She fell asleep leaning on her hand, hearing the house creaking as though it were a living a private life of its own these two hundred years, hearing the birds rustling in their cages and the occasional whirring of wings as one of them landed on the table and walked across the newspaper to perch in the crook of her arm.

She is not herself from the aristocracy or landed gentry, but is quite at home among them ; Miss Marple would probably have been happy to describe herself as a gentlewoman.

She landed a Cosmopolitan cover, a gift from Scavullo.

She appeared in several student films, and later landed a role in an Off-Broadway play No Time Flat.

She later learns that Vader once landed on the Noghri home planet Honoghr and tricked the Noghri into serving the Empire by promising to help their planet recover from the ecological disaster that it suffered during the Clone Wars.

She then landed a contract with a major label, Virgin Records, recording Play Me Backwards ( 1992 ) for Virgin shortly before the company was purchased by EMI.

She then landed her first major film role as Stephanie Zinone in Grease 2 ( 1982 ), the sequel to the smash-hit musical Grease ( 1978 ).

She ruled the part of Wendland in which Olaf had landed, and Olaf and his men were given an offer to stay for the winter.

She won Female Vocalist of the Year at the 1987 Tejano Music Awards and landed a recording contract with EMI a few years later.

She landed in Fife on 10 June and was formally received by James.

She landed on the island of Delos, which was sacred to Apollo.

She began to attract attention and finally landed larger film roles that began to win her screen credits.

She then calls Cynthia from her office overlooking Manhattan to say she's landed her dream job.

She loved riding, and was falconing with Maximilian when her horse tripped, threw her, and then landed on top of her, breaking her back.

She landed her first starring role in 2001, playing Hannah Rayburn in the television sitcom State of Grace, which aired in the United States on the cable television channel Fox Family ( subsequently renamed ABC Family ) until 2002.

She held the glove up for protection, and the ball landed squarely in it.

She landed her first major supporting part in a movie as an intelligent teenager who aids her boyfriend ( Christopher Collet ) in building a nuclear bomb in Marshall Brickman's The Manhattan Project ( 1986 ).

She landed her first role in 1988 as the villain Paulina Montenegro in Pasión y Poder ( Passion and Power ).

She landed a role in Dreamgirls, the film adaptation of the 1981 hit Broadway musical about a 1960s singing group loosely based on Motown all-female group The Supremes.

She landed in Falmouth, Cornwall, setting Lapenotiere on his historic 36-hour journey by post chaise to the Admiralty in London.

She was signed to a contract with Columbia Pictures in 1958 and landed her first English-speaking role in the film Song Without End ( 1960 ) for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.

She landed her first professional onstage role in Tom Eyen's Off-Off-Broadway plays in 1965, Miss Nefertiti Regrets and Cinderella Revisited, a children's play by day and an adult show by night.

She soon landed some of the most prestigious magazine covers, establishing herself as a supermodel.

She began taking acting classes and going to auditions almost daily, and soon landed a role as " Erica McCray " in the NBC TV series A Brand New Life ( 1989 – 90 ).

She was hired and was found to be entirely satisfactory when she played the role eight hours a day.

She may well be incapacitated by it when she is confronted with present and future alternatives -- e.g., whether to prepare primarily for a career or for the role of a homemaker ; ;

She found herself able to sing any role and any song which struck her fancy.

She appears briefly in Disney's Hercules, but has a more dominant role in the television series.

She started her acting career in 1952 and, after appearing in 16 films, became world-famous due to her role in her then-husband Roger Vadim's controversial film And God Created Woman.

She played bit parts in three English-language films, the British comedy Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ) with Dirk Bogarde, Helen of Troy ( 1954 ), in which she was understudy for the title role but appears only as Helen's handmaid, and Act of Love ( 1954 ) with Kirk Douglas.

She dabbled in pop music and played the role of a glamour model.

She plays a central role in the first part of G. A. Henty's novel Beric the Briton and in a children's novel by Henry Treece.

She had a strong religious upbringing and developed a faith that would play a major role in later life.

She then reprised the role in the Broadway production from January 10 through November 12, 2006.

She again played the role for the Los Angeles production which began performances on February 7, 2007.

She then transferred with the L. A. company, to play the role once again, in the San Francisco production which began performances January 27, 2009.

She earned a Golden Globe Award for the role in 1998.

She was offered the role of Susan Mayer on Desperate Housewives, but declined.

She received a Golden Globe nomination as Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture in 1984 for her role in Irreconcilable Differences, in which she starred as a young girl divorcing her parents.

She claimed she was offered two highly sought-after movie roles: the part of possessed child Regan MacNeil in the 1973 film, The Exorcist, and the starring role in Louis Malle's 1978 film, Pretty Baby.

She won what would become her most famous acting role, that of Kimberly Drummond on Diff ' rent Strokes.

Dolores Agnes Fuller ( born Dolores Eble ; March 10, 1923 – May 9, 2011 ) was an American actress and songwriter best known as the one-time girlfriend of the low-budget film director Edward D. Wood, Jr. She played the protagonist's girlfriend in Glen or Glenda, co-starred in Wood's Jail Bait, and had a minor role in Bride of the Monster.

She also appeared with a starring role in the series Extreme for NBC and the syndicated series Renegade and Queen of Swords.

She was a Protestant, but kept Catholic symbols ( such as the crucifix ), and downplayed the role of sermons in defiance of a key Protestant belief.

She tells her servant Ninshubur ( Lady Evening ), a reference to Inanna's role as the evening star, that if she does not return in three days, to get help from her father Anu, Enlil, king of the gods, or Enki.

She asserts: " In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed, with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote to-be-looked-at-ness ," and as a result contends that in film a woman is the " bearer of meaning, not maker of meaning.

She was approached by James Cameron to play the part of " Rose Dawson Calvert " for his 1997 blockbuster Titanic with Kate Winslet to play her younger self, but she turned down the role and the part of Rose was given to Gloria Stuart.

She met with Naomi Watts, who was to play the role of Ann Darrow.

She was introduced anonymously while still a teenager in the third book in the series and plays a larger role in several of the titles of the 1930s and 1940s.