This education, history, and background are hinted at in the Margaret Rutherford films ( see below ), in which Miss Marple mentions her awards at marksmanship, fencing and equestrianism ( although these hints are played for comedic value ).

On March 3, 1923, in Havana, Cuba, Nin married her first husband, Hugh Parker Guiler ( 1898 – 1985 ), a banker and artist, later known as " Ian Hugo " when he became a maker of experimental films in the late 1940s.

She started her acting career in 1952 and, after appearing in 16 films, became world-famous due to her role in her then-husband Roger Vadim's controversial film And God Created Woman.

During her career in show business, Bardot starred in 47 films, performed in numerous musical shows, and recorded 80 songs.

Bardot is recognized for popularizing bikini swimwear in early films such as Manina ( Woman without a Veil, 1952 ), in her appearances at Cannes and in many photo shoots.

Love worked with director Alex Cox on her first two films ; she gained a small part in the Sid Vicious biopic Sid and Nancy ( 1986 ), and was then given the leading role in his following film, Straight to Hell ( 1987 ), which caught the attention of artist Andy Warhol.

Though she later appeared in films Naked in New York ( 1993 ) and Getting In ( 1994 ), her first substantial speaking part in a film was in Quiz Show, directed by Robert Redford.

Besides a number of appearances in films produced by her company, Flower Films, including Charlie's Angels, Barrymore had a dramatic role in the comedy / drama Riding in Cars with Boys ( 2001 ), playing a teenage mother in a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father ( based on the real-life story of Beverly D ' Onofrio ).

Critics and comics dubbed Day " The World's Oldest Virgin ", and audiences began to shy away from her films.

Later, Elvis Presley recorded a number of her songs written for his films.

At Gaumont, pioneer Alice Guy Blaché ( M. Gaumont's former secretary ) was made head of production and oversaw about 400 films, from her first, La Fée aux Choux, in 1896, through 1906.

However, her greatest known films were produced under her deal with RKO Radio Pictures, Inc ..

For her appearances in various horror films, many have considered Wray the first " scream queen ".

She continued to star in various films, but by the early 1940s, her appearances became less frequent.

Cukor directed her in several films, both successful ( Little Women, 1933 ) and disastrous ( Sylvia Scarlett, 1935 ), and they became close friends off the set.

Ingeborg Gude made the puppets for these films as well, as she would continue to do up until her death in the mid sixties.

Her films My Best Friend's Wedding ( 1997 ), Mystic Pizza ( 1988 ), Notting Hill ( 1999 ), Runaway Bride ( 1999 ), Valentine's Day ( 2010 ), The Pelican Brief ( 1993 ), Ocean's Eleven ( 2001 ), and Ocean's Twelve ( 2004 ) have collectively brought box office receipts of over $ 2. 4 billion, making her one of the most successful actresses in terms of box office receipts.

During the rest of her life she wrote the scripts of many of her husband's films.

Since then her films have included the romantic comedy Wimbledon ( 2004 ), the romantic science fiction Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ( 2004 ) and Cameron Crowe's tragicomedy Elizabethtown ( 2005 ).

Although she directed only eight films, just two of which received significant coverage outside of Germany, Riefenstahl was widely known all her life.

The propaganda value of her films made during the 1930s repels most modern commentators, but many film histories cite the aesthetics as outstanding.

In 2003, Ying Wa College moved to her Shum Shui Po campus.

Mina Shum was born in Hong Kong in 1966 and came to Vancouver with her family at the age of one.

In her early school years, Shum was interested in acting and theatre, and decided to pursue these interests despite her parents ’ disapproval.

When discussing her association with feminism and multiculturalism Shum says, “ Because I'm a living breathing human being in Vancouver, which is a very multicultural city, and I'm a woman, I tend to get tagged as someone who might write about " issues.

In 1993, Shum released a 20-minute documentary about the her family titled, Me, Mom and Mona.

In her three films, Double Happiness, Drive, She Said, and Long Life, Happiness, and Prosperity, Shum uses a comedic approach to depict the Chinese Canadian family in multicultural Canada.

Starring the Chinese-born actress / comedienne Lydia Shum as Lydia Lum, a popular Hong Kong restaurateur / caterer and widowed mother to two children-13 year-old son Jordan and 18 year-old daughter Apple-are forced to find a new locale when her Dim Sum establishment is hit with a case of food poisoning after she hosted an event and is ordered by the authorities to close her business ( she is labeled " Dim Sum killer " by her former patrons, even though she is unaware that someone falsely accused her so they can force her out of business ).

The 4th season of the series was rebroadcast on Singapore's Channel 5 in 2008 as a tribute to Shum, after her death.

She dropped out of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, to spend time in Hong Kong while her mother, Shum, was diagnosed with cancer.

In 2007 Cheng performed in the Tung Wah charity fundraising telethon, raising HK $ 310, 000, which included a special HK $ 10, 000 from her mother, Lydia Shum.

Kathleen Norris in her book Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith characterizes this transformation of the original words as " wretched English " making the line that replaces the original " laughably bland ".

" Although he characterizes himself as highly successful and accomplished, it is revealed by Maude that he is simply " allowed " to run some of the philanthropic efforts of her mother ’ s estate.

She characterizes the latter as predominantly negative and proscriptive: it defines a person ’ s territory, including his or her property and dependents, which is not to be damaged or interfered with.

This move away from a clear Fabel dramaturgy towards increasingly fragmented and surrealistic narratives characterizes her work as postmodernist.

In her first two biographies, Linda Boreman characterizes making the film as a liberating experience ; in her third and fourth biographies ( written after she had come out with her stories of sexual abuse, rape, and forced prostitution in the porn business ), she charges that she did not consent to many of the depicted sexual acts and that she was coerced to perform by her abusive husband, Chuck Traynor, who received $ 1, 250 for her acting.

Regarding the Section 1 analysis, L ' Heureux-Dubé registers her agreement with the analysis of Iacobucci and characterizes the " incremental " approach, suggested by Sopinka, as undermining the values that Section 1 sought to protect.

Bird ( 1952 ; London, Tate ), one of a number of bird sculptures, and her first successful pieces ( also Three Heads and the Figurative Tradition ) with its alert, menacing stance, characterizes her early work.

The vocalized version of the song " Pollyanna " for the video game Mother characterizes a cheerful girl that believes in fairy tales and optimism, but disregards any comments towards her sanity.

Gifford's Ulysses Annotated characterizes her as " the ultimate arbiter of stuffy middle-class propriety.

Erikson's stage theory characterizes an individual advancing through the eight life stages as a function of negotiating his or her biological forces and sociocultural forces.

Dratch was raised in a Reform Jewish family, and had a Bat Mitzvah, but is not practicing as an adult, and instead characterizes the faith she was born into as part of her cultural heritage.

Als characterizes the division as " good and evil ", and notes how Angelou's witness of the evil in her society, " generally directed at black women ", shaped Angelou's young life and informed her views into adulthood.

In " The Idiot Boy ," both the mother Betty and her idiot son, Johnny, achieve the spontaneous overflow that characterizes a successful creation, but the poet cannot, and repeatedly laments his inability to describe in poetic form what the story contains.

King characterizes Annie Wilkes as a cunning, brutal and dangerously disturbed woman who hides her psychosis behind a cheery facade.

An aura of royalty characterizes her overall bearing and ambiance.

She herself always insisted on their platonic nature and characterizes her relationships as the " meeting of souls ," as in these lines from " To my Excellent Lucasia, on our Friendship ":

The writer of a 1797 review in The Monthly Review praised Radcliffe ’ s visual and descriptive language in the novel, citing “ the part … which displays the greatest genius, and the most force of description, is the account of the scenes which passed in the long house on the shore of the Adriatic, between Schedoni, Ellena, and Spalatro :-The horrible sublimity which characterizes the discovery made by the former that Ellena was his daughter, at the instant in which he was about to stab her, was perhaps unparalleled .” This style of ‘ painting the sublime ’ reflects the preference for allegorical or transcendent imagery over physical or realistic imagery in the Gothic literary and artistic period.