Her physical appearance was such that romantic heroines were out of the question, and she soon established her name in comedy, appearing in many of the most successful British plays and films.

Her then two plays, Eugene O ' Neill's Dynamo and See Naples and Die ( 1929 ), were unsuccessful.

Her works include novels, plays, stories, libretti and poems written in a highly idiosyncratic, playful, repetitive, and humorous style.

Among his 60 plays, his most famous are: Une puce à l ' oreille ( A Flea in Her Ear, 1907 ), Le Système Ribadier ( 1892 ), La Dame de Chez Maxim ( The Girl from Maxim's, 1899 ), and Hortense a dit: " Je m ' en fous!

Some of his most memorable film roles include knight Antonius Block in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal ( the first of his eleven films with Bergman, and the film that includes the iconic scenes in which he plays chess with Death ), Jesus in The Greatest Story Ever Told, Oktober in The Quiller Memorandum, Father Merrin in The Exorcist, Karl Oskar in The Emigrants, Joubert the assassin in Three Days of the Condor, Ming the Merciless in the 1980 version of Flash Gordon, the villain Blofeld in Never Say Never Again, Frederick in Hannah and Her Sisters, and Lassefar in Pelle the Conqueror, for which he received his first Academy Award nomination.

Her theory proposed that the missing fourth part of Bacon's unfinished magnum opus, the Instauratio Magna had in fact survived in the form of the plays attributed to Shakespeare.

Her plays have been staged at the Dramaten ( the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theatre ), Stockholms stadsteater ( Stockholm City Theatre ) and at Teater Brunnsgatan Fyra, a. o.

Her earliest theatrical influences were the teenaged actress Deanna Durbin, screen star Irene Dunne and Lansbury's mother, who encouraged her daughter's ambition by taking her to plays at the Old Vic.

Her most recent film is The Gigolos ( 2006 ) by Richard Bracewell, in which she plays Lady James.

* David Berman of the Silver Jews sings the lyric " Her doorbell plays a bar of Stephen Foster " in the song Tennessee, which appeared on the 2001 album Bright Flight.

However, he ignored the fact that, according to the Internet Broadway Database, after the production of My Lady Friends and long before No, No, Nannette went into production in 1925, Frazee produced two other very successful plays, Dulcy ( 1921-1922 ) and Her Temporary Husband, facts that call Montville's conclusion into question.

Her later plays did not reach the stage.

When the filming of Pink Flamingos finished, Divine returned to San Francisco, where, along with fellow Dreamlander Mink Stole, he became the star in a number of small-budget plays at the Palace Theater as part of a drag troupe known as The Cockettes including Divine and Her Stimulating Studs, Divine Saves the World, Vice Palace, Journey to the Center of Uranus and The Heartbreak of Psoriasis.

Her brother Thomas also benefited from the marriage as he became house composer at Drury Lane, and wrote music for a number of plays and pantomimes over the next several years.

Her most recent stage appearance was at the sixth annual 24 Hour Plays alongside Jennifer Aniston, Rosie Perez, and Lili Taylor, in which six writers, six directors, twenty-four actors, and production crews have twenty-four hours to write, direct, and perform six ten-minute plays.

Her plays have been performed in theatres across Canada, as well as in the U. S. and Britain.

Her plays have been published by Scirocco Drama and Nuage Editions and are available through good bookstores and on Amazon.

Her plays include:

Her father, Abraham Quintanilla, Jr., is played by Edward James Olmos and Constance Marie plays Marcella Ofelia Samora – Quintanilla.

Her four earliest plays, Downstairs ( produced 1958 ), You've No Need to be Frightened, Having a Wonderful Time ( 1960 ), and Easy Death ( produced 1962 ) were performed by Oxford-based theatrical ensembles-student drama groups.

Xu was also a playwright, authoring the following four plays: The Heroine Mulan Goes to War in Her Father's Place ( 雌木蘭 Ci Mulan ): describes Hua Mulan, A Female Degree Holder ( 女狀元 Nüzhuangyuan ): The Adventures of the Intelligent Huang Chongjia ( 黃崇嘏 ), The History of the Mad Drum ( 狂鼓史 Kuanggu Shi ): crimes of Cao Cao, and A Zen Master's Dream of the Land of Green Jade ( 翠鄉夢 Cuixiang Meng ): a Buddhist story.

Her older brother, Nick Perri, is a lead guitarist formerly of Shinedown and Philly-based hard rock act Silvertide, and currently plays in SINAI.

The lost plays The Fatal Love and A Yorkshire Gentlewoman And Her Son were assigned to Chapman in Stationers ' Register entries in 1660.

BBC reviewed, " Mukerji plays the character of a middle class girl with great conviction ", and Udita Jhunjhunwala writing for Mid Day added, " Her expressions and acting are understated in a role that fits her like a glove.

Her father had turned out some one-act plays for the stock company, and encouraged Anita to work in the field herself.

Her form was silhouetted and with the strong light I could see the outlines of her body, a body that an artist or anyone else would have admired.

Her hair was dyed, and her bloom was fading, and she must have been crowding forty, but she seemed to be one of those women who cling to the manners and graces of a pretty child of eight.

Her students have spoken of the exacting standards of scholarship and of manners and conduct she expected and achieved from the students ; ;

Her services to the School for many years were of a very high character, and I have often thought that one of the buildings should be named for her ''.

Her skin was stretched so tight that her cheekbones stuck out, and if looks could kill, Wally would have been dead.

Her first class wasn't until ten, but she always got up to have breakfast with me.

Her jealousy of Cassandra, and her wrath at the sacrifice of Iphigenia and at Agamemnon's having gone to war over Helen of Troy, are said to have been the motives for her crime.

Her views on the subject appear to have hardened over time.

Her cryptic words were " Do not loosen the bulging mouth of the wineskin until you have reached the height of Athens, lest you die of grief.

Her stories have been retold in song, film, ballet and animation.

Her death certificate gives the cause of death as phthisis ( tuberculosis ), but many biographers suggest she may have died from dehydration and malnourishment, caused by excessive vomiting from severe morning sickness or hyperemesis gravidarum.

" Her father did have a natural aptitude for drawing and the sisters were charmed by his whimsical sketches of animals.

* Cradle of Filth, a popular British extreme metal band, has produced an album called Dusk ... and Her Embrace inspired by " Carmilla ", and have also recorded an instrumental track titled " Carmilla's Masque ".

Her name may have to do with the fact that Hylas was the son of Theiodamas, the king of the Dryopes.

Her early death may have inspired some of his writing.

Her lasting influence may have caused certain monasteries and churches in Saxony to be dedicated to this saint.

Her birthplace may have been Poitiers, Bordeaux, or Nieul-sur-l ' Autise, where her mother died when Eleanor was 6 or 8.

Her silence, however, strengthened her own political security: she knew that if she named an heir, her throne would be vulnerable to a coup ; she remembered that the way " a second person, as I have been " had been used as the focus of plots against her sister, Queen Mary.

Her books have enjoyed huge success in many parts of the world, and have sold over 600 million copies.

Her personal dilemma becomes entangled with darkly hinted suspicions and prejudices raised by the crimes at the college, which appear to have been committed by a sexually frustrated female don.

Governors-general ( and their spouses ) have the style " His / Her Excellency " during their tenure, but no style applies to former governors-general purely by virtue of their former office.

Her principal aim was to have Spain's lost territories in Italy restored.

Her representative on the isle is the Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man, but his role is mostly ceremonial, though he does have the power to grant Royal Assent ( the withholding of which is the same as a veto ).

A few have been filmed ( in some cases rather freely adapted ): Consider Her Ways, Random Quest, Dumb Martian, Jizzle ( filmed as Maria ) and Time to Rest ( filmed as No Place Like Earth ).