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.

She then went on to her own spin-off series, Maude, in fall 1972.

The British went back on the offensive in December 1916 with a larger and better-supplied force under General Sir Frederick Stanley Maude and reconquered Kut on February 23, 1917.

Cort next went on to his most famous role, as the suicide-obsessed Harold, in Harold and Maude.

Another famous alumna was the late Rue McClanahan, ( Margaret Jardin ) who went on to bigger fame in Maude playing Maude Findlay's scatterbrained friend, Vivian Cavender Harmon ; and later reteamed with Bea Arthur on The Golden Girls, where she played the lusty Blanche Devereaux.

After breaking into the music industry, Kyle then went on to become the host of popular kids ' program Sarvo on Nickelodeon Australia, where he co-hosted the channel for two years with Maude Garrett.

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.

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.

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

The pair form a bond, and Maude slowly shows Harold the pleasures of art and music ( Harold is taught to play banjo ), and teaches him how to " the most of his time on earth.

Harold and Maude is # 45 on the American Film Institute ’ s list of 100 Years ... 100 Laughs, the list of the top 100 films in American comedy.

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

Later he played Walter Finlay on the TV show Maude.

The small community named after their property is also home to folk of various income levels, ranging from the well-to-do Baldwin sisters, two elderly spinsters who distill moonshine that they call " Papa's recipe "; Ike Godsey, postmaster and owner of the general store with his somewhat snobbish wife Corabeth ( a Walton cousin ); a black couple, Verdie and Harley Foster ; Maude, a sassy octogenarian artist who paints on wood ; Flossie Brimmer, a friendly though somewhat gossipy widow who runs a nearby boarding house ; and Yancy Tucker, a good-hearted handyman with big plans but little motivation.

Abbott was also the great-grandfather of Canadian actor Christopher Plummer and the first cousin ( once removed ) of Maude Abbott, one of Canada's earliest female medical graduates and an expert on congenital heart disease.

In the mid 20's he purchased the Maude Hitchcock farm on the east side of the road and persuaded his wife's brother-in-law, Ernest Vogt and family to move over from the farm on Niles Road east of Eagle to operate a dairy farm and provide the Hotel with dairy products.

Ashby was coming off the disappointing commercial and critical failure of Harold and Maude and was in pre-production on Three Cornered Circle at MGM when Jack Nicholson told him about The Last Detail, his upcoming film at Columbia.

* November 21 – In the second part of a two-part story which began the previous week, Beatrice Arthur's character, Maude Findlay, on the television sitcom Maude, decides to go through with an abortion, in a move that shocked CBS executives and Maude advertisers.

* September 12 – Maude, a spinoff of All in the Family premieres on CBS ( 1972 – 1978 ), Temperatures Rising premieres on ABC ( 1972-1974 ).

* February 1 – Good Times, a spinoff of Maude ( which itself was a spinoff of All in the Family ,) premieres on CBS ( 1974 – 1979 ).

Maude Nugent )-Lil Hawthorne on Berliner Gramophone

Maude Nugent )-Steve Porter on Berliner Gramophone

Numerous hit shows followed thereafter, including Maude ( the lead character of which was reportedly based on Lear's then-wife Frances ), The Jeffersons ( both spin-offs of All in the Family ), and One Day at a Time.

Ironically, although Lear's shows are often considered somewhat autobiographical and closely identified with his personal experiences, his early hits were actually all adapted from someone else's creations: the two aforementioned British adaptations and Maude, while reputedly based on Lear's wife, was actually the brainchild of series producer Charlie Hauck.

* The Sheik ( novel ), by Edith Maude Hull, on which the film is based

While still married to Maude, Ned married Ginger, while on a drunken bender in Las Vegas.

Maude suddenly looked quite capable of pouring it down her throat.

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

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

`` Miss Maude.

Maude had said.

Maude.

She stood for a moment, rain dripping from the trees over her head, thinking of Maude.

Maude had the opportunity to take the bottle of opium from Sarah's room.

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

She couldn't see how her death could affect Maude.

She couldn't see any reason why Maude would attempt to frighten her.

Maude was neither hysterical nor silly and Sarah rather doubted if she had ever been childish.

Yet Maude had suggested that Sarah return to New York.

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

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

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 ''.

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.

Among notable recipients below flag rank are: X-1 test pilot Chuck Yeager and X-15 test pilot Robert M. White, who both received the DSM as U. S. Air Force majors ; Air Force Major Rudolf Anderson, the U-2 pilot shot down during the Cuban Missile Crisis ; director Frank Capra, decorated in 1945 as an Army colonel ; actor James Stewart, decorated in 1945 as an Army Air Forces colonel ( later Air Force Brigadier General ); Col. Wendell Fertig, who led Filipino guerrillas behind Japanese lines ; Col. ( later Major General ) John K. Singlaub, who led partisan forces in the Korean War ; and Maj. Maude C. Davison, who led the " Angels of Bataan and Corregidor " during their imprisonment by the Japanese, and Colonel William S. Taylor, Program Manager Multiple Launch Rocket System.