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 appearances on such programs as Laverne & Shirley, as Donut Rooter in Devo's We're All Devo VHS, According to Jim, St.

She is also one of only two women who have twice received the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice film festival: in 1988 for her part in Une affaire de femmes ( tied with Shirley MacLaine ), and in 1995 for La Cérémonie ( tied with her partner in the movie, Sandrine Bonnaire ).

She was born Marilyn Rice-Davies in Pontyates near Llanelli, Wales, and moved to Shirley in Solihull, England, where her father was a policeman.

She also tends to be meek, while Laverne is more outspoken and athletic ; this doesn't mean that Shirley is a wimp or a pushover, as she is quite capable of standing up for herself when necessary — she just isn't quite as aggressive about it as her friend.

She was orphaned as an infant of three months, when her parents, schoolteachers Walter and Bertha Shirley ( née Willis ), died of typhoid fever.

" She then demands to know who farted to which Shirley and Vyvyan squabble over who has the most ridiculous name.

She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress twice more: for Terms of Endearment in 1983 ( which was awarded to her co-star, Shirley MacLaine, who played her mother in the film ) and for Shadowlands in 1993 for which she also received her second BAFTA nomination.

She starred in Mrs. Winterbourne with Shirley Maclaine and Brendan Fraser, Cabin Boy, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Cookie, and Inside Monkey Zetterland.

She was born Myra Maybelle Shirley ( known as May to her family ) on her father's farm near Carthage, Missouri.

She was featured in the final Wheeler & Woolsey comedy, High Flyers, doing impersonations of Katharine Hepburn, Simone Simon, Dolores del Río, Marlene Dietrich and Shirley Temple.

She recorded the group's remaining two albums Invasion Of the Booty Snatchers in 1979 and Play Me Or Trade Me in 1980 with Shirley Hayden and Janice Evans.

She is known for starring in two TV series, as the title character on the situation comedy Murphy Brown ( 1988 – 1998 ), for which she won five Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards ; and as Shirley Schmidt on the comedy-drama Boston Legal ( 2004 – 2008 ), for which she was nominated for two Emmys, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

In noting her death, Shirley Allen, a Canadian member of the Ninety-Nines organization of women aviators described her: " She had a brilliant mind and was recognized as an outstanding Canadian woman.

She also appeared on such shows as Laverne & Shirley, CHiPs, Fame and Friends.

In a review of the biography of Dame Shirley Porter by Andrew Hosken ( see " See also "), Nicholas Lezard in The Guardian described her in the following terms: " She remains, by a considerable margin, the most corrupt British public figure in living memory, with the possible exception of Robert Maxwell ".

* She worked with writer Willy Russell when she performed in Shirley Valentine onstage in 1989.

She changed the heavy jewelry and make-up, and adopted the gamine look, which is notably applied to describe the style and appearance that Shirley MacLaine and Audrey Hepburn used during the 1950s.

She also predicts that Shirley is in love too, and that she is not ‘ master of her own heart ’.

She sang with many famous colleagues including tenors Beniamino Gigli, Mario Filippeschi, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Carlo Bergonzi, Nicolai Gedda, Alfredo Kraus, Jon Vickers, Luciano Pavarotti, and Plácido Domingo, mezzo sopranos Giulietta Simionato, Fedora Barbieri, Shirley Verrett, Lili Chookasian, Grace Bumbry, baritones Gino Bechi, Tito Gobbi.

She has also appeared in Dad's Army ( first as Edith Parrish, and later as Private Walker's girlfriend Shirley ), Up Pompeii!

She returned to Philadelphia in 1967 to sing the title roles in Puccini's Tosca and Madama Butterfly and to the Met to sing three Verdi heroines: Leonora in Il trovatore opposite Richard Tucker as Manrico, Desdemona in Otello opposite James McCracken in the title role, and Violetta in La traviata with Tucker and George Shirley alternating as Alfredo.

She later drew acclaim for playing the title role in the play Shirley Valentine for which she received Laurence Olivier, Tony, and Drama Desk awards.

She is also one of Acme Loonerversity's cheerleaders in which, like the other two ( Babs Bunny & Shirley the Loon ), she wears a royal blue ribbon in place of her pink ribbon.

She appeared in two canceled series, Shirley with Shirley Jones in 1979, and Goodnight Beantown, starring Bill Bixby in 1983.