In 1966, at the age of 52, Lancaster appeared nude in director Frank Perry's film, The Swimmer.

For his role as Joe in the 1929 part-talkie film version of Show Boat, Perry's singing voice was supplied by Jules Bledsoe, who had originated the role in the stage musical.

Perry's identity was only uncovered due to publicity surrounding the latter film.

The film was adapted by Eleanor Perry from the 1967 novel by Sue Kaufman and directed by Perry's then-husband, Frank Perry.

Her music has been featured in a number of film soundtracks including How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Lost & Delirious, Batman & Robin, Love Jones, Love & Basketball, Talk To Me, Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls, The Best Man, Higher Learning, Down in the Delta, The Hurricane, Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom, and Soul Men.

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is produced by Back Row Productions, a UK-based company owned by Australians Liz Koops and Garry McQuinn, best known for Dein Perry's Tap Dogs ; two-time Tony Award-winning impresario John Frost, Michael Hamlyn of Specific Films, an original producer of the film ; and acclaimed screenwriter and playwright Allan Scott, well known for the Julie Christie / Donald Sutherland psychological thriller Don't Look Now.

He followed this role by appearing in William Gibson's A Cry of Players, playing a young, highly fictionalized William Shakespeare, opposite Anne Bancroft at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theatre in 1968, and won film fame in two 1970 films: Mel Brooks ' The Twelve Chairs and Frank Perry's Diary of a Mad Housewife, being nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer for the latter.

In 2006, Elba signed on as the lead of the 2007 film Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls, playing Monty, a blue-collar mechanic who falls in love with a six-figure attorney ( Gabrielle Union ) helping him gain custody of his kids, and finds the relationship and his custody hopes threatened by the return of his ex-wife.

In 2006, she had a featured role as the wedding planner in Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion, and also appeared in the film Meet the Browns.

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Madea's difficult background is seen in the film Madea Goes to Jail ( aka Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail, 2009 ), where it is revealed that Madea raised / supported her children by stripping, poledancing, and professional wrestling, among other things.

She also appeared in Tyler Perry's 2010 film For Colored Girls.

" Playing at 2, 194 locations across North America, the film averaged a remarkable estimated $ 13, 788 per screen, demonstrating the enormous breadth and depth of Perry's audience.

More subtle uses of alter egos can be seen in artists who redefine their image for an album, such as Christina Aguilera as Xtina and the members of My Chemical Romance as members of an outlaw gang known as the Fabulous Killjoys, and artists who describe their stage personalities as different from their private ones, such as Beyoncé Knowles ' identity as Sasha Fierce, Katy Perry's identity as Kathy Beth Terry in music video " Last Friday Night ( T. G. I. F.

Throughout Edna's career ( until Perry's death in 2008 ) Madge was played by English actress Emily Perry, who has the distinction of being the only other actor ever to appear on stage with Humphries in his stage shows, as well as making regular appearances in Dame Edna's TV programmes.

She appeared with Ted Rogers at the New Wimbledon Theatre in 1997 in Jimmy Perry's stage musical That's Showbiz.

It is mentioned that his last sight before crashing down and getting killed was a girl in a green bathing suit who had the same face as the Diana which he meets in the future ; it turns out that her name had been Diana, too, and that to her fell the disageeable task of finding Perry's broken body and reporting the accident.

The name Odaiba comes from a series of six island fortresses constructed in 1853 by Egawa Hidetatsu for the Tokugawa shogunate in order to protect Edo from attack by sea, the primary threat being Commodore Matthew Perry's Black Ships which had arrived in the same year.

In 1984, following the release of Frontiers and the tour supporting this effort, Perry released his first solo album, entitled Street Talk, named after the original name of Perry's earlier band Alien Project.

The name was short for Roland Perry's EDitor, the program being put together quickly by Roland Perry, the Amstrad executive running the computer product development, when it was realised that CP / M-80 came with no usable full-screen editor, but users had a requirement to edit configuration files.

Goldie kept the name when she joined Richard Perry's band The Escorts as lead singer and later, when she became co-founder ( at age 17 ) of the groundbreaking all-female rock band Goldie & The Gingerbreads.

The name of the band comes from Perry's nickname of Upsetter, after his song " I Am The Upsetter ", a musical dismissal of his former boss Coxsone Dodd.

Among them, to name only a few, Lewis Gilbert's The Adventurers ( 1970 ), Mauro Bolognini's Fatti di gente per bene / Drama of the Rich ( 1974 ), Vincente Minnelli's A Matter of Time ( 1976 ), Valerio Zurlini's The Desert of the Tartars ( 1976 ), Robert Altman's Quintet ( 1979 ), J. Lee Thompson's Cabo Blanco ( 1980 ) and Frank Perry's Monsignor ( 1982 ).

Texas Tech University renamed its nursing school in Mrs. Perry's honor in 2008, and two nursing endowments are also set up in her name: The Anita Thigpen Perry Nursing Excellence Scholarship at West Texas A & M University, and The Anita Thigpen Perry Endowment at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

The actual name at the time was " Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial National Monument ".

Oliver Hazard Perry | Commander Perry's message after the Battle of Lake Erie: " We have met the enemy and they are ours.

The Stepin Fetchit image came to be seen as sufficiently degrading that Perry's films are rarely shown, and have not received widespread video release.

On receiving Perry's hastily written note that " We have met the enemy and they are ours ", Harrison knew that Procter would be forced to retreat, and ordered an advance.

Perry's vases have classical forms and are decorated in bright colours, depicting subjects at odds with their attractive appearance.

" For several months after the 1840 elections, the paper used Oliver Hazard Perry's famous line, " We have met the enemy, and they are ours ," as its nameplate motto.

Western tanagers have been observed foraging on Perry's agave ( Agave parryi ) nectar.

Greg Prato of Allmusic wrote, " If only one singer could be selected as the most identifiable with ' 80s arena rock, it would have to be Journey's Steve Perry "; colleague John Franck praised Perry's as a " soaring, whale of a voice.

Already feeling burnt out from the Daddies ' constant touring, Perry's frustration was only exacerbated by the media's persistent dismissal of the Daddies as a retro act, though he later claimed to have felt pressured to maintain the image due to audience and media expectations.

While the Daddies have often been criticized for juxtaposing lurid subject matter and profanity with jazz and swing music, The New York Times has lauded Perry's lyricism as " vivid poetry " containing " an inventiveness missing from the other swing bands ' lyrics ".

Later commentators have drawn a direct relationship between the decay of Perry's facility and the unique sounds he was able to create from his studio equipment.

In later years, Moberly claimed the pass should have been named Perry's Pass.

He was also the first NFL runner ever to have consecutive 1, 000 yard rushing seasons ( 1953 and 1954 ), Perry's durability allowed him to play in three separate decades, from the 1940s to the 1960s, for 16 seasons.

To date, only five albums by women including Houston's, have yielded four Hot 100 number-one hits ; Paula Abdul's Forever Your Girl in 1988, Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 in 1989, Mariah Carey's self-titled debut in 1990 and Katy Perry's Teenage Dream in 2010.

Madea seems to have adopted Nikki permanently as she appeared in the very first episode of TBS television series Tyler Perry's House of Payne still being taken care of by Madea.

Perry's 21 wins in 1978 accounted for 25 % of the club's victories all year long, and he became the first pitcher to win Cy Young awards in both leagues.

The little brig played an important role in the battle on 10 September 1813 because, at one point in the action, her two 24-pounder long guns were the only ones in Perry's flotilla capable of returning the distant fire of the three heaviest Royal Navy ships then in the process of pounding Perry's flagship Lawrence.