Her films of the early and mid 1950s were generally lightweight romantic dramas, some historical, in which she was cast as ingénue or siren, often in varying states of undress.

Her French-language films were dubbed for international release.

Her popularity as a radio performer and vocalist, which included a second hit record " My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time ", led directly to a career in films.

Her almost 60-year career crossed most media frontiers with both supporting and leading roles, but she may be best-remembered for playing the sardonic but engaging title character, a high school teacher, on Our Miss Brooks, and as the Rydell High School principal in the films Grease and Grease 2.

Her film career began in earnest in 1937 when she appeared in the films Oh Doctor and Stage Door.

Her films include The Virgin Suicides and Lost in Translation.

Her first film under RKO was The Most Dangerous Game ( 1932 ), co-starring Joel McCrea and shot at night on the same jungle sets that were being used for King Kong during the day, with the leads from both films, Wray and Robert Armstrong, appearing in both movies.

Pickford added to her 1909 Biographs ( Sweet and Twenty, They Would Elope, and To Save Her Soul, to name a few ) with films from California.

Her uncle, Roger Ernest, attended college with Steven Spielberg and co-wrote one of his student films called Slipstream.

Her uncle also appeared in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Sugarland Express, playing a police officer in both films.

Her friend Miriam Cooper helped Lombard land small roles in her husband Raoul Walsh's films.

Her films include: Houseboat ( 1958 ), El Cid ( 1961 ), Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow ( 1963 ), Marriage Italian-Style ( 1964 ), and A Special Day ( 1977 ).

Her first two Hollywood films were The April Fools ( 1969 ), a romantic comedy with Jack Lemmon, and Hustle ( 1975 ), a crime drama with Burt Reynolds.

Her other significant films of the period were Ma saison préférée ( 1993 ) and Les Voleurs ( 1995 ), both directed by André Téchiné.

Her outstanding performance won her the attention of producers, who cast her in a series of films.

Her last films made abroad were Beyond All Limits ( Mexican-American production, 1957 ) with Jack Palance, Faustina ( Spain, 1957 ), Sonatas ( Spain, 1957 ) directed by Juan Antonio Bardem and La Fievre Monte a El Pao ( French-Mexican production, 1959 ) directed by Luis Buñuel.

Notable later films include Sister Act and Sister Act 2, The Lion King, Made in America, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Girl, Interrupted and Rat Race.

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 ).

Her physical appearance was such that romantic heroines were out of the question, and she soon established her name in comedy, appearing in many of the most successful British plays and films.

Her earliest films were produced in New York.

Her subsequent films failed to capitalize on her renewed success, with the exception of the suspense film Sleep, My Love ( 1948 ) with Robert Cummings.

Her films of this period received mixed reception.

Her early films cast her as the girl-next-door but for most of the Pre-Code film era beginning with the 1930 film The Divorcee, for which she won an Oscar for Best Actress, she played sexually liberated women in sophisticated contemporary comedies.

With increasing interest in the war in Europe, the film performed well at the box office, but Shearer made errors in judgment, passing up roles in the highly successful films Now, Voyager and Mrs. Miniver, in order to star in We Were Dancing and Her Cardboard Lover ( 1942 ), which both failed at the box office.

He would sometimes write songs with someone in mind, for instance, " I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face " from My Fair Lady was written with Rex Harrison in mind to complement his very limited vocal range.

Her first entirely self-produced effort, 1977's New Harvest ... First Gathering, highlighted Parton's pop sensibilities, both in terms of choice of songs-the album contained covers of the pop and R & B classics " My Girl " and " Higher and Higher " – and the album's production.

Her movie career included a bit part in It Happened One Night ( 1934 ) and roles in Outlaw Women ( 1952 ), Glen or Glenda ( 1953 ), Body Beautiful ( 1953 ), The Blue Gardenia ( 1953 ), Count the Hours ( 1953 ), Mesa of Lost Women ( 1953 ), College Capers ( 1954 ), Jail Bait ( 1954 ), The Raid ( 1954 ), This Is My Love ( 1954 ), The Opposite Sex ( 1956 ), The Ironbound Vampire ( 1997 ), and Dimensions in Fear ( 1998 ).

Her spiritual autobiography, My Religion, was published in 1927 and then in 1994 extensively revised and re-issued under the title Light in My Darkness.

Her story " The Autobiography of My Mother " was one of the 1977 O. Henry Prize stories.

Her first, My Place, involves her quest to uncover her Aboriginal heritage which had previously been denied by her family, who insisted " as a survival mechanism " that they were of Indian extraction.

Her image appears in a number of oils, though he painted her portrait only three times, the most notable appearing in My studio ( 1867 ).

Her book, My Chicago ( ISBN 0-8101-2087-9 ), was published in 1992, and covers her life through her political career.

Novello was portrayed in Robert Altman's 2001 film, Gosford Park, by Jeremy Northam, and several of his songs were used for the film's soundtrack, including " Waltz of My Heart ", " And Her Mother Came Too ", " I Can Give You the Starlight ", " What a Duke Should Be ", " Why Isn't It You?

Among Novello's well known songs are, " Keep the Home Fires Burning "; " Fold Your Wings "; " Shine Through My Dreams "; " Rose of England "; " I Can Give You the Starlight "; " And Her Mother Came Too "; " My Dearest Dear "; " The Land of Might-Have-Been "; " When I Curtsied to the King "; " We'll Gather Lilacs "; " Someday my Heart Will Awake "; " Yesterday "; " Waltz of My Heart "; " Why isn't It You "; " My Life Belongs to You "; " Fly Home Little Heart "; " Take Your Girl "; and " Primrose ".

Her sister Aurora later would state in the documentary Bananas is My Business that " he was very rude, many times even hit her.

The ambassador of the neutral Republic of Venice, by his office the most detached of the foreign envoys, soon wrote home: " My Lord Robert Dudley is ... very intimate with Her Majesty.

Her first publication was The Cat Ate My Gymsuit, whose characters were largely based on her experiences from childhood.

* " My Sweet Little Girl from Nevada " / " My Palomino and I " ( Cowboy 1701 )-released as Reno Browne and Her Buckaroos

Many of the songs from these shows are still sung and remembered, including " The Most Beautiful Girl in the World ", " My Romance ", " Little Girl Blue ", " I'll Tell the Man in the Street ", " There's a Small Hotel ", " Where or When ", " My Funny Valentine ", " The Lady is a Tramp ", " Falling in Love with Love ", " Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered ", and " Wait Till You See Her ".

In My Life, Chagall described his first meeting her: " Her silence is mine, her eyes mine.

Her many memorable screen roles include a supporting role as Joan Crawford's wise-cracking friend in Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ) for which she received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress, and James Stewart's wistful secretary in Otto Preminger's then-explicit murder mystery, Anatomy of a Murder ( 1959 ).

" Her performance earned her the MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance, the Saturn Award for Best Young Actress, and her first Golden Globe Award nomination.

Her portrayal of a young woman faced with a moral dilemma fetched her a fourth Filmfare Best Actress Award.

Her performance in Aaja Nachle earned her the record-setting thirteenth nomination for the Filmfare Best Actress Award.

Her song " Tomorrow Never Dies " was nominated for a Grammy Award and Best Original Song Golden Globe.

Her relationship with Homer was included in TV Guides list of " The Best TV Couples of All Time ".

Her subsequent novel The Dispossessed made her the first person to win both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novel twice for the same two books.

Her first starring role at the studio, in the title role as Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ), revived her career and earned her an Oscar for Best Actress.

Her novels were especially popular and included the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big ( 1924 ), Show Boat ( 1926 ; made into the celebrated 1927 musical ), Cimarron ( 1929 ; made into the 1931 film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture ), and Giant ( 1952 ; made into the 1956 Hollywood movie ).

Her performance earned Lombard an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

Her performances in Seventh Heaven ( the first of twelve movies she would make with actor Charles Farrell ) and both Sunrise, directed by F. W. Murnau, and Street Angel ( in 1927, also with Charles Farrell ) earned her the first Academy Award for Best Actress in 1928.

Hawn is known for her roles in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Private Benjamin, Foul Play, Shampoo, Overboard, Bird on a Wire, Death Becomes Her, The First Wives Club, and Cactus Flower, for which she won the 1969 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

He achieved critical success in the 1980s, with Educating Rita ( 1983 ) earning him the BAFTA and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, and in 1986 he received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Hannah and Her Sisters.

Her performance as a lesbian mourning the loss of her longtime partner in the HBO series If These Walls Could Talk 2 earned her a Golden Globe for “ Best TV Series Supporting Actress ” in 2000, as well as earning an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a TV Film or Miniseries.

Her touching performance earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

Her second album Superwoman included the singles " Rough Day " and " So Over You ", and earned Paulini two nominations at the 2007 Urban Music Awards for ' Best R & B Album ' and ' Best Female Artist '.

Her role as the grand Russian princess in a huge commercial success, Murder on the Orient Express ( 1974 ), won her international acclaim and the Evening Standard British Film Award as Best Actress.

Her big break came in 1983 when she was cast by Martin Scorsese to star as stalker and kidnapper Masha in the film The King of Comedy for which she won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Her Complete Stories won the 1972 U. S. National Book Award for Fiction and was named the " Best of the National Book Awards " by internet visitors in 2009.

Hannah and Her Sisters won two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress, the first film to win both supporting actor awards since Julia in 1977, nearly nine years before, and the last until The Fighter over two decades later.