* Vivian Pickles as Mrs. Chasen, Harold ’ s opulently wealthy mother, is controlling, snooty, and seemingly incapable of affection.

* Miss Morton — a wealthy woman whom Mrs. Ferrars wants her eldest son, Edward, and later Robert, to marry.

* Mrs. Smith — the wealthy aunt of Mr. Willoughby who disowns him for not marrying Elizabeth Williams.

In June 1870, Laura Curtis Bullard, a Brooklyn-based writer whose parents became wealthy from selling a popular morphine-containing patent medicine called " Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup ", bought the rights to The Revolution for one dollar, with Anthony assuming its $ 10, 000 debt, an amount equal to $ in current value.

* Mrs. Steerforth – The wealthy widowed mother of James Steerforth.

Dudley persuades the wealthy parishioners, particularly Mrs. Hamilton ( Gladys Cooper ), to contribute the needed funds, but not to build the cathedral.

Like Mrs. Uppington, Mrs. Carstairs doesn't come from a wealthy lineage.

Tess feels so guilty over the horse's death, she agrees, against her better judgement, to visit Mrs. d ' Urberville, a wealthy widow who lives in the nearby town of Trantridge, and " claim kin.

Mr. & Mrs. Haxall were certainly wealthy enough to have hired Latrobe and if they did not consult with him on rebuilding project, they must probably asked him to suggest an architect, he would have named one of his own pupils.

In 1821, Mrs. Charles Smith, widow of a wealthy planter in Opelousas, donated land, a two-story building, and funds to pay for the travel expenses of two nuns from St. Charles, Missouri.

* 8mm ( 1999 ), starring Nicolas Cage: the home of the wealthy widow, Mrs. Carter

Mrs. (" Miss ") Daisy Werthan ( Jessica Tandy ), a 72-year-old wealthy Jewish widow, lives in Atlanta, Georgia, alone except for an African American housemaid named Idella ( Esther Rolle ).

Arthur's biological mother was a beautiful young singer with whom his father had gone through a ceremony of sorts before being pressured by his wealthy uncle to marry the present Mrs Clenham.

* Mrs Weldon-an elderly wealthy widow, engaged to the much younger Alexis

One day, the wealthy but mean-spirited Mrs. Warbucks takes Annie into her home " on trial ".

Even less popular than Mrs Proudie is the bishop's newly appointed chaplain, the hypocritical and sycophantic Mr Obadiah Slope, who decides it would be expedient to marry Harding's wealthy widowed daughter, Eleanor Bold, and hopes to win her favour by interfering in the controversy over the wardenship.

In the movie, tiny Freedonia (" Land of the Brave, and Free ") is suffering from severe financial problems, and government leaders request a loan from wealthy widow Mrs. Teasdale to keep things afloat.

The Castle was sold in 1923 to a wealthy American, Mrs. de Mérinville who sold it in 1938.

Mr. and Mrs. Dearly attend a dinner party hosted by Cruella de Vil, an intimidating and very wealthy woman fixated on fur clothing.

* Mrs Gresham, Mary, the niece of Dr Thorne, a wealthy heiress.

The story begins with the death of Mrs. Ferrars, a wealthy widow who is rumoured to have murdered her husband.

* Mrs. Hepworth ( a wealthy customer of Hobson's )

Mrs. Astor and her ladies therefore represented the Aristocratic, or the Old Money, whereas the newly wealthy Vanderbilt family would establish a new wave of New Money.

To remain secure and prosperous themselves, wealthy nations must extend the kind of co-operation to the less fortunate members that will inspire hope, confidence, and progress.

No matter how determined or wealthy boating lovers of the Southwest had been, for example, they could never have created anything approaching the fifty square-mile Lake Texoma, located between Texas and Oklahoma, which resulted when the Corp of Army Engineers dammed the Red River.

As the more conservative group with strong backing from wealthy businessmen, the U.M.C.I.A. was generally favored against the more progressive, labor-based U.N.F.P..

In the spring and early summer of that year she met a wealthy foreign tycoon who took her to France, where she later met a very wealthy man and toured all Europe with him.

I am not a prostitute, and I had only one very wealthy boy friend '', she said.

Tewfik Badrawi, Mohammed Gaafer and numerous other wealthy members of Cairo society enjoyed her company.

Promoters always hastened to place their choice tickets in the hands of the wealthy speculators, and only the man who knew the man who knew the fellow who had an in with the guy at the box office ever came up with a good seat for a contest of any importance.

We had tea at Mr. Washizu's home where I learned that he, too, comes from a very wealthy family.

The son of a wealthy Evanston executive was fined $100 yesterday and forbidden to drive for 60 days for leading an Evanston policeman on a high speed chase over icy Evanston and Wilmette streets Jan. 20.

Like certain expensive restaurants, just sitting there gave you the illusion of being wealthy yourself.

In 1840, Lincoln became engaged to Mary Todd, who was from a wealthy slave-holding family in Lexington, Kentucky.

Alex quells the rebellion by slashing Dim's hand and fighting with Georgie, then in a show of generosity takes them to a bar, where Alex insists on following through on Georgie's idea to burgle the home of a wealthy old woman.

His studio, The Factory, was a famous gathering place that brought together distinguished intellectuals, drag queens, playwrights, Bohemian street people, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy patrons.

Akira was the eighth and youngest child of the moderately wealthy family, with two of his siblings already grown up at the time of his birth and one deceased, leaving Kurosawa to grow up with three sisters and a brother.

Cottard, a criminal remorseful enough to attempt suicide yet fearful of being arrested, becomes wealthy as a major smuggler.

Azerbaijani sources insist that Armenian victory was largely due to military help from Russia and the wealthy Armenian diaspora.

Throughout the 18th century in France, a new wealthy and influential middle-class was beginning to rise, even though the royalty and nobility continued to be patrons of the arts.

New Zealand never had an aristocracy but it did have wealthy landowners who largely controlled politics before 1891.

" Richard Seddon had proclaimed the goal as early as 1884: " It is the rich and the poor ; it is the wealthy and the landowners against the middle and labouring classes.

According to the Talmud ( Avodah Zarah 10a-b ), Rabbi Judah was very wealthy and greatly revered in Rome.

Born into an old, wealthy equestrian branch of the Plebeian Octavii family, Augustus was adopted posthumously by his maternal great-uncle Gaius Julius Caesar in 44 BC following Caesar's assassination.

Roser Segimon was the wealthy widow of Josep Guardiola, an Indiano, a term applied locally to the Catalans returning from the American colonies with tremendous wealth.

A wealthy Quaker named Reuben Haines proposed he and educator William Russell start a new school in Pennsylvania.

On September 22, 1834, Alcott opened a school of about 30 students, mostly from wealthy families.