Otto Preminger was looking for a theatrical project to direct and first became aware of Vera Caspary's story when her agent offered him the first draft of a play called Ring Twice for Laura.

During that time, his wife Vera Oredsson took on the role as party leader and became Sweden's first female party leader.

Balanchine created dances for five movies, all of which featured Vera Zorina, whom he met on the set of The Goldwyn Follies and who subsequently became his second wife.

The rows of freebooting grew bigger ; plundering raids, like those of Vera Cruz in 1683 or of Campêche in 1686, became increasingly numerous, and Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay, elder son of Jean Baptist Colbert and at the time Minister of the Navy, brought back some order by taking a great number of measures, including the creation of plantations of indigo and of cane sugar.

Mieke Vogels became the Flemish minister for Wellbeing and Development Cooperation and Vera Dua became minister for Agriculture and the Environment.

Vera Dua became the first party president.

* Vera Lengsfeld ( left the faction in 1996 and became a member of the CDU faction )

The poker game became Trivial Pursuit with their friends becoming the girlfriends: Mickie, Sylvie, Vera, and Renee.

Ilha de Vera Cruz () ( Portuguese for Island of the True Cross ) was the first name given by the Portuguese navigators to the newly discovered land on the northeast coast of what later became known as Brazil.

Clark became the first UK female artist to have a US # 1 hit during the rock and roll era and the second in the annals of US charted music, Vera Lynn having hit # 1 US with " Auf Wiederseh ' n Sweetheart " in 1952.

Nabokov's wife, Vera, and their son, Dmitri, became his literary executors, but ultimately ignored his will, and did not destroy the manuscript.

Leighton was a pupil at Uppingham School, where he became a close friend of Vera Brittain's brother, Edward.

His eldest daughter Vera Manuel became an internationally known playwright, and poet, as well as a highly respected leader in the community.

In due time it became considered as a Vera effigies.

Vera first appeared in 1974, working in the Mark Brittan mail order warehouse on Coronation Street, and became a particular friend of Ivy Tilsley.

Vera saw her plans to add wooden floorings but Vera cut in saying that the houses on the street were simple for " simple " working-class people, Tyrone and Jack agreed with Vera as she reminisced about serving meals and her time at No. 9, Vera became a bit reluctant and asked Jack if they were doing the right thing.

Chichibábin and his wife, Vera Vladmirovna Tchitchibabine, had one child, a daughter who became a chemist.

Other journals became interested in the young author too: Russkaya Mysl printed his poem Vera, later included in his The Symbols compilation.

Margaret Blackler died in 1957 without children, at which point the store became the property of several individuals, of which the major shareholder was the sportswoman Vera Kingston ( Margaret's god-daughter ).

During their marriage, Gracie became the father of three sons ( Rickson, Rorion, and Relson ) with Isabel ' Belinha ' Soares and four sons ( Royler, Rolker, Royce, Robin ), two daughters ( Rerika and Ricci ) with Vera.

* Typhoon Vera hit central Honshū on 26 September 1959, killing an estimated 5, 098, injuring another 38, 921, and leaving 1, 533, 000 homeless.

The former Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Company Shipyard continues to operate, constructing offshore oil rigs and as a TV studio, productions from there include the hit ITV drama Vera starring Brenda Blethyn and Inspector George Gently starring Martin Shaw.

One exception was the late-1986 success " At This Moment " by Billy Vera & the Beaters, a 1981 song that unexpectedly made it to the top of the U. S. Billboard charts after being featured in a 1986 episode of the hit NBC series Family Ties.

We just stuck a few more words on it like ' grandchildren on your knee ' and ' Vera, Chuck and Dave ' ... this was just one that was quite a hit with us.

Babbitt sang such hits as " Three Little Fishies ," "( I'd Like to Get You on a ) Slow Boat to China " and " Jingle, Jangle, Jingle ," but his biggest hit was the cover of Vera Lynn's " White Cliffs of Dover ".

Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s Vera focused on songwriting including " I Really Got the Feeling " which was a number 1 hit for Dolly Parton.

Enraged, Vera challenges Quick to a fight, which she maintains the upper hand on until being hit by a garbage can by Quick.

After a further hit duet with Billy Vera, " Country Girl, City Man ", which reached # 41 R & B and # 36 pop, and an album together, she returned to Stax Records.

A follow-up, " My Baby Specializes ", also made the R & B chart, before she returned to Atlantic for less successful recordings with Vera, and a final solo hit " Greatest Love " (# 45 R & B in 1970 ).

* Little Vera ( 1988 ) notable as one of the first Soviet films with sexually explicit scenes

Roberto and Vera celebrated the Great One's return to form on August 17, 1965 ( one day before Roberto's birthday ), with the birth of their first son, Roberto Clemente, Jr., the first of three children, including Luis Roberto and Enrique Roberto.

He and Admiral John Benbow, commander of the smaller British fleet, avoided one another, and Château-Renault eventually escorted home the Spanish treasure fleet from Vera Cruz that met its end at Vigo Bay.

In Der Todesking one of the character watches a video of the fictional nazi exploitation film Vera-Todesengel der Gestapo and in Nekromantik 2, the characters go to see a movie called Mon dejeuner avec Vera which is a parody of Lois Malle's My Dinner with André.

At this time Oxford separated male and female students as far as possible ; Vera Brittain, one of the Somerville students, recalled an amusing occurrence during her time there in her autobiography, Testament of Youth ;

* Billy Vera as Pinky Carruthers, one of Buckaroo's Blue Blaze Irregulars.

Kurt Mondaugen, who will appear again in Gravity's Rainbow, is the central character in a story set in South-West Africa ( now Namibia ) partly during a siege in 1922 at which one Vera Meroving is present, but most notably in 1904, during the Herero Wars, when South-West Africa was a German colony.

" Kuzmin was also one of the favorite poets of Sudeikin's second wife, Vera, and her published album contains several of his manuscript poems.

The book, Vera Christiana Religio ( The True Christian Religion ), was published in Amsterdam in 1771 and was one of the most appreciated of his works.

The Bitstream Vera Sans Mono typeface in particular is suitable for technical work, as it clearly distinguishes ' l ' ( lowercase L ) from ' 1 ' ( one ) and ' I ' ( uppercase i ), and ' 0 ' ( zero ) from ' O ', unlike the more widely available Monotype Courier New.

Following the US Open, Capriati lost in the quarterfinals of Philadelphia to No. 11 Vera Zvonareva 6 – 1, 6 – 0, her worst loss since 1999 ( where she won only one game against Graf in Miami ).

The Aero Club was founded in 1901 by Frank Hedges Butler, his daughter Vera and the Hon Charles Rolls ( one of the founders of Rolls-Royce ), partly inspired by the Aero Club of France.

Déricourt's possible duplicity was revealed after the war when war crimes investigators ( including Vera Atkins ) received absolute information from German sources that Dericourt had been one of their agents, BOE48, and that the information he provided had led to the arrest and execution of several SOE agents.

In a lecture given in the early 1940s, Capablanca called Maróczy " very gentlemanly and correct " and " a kindly figure ", praised the Maróczy Bind as an important contribution to opening theory, credited him as a " good teacher " who greatly helped Vera Menchik reach the top of women's chess, and " one of the greatest masters of his time.

His wife Vera Woodhouse, Lady Terrington, was one of the first female Members of Parliament.

Returning to his fondness for comics, he wrote a Maltese romance comic named Imħabba Vera (" True Love "), one of the first art-comics in the Maltese language.

Whenever Vera would make one of her dumb remarks, someone was bound to say sarcastically, " Good, Vera ".

Guest star Art Carney in one episode was to be the spokesperson for retail distribution of Mel's Chili (" Chili con Carney ") but backed out when he discovered Vera was a distant relative with part ownership in the venture.

The shot of Vera with the " exploding straws " was the only one used during the opening credits for the entire run of the series, with the exception of the pilot episode, which had no scenes from Mel's Diner in the opening.

Meyerhold was one of the most fervent advocates of Symbolism in theatre, especially when he worked as the chief producer of the Vera Komissarzhevskaya theatre in 1906-1907.

When they arrive at the exchange point one of the young Serbian women prisoners being exchanged, Vera ( Nataša Ninković ), is visibly pregnant because she was raped by the Muslim forces.

However, the mood changes when one of the meteorites crashes through the roof of the building and injures barmaid Sheila ( Vera Day ).

The booklet features some songwriting updates and mentions that the MC: Atmos on disc one used a sample of " We'll Meet Again " by Vera Lynn.