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" Bogdanovich, McMurtry and some sources suggest an uncredited Polly Platt went through the book and wrote a script that tells the story chronologically.
When Polly tells Andy she will be visiting her grandmother for the next three weeks and will not be able to attend the Christmas Eve dance with him, Andy vows to attend the dance alone.
Andy tries to clear things up with Polly but she angrily tells Andy that she won ’ t go to the dance with him because she has a date with a college boy.
He tells his father that he is the father of the child and plans to marry Polly, all the while believing Polly is the child's mother.
Polly arrives and tells everyone about her made-up boy friend who is " motoring down from Paris " to meet her for the upcoming carnival ball, and sings about " The Boy Friend ".
Hortense scolds Tony and tells him to meet Polly at the ball because she loves him as much as he loves her.
Hortense tells Mme Dubonnet to persuade Polly to stay, so Polly sings " Poor Little Pierrette " with Mme Dubonnet.
The computer tells him that, despite his numerous blunders with her, Polly is the best choice for him.
Lucy also meets her old friend Mr. Tumnus the Faun again, and Aslan tells her about a railway accident that occurs in England in which she, her brothers, her parents, Polly, Digory, Eustace and Jill died.
Set in England in the early 19th century, Pride and Prejudice tells the story of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet's ( Benjamin Whitrow and Alison Steadman ) five unmarried daughters ( Susannah Harker, Jennifer Ehle, Lucy Briers, Polly Maberly, Julia Sawalha ) after the rich and eligible Mr. Bingley ( Crispin Bonham-Carter ) and his status-conscious friend, Mr. Darcy, have moved into their neighbourhood.
Chapter 6, " The Intimately Oppressed " describes resistance to inequalities in the lives of women in the early years of the U. S. Zinn tells the stories of women who resisted the status quo, including Polly Baker, Anne Hutchinson, Mary Dyer, Amelia Bloomer, Catharine Beecher, Emma Willard, Harriot Hunt, Elizabeth Blackwell, Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Fuller, Sarah Grimké, Angelina Grimké, Dorothea Dix, Frances Wright, Lucretia Mott, and Sojourner Truth.
The film tells the story of student Polly ( Laura Fraser ) who begins to think she is going mad as she starts to hear unexplained sounds.
Laurel is there, but humiliates Polly and tells her ( untruthfully ) that Tom is dying of cancer, and wants to be left alone by her.
The song is similar in subject to " Pretty Polly ", and likely tells the same story ( Both songs date from approximately the same time, tell roughly the same story, and feature a villain named " Willie ").
* When Digory first meets Polly and tells her of the strange goings-on that occur in Uncle Andrew's private attic, Polly muses that he might keep a mad wife locked up there.
After Polly shows no fear and tells him basically to get out of her way, Snoopy attacks her and wrestles her into the food coloring until she too is all pink, then jumps out and runs away, taking Fifi with him.

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Starring were Judy Carne as Polly, Sandy Duncan as Maisie and Ronald Young as Tony.
In 2003, Julie Andrews made her directorial debut with a production of The Boy Friend at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, NY, starring Meredith Patterson as Polly Browne and Sean Palmer as Tony Brockhurst.
This production was presented at the Goodspeed Opera House, running from July 2005 through September 24, 2005, where Sean Palmer returned as Tony and Jessica Grové took over the role of Polly after Meredith Patterson was unable to do the role due to scheduling conflicts with her new role in Irving Berlin's White Christmas.
After this dance number, Polly and Tony meet at the beach and Polly lies about being rich to fit in with Tony.
After Tony and Polly leave, Hortense sings how everything is " Nicer in Nice " with the ensemble.
When Polly goes to meet Tony on the promenade, Lord and Lady Brockhurst, who are passing by, recognize him.
At the Carnival ball, Polly is sad that Tony is not there and she is thinking about leaving.
Tony later arrives at the ball and takes Polly by surprise.
Polly and the others discover that Tony is really the son of the rich Lord and Lady Brockhurst, and he had left home to try to make his own way in the world.
The show also drew many well-known or then up-and-coming actors and actresses for single guest starring roles, such as Don Ameche, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Ken Berry, Sonny Bono, Eddie Bracken, Joseph Campanella, Virginia Capers, Rosalind Cash, George Clooney, Polly Holliday, Robert Culp, Ruby Dee, the Del Rubio triplets, Jeane Dixon, Anne Francis, Johnny Gilbert, Jack Gilford, Alice Ghostley, Peter Graves, Merv Griffin, George Grizzard, Gary Grubbs, Bob Hope, Julio Iglesias, Freddie Jackson, Tony Jay, Billy Jayne, Gordon Jump, Paula Kelly, Alan King, David Leisure, Jenny Lewis, Hal Linden, Mark Linn-Baker, Mario Lopez, Edie McClurg, Marian Mercer, Martin Mull, Leslie Nielsen, Jerry Orbach, Leland Orser, Tony Plana, Peggy Pope, Joe Regalbuto, Burt Reynolds, Debbie Reynolds, Donnelly Rhodes, Richard Riehle, Alex Rocco, Cesar Romero, Mickey Rooney, Harry Shearer, McLean Stevenson, Inga Swenson, Jeffrey Tambor, Meshach Taylor, Jay Thomas, Alex Trebek, Dick Van Dyke, Tom Villard, Lyle Waggoner, David Wayne and Fred Willard.
Interior illustrations were supplied by Chris Baker, Jeff Dee, Emmanuel ( who also illustrator the cover ), Albie Fiore, Alan Hunter, Russ Nicholson, Erol Otus, Jim Roslof, David C. Sutherland III, Bill Willingham, Polly Wilson, and Tony Yates.
A Broadway revival of the play ran from June 26, 1986 to January 3, 1987 at the 46th Street Theatre in New York, starring Polly Holliday, Jean Stapleton, Tony Roberts and Abe Vigoda.
Frank Ifield, Tammy Jones, Sweet Sensation, Lyn Paul, Tony Monopoly, Carl Wayne, Hazell Dean, Tony Christie, The Foundations, Labi Siffre, Guys ' n ' Dolls, The Nolan Sisters, Polly Brown and Sweet Dreams all took part in the competition, but none were successful.
* Sleeve Illustration and design: Polly Productions / Tony

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Not long after Amos was ensconced with her new label, she received unsettling news when Polly Anthony resigned as president of Epic Records in 2003.
Cumpănaş told them that Dillinger was spending his time with another prostitute, Polly Hamilton, and that she and the couple would be going to see a movie together on the following day.
His then-wife, Polly Platt, claimed that it was she who, upon seeing the cover in a check-out line in a Ralphs grocery store in southern California, said " That's Jacy ," referring to the role Bogdanovich was casting — and ultimately offered to Shepherd — in The Last Picture Show ( 1971 ).
They also manage to transport the queen of ancient Babylon to London and she is the cause of a riot ; a very similar event takes place in The Magician's Nephew when Polly and Digory transport Queen Jadis to London and she also causes a similar disturbance.
Further highlights of this period included Tom, Dick, and Harry, a 1941 comedy in which she dreams of marrying three different men ; I'll Be Seeing You, with Joseph Cotten ; La Cava's 5th Avenue Girl ( 1939 ), where she played an out-of-work girl sucked into the lives of a wealthy family ; and especially the sharp and highly successful comedies: Bachelor Mother ( 1939 ), with David Niven, in which she played Polly Parrish, a shop girl who is falsely thought to have abandoned her baby ; and Billy Wilder's first Hollywood feature film: The Major and the Minor ( 1942 ), in which she played a woman who masquerades as a 12-year-old to get a cheap train ticket and finds herself obliged to continue the ruse for an extended period.
Again people nearby — this time those who live in the same house and who are alarmed by Polly Blakeston — choose not to interfere in other people's domestic problems (" She'll git over it ; an ' p ' raps she deserves it, for all you know ").
One morning Andy receives a telegram from Polly saying she will be home for the Christmas Eve dance after all.
At the dance Polly ’ s date recognizes Betsy as an accomplished singer and asks her to perform ; Andy is scared that she will embarrass him but she proves to be a fantastic singer and quickly wins over the crowd with “ It Never Rains But it Pours ” and encores with “ Meet the Beat of My Heart .” Betsy and Andy lead the dance in a grand march after Polly leaves in tears.
Polly Parrish ( Ginger Rogers ) is a salesgirl at the department store John B. Merlin and Son in New York City who has just been told that since the Christmas season is ending she is going to be dismissed.
Unable to convince anyone that she is not the mother, Polly gives up and starts raising the child.
In the same year she played Polly Peachum to Laurence Olivier's Macheath in Peter Brook's film version of The Beggar's Opera ( 1953 ).
Zack then confronts Nomi with the details of her past: she is a runaway and former prostitute named Polly, her father murdered her mother and then killed himself, and she has been arrested several times for drug possession, prostitution, and assault with a deadly weapon.
In May 1958, she and Dick Van Dyke appeared together as guest stars on Polly Bergen's NBC's short-lived variety show, The Polly Bergen Show.

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