She was such a well-rounded teenager, having been a twirler, Future Farmers sweetheart, and secretary of Future Homemakers.

Harlan Ellison ( who began reading van Vogt as a teenager ) wrote, " Van was the first writer to shine light on the restricted ways in which I had been taught to view the universe and the human condition.

As a teenager he was his father ’ s amanuensis and was regularly seen debating theological issues with the learned men of the area.

The film, about an immoral teenager in a respectable small-town setting, was an international success.

" But the teenager made an impact on his first night at the London Coliseum, winning more laughs in his small role than the star, and he was quickly signed to a contract.

Jazz pianist Jim Martinez, who organized her birthday celebration at the Cypress Inn at Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, claims that according to Doris Day's current assistant, when Day was a teenager, she added two years to her age so she would be old enough to sing with big bands.

Although many of his works appeared in print while a teenager, it was the publication of " Light breaks where no sun shines ", published in 1934, that caught the attention of the literary world.

Thomas was a teenager when many of the poems for which he became famous were published: " And death shall have no dominion ", " Before I Knocked " and " The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower ".

Describing Morris as a teenager, Mark Singer wrote that he " read with a passion the forty-odd Oz books, watched a lot of television, and on a regular basis went with a doting but not quite right maiden aunt (" I guess you'd have to say that Aunt Roz was somewhat demented ") to Saturday matinées, where he saw such films as This Island Earth and Creature from the Black Lagoon — horror movies that, viewed again 30 years later, still seem scary to him.

Among the many inspirations for the film include The Three Stooges and other slapstick comedy films ; Ash's fights with his disembodied hand come from a film made by Spiegel as a teenager, entitled Attack of the Helping Hand, which was itself inspired by television commercials advertising Hamburger Helper.

She was introduced anonymously while still a teenager in the third book in the series and plays a larger role in several of the titles of the 1930s and 1940s.

He later stated on They Think It's All Over that as a teenager he idolised former England captain David Gower, who was playing for Leicestershire at the time.

The genre was also a heavy influence on more mainstream writers, such as Charles Dickens, who read Gothic novels as a teenager and incorporated their gloomy atmosphere and melodrama into his own works, shifting them to a more modern period and an urban setting, including Oliver Twist ( 1837-8 ), Bleak House ( 1854 ) ( Mighall 2003 ) and Great Expectations ( 1860 – 61 ).

As a teenager, Cukor frequently was taken to the New York Hippodrome by his uncle.

Chapman met Tomiczek when the teenager was a runaway from Liverpool.

* As a teenager, IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad was directly involved in the pro-Nazi New Swedish Movement ( Nysvenska Rörelsen ) until at least 1948, causing tensions when IKEA began opening stores in Israel, although one source has claimed that the movement was not pro-Nazi.

He was a main character in the first volume of X-Factor, and a star in flashback stories when he was a teenager in X-Men: The Hidden Years and X-Men: First Class.

Rousseau's choice of a Catholic vicar of humble peasant background ( plausibly based on a kindly prelate he had met as a teenager ) as a spokesman for the defense of religion was in itself a daring innovation for the time.

Styne attended Chicago Musical College, but before then he had already attracted attention of another teenager, Mike Todd, later a successful film producer, who commissioned him to write a song for a musical act that he was creating.

While Paganini was still a teenager in Livorno, a wealthy businessman named Livron lent him a violin, made by the master luthier Giuseppe Guarneri, for a concert.

When Cruz was a teenager, she began having an interest in acting after seeing the film Tie Me Up!

In addition, Sadassa Silvia is a character who claims that Ferris Fremont is actually a communist covert agent recruited by Sadassa's mother when Fremont was still a teenager.

Bruce Campbell began acting as a teenager and soon began making short Super 8 movies with friends.

He fled as a teenager to England soon after Nazi Germany occupied Austria in 1938.

The film opens with Buddy Holly's beginnings as a teenager in Lubbock, Texas and his emergence into the world of rock and roll with his fictional good friends and bandmates, drummer Jesse Charles ( Don Stroud ) and bass player Ray Bob Simmons ( Charles Martin Smith ), soon to be known as The Crickets.

As a teenager, she attended the Detroit Institute of Musical Arts ; she soon began singing radio commercial jingles, and took part in ( and won many of ) local TV and radio talent shows.

Émile was transferred to the less-exclusive Ecole Turgot, but his lessons were soon forgotten as the teenager wandered the streets of Paris to watch history being made.

John Gunther, Jr. was an intelligent teenager living a life too soon aimed towards death.

Almost as soon as he was elected, he was required to deal with the fallout from the family of murdered Eltham teenager Stephen Lawrence registering a formal complaint with the Police Complaints Authority, with the police officers in question facing allegations of racism.

When Rebel was released, soon after Dean's early death in an automobile crash, it had a revolutionary impact on movie-making and youth culture, virtually giving birth to the contemporary concept of the American teenager.

Intelligent, learned, hard-headed and stubborn, he soon earned a reputation as a self-made man, who had no scruples about approaching and lobbying for influential people who might be serviceable to his personal interests ; already as a teenager, he had already made friends with the powerful local Lundgren family of industrialists.

He soon proved a young virtuoso, having won many talent competitions before he was a teenager.

At the house, Ren encourages Julie to " go be a teenager " because " it ends too soon ".

According to his book Run Baby Run, his parents sent him to live with his brother in New York City as a teenager, and Cruz soon ran away and started living on the streets of the city.

His first companion was Melanie Bush ( Bonnie Langford ), a computer programmer who travelled with his previous self, and who is soon succeeded by troubled teenager and explosives expert Ace ( Sophie Aldred ), who becomes his protégée.

He was born on 11 February 1891 in Hillingdon, and was highly successful in local games even as a teenager, so that Middlesex engaged him soon after his eighteenth birthday in 1909.

He took part in his first concert while a teenager and in 1976, he made his recording debut as a backup singer with the Mario Ortiz Orchestra ; soon afterwards he was recruited by La Grande Orchestra, where he became the lead singer.

as a teenager and his displays soon attracted the attentions of top English side Sheffield Wednesday F. C, who invited him to a trial.

At his new club, his performances soon earned him a call-up to the Norwegian under-21s, and it was not long before foreign eyes focused on the teenager.

As a teenager, he published an article on estimating the mortality rates of birds, using data from bird ringing, in a Swedish zoological journal: This paper was soon cited in leading international journals, and this paper continues to be cited .< ref >

Hart inherited his brother's drum set and records ; he soon began playing in a number of makeshift bands as a teenager.