She befriended Clark Gable, his wife Carole Lombard and Olivia de Havilland ; but she clashed with Leslie Howard, with whom she was required to play several emotional scenes.

She played supporting roles in Burnt Offerings ( 1976 ) and The Disappearance of Aimee ( 1976 ), but clashed with Karen Black and Faye Dunaway, the stars of the two respective productions, because she felt that neither extended her an appropriate degree of respect, and that their behavior on the film sets was unprofessional.

She and Gideon originally clashed due to similarities in personalities, but soon developed a relationship as casual lovers, (" The Rules of the Game ").

She was in the first four episodes of the 11th season and returned for the show's eighth episode, where she clashed with Alexandra Cabot.

She often clashed with her rebellious daughter Reed.

She was also a member of the Communist Party of Australia, though she clashed on many occasions with the party's leadership.

She is a kind but incredibly blunt woman, who at first clashed with the female members of the Kam family.

She is also an opponent of the current Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow, and has attempted to have him removed from the post, and has criticised and clashed with her party leader, the Prime Minister David Cameron.

She clashed with her own party on the issue of the MacArthur River Mine in 2006, and joined three other indigenous MPs in crossing the floor to oppose the mine's expansion.

She married and later murdered her husband, Steven, with whom she frequently clashed.

She has clashed repeatedly with the mayors of the city ; in particular with former mayor Rudy Giuliani and current mayor Michael Bloomberg.

She helped him with the dishes, then he brought more water in from the spring before it got dark.

She wiped it off with the sleeve of her coat.

She remembered little of her previous journey there with Grace, and she could but hope that her dedication to her mission would enable her to accomplish it.

She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.

She was standing with her back to the glass door.

She raised a protesting hand with a startled air.

She had touched her face, truly a noble and pure face, only with a lip salve which made her lips glisten but no redder than usual.

She cackled with mirth, showing the stumps of betel-stained teeth.

She had driven up with her husband in a convertible with Eastern license plates, although the two drivers knew nothing at the moment about that.

She would look at Jack, with that hidden something in her eyes, and Jack would see the Woman and become breathless and a little sick.

She said, with the solicitude of a middle-aged woman for her only child.

She munched little ginger cakes called mulatto's belly and kept her green, somewhat hypnotic eyes fixed on a light-colored male who was prancing wildly with a 5-foot king snake wrapped around his bronze neck.

She said with intense feeling: `` Come near, let me feel your arms.

She daubed at her swimming eyes with a lacy handkerchief and said with obvious emotion: `` That poor boy!!

She, too, is concerned with `` the becoming, the process of realization '', but she does not think in terms of subtle variations of spatial or temporal patterns.

She has rarely been photographed with him and, except for Carl's seventy-fifth anniversary celebration in Chicago in 1953, she has not attended the dozens of banquets, functions, public appearances, and dinners honoring him -- all of this upon her insistence.

She opened the boxes with a tear in her eye and a sad smile on her face.

She ended her letter with the assurance that she considered his friendship for her daughter and herself to be an honor, from which she could not part `` without still more pain ''.

She was Ellen Aldridge, a widow of good repute who was employed by Gorton's wife and lived with the family.

She had to clean the glass on the display cases in the butcher shop, help her brother scrub the cutting tables with wire brushes, mop the floors, put down new sawdust on the floors and help check the outgoing orders.

She had been picked up by the Russians, questioned in connection with some pamphlets, sentenced to life imprisonment for espionage.

She gave me the names of some people who would surely help pay for the flowers and might even march up to the monument with me.

She had, with her own work-weary hands, put seeds in the ground, watched them sprout, bud, blossom, and get ready to bear.

She is also known for her roles as Mary Jo Jackson Shively on CBS sitcom Designing Women ( 1986 – 1993 ), as Dana Palladino on Love & War ( 1993-1995 ), for which she was nominated for Emmy Award, and as Mary Elizabeth Sims in the Lifetime drama series Any Day Now ( 1998 – 2002 ), for which she was nominated for two Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series.

In mid 2008, the group composed three exclusive tracks for the Sims 3 game soundtrack: " Rockfalls & Estuaries ", " She Stepped Out of the Car " and " Young Etruscians ".

She worked in repertory during the 1950s and made her West End debut in 1958, replacing Joan Sims in the play Breath of Spring.

She is the daughter of Dottie and Jim Sims.

She returned as a Bond-girl parody in Carry On Spying ( 1964 ), a hospital patient who falls in love with Bernard Bresslaw in Carry On Doctor ( 1967 ) and as his permanently car-sick companion, on holiday with Sid James and Sims in Carry On Camping ( 1969 ), her fourth and last in the series.

She is the co-creator, along with Marc Gimbel and Stephen Kearin, of the fictitious Simlish language used in The Sims.

She marries Victor Sims in the finale.

She has worked with many leading fashion photographers including Patrick Demarchelier, Steven Meisel, Steven Klein, Nick Knight, Mario Testino, David Sims, Bryan Adams, Nadav Kander and featured in magazines including Vogue, W, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Harpers & Queen, i-D, and Visionaire.

She had a fine alto voice, which developed into a contralto, and she studied singing under J. Wass, Ciro Pinsuti and Mrs Sims Reeves ( i. e. Emma Lucombe ).