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

She played chess with him by postcard.

She played with style and a touch of the grand manner, and every piece she performed was especially effective in its closing measures.

She sat down and played two slots at once, looking grim, as if bested by mechanical devices, and Owen felt sorry for the lay-sisters depending on her support.

She understood sex anyway, and played at it well.

Angela Lansbury, who had played Miss Marple in the movie, The Mirror Crack'd, directed by Guy Hamilton, went on to star in the TV series Murder, She Wrote as Jessica Fletcher, a mystery novelist who also solves crimes.

She is one of a few characters who played a major part in the original cause of the Trojan War itself: not only did she offer Helen of Troy to Paris, but the abduction was accomplished when Paris, seeing Helen for the first time, was inflamed with desire to have her — which is Aphrodite's realm.

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 played the duet from orbit while Anderson played on the ground in Russia.

She appeared on the television series Taxi in the early 1980s, as the wife of the character played by Andy Kaufman, winning two Emmy Awards for her work.

She has played the character of Madame Morrible in the musical Wicked, both in regional productions and on Broadway from 2005 to 2009.

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

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 played a wisecracking showgirl who becomes a rival to the film's star, singer Belle Baker.

She became familiar to a new generation of film-goers when she played Principal McGee in both 1978's Grease and 1982's Grease 2, as well as making appearances on such television shows as Alice, Maude and Falcon Crest.

She is addicted to sleeping pills, absorbed in the shallow dramas played on her " parlor walls " ( flat-panel televisions ), and indifferent to the oppressive society around her.

She played first board on the U. S. Women's team in the 38th Chess Olympiad, when the U. S. team scored a bronze medal.

She read books, wrote letters, and played the lute ( see Bartolomeo Tromboncino ).

She finished with only 4 points from 9 games, tied for 6 – 7 place with Jan Timman, who had also played below his rating.

She played a novelty in the opening which she devised over the board.

Kabir also played roles on Dynasty, Murder, She Wrote, Magnum, P. I., Hunter, Knight Rider and Highlander: The Series amongst others.

She also played the part of Camie in the film Star Wars ( 1977 ).

She also played the recurring character Jackie Robbins on ER.

She made her professional debut on the New York stage, appearing in Beside Herself alongside Melissa Joan Hart, at the Circle Repertory Theatre.

In 1675, a book appeared in English entitled A Present for a Papist: Or the Life and Death of Pope Joan, Plainly Proving Out of the Printed Copies, and Manscriptes of Popish Writers and Others, That a Woman called JOAN, Was Really POPE of ROME, and Was There Deliver'd of a Bastard Son in the Open Street as She Went in Solemn Procession.

Post-punk act Siouxsie and the Banshees revisited " She Cracked " on Downside Up, as did Seaweed on the John Peel Sub-Pop Sessions album, and Joan Jett sang " Roadrunner " on her cover album, The Hit List.

She appeared in episodes of anthology television series in the 1950s and, in 1959, made a pilot for her series, The Joan Crawford Show,

She was the youngest surviving child and only surviving daughter of Philip IV of France and Joan I of Navarre.

She also joined the choir in the finale of " O Holy Night ". Joan Baez concert in Dresden, Germany, July 2008

She once again performed the role of Joan Didion for a special benefit at New York's Cathedral of Saint John the Divine on 26 October 2009.

She bore him further sons, including another successor, Charles III of Spain .< ref name =" Joan ">

She was a daughter of King Charles II of Navarre and Joan of France.

She then becomes enraged upon discovering that Christina has used a wire hanger, instead of the expensive padded hangers Joan provided and instructed the girl to use.

She writes to her mother for advice ; Joan tells her to keep silent about her past.

She is the elder sister of actress Joan Fontaine.

She chose to sing folk music as it became popularized by Joan Baez in the mid-1960s.

She tested for the role, which went to Gertrude Olmstead instead, but soon after she was hired as an extra for Pretty Ladies, in which she and fellow newcomer Joan Crawford were among a bevy of chorus girls dangling from an elaborate chandelier.

She played mother of the title character in the CBS drama series Joan of Arcadia.

She then continued acting by making guest appearances, which include Joan of Arcadia and American Dreams.

She denied the influence of drag, Kabuki or performance art on her new image, a look she affectionately dubbed " Joan Crawford on acid " in an interview with Spin in 1996, but admitted that " it's that combination of being quite elegant and funny and revolting, all at the same time, that appeals to me.

She is sometimes referred to as Joan.

She appeared only sporadically in films after 1950, one of her last roles being that of Joan of Arc in Irwin Allen's critically panned epic The Story of Mankind ( 1957 ).

She was also an older maternal half-sister to William IX, Count of Poitiers, Henry the Young King, Matilda, Duchess of Saxony, Richard I of England, Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany, Leonora of England, Joan of England and John of England.

She has one daughter, Deborah Leslie Dozier ( born in 1948 ), from her union with Dozier, and another daughter, Martita Pareja Calderon, a Peruvian adoptee, whom Joan later gave up for adoption to a clergyman and his wife in Kennebunkport, Maine.

" She starred in many comedies, such as Forsaking All Others ( 1934 ), and Four's a Crowd ( 1938 ), as well as dramas, including Craig's Wife ( 1936 ) ( which would be the film's second of three remakes ; Joan Crawford did the third ) and The Citadel ( 1938 ).

She reputedly took her stage name from two of her greatest heroes, Joan of Arc ( Jeanne d ' Arc ) and King Arthur.

She tackled the role of her namesake, Joan of Arc, in a 1954 stage production of George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan, but she left the play after a nervous breakdown and battles with director Harold Clurman.