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 was the only kind of Negro Laura Andrus would want around: independent, unservile, probably charging double what ordinary maids did for housework -- and doubly efficient.

She is a regular stub and twister, double geered.

She was a beautiful and reputable woman and according to Pliny the Elder, she had a double canine in her upper right jaw, a sign of good fortune.

She lost her job on The Dinah Shore Show when, as she said, " We were shooting all night, and into the next day, and time just got away from me, and I didn't realize that I was supposed to be on the set working as Dinah's double on her show, Chevy Theatre.

Dialogue now took precedence over " slapstick " in Hollywood comedies: the fast-paced, witty banter of The Front Page ( 1931 ) or It Happened One Night ( 1934 ), the sexual double entrendres of Mae West ( She Done Him Wrong, 1933 ) or the often subversively anarchic nonsense talk of the Marx Brothers ( Duck Soup, 1933 ).

She introduced the future director, the middle of three children, to the world of cinema by leaving him at a local cinema to watch matinee double features such as Attack of the Crab Monsters and Creature From the Black Lagoon while she ran errands.

She finished the four-player double round-robin tournament scoring 4 points, with Jan Timman at 3½ with Ulf Andersson and Tiger Hillarp-Persson finishing in that order.

She scored 4½ out of 6 in a double round-robin tournament that included two wins against the world's top-rated player, Veselin Topalov.

She has had three albums certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America and is the second best-selling artist in Canada, behind Céline Dion, with three of her studio albums certified double diamond by the Canadian Recording Industry Association.

She is credited with introducing the fork to Western Europe-chronographers mention the astonishment she caused when she " used a golden double prong to bring food to her mouth " instead of using her hands as was the norm.

She has wonderful eyes, but she has a double chin and an overdeveloped chest, and she ’ s rather short in the leg.

She initially ignores severe headaches and brief episodes of dizziness and double vision, but when she uncharacteristically takes a spill while riding, and then tumbles down a flight of stairs, her secretary / best friend Ann King ( Geraldine Fitzgerald ) insists she see the family doctor, who refers her to a specialist.

She appears briefly in the Argonautica, giving her brother Acastus a mantle of double fold before he sails off with the Argonauts.

She is the only person to achieve a quintuple double.

In the live-action series, Minako secretly leads a double life as idol and heroine — famous as a singer, and equally well known as Sailor V. She remains entirely separate from the other girls, but is aware of each of their civilian identities.

That same year, she also featured on three songs of Massive Attack's album 100th Window before releasing her double album, She Who Dwells in the Secret Place of the Most High Shall Abide Under the Shadow of the Almighty.

There are also some obvious differences: the jug on ' She Lives ( In A Time Of Her Own )' is far more prominent ; ' Levitation ' has a double tracked vocal ; Roky's harmonica solo on ' I Had To Tell You ' is far clearer.

She is hired at low wages to play the stand-in and stunt double for the bratty child star Tootsie McSnoots.

She also made a pair of intimate vocal / guitar / double bass albums of jazz standards: After Hours ( 1961 ) with guitarist Mundell Lowe and double bassist George Duvivier and Sarah + 2 ( 1962 ) with guitarist Barney Kessell and double bassist Joe Comfort.

She focused on blue collar women's issues with themes about philandering husbands and persistent mistresses, and pushed boundaries in the conservative genre of country music by singing about birth control (" The Pill "), repeated childbirth (" One's on the Way "), double standards for men and women (" Rated " X ""), and being widowed by the draft during the Vietnam War (" Dear Uncle Sam ").

She possibly had more banned songs than any other artist in the history of country music, including " Rated " X "," about the double standards divorced women face, " Wings Upon Your Horns ," about the loss of teenage virginity, and " The Pill ", lyrics by T. D.

She guest-starred on The Twilight Zone as the devil, F Troop as an Indian princess, Bewitched (" The Eight-Year Itch Witch " in 1971 ) as a cat named Ophelia given human form by Endora ( essentially playing her Catwoman character from Batman ), The Beverly Hillbillies, and Get Smart as a double agent assigned to Maxwell Smart's apartment posing as a maid.