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 half-brother the artist and writer Quentin Bell eventually became the club ’ s secretary, and later wrote his aunt ’ s biography.

Her father was a unionized machinist and her mother worked as a secretary.

Her final acting role, a bit part as a secretary, was three years later, in February 1964's fifth season installment, " From Agnes — With Love ", in which, as here, she is unbilled.

Her letters written to Dundas, then secretary for war and the colonies, and her diaries of travels into the interior have become an important source of information about the people, events and social life of the time.

Her first appearance in a written story is in the final pages of There Was An Old Woman ( 1943 ), when a character with whom Ellery has had some flirtatious moments announces spontaneously that she's changing her name to Nikki Porter and going to work as Ellery's secretary.

Her commitment paid off in 1970, when Marisol Malaret, a 20-year-old executive secretary, became the very first Puerto Rican to hold the coveted title of Miss Universe.

Her mother, a Spaniard, was the friend and private secretary of Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII.

Her father also served as the first foreign secretary for Indochina under Japanese occupation.

Her personal secretary, Bertha Berner ( who was the only other person present who had also been at the scene of the previous incident ), prepared the solution, which Stanford drank.

Her job at Citroen was as secretary to Lieutenant Jean Maxime Aron ( code name ' Joseph ') who was also a Jewish Resistance leader in France.

Her parents were a secretary and a shop steward for the United Food and Commercial Workers Union.

Her mother was a secretary at Rowntree Mackintosh ( now owned by Nestlé ).

Her lyrics would usually be transcribed by Alexander Van Alstyne, or later by her half-sister Carolyn " Carrie " Ryder or her secretary Eva C. Cleaveland, as Crosby herself could write little more than her name.

Her aunt was Davorjanka Paunović, private secretary and mistress of Josip Broz Tito.

Her brother Sir John Winnifrith was a senior British civil servant who became permanent secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture.

Her mother, Maxine, a secretary, left the family in 1982, leaving her daughter to be partially raised by her paternal grandmother, Eleanor, in Kitchener, Ontario.

Her secretary wrote that Barber was " upset " by Blixen's premature departure from the opera.

Her father was Harold Phelps Stokes, a newspaper correspondent and secretary to Herbert Hoover.

Her husband's chief secretary, Chinqai, and the administrator, Mahmud Yalavach fled to her son Koden in North China while Turkestani administrator Masud Begh, fled to Batu Khan in Russia.

Her father was a physician, and her mother was a secretary with the Los Angeles Zoo.

Her constant involvement in the party's affairs earned her several high-ranking positions, among them those of secretary, vice-president, and executive delegate of its delegation in New York.

Her job during this time usually took the form of little more than a secretary ( albeit in an unusually challenging and glorified environment ) until Josh sent her as an observer for an American diplomatic mission to Gaza in response to her request for opportunities for job growth.

Her big TV break came in 1991 with the role of Joy, the intelligent, acid-tongued secretary and foil to her corporate-speak boss, in the Channel 4 comedy Drop The Dead Donkey.

Her half brothers, William and Joscelin, were acknowledged by William X as his sons, but not as his heirs.

Some remained in politics: Mackenzie Bowell continued to serve as a senator ; R. B. Bennett moved to the United Kingdom after being elevated to the House of Lords ; and a number led Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition in the Canadian parliament: John A. Macdonald, Arthur Meighen, William Lyon Mackenzie King, and Pierre Trudeau, all before being re-appointed as premier ( Mackenzie King twice ); Alexander Mackenzie and John Diefenbaker, both prior to sitting as regular Members of Parliament until their deaths ; Wilfrid Laurier dying while still in the post ; and Charles Tupper, Louis St. Laurent, and John Turner, each before they returned to private business.

* Chafe, William H., " The American Woman: Her Changing Social, Economic, And Political Roles, 1920 – 1970 ", Oxford University Press, 1972.

Her conclusions were anticipated by William Henry Bragg, who published models of naphthalene and anthracene in 1921 based on other molecules, an early form of molecular replacement.

Her dismembered body is found on December 19, prompting the largest manhunt to date on the West Coast for her killer, William Edward Hickman, who is arrested on December 22 in Oregon.

Her paternal grandfather was of Sicilian descent, and her paternal grandmother was a descendant of Mayflower pilgrim William Brewster.

Her castle at Clare Island was attacked by an expedition from Galway led by Sheriff William Óge Martyn in March 1579.

Her next film was Nothing Sacred in 1937, casting her opposite Fredric March and under the direction of William A. Wellman.

Her friend, actor William Haines, quipped, " They might have called you ' Cranberry ' and served you every Thanksgiving with the turkey!

Her father, the Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, was a single parent who raised his six children there.

Her Protestant brother-in-law and cousin William III became joint monarch with his wife, Anne's sister Mary II.

Her mother was descended from British Prime Minister William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, and Governor-General of India Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, who was the elder brother of another Prime Minister, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.

Her mother was Alice Montague, a daughter of insurance salesman William Montague.

Her brother William was a Lutheran but the family was unaligned religiously, with her mother, the Duchess Maria described as a " strict Catholic.

Her brother, William and sister, Anne had been present at court.

Her eldest sister Margaret married Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor in 1324 ; and in 1345, she became the suo jure Countess of Hainaut upon the death of their brother William in battle.

Her mother and brother, Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, fled to England.

Her paternal grandparents were William the Conqueror and Matilda of Flanders.

Her cousin Stephen of Blois was, like her, a grandchild of William ( the Conqueror ) of Normandy ; but her paternal line meant she was senior to Stephen in the line of succession.

* American — Bloch, Albert: Many works, including Harlequinade ( 1911 ), Piping Pierrot ( 1911 ), Harlequin and Pierrot ( 1913 ), Three Pierrots and Harlequin ( 1914 ); Bradley, Will: Various posters and illustrations ( see, e. g., " Banning " under Poetry below ); Heintzelman, Arthur William: Pierrot ( n. d .); Hopper, Edward: Soir Bleu ( 1914 ); Kuhn, Walt: The White Clown ( 1929 ); Parrish, Maxfield: Pierrot's Serenade ( 1908 ), The Lantern-Bearers ( 1908 ), Her Window ( 1922 ); Sloan, John: Clown Making Up ( 1909 ).

Her niece Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, daughter of Duke Charles II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, married Frederick William III of Hohenzollern in 1793 and became queen consort of Prussia in 1797.

Her deed was committed to verse by William Wordsworth in his poem Grace Darling ( 1843 ).

Her legacy survives in numerous works of art and the many dramatizations of her story in literature and other media, including William Shakespeare's tragedy Antony and Cleopatra, Jules Massenet's opera Cléopâtre and the film Cleopatra ( 1963 ).