Who can tell me about Frances Farmer?
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Frances Elena Farmer (September 19, 1913, Seattle, Washington – August 1, 1970, Indianapolis, Indiana) was an American film actress.\n\nEarly life, career and marriage\nFarmer was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. In 1931, at age 17, she entered and won $100 in a writing contest sponsored by Scholastic Magazine with her controversial essay God Dies. In 1935, as a student at the University of Washington, she won a subscription contest for the leftist newspaper The Voice of Action. First prize was a trip to the Soviet Union, which she took despite her mother's strong objections. These two incidents led to accusations that Farmer was both an atheist and a Communist. Farmer studied drama at the University of Washington. During the 1930s its drama department productions were considered citywide cultural events and attended accordingly. While there she starred in diverse plays including Helen of Troy, Everyman and Uncle Vanya. In 1935 she starred in the school's production of Alien Corn, speaking foreign languages, playing the piano and receiving rave reviews in what was the longest running play in the department's history at the time.\n\n1936\nReturning from the Soviet Union in the summer of 1935 Farmer stopped in New York City, hoping to launch a legitimate theater career. Instead, she was referred to Paramount talent scout Oscar Serlin who arranged for a screen test. Paramount offered her a 7-year contract. Farmer signed it in New York on her 22nd birthday (September 19, 1935) and moved to Hollywood. She had top billing in two well-received 1936 "B" films and that same year was cast opposite Bing Crosby in Rhythm On The Range. Also in 1936 she was loaned to Samuel Goldwyn to appear in Come and Get It, based on the novel by Edna Ferber. Her portrayals of both the mother and daughter were praised by the public and critics, some of whom wrote of her potential to become a major star. She also married her first husband, actor Leif Erickson, in 1936.\n\nA rebellious star\nFarmer was not entirely satisfied with her career, however. She felt stifled by Paramount's tendency to cast her in films which depended on her looks more than her talent and her naturally outspoken demeanor made her seem uncooperative and contemptuous. In an age when the studios dictated every facet of a star's life, Farmer rebelled against the studio's control and although she allowed herself to be put through cosmetic "makeovers" and photographed in bathing suits for publicity purposes, she resisted every attempt they made to glamourize her private life, refusing to attend Hollywood parties or to date other stars for the gossip columns. At the time, she was sympathetically described as being indifferent about the clothing she wore and was said to drive an older-model "green roadster," which according to a columnist, once broke down on Melrose Avenue, blocking traffic as Farmer pushed the stricken car to the side, much to the consternation of the studio's publicity department.\n\nHoping to enhance her reputation as a serious actress, she left Hollywood in 1937 to do summer stock on the East Coast. She had already attracted the attention of Harold Clurman and Clifford Odets and appeared in the Group Theatre production of Odets' play Golden Boy in a performance which at first received highly mixed reviews (Time magazine commented that she had been miscast). However by 1938 when the production had embarked on a national tour, regional critics from Washington D.C. to Chicago had given her rave reviews.\n\nFarmer also had an affair with Odets but he was married to actress Luise Rainer and didn't offer Farmer a commitment. Farmer felt betrayed when Odets suddenly ended the relationship, believing he had used her drawing power to further the success of his play. She returned to Hollywood, somewhat chastened, willing to continue her movie career but still on her terms. She arranged with Paramount to s
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Myron Libby. Just ask Alice. No better yet don't unless you have a couple free decades to listen to her on your hands.
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this might help http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celia_Cruz
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Biography\n \n \nYolanda Joe is the bestselling author of several novels including My Fine Lady, The Hatwearer's Lesson, and Hit Time. A former television and radio producer, she is the author of two mysteries under the pen name Ardella Garland. A graduate of Yale University and the Columbia University School of Journalism, she lives in Chicago. She teaches writing at the City Colleges of Chicago.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Butcher\n\nIt's not much, but maybe that'll help you out.
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You have her name wrong. It is Margaret Mcmillan and if you type that into Mywebsearch or Google there are pages and pages of information about her and her educational theories. Good Luck!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennie_Finch\nhttp://www.askmen.com/women/models_150/199_jennie_finch.html\nhttp://www.jenniefinch.net/bio.htm
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I had to do a report on her at one point, so I know for a FACT that you can find plenty of information on her on the internet.  Do your own homework!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Goodall
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Check the Farm Bureau in your state.  They would have info for you.\n\nwww.wsfb.com\nwww.cfbf.com\nwww.njfb.org\nwww.pfb.com\nwww.iowafarmbureau.com\nwww.ffbic.com\nwww.infarmbureau.org\nwww.ilfb.org
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I do not know but just type in HANNAH TETER in like google and maybe you could find it
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Try the poet Emily Dickenson. She wrote a ton of material, and there is a ton of material about her!
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I found a really good complete website for you\n\nhttp://www.annefrank.com/\n\nIt pretty much has everything you'd like to know about her. If you still need some more references you may also check the websites I posted below for you. Good luck!
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( This Should Help you)\n\n\nRosa McCauley was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on 4th February, 1913. When Rosa was a child her mother, Leona McCauley, separated from her husband and moved to Montgomery. McCauley was a school teacher and encouraged her daughter to be active in the struggle for civil rights. \n\nIn 1932 Rosa married a barber, Raymond Parks. Both were members of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) and Rosa served as the secretary of the Montgomery chapter. Durng this period she became close friends with Philip Randolph, Edgar Nixon and Ella Baker. These activists worked within a range of different organizations. This included the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Established in 1942, by a group of students in Chicago, members were mainly pacifists who had been deeply influenced by Henry David Thoreau and the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi and the nonviolent civil disobedience campaign that he used successfully against British rule in India. The students became convinced that the same methods could be employed by blacks to obtain civil rights in America. \n\nIn early 1947, CORE announced plans to send eight white and eight black men into the Deep South to test the Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation in interstate travel unconstitutional. organized by George Houser and Bayard Rustin, the Journey of Reconciliation was to be a two week pilgrimage through Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky. \n\nThe Journey of Reconciliation began on 9th April, 1947. The team included George Houser, Bayard Rustin, James Peck, Igal Roodenko, Nathan Wright, Conrad Lynn, Wallace Nelson, Andrew Johnson, Eugene Stanley, Dennis Banks, William Worthy, Louis Adams, Joseph Felmet, Worth Randle and Homer Jack. \n\nMembers of the Journey of Reconciliation team were arrested several times. In North Carolina, two of the African Americans, Bayard Rustin and Andrew Johnson, were found guilty of violating the state's Jim Crow bus statute and were sentenced to thirty days on a chain gang. However, Judge Henry Whitfield made it clear he found that behaviour of the white men even more objectionable. He told Igal Roodenko and Joseph Felmet: "It's about time you Jews from New York learned that you can't come down her bringing your niggers with you to upset the customs of the South. Just to teach you a lesson, I gave your black boys thirty days, and I give you ninety." \n\nIn Montgomery, like most towns in the Deep South, buses were segregated. Rosa Parks and other civil rights activists considered using these tactics in Montgomery. However, under pressure from the NAACP, this never took place. Thurgood Marshall, head of the NAACP's legal department, was strongly against these tactics and warned that a "disobedience movement on the part of Negroes and their white allies, if employed in the South, would result in wholesale slaughter with no good achieved." \n\nIn early 1955, Claudette Colvin, a 15 year old black girl was dragged off a bus in Montgomery and arrested for not giving up her seat to a white person. The NAACP now agreed to take up the Colvin incident as a test case. It believed that this would result in a similar outcome to the 1954 Supreme Court decision on segregation in education. However, the NAACP decided to drop the idea when they discovered that Colvin was pregnant. They knew that the authorities in Montgomery would use this against them in the propaganda war that would inevitably take place during this legal battle. \n\nOn 1st December, 1955, Rosa Parks, left Montgomery Fair, the department store where she worked, and got on the same bus as she did every night. As always she sat in the "black section" at the back of the bus. However, when the bus became full, the driver instructed Rosa to give up her seat to a white person. This had happened to Rosa several times before. In fact, the same bus driver had forced her off the bus in 1943 for c
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Here you go - try this link:\n\nhttp://www.prairieghosts.com/hull.html\n\nJane Addams was born and raised in the village of Cedarville, the privileged daughter of a wealthy merchant. Jane was raised under pleasant surroundings and tragedy first came into her life with the death of her father, which occurred the same year that she graduated from the Rockford Female Seminary. She went into a deep depression and unsure what to do with her life, she spent a portion of her inheritance traveling in Europe. It would be in London, in the terrible slums of Whitechapel, that she would find her calling.\n\nIn the company of her college friend and traveling companion, Elle Starr Gates, Jane would spend time at Toynbee Hall, a settlement house for the poor. Here, young and affluent students lived and worked beside the poorest dregs of London, pushing for social reform and better standards of living. Jane was intrigued by the idea of it and after her return to Chicago, began making plans for such a place in the city. She soon discovered the run-down Halsted Street mansion and worse... the terrifying conditions in the Levee district to the west....
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Try searching for their name on www.192.com\n\nIt is based on the Electoral Roll so in theory should be a complete list of the population, although it can be out of date.\n\nAlso http://www.thephonebook.bt.com/ may be useful\n\nOr you can try calling her number!!
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Mary Henrietta Kingsley (October 13, 1862 - June 3, 1900) was an English writer and explorer who greatly influenced European ideas about Africa and African people.\n\nKingsley was born in Islington. She was the daughter of George Kingsley (himself a travel writer) and Mary Bailey, and the niece of Charles Kingsley. Her father was a doctor and worked for the 13th Earl of Pembroke. Her mother was an invalid and Mary was expected to stay at home and look after her. Mary had little formal schooling but she did have access to her father's large library and loved to hear her father's stories of foreign countries.\n\nHer father died in February 1892. Her mother also passed away just five weeks later. Freed from her family responsibilities, and with a income of £500 a year, Mary was now able to travel. Mary decided to visit Africa to collect the material she would need to finish off a book that her father had started on the culture of the people of Africa.