After abandoning Wicked Stepmother and with no further film offers ( though she was keen to play the centenarian in Craig Calman's The Turn Of The Century and worked with him on adapting the stage play to a feature length screenplay ), Davis appeared on several talk shows and was interviewed by Johnny Carson, Joan Rivers, Larry King and David Letterman, discussing her career but refusing to discuss her daughter.

In Shrek 2, the fairy godmother turns out to be a conniving, crooked businesswoman ( with a personality rather like that of the Stepmother in Cinderella ), who is quite willing to resort to blackmail and / or murder to further her own interests.

The cast featured Ginger Rogers and Walter Pidgeon as the King and Queen ; Celeste Holm as the Fairy Godmother ; Jo Van Fleet as the Stepmother, with Pat Carroll and Barbara Ruick as her daughters Prunella and Esmerelda ; and Stuart Damon as the Prince.

However, by 2000 she seemed to have overcome that block, releasing Stepmother City, her most accessible work to date, where she seemed to really find her stride, mixing traditional Tuvan instruments and singing with turntables and effects, placing her in a creative firmament between Yoko and Björk, but with the je ne sais quoi of Mongolia as part of the bargain.

Cohen finished the 1980s with Wicked Stepmother ( 1989 ), in which the late Bette Davis made her last appearance.

The Ambitious Stepmother, Rowe's first play, produced in 1700 at Lincoln ’ s Inn Fields by Thomas Betterton and set in Persepolis, was called and was well received.

His first novel, The Stepmother ( published as Final Witness in the United States ), was published in 2002.

" Her last performance was the title role in Larry Cohen's Wicked Stepmother ( 1989 ).

In Scandinavia, Scotland, and German-speaking countries, the pansy ( or its wild parent Viola tricolor ) is or was known as the Stepmother ( Flower ).

Following the departure of all of the group's founding members later in the 1980s, the remaining members scored a second American top-ten hit, " Room to Move ," which was featured in the film, My Stepmother is an Alien.

Stepmother Anna was also ill, so the entire family canceled their plans to stay two years and returned to Cedarville.

The river was mentioned in Sufjan Stevens's song " Decatur, Or, Round Of Applause For Your Stepmother!

He was most famous for his roles in movies like Fun in Acapulco with Elvis Presley ( 1963 ), as well as the lead in The Stepmother ( 1972 ).

His second try behind the camera was 1992 ’ s The Stepmother.

He followed with work on the 1986 remake of Invaders From Mars and My Stepmother is an Alien ( 1988 ).

Stepmother relationships are often examined in soap operas.

She provided the voice of an alien species in the comedy film My Stepmother Is an Alien, co-starring Kim Basinger and Dan Aykroyd.

* Shelly DeVoto Sultenfuss – Jamie Lee Curtis: The Funeral Parlour's make up artist and Harry's Wife and Vada's Stepmother.

My Stepmother is an Alien is a 1988 American comedy science fiction film produced by the Weintraub Entertainment Group for release through Columbia Pictures, directed by Richard Benjamin and starring Dan Aykroyd and Kim Basinger, with featured performances by Jon Lovitz and Alyson Hannigan.

Baroness Rodmilla is the Stepmother.

The single " Room to Move ," a remake of a 1988 song by the group Climie Fisher, became a radio hit in April 1989, and their second Top 10 hit in the U. S., aided by its inclusion in the movie My Stepmother is an Alien.

The 1997 TV version added, among others, " Falling in Love with Love " for the Stepmother.

It also featured Howard Lindsay as The King, Dorothy Stickney as The Queen, Edith Adams as the Fairy Godmother, Kaye Ballard and Alice Ghostley as stepsisters Portia and Joy, Ilka Chase as the Stepmother, and Iggie Wolfington as The Steward.

Several songs were added, including " Falling in Love with Love " from the musical The Boys from Syracuse, sung by the Stepmother ; " The Sweetest Sounds " from the musical No Strings, sung by Cinderella and the Prince ; and " There's Music in You ," written for the 1953 film Main Street to Broadway, sung as the finale by the Fairy Godmother.

The New York City Opera produced the musical in 1993 and 1995, with the Fairy Godmother being played by Sally Ann Howes and the Stepmother played by Nancy Marchand and Jean Stapleton.

A United States tour played from November 2000 through 2001 and starred Kitt as the Fairy Godmother, with Deborah Gibson and later Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Cinderella, Paolo Montalbán as the Prince, and, in a casting twist, a gender-bending Everett Quinton playing the Stepmother.

Some perhaps less well known movies filmed at Van Nuys High include Kid ' n Play's Class Act and My Stepmother is an Alien ( featuring Kim Basinger.

Harris will return to Broadway yet again as the Evil Stepmother in Cinderella when it premieres in 2013.

The Macocha Abyss ( Czech: Propast Macocha, literally the Stepmother Abyss ), also known as the Macocha Gorge, is a sinkhole in the Moravian Karst cave system of the Czech Republic located north of the city of Brno, near the town of Blansko.

Winslow, as his daughters Eleanor and Margaret recall, used to characterize her as `` our iron sister ''.

The daughters of Spelman, she said, had never known or thought of Spelman without her.

Apollo killed her sons, and Artemis her daughters.

Other than Abby May and her daughters, only one other woman joined, Ann Page.

A poem of Callimachus to the goddess " who amuses herself on mountains with archery " imagines some charming vignettes: according to Callimachus, at three years old, Artemis, while sitting on the knee of her father, Zeus, asked him to grant her six wishes: to remain always a virgin ; to have many names to set her apart from her brother Apollo ; to be the Phaesporia or Light Bringer ; to have a bow and arrow and a knee-length tunic so that she could hunt ; to have sixty " daughters of Okeanos ", all nine years of age, to be her choir ; and for twenty Amnisides Nymphs as handmaidens to watch her dogs and bow while she rested.

When Artemis and Apollo heard this impiety, Apollo killed her sons as they practiced athletics, and Artemis shot her daughters, who died instantly without a sound.

However, when he died, his will was ignored — the kingdom was annexed as if conquered, Boudica was flogged, her daughters were raped, and Roman financiers called in their loans.

According to Tacitus, Boudica was flogged and her daughters were raped.

Boudica exhorted her troops from her chariot, her daughters beside her.

Tacitus gives her a short speech in which she presents herself not as an aristocrat avenging her lost wealth, but as an ordinary person, avenging her lost freedom, her battered body, and the abused chastity of her daughters.

A great bronze statue of Boudica with her daughters in her war chariot ( furnished with scythes after the Persian fashion ) was commissioned by Prince Albert and executed by Thomas Thornycroft.

And when Alfred was forced into his bed, Tessie left the front porch of the store and sat at home, rocking in her rocker in the living room, staring out the window -- the rose still in her hair.

Seizing the bridle, he tugged with all his might and forced Katie to her knees.

The comfort was short-lived, yet she found herself returning to the assurance whenever her imagination forced images on her too awful to contemplate without the prop of illusion.

yet her inflection seemed forced or rehearsed.

The Lady Da forced the foremost of her bodies in an upright position.

Vipsania Agrippina later married senator and consul Gaius Asinius Gallus Saloninus after Tiberius was forced to divorce her and marry Julia the Elder.

In 55, Agrippina was forced out of the palace by her son to live in imperial residence.

When Queen Isabella and her husband were forced to leave Spain by the Revolution of 1868, Alfonso accompanied them to Paris.

However, Otto died the same year, and although both mother and grandmother were appointed as co-regents for the child-king, Otto III, Theophano forced Adelaide to abdicate and exiled her.

She was forced into patriotism in spite of herself, and the glory won by Salamis was paid for by the loss of her trade and the decay of her marine.

Access to famous persons, too, became more and more restricted ; potential visitors would be forced through numerous different checks before being granted access to the official in question, and as communication became better and information technology more prevalent, it has become all but impossible for a would-be killer to get close enough to the personage at work or in private life to effect an attempt on his or her life, especially given the common use of metal and bomb detectors.

He was briefly reunited with his mother at nine years old, before Hannah was forced to readmit her family to the workhouse in July 1898.

Awed by her physical prowess, the remaining Honored Matres are forced to accept her as their new leader.

It starred Alyson Michalka as Marty ( a former gymnast forced to become a cheerleader after her academic scholarship is canceled ) and Ashley Tisdale from High School Musical.

While he quickly gains the respect of Planet editor Perry White, he is forced to contend with rival reporter Lois Lane, who often uses trickery to prevent Clark from pursuing a lead ( giving her the chance to scoop him ).

Later, Exodus confronts Magneto about Joanna Cargill's injury ( Magneto was forced to shoot a laser through her eyeball in order to prevent her attempted assassination of Xavier ).

Also during the 1955 off-season, Marguerite Norris lost an intra-family power struggle, and was forced to turn over the Wings to her younger brother Bruce, who had inherited his father's grain business.

Mistreated and starved, the imprisoned Louis XVII was forced to confess to incest with his mother, Queen Marie-Antoinette, ( untrue ; separated early, son and mother were disallowed communication, nevertheless, the allegation helped earn her the guillotine ).

The goddesses Hera, Athena and Aphrodite had been invited along with the rest of Olympus to the forced wedding of Peleus and Thetis, who would become the parents of Achilles, but Eris had been snubbed because of her troublemaking inclinations.

Later, at King Roger's court in Potenza, she learnt of the death of her uncle Raymond ; this appears to have forced a change of plans, for instead of returning to France from Marseilles, they instead sought the Pope in Tusculum, where he had been driven five months before by a Roman revolt.