Among his best-known films are Cleopatra ; Samson and Delilah ; The Greatest Show on Earth, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture ; and The Ten Commandments, which was his last and most successful film.

" Yip " Harburg ( performed by Judy Garland in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz ), " White Christmas " written by Irving Berlin ( best-known performance by Bing Crosby ), " This Land Is Your Land " written and performed by Woody Guthrie, " Respect " written by Otis Redding ( best-known performance by Aretha Franklin ), and " American Pie ".

She does not appear in the best-known film she directed, The Hitch-Hiker ( 1953 ), developed by her company, The Filmakers, with support and distribution by RKO.

Steiner was one of the best-known composers in Hollywood, and is widely regarded today as one of the greatest film score composers in the history of cinema.

His best-known film role was as Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride in 1987.

During this time Leni Riefenstahl, a filmmaker working in Nazi Germany, created one of the best-known propaganda movies, Triumph of the Will, a film commissioned by Hitler to chronicle the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg.

Perhaps the best-known film adaptation of Shakespeare's play Richard III is the 1955 version directed and produced by Sir Laurence Olivier, who also played the lead role.

Triumph of the Will was released in 1935 and rapidly became one of the best-known examples of propaganda in film history.

The next day, Jason Robards, the best-known " star " of the film, arrived and production moved to Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

His best-known film roles include Wally Shawn in My Dinner with Andre ( 1981 ), Vizzini in The Princess Bride ( 1987 ), and Rex the toy dinosaur in the Toy Story animated film series.

He is principally known for his 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award, although his 1967 version of The Taming of the Shrew ( with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton ) remains the best-known film adaptation of that play as well.

Among Loren's best-known films of this period are Samuel Bronston's epic production of El Cid ( 1961 ) with Charlton Heston, The Millionairess ( 1960 ) with Peter Sellers, It Started in Naples ( 1960 ) with Clark Gable, Vittorio De Sica's triptych Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow ( 1963 ) with Marcello Mastroianni, Peter Ustinov's Lady L ( 1965 ) with Paul Newman, the 1966 classic Arabesque with Gregory Peck, and Charlie Chaplin's final film, A Countess from Hong Kong ( 1967 ) with Marlon Brando.

The film, one of Visconti's best-known works, concerns a German industrialist's family which slowly begins to disintegrate during the Nazi consolidation of power at the 30s.

Several of his novels dealt with a Welsh theme, the best-known being How Green Was My Valley ( 1939 ), which won international acclaim and was made into a classic Hollywood film.

* The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 film ), its best-known adaptation

In the 1980s, Greenaway's cinema flowered in his best-known films, The Draughtsman's Contract ( 1982 ), A Zed & Two Noughts ( 1985 ), The Belly of an Architect ( 1987 ), Drowning by Numbers ( 1988 ), and his most successful ( and controversial ) film, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover ( 1989 ).

Savion Glover is the best-known living hoofer, who helped bring tap dance into mainstream media by choreographing and dancing for the major motion picture Happy Feet, a film about a tap dancing penguin.

In 1972, Minnelli appeared in perhaps her best-known film role, as Sally Bowles in the movie version of Cabaret.

In 1986, the Tribune announced that celebrated film critic Gene Siskel, the Tribunes best-known writer, was no longer the paper's film critic, and that his position with the paper had shifted from being that of a full-time film critic to that of a free-lance contract writer who was to write about the film industry for the Sunday paper and also provide capsule film reviews for the paper's entertainment sections.

The album contains one of Parsons ' best-known songs, " Luxury Liner ", as well as an early version of " Do You Know How It Feels ", which he revisited later on in his career.

In the best-known version of this illusion, two circles of identical size are placed near to each other and one is surrounded by large circles while the other is surrounded by small circles ; the first central circle then appears smaller than the second central circle.

The best-known version in French is the free verse edition by Franz Toussaint ( 1879 – 1955 ) published in 1924.

The world's best-known version of the rainbow flag, sometimes called ' the freedom flag ', was popularized as a symbol of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ( LGBT ) pride and diversity by San Francisco artist Gilbert Baker in 1978.

In the best-known version of the story, the favorite companion of Cyparissus was a tamed stag, which he accidentally killed with his hunting javelin as it lay sleeping in the woods.

The single from the album, a cover version of The Temptations song " Don't Look Back ", performed as a duet with Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger, made Tosh one of the best-known reggae artists.

After the band played many of its best-known tunes, an extended 20 + minute version of “ Bluebird ” became the group's swan song.

A recording by The Kingsmen in 1963 is the best-known version.

They are also usually associated with witches, wizards and vampires ; the best-known stage version of Dracula, which first made actor Bela Lugosi prominent, featured him wearing it so that his exit through a trap door concealed on the stage could seem sudden.

Some saw The Old Gold Comedy Theater as being a lighter version of Lux Radio Theater, and it featured some of the best-known film and radio personalities of the day, including Fred Allen, June Allyson, Lucille Ball, Ralph Bellamy, Linda Darnell, Susan Hayward, Herbert Marshall, Dick Powell, Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, and Alan Young, among others.

The best-known example is defibrillators, which spread first to ambulances, then in an automatic version to police cars, and most recently to public spaces such as airports, office buildings, hotels, and even shopping malls.

His best-known role was that of Kirk St Moritz in the original, British version of the sitcom Dear John which for a brief period made him a familiar face to television viewers.

* Anthony Hope's novel The Prisoner of Zenda ( see " Literature ", above ) has been the basis for many film and stage adaptations, the first film version being in 1913 ; the best-known film version is John Cromwell's 1937 film.

Events included performances by festival patron and cellist, Julian Lloyd Webber and a concert version of German's best-known work, Merrie England.

The best-known written version was an abridgement of her work published in 1756 by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont, in Magasin des enfants, ou dialogues entre une sage gouvernante et plusieurs de ses élèves ; an English translation appeared in 1757.

The best-known and most-used version was Apple DOS 3. 3 in the 1980 and 1983 releases.

The best-known version is broadcast annually from King's College, Cambridge, on Christmas Eve.

The best-known film version is that of 1954 directed by David Lean.

The best-known Western version of the story appears in Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend.

Russell's caption on the sketch, " Waiting for a Chinook ", became the title of the drawing, and Russell later created a more detailed version which is one of his best-known works.

The best-known lettres de cachet, however, were penal, by which a subject was sentenced without trial and without an opportunity of defense to imprisonment in a state prison or an ordinary jail, confinement in a convent or a hospital, transportation to the colonies, or expulsion to another part of the realm.

The best-known types of reefs are tropical coral reefs which exist in most tropical waters ; however, reefs can also exist in cold water.

His best-known poems, however, are to be found in the two earlier volumes of Shorter Poems ( 1890, 1894 ).

Lee first attracted attention performing in country music venues and shows ; however, her label and management felt it best to market her exclusively as a pop artist, the result being that none of her best-known recordings from the 1960s were released to country radio, and despite her country sound, with top Nashville session people, she did not have another country hit until 1969, and " Johnny One Time ".

The best-known and popular brands of Raki, however, remain Yeni Rakı, originally produced by Tekel, which has transferred production rights to Mey Alkol upon the 2004 privatization of Tekel, and Tekirdağ Rakısı from the region of Tekirdağ, which is famous for its characteristic flavor, believed to be due to the artesian waters of Çorlu used in its production.

He returned to academia in 1954 however, as head of the biology department of Saint John Fisher College in Rochester, New York, then to The Catholic University of America in 1958, where he published his best-known work Beetles of the United States ( 1963 ).

The best-known comedies of manners, however, may well be those of the French playwright Molière, who satirized the hypocrisy and pretension of the ancien régime in such plays as L ' École des femmes ( The School for Wives, 1662 ), Le Misanthrope ( The Misanthrope, 1666 ), and most famously Tartuffe ( 1664 ).

He was considered the most best-known opposition leader in Gabon ; however, his credibility as an opposition leader was thought to have suffered, and it was believed that the RNB split would have a negative impact on his candidacy.

The album's best-known song, however, is " Home for a Rest ".

His best-known voice-over character, however, is that of Mandark, the arch-nemesis of the eponymous Dexter on Cartoon Network's Dexter's Laboratory, a role he played for the series ' entire run from 1996 – 2003.

The station's best-known architectural feature, however, is an Ionic column in the northern mezzanine.

The two best-known weapons of the Patrol, however, are probably the DeLameter energy beam handgun, and the space-axe, described as a " combination and sublimation of battle-axe, mace, harpoon, and lumberman's picaroon " and the favored weapon of Valerian marines.

The best-known and most technical use of the term however refers to the elite regiments formed by Byzantine emperor Constantine V and comprising the central army of the Byzantine Empire in the 8th – 11th centuries.

When director Bryan Singer came aboard the project, however, he insisted an unknown actor be cast in the part, in the tradition of the casting of the best-known film Superman, Christopher Reeve.

Perhaps the best-known manufacturer in the UK is McVitie's ; however, all major supermarkets now sell an own-brand version of the biscuits.

In the 19th century, however, the aria was rediscovered and became one of Handel's best-known pieces.

Its best-known holding is a cuneiform tablet inscribed with the Code of Hammurabi, however this is now on display in the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.

Azito's best-known role, however, came in yet a third production for NYSF: as the Sergeant of Police in the 1980 Broadway revival of The Pirates of Penzance, starring Linda Ronstadt and Kevin Kline.

" Sunrise Serenade ," however, was Carle's best-known composition, rising to No. 1 in the nation in 1938 and selling more than one million copies.

Exact records of his activities in Zittau are spotty, for the documents were burned in 1757 when the city was destroyed by the Austrians in the Seven Years ' War ; however Hammerschmidt during this portion of his career became one of the best-known composers in Germany, and the most famous representative of the concertato style of the generation after Heinrich Schütz.

The best-known of his works however is a novel titled Głowa Kasandry ( Cassandra's Head ) published for the first time in 1985 and instantly awarded the Janusz A. Zajdel Award.

He is best-known however for being a participant in a fatal duel with Major Thomas Biddle.