In the field of television, Ms. Lansbury is most known for her witty detective character, Jessica Fletcher, in the 1980’s hit show Murder, She Wrote. The character of Jessica Fletcher was unlike any other on television at the time. Jessica was an older, single woman who was very intelligent. Older people were not featured as the central characters in television, especially not older women. The show ultimately inspired shows like Golden Girls which featured and starred mature women (Griffin). In 1992, she took over the production and became the executive producer. The show ran on television for twelve seasons before it was cancelled. Throughout twelve seasons Lansbury “became oddly notorious for being nominated for an Emmy Award® almost every year without ever winning one” (“Angela Lansbury”). An Emmy win put her on the EGOT short list! Over the years she had many, many guest stars. She was known to being very good to her …show more content…
Her success speaks to her talents and Since the 1960’s, Ms. Lansbury has been nominated for a Tony Award in every possible female acting category for both musicals and plays totaling seven nominations and a record of five wins, that was surpassed by Audra McDonald in 2014 (“Angela Lansbury Biography”). As mentioned previously, she never received an Emmy despite her almost yearly nominations in the ‘80s and ‘90s. In 2014, Queen Elizabeth created Lansbury a Dame (Selby). Other notable Dame’s include Judi Dench and Julie Andrews. She was recognized with a Lifetime Achievement award at the 2000 Kennedy Center Honors and even had a dish named after her at Sardi’s in New York City (“ANGELA LANSBURY HONOREE”). That is how you know you have made it in the theatre! She is almost an EGOT recipient and that definitely counts for something. She has a few more years left in her to try and make it
She first did various radio shows in the 40s. But her first TV show was on Hollywood in Television in 1949. Whites first produced television show was Life with Elizabeth. "I was one of the first women producers in Hollywood."
It is good to hear another author perspective on life after the revolution. Porterfield gives major insight on a different perspective of religion being a part of life post-revolutionary life. Her perspective in the book is mostly about how there was much skepticism during the time after the revolution. In Thomas Kidd book, he talks most about how religion influenced the revolution and how our country was set based on religious freedom. Porterfield on the other had talks about a different perspective, which is the “mistrust” of politics and religion.
Barbara Jordan, an educator, congresswomen, and lawyer, because of her braveness the United States government will never be the same. Barbara Jordan became to be an inspiring women to many. Jordan was the first African- American woman to become Texas’s senator. She was ambitious and because of that she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Barbara Jordan will always be remembered as an inspirational women.( book)
While at Juilliard, Audra studied Classical Voice under the guidance of Ellen Faull. Audra graduated from Juilliard in 1993. Just a year after graduating she was awarded a Tony for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance as “Carrie Pipperidge Snow” in Carousel at the 1994 Tony Awards. Not long after, Audra found herself winning two more Tony Awards. Audra won Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role of “Sharon Graham” in Masterclass in 1996. In 1998 she won Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Ragtime, in which she originated the role of “Sarah”. Winning three Tony Awards by the age of 28 was an extraordinary accomplishment. 2004 proved to be another successful year at the Tony Awards for Audra, winning...
Not many know how to achieve success in all categories, but Tina Fey didn’t have any problems figuring that out. Tina fey, television writer, screenwriter, actress, comedian, and mother, has taken the world by storm. Tina Fey has a powerful influence on our world today and she has become a worldwide icon in the eyes of many young women. Tina Fey may have been THE woman to make it stylish to wear glasses in the mid-2000s, but there is more to this multi-talented woman then those trademark black-rimmed spectacles.
Barbara Tuchman was known for being one of the best American writers and historians of her time. Born in to a very wealthy and prestige family, her interest in history was adopted through her lifestyle. Her father was not only a banker, philanthropist, and publisher but was also the president of the American Jewish Committee from 1941 to 1943. Her uncle, Henry Morgenthau Jr., served as the Secretary of Treasury under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. While growing up she attended private schools in New York and received a B.A. degree from Radcliffe College. After graduating she went on to work for her father's magazine, The Nation. She was interested in history at this time and began researching historical subjects to place in the magazine. At this time she met her husband, Dr. Lester Reginald Tuchman, and went on to have three daughters through the years (Brody).
Anne Bradstreet can be considered as a strong-willed but sensitive Puritan woman. Her poetry includes a combination of sarcasm and dispute against certain issues involving the unequal rights between men and women, and sentimental writings about her own emotions. She mostly writes about her feelings towards events going on in her personal life and not so much about politics or social phenomena. She did not write so as to put on a show or to be socially correct, but about her genuine feelings. She writes about being a woman and all the things that come with it, family, love, sorrow and seeking equality. She also incorporates her religious beliefs strongly in her poem as a driving force to reconciliation between herself and God. Anne Bradstreet was an eloquent poet who was able to convey her innermost feelings to the reader through various techniques and diction.
King Philip’s War, also known as Metacom’s War, began between neighbors that once peacefully coexisted. The outcome was the bloodiest and most destructive war in American history. During this time, many colonists were taken captive by the Native Americans. Mary Rowlandson became a well-known captive of Metacom’s War through publishing a personal narrative of her captivity titled The Sovereignty and Goodness of God. While others perished, Mary Rowlandson survived captivity because she was accepting of the situation by surrendering and not challenging her captors.
Abstract Anne Hutchinson was derided for rhetorical purposes. She was accused of breaking the 5th amendment in the Puritan’s colony which she was banished from the colony. During trial, she said that God spoke to her. John Winthrop didn’t like her theological conclusions, and that’s why he banished her. Religion professor Stephen Prathero says “Anne Hutchinson is the future of religious tolerance.
Pamela (Bornemann) Leonard-Kukorola was born on 07/19/1954 in Stamford, Connecticut, to Wesley and LaVerne Bornemann. Wesley and LaVerne were a married couple, who were married for approximately 40 years before LaVerne passed away. Wesley and LaVerne 5 children. They are Tim Borneman, age 64 and lives in California, Pamela Leonard-Kukorola, age 61 and lives in O'Fallon, Illinois, Danny Bornemann, age 56 and lives in Edwardsville, Illinois, Jeff Bornemann, age 54 lives in Florida, and Eric Bornemann, age 51 and lives in Oakaville, Illinois. Pamela states that she is very close to all of her brothers and their families. Pamela explains that they were a close knit family that got together often with extended family. Wesley was a United Church
Anne Bradstreet starts off her letter with a short poem that presents insight as to what to expect in “To My Dear Children” when she says “here you may find/ what was in your living mother’s mind” (Bradstreet 161). This is the first sign she gives that her letter contains not just a mere retelling of adolescent events, but an introspection of her own life. She writes this at a very turbulent point in history for a devout Puritan. She lived during the migration of Puritans to America to escape the persecution of the Catholic Church and also through the fragmentation of the Puritans into different sects when people began to question the Puritan faith.
Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley both published great works of poetry during a very difficult time when gender and race were not easily overlooked. Bradstreet was a Puritan housewife and Wheatley was an African slave. Both writers were extremely intelligent which was not very common back then. Their poems are not precisely the same subject matter, but their similarity is the expression of their own opinions. The topic that they do seem to share is that of religion.
At the age of nineteen she met and married Louis Jones. Together they had two children Gail and Teddy (who later died in 1970 from kidney failure). While trying to get used to raising a family and having a career, she received a call from an agent, who had seen her at the Cotton Club, about a part in a movie. Her controlling husband allowed her to be in “The Duke is Tops” and also the musical revue “Blackbirds of 1939."
six and participated in beauty pageants and everyone seemed to love her. Burke was cast
Her first “debut” in the theatre field was when she got involved with the Repertory Philippines and did the play “The King and I”. After she started doing that she did lots of other plays and realized that she really enjoyed the whole theatre and singing thing, and she was pretty good at it too. After the play the King and I she did shows like “Fiddler On The Roof”...