Dwan also helped launch the career of two other very successful Hollywood directors, Victor Fleming, who went on to direct The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind, and Marshall Neilan, who became an actor, director, writer and producer.

To promote American patriotic heritage in schools, she helped launch the National Anthem Project.

In the 1970s, the magazine also helped launch the careers of many prominent authors, including Cameron Crowe, Lester Bangs, Joe Klein, Joe Eszterhas, Patti Smith and P. J. O ' Rourke.

Though not expected to be either a commercial or critical success, The Terminator topped the American box office for two weeks and helped launch the film career of Cameron and consolidate that of Schwarzenegger.

* Canon 18 required every cathedral church to appoint a master to teach the clerics and the poor scholars of the church ; this action helped launch the cathedral schools that later became universities.

William Wordsworth ( 7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850 ) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads.

Films such as The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep are considered classics and helped launch the careers of legendary actors such as Humphrey Bogart and Ava Gardner.

" He received a writing credit for National Lampoon's Lemmings which helped launch the careers of John Belushi, Chevy Chase and Christopher Guest.

The Somersett's case in 1772, which emancipated a slave in England, helped launch the British movement to abolish slavery.

The Somersett's case became a significant part of the common law of slavery in the English-speaking world, and it helped launch the movement to abolish slavery.

In 1985, Benoit recorded a cover of Guaraldi's " Linus and Lucy " for an album called This Side Up, which enjoyed considerable radio airplay and helped launch the smooth jazz genre.

It also helped launch the career of internationally renowned Australian cinematographer Russell Boyd.

Funds that she helped to collect were used to buy a river launch, called Alexandra, to ferry the wounded during the Sudan campaign, and to fit out a hospital ship, named The Princess of Wales, to bring back wounded from the Boer War.

) In October, Newton-John helped launch the www. liv. com website and teamed with fitness franchise Curves to distribute one million Liv-Aid breast self-examination aids for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

* Bradford ( software program ), that helped to launch the shareware movement

Gary Cooper appears in a role which helped launch his career in Hollywood and also marked the beginning of his affair with Clara Bow.

As general manager, McFarland helped launch the classic movie channel, The Nostalgia Channel in 1985.

The film helped launch Antonio Fargas, Clarence Williams III, Carl Lee, and Gloria Foster, who married Williams three years later.

It also helped launch Kathleen Turner to stardom, reintroduced Douglas as a capable leading man, and gave director Robert Zemeckis his first box-office success.

In 2004, the birth of sextuplets to Pennsylvania couple Kate and Jon Gosselin helped them to launch their own highly popular television series, originally Jon & Kate Plus 8 and now ( following their divorce ) Kate Plus 8, which is the highest rated show on the TLC network.

He has also helped launch the careers of actors including Jack Nicholson, William Shatner, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Talia Shire and Robert De Niro.

During this time RuPaul helped launch the return of WKTU radio in New York City and would serve as host ( with Michelle Visage ) of the morning show until 1998.

In 1976, the foundation helped launch the Grameen Bank, which offers small loans to the rural poor of Bangladesh.

The founding of Netscape was a pivotal point that helped launch the Internet IPO boom on Wall Street during the mid to late 1990s, and Clark reaped the financial benefits of the Internet boom — with an investment of US $ 5 million, he earned US $ 2 billion.

Game Informer commented that the game helped the launch of the Nintendo 64.

It was certified as Gold Album by the Recording Industry Association of America and helped revive both Wynette's and Lynn's careers.

This helped the careers of many notable artists, including Dorothea Lange.

In 1968, Ron Clark, at the age of 25, established in conjunction with the Whitney Museum of American Art an independent study program ( known as the ISP or sometimes the Whitney ISP ), which helped start the careers of artists, critics, and curators including Julian Schnabel, Paul Pfeiffer, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Kathryn Bigelow, Roberta Smith, and Mai-Thu Perret, as well as many other well-known, influential cultural producers.

Wells's later career was punctuated by injury, but, by competing into his mid-30s, he helped to set the trend for sprinters to have longer careers.

The success of King Kong led to a number of other early special effects films, including Mighty Joe Young, which was also animated by O ' Brien and helped to start the careers of several animators, including Ray Harryhausen, who came into his own in the 1950s.

It was the most successful all-female music festival in history, one of the biggest music festivals of the 1990s, and helped launch the careers of several well-known female artists.

The eldest brother, Theobald Walter, and Walter himself, were helped in their careers by their uncle, Ranulf de Glanvill.

The 1990s saw a run of successful comedies such as Muriel's Wedding, The Castle and Strictly Ballroom, which helped launch the careers of Toni Collette, P. J. Hogan, Eric Bana and Baz Luhrmann.

Established artists often pay homage to artists or songs that inspired them before they started their careers or musicians who in some way helped them enter show business by recording their own versions of tunes associated with that artist ( See, for example, I Remember Tommy ) or performing tunes associated with their favourite influential musician ( s ) in their own live performances for variety.

Bandleaders such as the Dorsey Brothers often helped launch the careers of vocalists who went on to popularity as solo artists, such as Frank Sinatra.

During the 1980s and 1990s, Gradi helped launch the careers of many players who went on to play top division and even international football.

" The group also collaborated frequently with west coast emcees Defari and Amad Jamal ( an Urban Umpires member ) and helped to launch their careers.

The arts scene that sprouted at the Fashion Moda Gallery, founded by a Viennese artist, Stefan Eins, helped ignite the careers of artists like Keith Haring and Jenny Holzer, and 1980s break dancers like the Rock Steady Crew.

The sketch comedy show helped launch the careers of male comedians / actors Jim Carrey ( then credited as " James Carrey "), one of only two Caucasian members of the original cast, Jamie Foxx, who joined the cast in the third season and David Alan Grier ( an established theatre actor, who had worked in Keenen Ivory Wayans ' 1988 motion picture I'm Gonna Git You Sucka ).

In 1993, many of the biggest individuals and bands in Congo's history were brought together for an event that helped to revitalize Congolese music, and also jumpstarted the careers of popular bands like Swede Swede.

Local broadcasting stations also helped many voice actors in the early stages of their careers, before the television age and the advent of foreign drama series concentrated most of the voice acting business in the Tokyo area.

He was also host of the successful weekly syndicated series Star Search, which began in 1983 and helped launch the careers of numerous actors, singers, choreographers, and comedians.

The film Pumping Iron ( 1977 ), featured the build up to the 1975 Mr. Olympia in Pretoria South Africa and helped launch the acting careers of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lou Ferrigno.

In fact, Goldsworthy suggests that the success of Monkey Grip may well have helped revive the careers of two older but largely ignored Australian women writers, Jessica Anderson and Thea Astley.

2 Stupid Dogs eventually helped launch the careers of creators Genndy Tartakovsky ( Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack, Star Wars: Clone Wars and Sym-Bionic Titan ), Craig McCracken ( The Powerpuff Girls and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends ), Butch Hartman ( The Fairly OddParents, Danny Phantom, and T. U. F. F.