Search results for "Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • Rosalind Russell (June 4, 1907 – November 28, 1976) was a four-time ... | title=Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical ...
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  • The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more ... and are named after Antoinette "Tony" Perry, an actress, producer ...
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  • Ethel Merman (January 16, 1908 – February 15, 1984) was a Tony Award ... Ethel Agnes Zimmermann was born in her maternal grandmother's ...
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  • Jessie Alice Tandy (June 7, 1909 – September 11, 1994) was a British ... Although she was not given leading roles in screen productions for ...
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  • | Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical (won) ... | title=Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical ...
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  • 1927 – October 3, 2004) was an American actress. Her most famous role was ... She is remembered most for her memorable role in Psycho, particularly ...
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  • 1938 - September 10, 2020) was an English actress of stage and screen. Her ... of the greatest dramatic actors, being made a CBE in 1988 and a Dame in 1994 ...
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  • an acclaimed dramatist and novelist who made a transition from the golden ... Chayefsky worked in the media of radio, television and film but is ...
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  • Audrey Hepburn (May 4, 1929—January 20, 1993) was an Academy Award ... Raised under Nazi rule during World War II, she trained to be a prima ...
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  • ) (September 13, 1903 – July 30, 1996) was a French-born American ... At a time when American women were entering the workforce after World ...
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  • Oscars, are the most prominent movie awards in the United States and most ... out today. As one of the most prominent award ceremonies in the world, ...
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  • 1879 – January 31, 1974) was an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning ... He had an instrumental role in the formation of the two largest Hollywood ...
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  • September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003) was a Greek-American film and theater ... Kazan collaborated with Arthur Miller in creating Miller's best ...
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  • declared feminist and womanist—the latter a term she herself coined to ... The style of the text was that of a traditional epistolary novel, ...
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  • theater and film actor particularly known for his warm expressive voice ... Gielgud is best known for his work as a Shakespearian actor. At different ...
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  • plays. He received more combined Oscar and Tony nominations than any other writer. Simon grew up in New York City during the Great Depression, with his ...
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  • November 26, 1939 – May 24, 2023) was a multiple Grammy Award-winning ... Beginning her career as a rhythm and blues singer with her future ...
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  • (December 13, 1929 – February 5, 2021) was a Canadian actor whose career ... On stage he acted in numerous leading roles, including Iago in Othello ...
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  • 1969) was an Oscar-nominated American film actress and singer, best known for ... #039;illustrator' at the Parlor Theater in Superior, Wisconsin in 1913; ...
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  • 2022) was an Irish-British and American actress and singer. In a career ... After studying acting in New York City. she moved to Hollywood and ...
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  • actor and sometime screenwriter. He is best known for having directed ... Huston acted in many movies other than his own, sometimes memorably ...
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  • – August 5, 1962) was an iconic American actress, singer and model. Decades ... Her birth in a charity ward and unstable early life as a foster child ...
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  • – December 12, 1968) was an American actress, who, in a long career spanning ... Sometimes referred to as a "Southern belle" or a bon vivant ...
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  • of the late 1950s. He is widely respected for being a multi-talented, versatile ... Darin was also an accomplished, award-winning actor and a music-business ...
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  • February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian and American actor ... In 1964, Poitier won the Academy Award for Best Actor for Lilies of ...
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  • conductor. He was the first conductor born in the United States of America ... to recognize the power of television as a vehicle to educate the masses ...
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  • Kelly was a major exponent of twentieth century filmed dance, known ... Gene was the third son of James Kelly, a phonograph salesman, and ...
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  • author, actor, and independent filmmaker best known as the creator, along ... The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, written in 1900, and produced for stage ...
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  • ; May 22, 1907 – July 11, 1989) was an Academy Award, Golden Globe ... Olivier's career as a stage and film actor spanned more than ...
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  • of the latter half of the twentieth century. A trumpeter, band leader and ... Jazz Hall of Fame. There are plans to make a Biographical film or biopic ...
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  • 15, 1965), born Nathaniel Adams Coles, was a popular American jazz singer ... Cole was born in Montgomery, Alabama. He received music lessons from ...
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  • are recognized literary classics. He is best known for In Cold Blood (1965 ... Truman Capote was born Truman Streckfus Persons in New Orleans, Louisiana ...
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  • The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a historic landmark which consists of ... financing Hollywood Historic Trust. It is a popular tourist attraction ...
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  • Macbeth is among the best known of William Shakespeare's plays ... is often seen as an archetypal tale of the dangers of the lust for ...
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  • Vietnamese art ecompasses art created in Vietnam or by Vietnamese ... the production of ceramics and porcelain art for use by the court, and court ...
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  • 22 or 23, 1844 – March 26, 1923) was a French stage actress who starred ... to perform until her death despite losing a leg following an accident. ...
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  • entertainers of all time. He was also known for his unorthodox lifestyle, ... family, Michael made his professional debut in 1964 with his elder brothers ...
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  • professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball (MLB ... At age seven, Ruth was sent to St. Mary's Industrial School for ...
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