Blanche Hunt ( Maggie Jones ) embodied the role of the acid-tongued busybody originally held by Ena Sharples, Sally Webster ( Sally Dynevor ) has grown snobbish, like Annie Walker, and a number of the programme's female characters mirror the vulnerability of Elsie Tanner and Bet Lynch.

She won the Best Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 ), a role she also played on stage in London's West End, as well as for her portrayal of the southern belle Scarlett O ' Hara, alongside Clark Gable, in the American Civil War drama Gone with the Wind.

Leigh next sought the role of Blanche DuBois in the West End stage production of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire and was cast after Williams and the play's producer Irene Mayer Selznick saw her in The School for Scandal and Antigone ; Olivier was contracted to direct.

" Leigh found the role gruelling and commented to the Los Angeles Times, " I had nine months in the theatre of Blanche DuBois.

Tennessee Williams commented that Leigh brought to the role " everything that I intended, and much that I had never dreamed of "; but, in later years, Leigh would say playing Blanche DuBois " tipped me over into madness.

She declined the role of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, allegedly citing the unsavory nature of some elements of the script and saying there were certain lines she could not allow herself to speak.

* Rue McClanahan, Emmy award-winning actress best known for her role of Blanche Devereaux on The Golden Girls

She played the role of Blanche Davis, a girl born to wealth and cursed by her inheritance of physical beauty.

He played a key role in a number of periodicals, including La Vogue, La Revue Indépendante, La Revue Blanche and Le Mercure de France.

In 1876, she appeared as Lady Teazle in The School for Scandal, Blanche Haye in a revival of T. W. Robertson's Ours, and the title role in Olivia by William Gorman Wills at the Court Theatre ( an adaptation of The Vicar of Wakefield ), where she joined the company of John Hare.

She was best known as a panelist on the 1970s game show, Match Game and for her recurring role as Blanche Madison opposite her real life husband Jack Klugman on The Odd Couple.

Rosina Brandram got her big break when Alice Barnett became ill and left the company for a time, taking the role of Lady Blanche and becoming the company's principal contralto.

White was originally offered the role of Blanche in The Golden Girls, and Rue McClanahan was offered the role of Rose ( the two characters being similar to roles they had played in Mary Tyler Moore and Maude, respectively ).

She took over the role of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire for the national tour, which was directed not by Elia Kazan who had directed the Broadway production but by Harold Clurman.

She also reprised the role of Blanche in Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire at the Barbican Centre in London.

Carte Blanche Consumer is a South African current affairs television series produced by Combined Artists for M-Net as a spin-off of Carte Blanche, which assumes the role of a consumer rights watchdog that demands accountability and exposes hidden agendas.

She created the role of ( Blanche ) in Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites in 1957 at La Scala, later performing his solo masterpiece for soprano La Voix Humaine.

Blanche also played a political role as a mediator between her brother King Charles II of Navarre and France.

In 1990, Paradis won the 1990 César Award for Most Promising Actress for her role in Noce Blanche.

She received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Blanche Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde ( 1967 ), and was also nominated for her work in Rachel, Rachel ( 1968 ).

She appeared in a wide variety of television work, which included a starring role in the 1960s television series Petticoat Junction and Green Acres as Shady Rest Hotel owner Kate Bradley, supporting roles as Blanche Morton in The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show and as the voice of Betty Rubble during the first four seasons of The Flintstones, and in The Beverly Hillbillies as Pearl Bodine.

Hannah is a role along the lines of Williams ' greatest female characters, like Blanche DuBois and Summer and Smokes Alma Winemuller, women possessed of extraordinarily refined sensibilities and grace.

Rue McClanahan said playing the role of Blanche made her " one of the most recognizable women in the world ," and resulted in her being named the " Fifth most beloved celebrity over 55 " in the world.

In 1928, a division of biology was established under the leadership of Thomas Hunt Morgan, the most distinguished biologist in the United States at the time, and discoverer of the role of genes and the chromosome in heredity.

* In the final episode of the BBC time travel / cop show Ashes to Ashes ( Series 3, Episode 8 ), it is revealed that the world that Alex Drake awoke to after being shot, which Sam Tyler described and that other major characters inhabit, is a kind of Limbo, one seemingly specifically for members of the police force, who had died in violent or sudden ways, with Gene Hunt taking on a role similar to that of a Psychopomp or Charon of Greek mythology, helping " the troubled souls of Her Majesty's Constabulary " accept their deaths and move on to Heaven.

Thomas Hunt Morgan ( September 25, 1866 – December 4, 1945 ) was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist and embryologist and science author who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for discoveries relating the role the chromosome plays in heredity.

Many of Ford's major film roles came to him by default through unusual circumstances: he won the role of Han Solo while reading lines for other actors, was cast as Indiana Jones because Tom Selleck was not available, and took the role of Jack Ryan supposedly due to Alec Baldwin's fee demands, although Baldwin disputes this ( Baldwin had previously played the role in The Hunt for Red October ).

In the 1990s, after playing the lead female role in the short-lived My Life and Times, Hunt starred in the series Mad About You, winning Emmy Awards for her performances in 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999.

He had guest roles in the Sea Hunt series from 1958 to 1960 and had a minor role in The Twilight Zone episode " A Quality of Mercy " in 1961.

In addition to Cromer, other notable actors who performed in the role of Stage Manager included Helen Hunt, Michael McKean, Jason Butler Harner, Stephen Kunken and Michael Shannon.

A significant departure from this was his speaking role in The Moose Hunt ( 1931 ), which was produced before Pluto's characterization had been clearly defined.

In 2008, Keitel was cast in the role of Detective Gene Hunt in ABC's short-lived US cover version of the successful English time-travel police drama series Life on Mars.

His role as a psychopomp is paralleled in his later tradition as leader of the Wild Hunt, in which he leads a pack of supernatural hounds known as the Cŵn Annwn to harvest human souls.

Gwyn is often associated with the Wild Hunt, in a role akin to Woden or Herne the Hunter.

After she met the director Gordon Hunt, he asked her to audition for a recurring role as Gloria in Richie Rich.

Dench was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, but lost to Helen Hunt for her role in As Good as It Gets opposite Jack Nicholson.

That year, she played the title role in The Ramona Pageant, a yearly outdoor play at Hemet, California which is based on the novel Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson and Bob Biloe.

In 1990, Hunt played a role on the NBC show Grand, a comedy that lasted a season and a half.

In addition, Hunt received a writing credit on the film Cars, and reprised her role in the sequel Cars 2.

In the ensuing years, John played many of his greatest stage roles on BBC Radio including Richard of Bordeaux, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Tempest, and Hamlet, one production of which featured Emlyn Williams as Claudius, Celia Johnson as Ophelia, and Martita Hunt as Gertrude ( the part she played in Gielgud's debut in the role at the Old Vic in 1930 ).

Supporting players include Akim Tamiroff, Martita Hunt, and, in a small role, Natalie Schafer.

Tomei appeared in the 2000 film What Women Want with Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt, which was a commercial success, and had a supporting role in the romantic comedy Someone Like You with Hugh Jackman and Ashley Judd.

Still a firm protege of Baldwin's, Irwin returned to Education in 1932, a position enlivened by his continuing ( now backroom ) role in Indian politics, his attainment of the position of Master of the Middleton Hunt in 1932 and his election as Chancellor of Oxford University in 1933.

Helen Hunt, in an early role, played Prentiss ' pre-teen daughter, Jill.

* Brighton, Carl T. and Robert M. Hunt ( 1986 ), " Histochemical localization of calcium in the fracture callus with potassium pyroantimonate: possible role of chondrocyte mitochondrial calcium in callus calcification ", Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 68-A ( 5 ): 703-715