In Doris Day: Her Own Story, Day asserts " I was named by my mother in honor of her favorite actress, Doris Kenyon, a silent screen star of that year 1924.

Her first screen appearance was at the age of 10, when she appeared briefly in Frank Capra ’ s It Happened One Night.

Her many memorable screen roles include a supporting role as Joan Crawford's wise-cracking friend in Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ) for which she received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress, and James Stewart's wistful secretary in Otto Preminger's then-explicit murder mystery, Anatomy of a Murder ( 1959 ).

Her son-in-law is Glenn Wilhide the producer and screen writer.

Her performance was well received by critics, with BBC film critic Brandon Graydon saying that Cruz " is an enchanting screen presence ," and Ethan Alter of the Film Journal International noting that Cruz and her co-star Cruise were " able to generate some actual chemistry.

Her final screen appearance was in the 1991 film The Shepherd and the Women, directed by her ex-husband Ali Badrakhan.

Her final screen appearance was in 1991, with the movie Al Ra ' i We El Nissa.

Her on screen chemistry with Alec Baldwin was either criticized or praised, with Eye For Film commenting, " The film works best when Baldwin and Gellar are together – aside from the fact that Gellar seriously needs to eat a bun or two ".

Her screen test with Macnee showed that the two immediately worked well together, and a new era in Avengers history began.

Her screen persona as " a cold, remote erotic object which dreams are made on " reached a peak, according to the critic Philip French, in her second Buñuel film Tristana ( 1970 ).

Her game concept included animated color graphics, a pseudo 3D-perspective where the main character was visible on the screen, a more competent text parser that would understand advanced commands from the player, and music playing in the background through the PCjr sound hardware.

Her first professional screen experience was as an extra in the three part TF1 television series Dorothée, danseuse de corde ( 1983 ) directed by Jacques Fensten, which was followed by a similarly small role in the provincial television film Fort bloque directed by Pierrick Guinnard.

Her reticence and fear of strangers perpetuated the mystery and mystique that she projected both on screen and in real life.

Her first screen role was in 1967 in The Happening.

Hannah and Her Sisters opened on February 7, 1986 in 54 theatres, where it gained a stellar $ 1, 265, 826 ($ 23, 441 per screen ) in its opening weekend.

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 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 screen test was directed by Harold S. Bucquet, and she later recalled that she was hired because of a close-up he took of her.

Her inaugural screen performance was popular with both the public and critics alike and was the catalyst for not only a sequel, Claudia and David ( both movies co-starring Robert Young ), but also for numerous other film roles.

Her entrepreneurial spirit became evident as she began to screen and distribute her films in the United States, Canada, and Cuba, lecturing and writing on avant-garde film theory, and Vodoun as well.

On the big screen she became a Bond girl in On Her Majesty's Secret Service ( 1969 ), playing Tracy Bond, James Bond's only wife.

Her other notable screen roles included Academy Award-nominated performances in Tennessee Williams ' Summer and Smoke, Sweet Bird of Youth, You're a Big Boy Now, Pete ' n ' Tillie, Woody Allen's Interiors, and The Pope of Greenwich Village.

Her distinctive warbling voice and round cheeks made her a familiar and much-loved personality to British theatre and film audiences at the beginning of World War II, but her popularity waned in the 1940s after several years ' absence from the screen followed by an unsatisfactory thriller, Candles at Nine.

Her screen debut however was as the lead in the Anna Campion directed film Loaded, and has subsequently stated that she had a " miserable time with the director ( Anna Campion )... it was my first film job, I needed to be mollycoddled, I needed to be helped through it, and I wasn't.

Her screen name is often translated as Stainless Steel Mouse.

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Her movie career included a bit part in It Happened One Night ( 1934 ) and roles in Outlaw Women ( 1952 ), Glen or Glenda ( 1953 ), Body Beautiful ( 1953 ), The Blue Gardenia ( 1953 ), Count the Hours ( 1953 ), Mesa of Lost Women ( 1953 ), College Capers ( 1954 ), Jail Bait ( 1954 ), The Raid ( 1954 ), This Is My Love ( 1954 ), The Opposite Sex ( 1956 ), The Ironbound Vampire ( 1997 ), and Dimensions in Fear ( 1998 ).

Her almost 60-year career crossed most media frontiers with both supporting and leading roles, but she may be best-remembered for playing the sardonic but engaging title character, a high school teacher, on Our Miss Brooks, and as the Rydell High School principal in the films Grease and Grease 2.

Her Stage Door portrayal of a fast-talking, witty supporting character, gained Arden considerable notice and was to be a template for many of Arden's future roles.

Her debut at Teatro alla Scala took place in 1842 as " Neocle " in the Italian version of Le siège de Corinthe, which was followed by roles in operas by Marliani, Donizetti ( as " Maffio Orsini "), Salvi and Pacini.

Her subsequent roles in the 1990s and 2000s included Open Your Eyes ( 1997 ), The Hi-Lo Country ( 1999 ), The Girl of Your Dreams ( 2000 ) and Woman on Top ( 2000 ).

Her other television roles include recurring appearances as Marelene on Dharma & Greg, and Penny in two episodes of Dead Like Me.

Her one scene role as pregnant checkout girl Nancy in 1991's City Slickers earned her " more attention than all previous roles combined ," and taught her that " that it's far better to have small parts in big movies that everyone sees.

Her other roles include parts in Barry Levinson's Toys and James L. Brooks ' As Good as It Gets.

Her best known film roles were " Susanne Wallner " in Wolfgang Staudte's film Die Mörder sind unter uns ( The Murderers Are Among Us ), the first film released after the Second World War in East Germany and produced by DEFA ); and in 1950, " Marina " in Die Sünderin ( The Sinner ), in which she performed a brief nude scene, the first in German film history, causing a scandal.

Her other notable film roles include Sara in Runaway Train in 1985, Helen McCaffrey in the thriller Backdraft in 1991, her portrayal of the chillingly twisted nanny Peyton Flanders in the popular 1992 thriller The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and as Wendy Torrance in Stephen King's 1997 television adaptation of The Shining.

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 friend Miriam Cooper helped Lombard land small roles in her husband Raoul Walsh's films.

Hawn is known for her roles in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Private Benjamin, Foul Play, Shampoo, Overboard, Bird on a Wire, Death Becomes Her, The First Wives Club, and Cactus Flower, for which she won the 1969 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

With increasing interest in the war in Europe, the film performed well at the box office, but Shearer made errors in judgment, passing up roles in the highly successful films Now, Voyager and Mrs. Miniver, in order to star in We Were Dancing and Her Cardboard Lover ( 1942 ), which both failed at the box office.

Although Caine also took better roles, including a BAFTA-winning turn in Educating Rita ( 1983 ), and an Oscar-winning one in Hannah and Her Sisters ( 1986 ) and a Golden Globe-nominated one in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels ( 1988 ), he continued to appear in notorious duds like the thinly veiled skin flick Blame It on Rio, the Dick Clement and Ian Le Frenais comedy Water and the critical-commercial flop Jaws: The Revenge ( 1987 ) ( in which he had mixed feelings about the production and the final cut ) and Bullseye!

Garbo had successfully made the transition to talkies and after three less profitable films, Romance ( 1930 ), Inspiration ( 1931 ), and Susan Lenox ( Her Fall and Rise ) ( 1931 ), she performed two of her most famous roles.

Her final years were marred by a long period of ill health, but she continued acting until shortly before her death from breast cancer, with more than 100 films, television and theater roles to her credit.

Her image was considered with more care ; although she continued to play character roles, she was often filmed in close-ups that emphasized her distinctive eyes.

Her film choices were often unconventional ; she sought roles as manipulators and killers in an era when actresses usually preferred to play sympathetic characters, and she excelled in them.

* Her notoriety intersected with the criminal obsessions and camp sensibilities of filmmaker John Waters, who has used Hearst in numerous small roles in films including Cry-Baby, Serial Mom, Pecker, Cecil B. DeMented, and A Dirty Shame.

Her other film roles included the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland ( 1972 ), Livia in the abortively-attempted I, Claudius ( 1937 ), Miss Milchrest in Murder at the Gallop ( 1963 ).

Rossellini is noted for her 14-year tenure as a Lancôme model, and for her roles in films such as Blue Velvet and Death Becomes Her.

Some other notable film roles include her work in Cousins, Death Becomes Her, Immortal Beloved, and Fearless.