The West End production opened on February 11, 1953 at Her Majesty's Theatre and ran for 477 performances.

Her episodes featured musical interludes showcasing her singing performances.

Her early performances brought her immediate success in Britain, but she remained largely unknown in other parts of the world until the release of Gone with the Wind.

The 1958 European premiere at the Manchester Opera House transferred to London, where it opened at Her Majesty's Theatre in the West End on Friday December 12, 1958 and ran until June 1961 with a total of 1, 039 performances.

Her live performances of the song throughout the decade began to take on a theatrical intensity not present on the album's single.

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 performances in Seventh Heaven ( the first of twelve movies she would make with actor Charles Farrell ) and both Sunrise, directed by F. W. Murnau, and Street Angel ( in 1927, also with Charles Farrell ) earned her the first Academy Award for Best Actress in 1928.

Next, it had a run of 76 performances at Her Majesty's Theatre, in London, beginning on 26 December 1865, in an adaptation by J. R. Planché.

Her recent public performances have included charitable functions to promote products such as Zamu.

Her occasional acting ventures were limited to theater and included performances on Broadway and in London in The Irregular Verb to Love ( 1963 ); The Kingfisher ( 1978 ) in which she co-starred with Rex Harrison, and Frederick Lonsdale's Aren't We All?

The musical's original West End production opened on April 14, 1949, at Her Majesty's Theatre, running for 685 performances.

Her background and performances earned her the nickname " the Flying Housewife ".

Her performances often featured elaborate show-dance choreography, and she made many appearances on French and Italian TV.

Her revue, with future TV pioneer Danny Thomas as her opening act, included songs from her films, performances on her musical saw ( a skill she had originally acquired for stage appearances in Berlin in the 1920s ), and a pretend " mindreading " act.

Her big screen debut was in Hue and Cry, in 1947, followed with performances in Nicholas Nickleby, The Winslow Boy, The History of Mr Polly, Scott of the Antarctic, Mother Riley Meets the Vampire and Dickens ' The Pickwick Papers.

Her late career includes Oscar-nominated performances in the independent films Afterglow ( 1997 ) and Away from Her ( 2006 ).

Her first televised performances were in the mid-and late 1950s with the Drinkard Singers on local television stations in New Jersey and New York City.

Her Royal Shakespeare Company performances are:

Her National Theatre performances have included:

Her stage experience enhanced many of her film performances when the " silents " segued to the " talkies ".

Her productions were plagued by controversy and other problems, although the controversy ensured that West stayed in the news and most of the time this resulted in packed performances.

Her performances were often heralded by the critics, who cited her diction and stage experience as assets to the then-new medium of " talking pictures ".

Her impromptu performances impressed The Beatles and others.

Her final public appearance was at an after-party at the Sardi's restaurant in New York City, following the premiere of the documentary film Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There.

Her last Broadway appearance was as Mrs. Warren in George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession, produced by Joseph Papp at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre in 1976.

** The Phantom of the Opera, the longest running Broadway show in history, opens at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.

Her next major success was in the role of Peter in the Broadway production of Peter Pan in October 1954, with Martin winning the Tony Award.

Her last feature film appearance was a cameo as herself in MGM's Main Street to Broadway in 1953.

Her early acting pursuits led her to the stage, most notably a Broadway debut in Strindberg's The Father alongside Raymond Massey.

Her name is added to a list of great artists and notables in the popular Broadway musical " Rent " in the song " La Vie Boheme ".

He became an undisputed Broadway star in Her Cardboard Lover ( 1927 ).

Her final appearance on Broadway was as Miss Tina in the 1962 production of Michael Redgrave's adaptation of The Aspern Papers, from the Henry James novella.

Her parents met while performing in the original Broadway run of Hair.

Her first stage appearance was when her mother brought her on stage in costume for the curtain call of the short-lived Broadway play The Leaf People.

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 career has spanned television, comedy recordings, Broadway, and motion pictures, enjoying acclaimed success in each medium.

Her 1977 release Lily Tomlin On Stage, was an adaptation of her Broadway show that year.

Her parents are Lily and Joseph Cates, who was a major Broadway producer and a pioneering figure in television, who helped create The $ 64, 000 Question.

Her first role was in the Broadway play The Herbal Bed.

Her character is " Amanda Reese, the high-strung and larger-than-life director behind a problem-plagued Broadway version of Icarus ", loosely modeled after Spider-Man director, Julie Taymor.

Her successes in theatre include the Royal Court Theatre and Broadway productions of Home.

Her recent roles include Lady Adelaide Stitch in the film Nanny McPhee ( 2005 ), Leona Mullen in the 2007 Broadway play Deuce, Madame Arcati in the 2009 Broadway revival of the play Blithe Spirit and Madame Armfeldt in the 2010 Broadway revival of the musical A Little Night Music.

Her last major success on the stage was at age 82, in 1970 – 71 in the role of Mrs. St. Maugham in Enid Bagnold's The Chalk Garden, a role she had created on Broadway and in the West End in 1955 – 56.

Her first appearance in a Broadway show was in a 1911 revue A La Broadway put on by her former dancing teacher, Ned Wayburn.