Lerner's autobiography The Street Where I Live ( 1978 ), was an account of three of his and Loewe's successful collaborations, My Fair Lady, Gigi, and Camelot along with personal information.

Holloway entitled his 1967 autobiography Wiv a Little Bit of Luck after the song he performed in My Fair Lady.

As an author, Frooks wrote many fiction and nonfiction books, including The Olympic Torch, The American Heart and Lady Lawyer, her autobiography.

When Sir William Gregory died in March 1892, Lady Gregory went into mourning and returned to Coole Park where she edited her husband's autobiography, which she published in 1894.

Lady Sings the Blues is a 1972 American biographical film about jazz singer Billie Holiday loosely based on her 1956 autobiography which, in turn, took its title from one of Holiday's most popular songs.

* First Lady from Plains ( autobiography ), 1984, ISBN 1-55728-355-9

According to the autobiography of Tolbert's wife Victoria, the First Lady witnessed a masked man with a " white " hand stabbing her late husband.

In her autobiography Dors by Diana, the actress Diana Dors mentioned the filming of the 1951 comedy Lady Godiva Rides Again, in which she starred.

Having withdrawn from the world of pornography out of disappointment with the purely commercial approach of American distributors and the resulting inferiority of video productions, Braun has dedicated himself to writing scientific works on sexology ( L ' impeto di Venere, dealing with the G-spot ) and on anthropology, erotic historical novels such as Lady Caligula ( both in English and his native tongue, Italian ), erotic thrillers, a study of prostitution, and his autobiography.

Nancy Mitford said that Trefusis autobiography should be titled Here Lies Violet Trefusis, and partly based the character of Lady Montdore in Love in a Cold Climate on her.

To the first belong Memorials of a Quiet Life ( about his adoptive mother ), Story of Two Noble Lives ( Lady Canning and Lady Waterford ), The Gurneys of Earlham, and an autobiography in several volumes.

In 1673 Francis Kirkman wrote, and issued under his own name, The Counterfeit Lady Unveiled, a fictional autobiography

Motown founder Berry Gordy gave Claudette the official title of the " First Lady of Motown ", as noted in his autobiography, because, as a member of the Miracles, ( Motown's first group and first recording act ), she was the first female artist ever signed to a Motown-affiliated record label ( Tamla ).

During that time, there was also a visit from former First Lady turned book editor Jackie Onassis, who wanted to sign her up for an autobiography but was unhappy with the co-author assigned to the project.

William Dufty, sixth husband of actress Gloria Swanson and noted author of " Lady Sings the Blues ", the 1956 autobiography of blues singer Billie Holiday, borrowed this concept as the title of his book " You Are All Sanpaku ", which was based on Sakurazawa Nyoichi's teachings.

The first biography about Pancho was published in 1986, The Lady Who Tamed Pegasus: The Story of Pancho Barnes, written by Grover Ted Tate, who relied heavily upon the copyrighted autobiography materials of Pancho Barnes.

Her autobiography, An Un-American Lady, is a colorful account of an upper-class, expatriate socialite in the pre-and post-WWII era, and also recounts her involuntary detainment in the US, stalking by FBI and CIA agents, and description of McCarthy-era America.

His mother, Lady Hyegyeong, wrote an autobiography, The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyeong ( 한중록, 閑中錄 ), detailing her life as the ill-fated Crown Princess of Korea.

And particularly in the musical field, adaptations have long been the rule, from Die Fledermaus and The Merry Widow to Oklahoma! and My Fair Lady.

In 1956, Lerner and Loewe unveiled My Fair Lady.

Before finishing the musical, Lerner was eager to write while My Fair Lady was taking so long to complete.

Most biographers blame Lerner's professional decline on the lack of a strong director with whom Lerner could collaborate, as Neil Simon did with Mike Nichols or Stephen Sondheim with Harold Prince ( Moss Hart, who had directed My Fair Lady, died shortly after Camelot opened ).

He was surprisingly able to complete " I Could Have Danced All Night " from My Fair Lady in one 24 hour period.

He would sometimes write songs with someone in mind, for instance, " I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face " from My Fair Lady was written with Rex Harrison in mind to complement his very limited vocal range.

In a 1979 interview on NPR's All Things Considered, Lerner went into some depth about his lyrics for My Fair Lady.

* Best Book of a Musical, 1957 My Fair Lady

* Best Original Score, 1957 My Fair Lady and 1974 Gigi

* Best Musical, 1957 My Fair Lady

* My Fair Lady ( 1956 ), with Frederick Loewe

* My Fair Lady, 1964 ( screenwriter / lyricist )

The Making of My Fair Lady.

Other notable early disco hits include The Jackson 5 ’ s " Dancing Machine " ( 1974 ), Barry White ’ s " You're the First, the Last, My Everything " ( 1974 ), LaBelle ’ s " Lady Marmalade " ( 1975 ) and Silver Convention ’ s " Fly Robin Fly " ( 1975 ).

It produced full scale productions of popular musicals and operettas including Oklahoma !, Carousel, The Mikado, Guys and Dolls, The Pirates of Penzance, Me and My Girl, My Fair Lady, The Yeoman of the Guard, Gigi, Fiddler on the Roof, The Gondoliers, Anything Goes, The Merry Widow, Iolanthe, The Producers and HMS Pinafore.

Not only were Chandler's novels turned into major noirs — Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 ; adapted from Farewell, My Lovely ), The Big Sleep ( 1946 ), and Lady in the Lake ( 1947 )— he was an important screenwriter in the genre as well, producing the scripts for Double Indemnity, The Blue Dahlia ( 1946 ), and Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ).

He was replaced as the director of Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), but he went on to direct The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), Adam's Rib ( 1949 ), Born Yesterday ( 1950 ), A Star Is Born ( 1954 ) and My Fair Lady ( 1964 ).

Despite this reputation, during his career, he oversaw more performances honored with the Academy Award for Best Actor than any other director: James Stewart in The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), Ronald Colman in A Double Life ( 1947 ), and Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady ( 1964 ).

Two years later, Cukor achieved one of his greatest successes with My Fair Lady.

Following My Fair Lady, Cukor became less active.

" Biographer Ian McIntyre discusses the possibility of Reynolds having enjoyed sexual rendezvous with certain clients, such as Nelly O ' Brien ( or " My Lady O ' Brien ", as he playfully dubbed her ) and Kitty Fisher, who visited his house for more sittings than were strictly necessary.

After he had turned down an offer to play Alfred Doolittle in My Fair Lady, he found it easier to rebuff others, including a part in The Godfather Part II.

Lord and Lady Mountbatten with Muhammad Ali JinnahNotwithstanding the self-promotion of his own part in Indian independence — notably in the television series The Life and Times of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Mountbatten of Burma, produced by his son-in-law Lord Brabourne and Dominique Lapierre, and Larry Collins's Freedom at Midnight ( of which he was the main quoted source ) — his record is seen as very mixed ; one common view is that he hastened the independence process unduly and recklessly, foreseeing vast disruption and loss of life and not wanting this to occur on the British watch, but thereby actually causing it to occur, especially in Punjab and Bengal.

The last one, Ninti ( Lady Rib ), is also a pun on Lady Life, a title of Ninhursag herself.

In addition to his three directing wins, Capra received directing nominations for three other films ( Lady for a Day, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and It's a Wonderful Life ).

and Lady in the Dark ); and Harold Arlen ( Life Begins at 8: 40 ; A Star Is Born ).

* Balthild, queen of the Franks ( died ca 680 ), presented in The Life of Lady Bathild, Queen of the Franks ( in Fouracre and Gerberding 1996 )

In the 20th century the traditions of Russian opera were developed by many composers including Sergei Rachmaninoff in his works The Miserly Knight and Francesca da Rimini, Igor Stravinsky in Le Rossignol, Mavra, Oedipus rex, and The Rake's Progress, Sergei Prokofiev in The Gambler, The Love for Three Oranges, The Fiery Angel, Betrothal in a Monastery, and War and Peace ; as well as Dmitri Shostakovich in The Nose and Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, Edison Denisov in L ' écume des jours, and Alfred Schnittke in Life with an Idiot and Historia von D. Johann Fausten.

* Life of a Lady: A Play in Three Acts ( 1936 ) with Derek Patmore

She played an officious headmistress in The Happiest Days of Your Life at the Apollo Theatre in 1948 and such classical roles as Madame Desmortes in Ring Round the Moon ( Globe Theatre, 1950 ), Lady Wishfort in The Way of the World ( Lyric Hammersmith, 1953 and Saville Theatre, 1956 ) and Mrs Candour in The School for Scandal ( Haymarket Theatre, 1962 ).

Other film versions ( which are loose adaptations as opposed to straight translations from stage to screen ) include: the 1929 The Framing of the Shrew, directed by Arvid E. Gillstrom, and starring Edward Thompson and Evelyn Preer ; the 1933 You Made Me Love You, directed by Monty Banks, and starring Stanley Lupino and Thelma Todd ; the 1938 Second Best Bed, directed by Tom Walls, and starring Jane Baxter and Walls himself ; the 1942 Italian adaptation La bisbetica domata, directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli, and starring Amedeo Nazzari and Lilia Silvi ; the 1943 Hungarian adaptation Makacs Kata ( Stubborn Kate ) directed by Emil Martonffy, and starring Katalin Karády and Pál Jávor ; another 1943 Hungarian adaptation, Makrancos hölgy ( Unruly Lady ), directed by Viktor Bánky, and starring Emmi Buttykay and Miklós Hajmássy ; the 1948 Mexican adaptation Cartas marcadas, directed by René Cardona, and starring Marga López and Pedro Infante ; the 1956 Spanish adaptation La fierecilla domada, directed by Antonio Román, and starring Carmen Sevilla and Alberto Closas ; the 1962 Egyptian adaptation Ah min hawaa, directed by Fatin Abdel Wahab, and starring Lobna Abdel Aziz and Rushdy Abaza ; the 1963 western McLintock !, directed by Andrew McLaglen, and starring John Wayne and Maureen O ' Hara ; the 1999 teen film 10 Things I Hate About You, directed by Gil Junger, and starring Julia Stiles as Kat Stratford ( Katherina ) and Heath Ledger as Patrick Verona ( Petruchio ); the 2003 comedy Deliver Us from Eva, directed by Gary Hardwick, and starring Gabrielle Union and LL Cool J ; and the 2010 Bollywood film Isi Life Mein, directed by Vidhi Kasliwal, and starring Akshay Oberoi and Sandeepa Dhar.

In 1959, Hiroshi Inagaki wrote and directed a Japanese version, Aru kengo no shogai ( Life of an Expert Swordsman or Samurai Saga ), setting the story in 17th century Shogunate Japan and starring Toshirō Mifune as the Cyrano character " Heihachiro Komaki " and Yoko Tsukasa as the Roxanne character " Lady Ochii ".

She is mentioned in the beginning of A S Byatt's novel The Virgin in the Garden where, the Poet-Playwright character Alexander Wedderburn likens Lady Antonia Fraser to Belphoebe and the heroine of the Quartet ,( consisting of the novelsThe Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower & A Whistling Woman ), Frederica Potter to " Britomart ".

* < cite id = refGlines1997 > Glines, C. V. "' Lady Lindy ': The Remarkable Life of Amelia Earhart.

In Dune, Lady Jessica notes that the ritual originated with the " discovery of the poison drug on Rossak "; the Sisterhood used some form or descendant of this drug until the discovery of the so-called Water of Life on Arrakis.

" Lady Antonia Fraser's Life Less Ordinary: In a Frank Interview, the Famed Writer Talks about Motherhood, Catholicism, Her Parents and Soulmate Harold Pinter ".

* Nancy, the Life of Lady Astor Christopher Sykes ( London, Collins, 1972 )

In 1992 Anderson appeared on Kitaro's album Dream, adding both lyrics and vocals to three songs: " Lady of Dreams ", " Island of Life " and " Agreement ".

* Island of Life / Lady of Dreams ( 1992 )

* on the album: " Dreams " on the tracks: " Lady Of Dreams ", " Agreement ", " Dream Of Chant ", " Island Of Life " ( 1992 )

* Blithfield Hall-A descriptive Survey and History Nancy, Lady Bagot ( 1966 ) English Life Publications

Also Faust, Bomber, Doctor Who: The Vengeance of Morbius, Empire of the Sun, Brighton Rock, Fair Stood the Wind for France, Fluke, Great Speeches in History, How Proust Can Change Your Life, Lady Windermere's Fan, Peter Pan, The Alchemist, The Day of the Triffids, The Hairy Hands, The Lives of Christopher Chant, The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous, The Queen's Man, The Solitaire Mystery, The Swimming Pool Library, The Two Destinies, The Velveteen Rabbit, The Way I Found Her, The Way to Dusty Death, The Woodlanders, Under the Net, Wuthering Heights and Philip Pullman's Grimm Tales for Young and Old.

After My Fair Lady, Holloway was able to get film roles in Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter ( 1968 ), which starred the 1960s British pop group Herman's Hermits, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Flight of the Doves and Up the Front, all in the early 1970s.

* MAD, BAD AND DANGEROUS TO KNOW-The Life of Lady Caroline Lamb

* " Lady ", " You Decorated My Life " and similar songs by Kenny Rogers