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Joan Littlewood 2002 Deaths

Joan LittlewoodAge: 87 British theater director and producer whose Theatre Workshop staged such offbeat productions Brendan Behan's The Hostage, Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey, and the…

Joan Bove 2001 Deaths

Joan BoveAge: 99 with her first husband, Lawrence Gelb, started the hair-products company Clairol in the early 1930s after discovering the hair-coloring solution in France and introducing it…

Melissa Joan Hart Biography

Melissa Joan Hart actressBorn: 4/18/1976Birthplace: Sayville, New York As with most overnight success stories, Hart had been working diligently for years before being cast in the made-for-…

Female Literary Figures

  Aidoo - Corelli | Dickinson - Luce | Mansfield - Rukeyser | Sackville - Yourcenar Anaïs Nin Biographies of Notable Women Actresses Adventurers Artists…

Frémiet, Emmanuel

(Encyclopedia) Frémiet, EmmanuelFrémiet, Emmanuelĕmänüĕlˈ frāmyāˈ [key], 1824–1910, French sculptor; pupil and nephew of Rude. He was noted for his vigorous characterizations of animal and historical…

La Hire

(Encyclopedia) La HireLa Hirelä ēr [key], c.1390–c.1443, French commander in the Hundred Years War, whose real name was Étienne de Vignoles or Vignolles. He entered (1418) the service of the dauphin…

Deyssel, Lodewijk van

(Encyclopedia) Deyssel, Lodewijk vanDeyssel, Lodewijk vanlōˈdəvĭk vän dēˈsəl [key], pseud. of Karel Joan Lodewijk Alberdingk Thijm, 1864–1952, Dutch novelist, critic, and essayist. He was editor of…

Robinson, Joan Violet

(Encyclopedia) Robinson, Joan Violet, 1903–83, British economist, b. Surrey, England. A socialist, she worked with Keynes and taught at Cambridge (1931–71). Her treatise, The Economics of Imperfect…

Cooney, Joan Ganz

(Encyclopedia) Cooney, Joan Ganz, 1929–, American television producer, b. Phoenix, Ariz. After graduating (1951) from the Univ. of Arizona, Cooney worked as a newspaper reporter and television…