webster.
Her first, The Comforters ( 1957 ), concerns a woman who becomes aware that she is a character in a novel ; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ( 1961 ), at times takes the reader briefly into the distant future to see the various fates that befall its characters.
Her parents married her at twenty-one years of age to her kinsman, Jean Baptiste de la Lande, marquis du Deffand, without consulting her inclination.
Her 1975 novel, I Sent a Letter To My Love, was made into a film ( Chère inconnue ) in 1980 by Moshe Mizraki, starring Simone Signoret and Jean Rochefort.
* Woman and Her Master ( 1904 ) by Jean de Villiot, pseudonym of Georges Grassal – a novel of flagellation erotica translated into English by Charles Carrington from the original 1902 French edition, La Femme et son maître.
Her notable theatrical roles include Young Woman in Machinal, Celia in As You Like It ( 1984 ), Madame de Volanges in Les Liaisons Dangereuses ( 1985 ), Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew ( 1987 ), Winnie in Happy Days ( 2007 ), and the title roles in Electra ( 1988 ), The Good Person of Sechuan ( 1989 ), Hedda Gabler ( 1991 ), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ( 1998 ) and Medea ( 2000 ).
Governor General of Canada | Governor General Michaëlle Jean with Her Majesty's Cabinet, 30 October 2008
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