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.

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 came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit " Come On-a My House " written by William Saroyan and his cousin Ross Bagdasarian ( better known as David Seville, the father figure of Alvin and the Chipmunks ), which was followed by other pop numbers such as " Botch-a-Me " ( a cover version of the Italian song Ba-Ba-Baciami Piccina by Alberto Rabagliati ), " Mambo Italiano ", " Tenderly ", " Half as Much ", " Hey There " and " This Ole House ", although she had success as a jazz vocalist.

She was noted for her hats, considered her trademark, mostly because of her taste for large, flamboyant ones ; and her hats were so famous that, in the 1946 movie, Breakfast in Hollywood, Del Porter, backed by Spike Jones and his City Slickers, sang a novelty song, " A Hat for Hedda Hopper " while Hopper was sitting in the audience wearing an extraordinary milliner's creation.

She appeared opposite James Garner in a comedy episode of the TV Western series Maverick entitled " Two Tickets to Ten Strike ," and after making several appearances on the Warner Bros. hit TV series 77 Sunset Strip, she recorded the hit novelty song " Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb " ( 1959 ), a duet with one of the stars of the program, Edward Byrnes, that reached # 4 on the Billboard Hot 100.

She in turn brought the novelty to France, where in 1686 the Sicilian fisherman Francesco Procopio dei Coltelli perfected the first ice cream machine.

She was perhaps best known for her highly distinctive singing style and her 1953 hit recordings of " C ' est Si Bon " and the enduring Christmas novelty smash " Santa Baby ".

" She also sang comic novelty songs.

She is best known for her novelty hits " The Nitty Gritty " ( 1963 ) ( US # 8 ), " The Name Game " ( 1964 ) ( US # 3 ) and " The Clapping Song " ( 1965 ) ( US # 8 / UK # 6 ).

She even wrote a humorous novelty song, " Cuchú cuchía ", which features Rafael Hernández Marín as a co-composer.

She is not doing her most brilliant work in Poirot Loses A Client, but she has produced a much-better-than-average thriller nevertheless, and her plot has novelty, as it has sound mechanism, intriguing character types, and ingenuity.

She made many recordings, such as the novelty song " Är Du Kär I Mig Ännu Klas-Göran?

She says later, but still within the opening five minutes, `` I keep thinking of a divorce but that's another emotional death ''.

She was standing on a flat rock three feet above ground and when she saw him she rose to full height and roared, opening her mouth wide, lashing her tail, and stamping at the rock with both forefeet in irritation, as much as to say: `` How dare you disturb me in my sacred precinct ''??

She jumped as the little man now appeared at the window and, reaching through the opening, offered her a bottle of coke.

She sat on a tripod seat over an opening in the earth.

She felt that the final exuberant movement was " too brilliant ", as she was encouraged by the dark and tempestuous opening movement she had seen in an early draft.

She played Hedda Gabler for 12 performances at New York City's Longacre Theatre, opening on June 28, 1942.

She was the star of a new musical version of Breakfast at Tiffany's in December 1966, but the show, titled Holly Golightly, was a notorious flop that closed in previews before opening on Broadway.

She was the opening act in Dallas, Houston, Tampa, Miami, Atlanta, Charlotte, Philadelphia and Washington D. C.

" She was frustrated by the new rule but was the guest of honor nonetheless when the Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged celebrated its opening on June 23, 1908.

She appeared on Broadway in South Pacific, opening on April 7, 1949 as nurse Nellie Forbush.

She was present at the opening of the National Civil Rights Museum in her hometown of Memphis, for which she lent some financial support.

She posed in their apartment for photographer Terry O ' Neill in casual domestic scenes such as opening baby gifts, and also completed a series of glamour photographs for the British magazine Queen.

She escaped the wrath of the critical community in London when her role of Aunt Dahlia was removed from Andrew Lloyd Webber's flop musical Jeeves ( 1975 ) before opening night.

Eventually, Davis brought her case to court in Britain, hoping to get out of her contract with Warner Bros. She later recalled the opening statement of the barrister, Sir Patrick Hastings, who represented Warner Bros. Hastings urged the court to " come to the conclusion that this is rather a naughty young lady and that what she wants is more money ".

She has earned five national amateur titles, but her personal story of overcoming incest brought her to the attention of The New York Times and Barbara Walters of The View " Through this whole journey and me opening up the sexual abuse, I'm finding more importance and meaning to my life ," Underwood told SUCCESS magazine.

She also served as the opening act for Tina Turner's summer tour, which was one of the highest grossing tours that year.

She was arrested on the first day of US Senate hearings for the confirmation to the Supreme Court of the United States of Sonia Sotomayor after she and another protester started yelling during the opening statement of Senator Al Franken ( D-Minn .).

She tied a school record for rebounds by an individual in an NCAA Tournament game with 12 against DePaul in the opening round game in 1991.

The Beatles followed Ed's show opening intro, performing " All My Loving "; " Till There Was You ", which featured the names of the group members superimposed on closeup shots, including the famous " Sorry girls, he's married " caption on John Lennon ; and " She Loves You ".

She was part of the team that created the opening ceremony for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.

She was also the opening act for Matthew Good's " Put Out Your Lights " tour in 2004, as well as for The Offspring's Splinter tour in 2004.

She also performed the song during the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, in front of an estimated 3 billion television viewers worldwide.

She arrived in Massachusetts in time to gain enough strength to attend the opening session.

She sold her first photographs-of opening nights, exhibitions, inaugurations, etc.