Her skin crawled: Lolotte had told Maude that she was in the hall and the door was open.

She paused at the kitchen door, caught her breath, told herself firmly that the opium was only an attempt to frighten her and went into the kitchen, where Glendora was eyeing the chickens dismally and Maude was cleaning lamp chimneys.

Haley's father William Albert Haley was from Kentucky and played the banjo and mandolin, his mother Maude Green originally from Ulverston in England was a technically accomplished keyboardist with classical training.

Harold and Maude ( 1971 ) was not successful financially at the time of its original release, but has since earned a cult following and has become successful following its video and DVD releases.

In 1970 the movie Harold and Maude was filmed at the toll plaza and showed Maude speeding and disobeying a police officer.

Harold and Maude was also a play on Broadway that closed after four performances.

Harold and Maude was acknowledged as the ninth best film in the romantic comedy genre.

She was perhaps best known for her film roles such as Minnie Castevet, Rosemary's overly solicitous neighbor in Rosemary's Baby, as the eccentric Maude in Harold and Maude and as the mother of Orville Boggs in the Clint Eastwood film Every Which Way but Loose.

Gordon won another Golden Globe for Rosemary's Baby, and was nominated again, in 1971, for her role as Maude in the cult classic Harold and Maude ( with Bud Cort as her love interest ).

The Dude is mostly inspired by Jeff Dowd, a member of the anti-war radical group the Seattle Liberation Front ( The Dude tells Maude Lebowski during the film that he was one of the Seattle Seven, who were members of the SLF ).

According to Julianne Moore, the character of Maude was based on artist Carolee Schneemann, " who worked naked from a swing ," and Yoko Ono.

The original House was built by Colonel John Browne, a Jacobite, who was at the Siege of Limerick, and his wife Maude Bourke.

Maude Bourke was Gráinne Ní Mháille ’ s great-great granddaughter.

Burton was less than two years old in 1927 when his mother, Edith Maude ( née Thomas ), died at the age of 43 after giving birth to her 13th child.

Empress Matilda ( c. 7 February 1102 – 10 September 1167 ), also known as Matilda of England or Maude, was the daughter and heir of King Henry I of England.

One of three sons, Findley was born in Toronto, Ontario, to Allan Gilmour Findley, a stockbroker, and his wife, the former Margaret Maude Bull.

Yet Maude had suggested that Sarah return to New York.

And what news, Sarah thought as satirically as Maude might have said it.

Mansfield 103. 2 have a dedicated sales team, led by Sales Director Peter Topley, with Paul Chadbourne-the Sales Consultant, followed by Dave Plowright and Sarah Maude, both Advertising Executives.

In the theatre he knew Maude Adams and Sarah Bernhardt and painted a portrait of Sada Yacco, the Japanese actress.

Amongst the 19th century actresses who made a mark in travesti roles were Mary Anne Keeley who portrayed Smike in the stage adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby and the robber Jack Sheppard in Buckstone's play based on his life ; Maude Adams who played Peter Pan in the American premiere of Barrie's play and went on to play the role over 1500 times ; and Sarah Bernhardt who created the role of Napoleon II of France in Edmond Rostand's L ' Aiglon as well as playing Lorenzino de ' Medici in Musset's Lorenzaccio, Pelléas in Maeterlinck's Pelléas and Mélisande and perhaps most famously the title role in Hamlet.

* Behave Yourself-Essie Whimple, Maude Simpson, Sarah Simpson and Tom Baxter

Maude swooped up the cup and hiked up her top hoop as if about to take off with a racing start.

Maude could have shot Emile -- if she'd had a reason to kill him.

Eventually Rob reconciles with both Micki and Maude, though it is not clear if the two women are aware he has reconciled with the other.

DVD Movie Guide's Colin Jacobson commented on the episode in a negative way, writing that it was " a harsh and cynical move kill off Maude because of Roswell's departure, though I could forgive the decision if it produced a more satisfying episode.

Maude had the cool ruthlessness to do whatever she made up her mind to do.

Always provided that Lucien himself had not dosed her coffee with opium, she thought, as coldly and sharply, again, as Maude might have said it.

Miss Maude say she won't ''.

She became familiar to a new generation of film-goers when she played Principal McGee in both 1978's Grease and 1982's Grease 2, as well as making appearances on such television shows as Alice, Maude and Falcon Crest.

As the couple dances, Maude tells Harold that she " couldn't imagine a lovelier farewell.

" He immediately questions Maude as to her meaning, and she reveals that she has purposely taken an overdose of sleeping pills and will be dead by midnight.

Harold rushes Maude to the hospital, where she is treated unsuccessfully and dies.

That same year, she made her Broadway debut in a revival of Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, in the role of Nibs ( one of the Lost Boys ), appearing onstage with Maude Adams and earning a favorable mention from the powerful critic Alexander Woollcott.

During post-coital conversation with Maude, The Dude learns that she hopes to conceive a child with him but wants him to have no hand in the child's upbringing.

She appeared in only two episodes, " Cousin Maude's Visit ", where she took care of the Bunker household when all four were sick and " Maude ", during the show's second season.

Among them were writers such as George Bernard Shaw with whom she corresponded for many decades, Aylmer Maude another lifelong correspondent, H. G.

Maude was one of the first " men in grey suits " to meet with Margaret Thatcher in November 1990 after she failed to win the first round of a leadership election.

Albert's mother shows up after the broadcast with Charles F. Maude ( the bartender ), informs Albert and Rosie that she has married him, and gives Albert and Rosie her blessing for their long-postponed wedding.

She had a guest role on the television series The Magnificent Seven, where she played Maude Standish, the mother of one of the Seven.

After Bray's election to Parliament, she was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Cabinet Office Minister, Francis Maude.

Adams's mother, Annie Kiskadden, was an actress and, travelling with her, Maude spent her early years in provincial theaters, first appearing in plays at the age of nine months when she was carried onstage in her mother ’ s arms.

In 1984 she co-starred in Micki + Maude, In 1988 she was in Susan Sandler's Crossing Delancey ( for which she received a Golden Globe nomination ).

After attending convent school at Forest Gate, she was taught to dance by the late Maude Wells and later spent several years living in Southend.

Arbuckle's accuser, Maude Delmont, had accompanied Rappe to the party ; she had first met Rappe only a few days earlier.

She is well known for her voice work on the Fox network's animated television series The Simpsons, in which she has played recurring characters such as Maude Flanders, Helen Lovejoy, Miss Hoover, and Luann Van Houten, as well as several minor characters.