Her father Dr. Besant ( John St. Polis ) favors Stanley ( Matt Moore ), who is taken with Norma.

Among actresses closely identified with the style were Olive Borden, Olive Thomas, Dorothy Mackaill, Alice White, Bebe Daniels, Billie Dove, Helen Kane, Joan Crawford, Leatrice Joy, Norma Shearer, Laura La Plante, Norma Talmadge, Clara Bow, Louise Brooks, and Colleen Moore.

At 6am CNN Daybreak with Rick Moore and Molly McCoy, at 7am CNN Daybreak with Bob Cain in Atlanta and Norma Quarles in New York and at 8am CNN Daybreak with Rick Moore and Molly McCoy.

Paige stepped briefly into the role of Norma Desmond in Lloyd Webber's West End production of Sunset Boulevard in 1994, when Betty Buckley was taken ill due to her undergoing an emergency appendectomy.

In 1927, Norma Talmadge started a famous Hollywood tradition when she accidentally stepped into wet concrete in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater.

The theater's official account in its books and souvenir programs credit Norma Talmadge as having inspired the tradition when she accidentally stepped into the wet concrete.

Two versions of the story have been published ; one has Mary Pickford as the actress who stepped in the wet cement on her way to see Sid Grauman's new building, and the other credits Norma Talmadge with the misstep.

The film stars William Holden as Joe Gillis, an unsuccessful screenwriter, Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, a faded silent movie star who draws him into her fantasy world where she dreams of making a triumphant return to the screen with Erich von Stroheim as Max Von Mayerling, her butler and ex-husband.

Although Joe finds the script awful, he flatters Norma into hiring him as an editor.

's Norma Ray, using it to turn his useless hippie underlings into superpowered malcontents.

Norma threatens the mysterious man with a gun, but he breaks his way into the apartment and drinks their supply of water nonetheless.

Between that time and a second killing, she and a friend, Norma Joyce Bell ( no relation ), aged 13, broke into and vandalised a nursery in Scotswood, leaving notes that claimed responsibility for the killing.

Madame Penco, who had the role of the Druidic priestess in Norma, kept looking into the Duke's box, to see what all the fuss was about, even as she was performing the opera.

Desperate to find a way to get back into the local party's good graces quickly, Alan takes the advice of Norman, now ready for his final sex-change operation and going by the name of " Norma ," to cozy up to the owner of an American fast food chain, Lamb Burger Guzzler, which is planning to open 200 stores throughout Britain and will be locating its factory in either Haltemprice or Wales.

The popular variety show not only established Burnett as a television superstar, but it also made her regular supporting cast household names with such sketches as " As the Stomach Turns ", ( a parody of As the World Turns ) and " Went with the Wind " ( a parody of Gone with the Wind, featuring a scene with Burnett as Starlett O ' Hara in the dress made from a window curtain, complete with the curtain rod ), " Carol & Sis ", " Mr. Tudball and Mrs. Wiggins ", " The Family " ( which would later spin off into a show called Mama's Family ), " Nora Desmond " ( Burnett's send-up of Gloria Swanson's character Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard ), and " Stella Toddler.

An example of this stereotype occurs when the character Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, announces " All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up " as she is taken into police custody in the film's finale.

Completely fallen into insanity, Norma mistakes the police who soon arrive for studio personnel and her beloved fans.

Like many progressive actors and others in the country, the lead actress in the film, Norma Aleandro, was forced into exile during this time.

Arthur and Norma Lewis are slowly descending into abject poverty.

Pharmaceutical magnate Aurelius Venport is about to discover an interesting new substance, the spice melange, and the famous inventor Tio Holtzman accepts the diminutive genius Norma Cenva into his employ.

On the planet of Poritrin, Norma Cenva leaves the world just in time to avoid a slave uprising during which a slave, unaware of the consequences, fires a lasgun into a Holtzman personal shield.

Meanwhile Norma, due to her heritage as daughter of the main Sorceress of Rossak Zufa Cenva, finally taps into her latent powers under great pressure ( precipitated by her capture and subsequent torture by the Titan Xerxes ) to become the spearhead of humanity.

As school lets out for the weekend, most of the students leave for a weekend getaway and Laurie runs into Norma in the parking lot while she is leaving, wherein Norma gives her some motherly advice and tells her to " concentrate on today " Later that evening, John and his classmates are having an intimate Halloween Party in the basement when John's classmate, Charlie ( Adam Hann-Byrd ), goes to get a corkscrew and is attacked and killed by Michael.

Novarro was impressed with the results and showed them to the actress Norma Shearer, who was attempting to mould her wholesome image into something more glamorous and sophisticated in an attempt to land the title role in the movie The Divorcee.

Spain was to remain one of the company's top three markets into the new century, with a total of six companies, including new acquisitions Norma, STE, and Inser, and then Strategy Consultors, based in Barcelona, in 2000.

Also shown on the far right is an intensifying tropical disturbance which later developed into Tropical Storm Norma.

Mayer's company folded into Metro Goldwyn with two notable additions: Mayer Pictures ' contracts with key directors such as Fred Niblo and John M. Stahl, and up-and-coming actress Norma Shearer, later married to Thalberg.

One of her most notable roles on stage was Norma Desmond in the Andrew Lloyd Webber production of Sunset Boulevard, for which Close won a Tony Award, playing the role on Broadway in 1994.

His biography of Queen Marie-Antoinette was later adapted for a Hollywood movie, starring the actress Norma Shearer in the title role.

The film stars Sally Field in the titular role, Beau Bridges as Norma Rae's husband, Sonny, and Ron Leibman as union organizer Reuben Warshowsky.

In 1968, Bisset gained mainstream recognition when she replaced Mia Farrow for the role of Norma MacIver in The Detective ; Farrow's marriage to co-star Frank Sinatra had just ended, and the role was given to Bisset.

* October 29 – In New York, the Metropolitan Opera's seventy-second season opens with a revival of Bellini's Norma, made especially for Maria Callas's Metropolitan debut in the title role.

When casting the role of Norma Desmond for the 1950 film Sunset Boulevard, Billy Wilder offered West, then nearing 60, the role.

During the 1980s and 1990s, the role of Norma was performed by such different singers as Katia Ricciarelli, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Marisa Galvany, Dame Gwyneth Jones, and Jane Eaglen.

Field won the Academy Award for Best Actress in a leading role on two occasions, Norma Rae ( 1979 ) and Places in the Heart ( 1984 ).

In December 1844, through Meyerbeer's influence, Lind was engaged to sing the title role in Bellini's opera Norma in Berlin.

In 1993, LuPone returned to London to create the role of Norma Desmond in the original production of Andrew Lloyd Webber ’ s Sunset Boulevard at the Adelphi Theatre.

Norma was performed at the Italiens de Paris on the 21th of October 1858, with Rosina Penco in the title role, L. Graziani as Pollione and Cambardi as Adalgise.

Later that season he sang Pollione in Bellini's Norma opposite Maria Callas in the title role.

With an all-female cast headed by Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, and Rosalind Russell, Goddard played the supporting role of Miriam Aarons.

Horne made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1970 as Adalgisa in Bellini's Norma with Sutherland in the title role.

Fox, America's first female opera impresario at the age of 28, began her first season in 1954 by bringing Maria Callas for her American debut in the title role of Norma, the first of many electrifying Callas performances in Chicago.

Paige made her Broadway debut in Sunset Boulevard in 1996, playing the lead role of Norma Desmond, to critical acclaim.

Highlights in Boston that she conducted and / or stage directed included La voyage de la lune, Otello ( with Tito Gobbi as Iago ), Command Performance ( world premiere ), Manon and Faust ( both with Beverly Sills and Norman Treigle ), Lulu ( U. S. East Coast premiere ), I puritani ( with Dame Joan Sutherland ), Intolleranza ( U. S. premiere ), Boris Godunov ( original version ), Hippolyte et Aricie ( U. S. stage premiere, with Plácido Domingo ), La bohème ( with Renata Tebaldi and Domingo ), Moses und Aron ( U. S. premiere ), The Rake's Progress, Bluebeard's Castle, Carmen ( with Marilyn Horne ), Macbeth ( original version ), The Good Soldier Schweik, The Fisherman and His Wife ( world premiere, with Muriel Costa-Greenspon ), La finta giardiniera, Norma ( with Sills ), Les Troyens, Don Carlos ( U. S. premiere of original French version ), Don Quichotte, War and Peace ( U. S. stage premiere, with Arlene Saunders ), Benvenuto Cellini ( U. S. premiere, with Jon Vickers ), I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Montezuma ( U. S. premiere ), Ruslan and Ludmila ( U. S. premiere ), Rigoletto ( with Sills, Richard Fredricks, and Susanne Marsee ), Stiffelio ( U. S. stage premiere ), La damnation de Faust, Tosca ( with Magda Olivero ), La vide breve, El retablo de maese Pedro, The Ice Break ( U. S. premiere ), Aïda ( with Shirley Verrett in the title role ), Die Soldaten ( U. S. premiere ), The Invisible City of Kitezh, Taverner ( U. S. premiere ), The Makropoulos Case ( with Anja Silja, William Cochran, and Chester Ludgin ), Médée ( in French and Greek ), Dead Souls ( U. S. premiere ), Der Rosenkavalier ( with Dame Gwyneth Jones ), and, finally, The Balcony ( world premiere, 1990 ).

Though Power's services were requested for the role of Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind, Joe Bonaparte in Golden Boy, Paris in King's Row, by Harry Cohn for several films throughout the years, and by Norma Shearer herself for her planned production of The Last Tycoon to play Irving Thalberg, Zanuck stuck by his original decision.

In a time when actors were defined by the type of role they played, Thomas felt she had no film type, saying, " But I want to create a certain role, you see Mary is the kid in pictures ; Norma does drama ; Constance is the flippant, flighty wife ; Dorothy the hoyden ; Nazimova is exotic and steeped in mystery, my Jack does boys, while I -- I -- why don't you see, I am just nothing at all!

That same year she returned to the Met as Elizabeth of Valois in Verdi's Don Carlo with Franco Corelli in the title role and sang Norma in Philadelphia.