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- Marguerite Duras (1799 bytes)
3: ...as '''Marguerite Duras''', was a [[writer]] and [[film director]].
7: ... was also the screenwriter of the [[1959]] French film ''[[Hiroshima mon amour]]'', which was directed b...
9: ...Nouveau roman]] French [[literary movement]]. Her films are also experimental in form, most eschewing sy... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
20: ... Pierantonio had four sons and one daughter. But only the daughter, Prudenzia, survived to adulthood &...
34: ... father Orazio departed for [[Genoa]]. It is commonly believed that Artemisia followed her father (and...
42: ...trait of Gonfaloniere"''), today in [[Bologna]] (only known example of her capacity as portrait painte...
46: ...ated to [[Naples]] and stayed there - except for only a brief trip to [[London]] and some other journe...
52: ...t, and it was not possible to refuse. Orazio suddenly died in [[1639]]. Charles I was a fanatical coll... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
3: ...], [[1892]] – [[May 29]], [[1979]]) was a [[film|motion picture]] [[actor|star]], known as "Americ...
9: ... for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but retired from films four years later, after a series of disappointin...
11: ...83-1939)|Douglas Fairbanks]], an action-adventure film star. The phrase "by the clock" became a secret m...
20: * [[1911]]: Majestic Film Corp.
25: ...the first actress who was the producer of her own films. - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
19: ...e assumed her name would appear in the credits of films with an anti-[[Communist Party of the Soviet Uni...
24: ...an]] government under [[Benito Mussolini]]. These films were re-edited into a new version which was appr...
33: ...er than it actually was. Apparently this [[1943]] film was intentional wartime [[propaganda]] by U.S. pa...
66: ...s. Many academic philosophers criticize Rand not only for her sweeping denouncements of academic philo...
105: ... vol 2, #2. [http://www.skeptic.com/02.2.shermer-unlikely-cult.html] - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
13: ...is probably not among the greatest, but she certainly is in the category of the 20th century great ima...
22: ... Woolf and her works in the film, and neither the film nor the novel should be considered as an accurate...
60: ...ature.com/virginia_woolf/ Read her literature at online-literature.com]
61: .../etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/ Online editions of her works] from [http://etext.libr... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
10: ...ace because officials restricted entrants to men only. Cochran pressed the issue until officials relen...
16: ...n [[1951]] with the French Air Medal. She is the only woman to ever receive the Gold Medal from the [[...
20: ...esidential candidacy. The rally was documented on film and Cochran personally flew it to France for a sp... - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
10: ...ause she was black and a woman. Coleman was the only non-white student at her French flight school, a...
14: ... As her notoriety grew, she was invited to make a film about her life. Ultimately, she walked off the s... - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
15: ... to win or share two Nobel Prizes. She is one of only two people who has been awarded a [[Nobel Prize]...
25: ...nce]] in 1934 was from [[leukemia]], almost certainly due to her massive exposure to radiation in her ...
33: There is a [[Madame Curie (film)|biographical film]] about Curie (of dubious accuracy). An extremely... - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
15: ...ional scholarships for young singers, this seems unlikely. A more likely explanation is Callas' overus... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
12: ...orter]], [[Jerome Kern]], [[Johnny Mercer]] (the only songbook devoted soley to a lyricist) the Kern a...
18: ...[Pete Kelly's Blues]]''. She also appeared in the films ''[[Ride 'Em Cowboy]]'', ''[[St. Louis Blues]]''...
112: *[[Media:How High The Moon.ogg|Download sample]] of "How High the Moon"
113: *[[Media:April In Paris.ogg|Download sample]] of "April in Paris" by Fitzgerald wit... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
26: ...[[Nina Simone]]. [[Diana Ross]] played her in a [[film|movie]] version of her [[autobiography]], ''[[Lad...
36: ...e was swindled out of her earnings and died with only $0.70 in the bank and $750 on her person. At th... - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
18: ...a|Los Angeles]], [[California]] motel room, aged only 27.
26: ...drug-related causes within weeks of Joplin. But unlike Hendrix, whose fame continued to grow after hi...
28: ...writer. By comparison, although Hendrix released only three official LPs in his lifetime, he was both ...
30: ...cent release of the long-unreleased [[documentary film]] ''[[Festival Express]]'', which captured her at...
34: She was arguably one of the only white female singers of the period who could gen... - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
6: ...lady of rage", though the album itself contained only two songs that hinted at any sort of anger or re...
48: ...t appeared on ''[[Jagged Little Pill]]'' was the only take the two had ever recorded. With "Perfect", ...
50: ...the pavement. Morissette later revealed that her only concern was for the book of lyrics she was carry...
123: ...all but drained the anger from the song, leaving only an air of sorrow and remorse. That night, Moriss...
158: ...8 weeks, it left the [[Billboard 200]], selling "only" 2.5 million, a huge drop from ''Jagged''. World... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
9: ...n [[W. C. Handy]]'s "[[St. Louis Blues]]." In the film, she sings the title song accompanied by members ...
17: ...dence, Hammond never recanted his story. It was only when biographer [[Chris Albertson]]'s [[1972]] b...
21: ...ris Albertson's book) confirmed, it is extremely unlikely that a black ambulance driver would have tak... - Lucinda Williams (4182 bytes)
16: ...I Long for Your Kiss" from the [[Robert Redford]] film ''[[The Horse Whisperer]]'', the album received w... - Sheryl Crow (8611 bytes)
15: ... contributed the theme song to the [[James Bond]] film ''[[Tomorrow Never Dies]]''. The song of the same...
17: ...ded on the [[soundtrack]] of the [[Adam Sandler]] film ''Big Daddy''. This song won the 1999 Grammy for ...
19: ...made her acting debut (barring a [[cameo]] in the film "54") as ill-fated drifter Laurie Bloom in the su...
21: ...g, Crow released ''[[C'mon, C'mon]]''. Musically unlike any of her other records, the project had a mo...
27: ...ssic "Begin the Beguine" was critically panned by film reviewers. - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
10: ...so recorded a song called "Distant Storm" for the film [[China O'Brien]]; in the credits, the song is at...
36: ...itics saw the album as a mixed bag, praising the unlikely reworkings of [[Eminem]]'s "97' Bonnie and C...
41: ... Aucoin]], a friend of Amos'. A contest was held online to create a music video for the song, and it r...
45: ...itional incentive to buy the album rather than download its contents illicitly, the CD also served as ...
73: ...e made her first character appearance in the 2003 film ''[[Mona Lisa Smile]]'' as a big-band singer. - Phoolan Devi (2526 bytes)
15: The [[1994 in film|1994]] Indian [[film]] ''[[Bandit Queen]]'' is about her life up throu... - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
11: ...ang was usually limited to logistics support. At only 4 feet 10 inches, she was a stalwart and loyal c...
31: ...murder of a store owner during a robbery, albeit only as the driver. However, the wife of the murder v...
35: ...eople that floated through it, history books can only speculate with regard to details and direct resp...
39: .... Contrary to the account popularized in the 1967 film ''[[Bonnie and Clyde (movie)|Bonnie and Clyde]]''...
41: ...ng a camera with an exposed roll of pictures. The film was developed by the Joplin ''Globe'', and yielde... - Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
18: ... not believe that the Savior said this. For certainly these teachings are of other ideas."
20: ...tly with a woman, in preference to us, and not openly? Are we to turn back and all listen to her? Did ...
31: ... other hand, consider this one person to be, not only the sinner of Luke 7:36-50 but also [[Mary siste...
33: ...he same person, and [[Martin Scorsese]]'s earlier film adaptation of [[Nikos Kazantzakis]]'s novel ''[[T...
43: ...eloved Disciple]], to whom the Fourth Gospel commonly called ''[[Gospel of John]]'' is ascribed. The m...
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