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Lita (given Name)
Lita is a female given name of Latin origin, which means "gladly". The name can be a diminutive form of Amelita (other), Amelita, Elita (other), Elita, or Lolita (given name), Lolita. The name Lita may refer to: People *Lita (wrestler) (born 1975), American wrestler *Lita Cabellut (born 1961), Spanish painter *Lita Chevret (1908–2001), American actress *Lita Cohen (born 1940), American politician *Lita Ford (born 1958), American musician *Lita Grey (1908–1995), American actress *Lita Liem Sugiarto (born 1946), Indonesian tennis player *Lita Prahl (1905–1978), Norwegian actress *Lita Roza (1926–2008), British singer *Lita Stantic (born 1942), Argentine filmmaker Fiction *Lita, fictional character in the video game series ''Boktai'' *Makoto Kino, Lita Kino, fictional character in the ''Sailor Moon'' anime and manga series See also *Lota (name) {{given name Latin feminine given names Feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin Language
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the Roman Republic it became the dominant language in the Italy (geographical region), Italian region and subsequently throughout the Roman Empire. Even after the Fall of the Western Roman Empire, fall of Western Rome, Latin remained the common language of international communication, science, scholarship and academia in Europe until well into the 18th century, when other regional vernaculars (including its own descendants, the Romance languages) supplanted it in common academic and political usage, and it eventually became a dead language in the modern linguistic definition. Latin is a fusional language, highly inflected language, with three distinct grammatical gender, genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter), six or seven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lita Cohen
Lita Indzel Cohen (born December 20, 1940) is a former Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Cohen is a 1958 graduate of Lower Merion High School. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1962 and earned her law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1965. Her husband, Stanley, is Senior Counsel with Fox Rothschild in Philadelphia. She was the first woman elected to the Lower Merion Township Planning Commission and served as Lower Merion Township Commissioner for eight years. She was first elected to represent the 148th legislative district in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1993. She was the Republican nominee in the November 6, 2001 special election in the 17th senatorial district to succeed Richard Tilghman, who retired on August 31, 2001. She lost to fellow State Representative Connie Williams. She did not run for re-election for her House of Representatives seat in 2002 and was succeeded by fellow Repu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lota (name)
Lota is a Portuguese feminine given name that is a diminutive form of Carlota, a nickname and surname. Notable people referred to by this name include the following: Given name * Lota Bowen (1872–1935), British painter Nickname/stagename *Lota Chukwu, stagename of Ugwu Lotachukwu Jacinta Obianuju Amelia, Nigerian actress * Lota Delgado, nickname of Carlota Concepcion Delgado (1918-2009), Filipino actress * Lota de Macedo Soares, nickname of Maria Carlota Costallat de Macedo Soares, (1910-1967), Brazilian landscape designer and architect Surname * Dennis Lota (1973–2014), Zambian football player See also *Lata (other) * Lita (given name) *Loa (other) * Loka (other) * Lola (given name) *Loma (other) * Lora (other) * Lot (name) * Lotan (other) *Lotar (name) * Lote (other) * Alfred J. Lotka *Lotta (name) Lotta is given name and nickname that is a diminutive of Charlotte and Charlotta. Notable people with this n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Makoto Kino
, better known as , is a fictional character in the ''Sailor Moon'' manga series created by Naoko Takeuchi. Makoto is her sailor form's alternative human identity as part of the Sailor Soldiers, female supernatural fighters who protect the Solar System from evil. In the series, Makoto is the third Sailor Soldier to be discovered by Sailor Moon (character), Usagi Tsukino, and serves as the "coordinator" of the group, as she possesses superhuman strength, as well as powers associated with electricity and plants. Aside from the main body of the ''Sailor Moon'' series, Makoto features in her own manga short story, ''The Melancholy of Mako-chan''. A number of image songs mentioning her character have been released as well, including the contents of three different CD singles. Profile Makoto's strong, independent personality is hinted at in her most striking physical feature—her unusual height (5'6" or 1.68 meters). She is stated at her first appearance in the series to be very tall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boktai
is a video game series created by Hideo Kojima and published by Konami. The series consists entirely of portable games for the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS, and is notable for its unique inclusion of a built-in solar sensor required for gameplay. The final game in the series made use of the solar sensor optional, and did not include one by default. The series revolves around vampire hunters who must use sunlight-based weaponry to combat evil undead creatures. Critics praised the games' unconventional design, although the requirement to play the game outdoors, in order to bring the most color out of the screen of the Game Boy Advance, ensured that it had only a niche audience, with the third game in the series not receiving a release outside of Japan. Games Boktai: The Sun Is in Your Hand Boktai 2: Solar Boy Django Boktai 3: Sabata's Counterattack Lunar Knights Reception Jeremy Parish of ''USgamer'' called ''Boktai'' similar to a mash-up of ''Metal Gear'' a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lita Stantic
Élida Stantic (born April 7, 1942), and more commonly known and credited as Lita Stantic, is an Argentine cinema producer, screenplay writer, and director. Stantic is one of the most important producers working in the "New Argentine Cinema," responsible for the debut films of some of the most critically well regarded new Argentine filmmakers such as Lucrecia Martel, Pablo Trapero, and Israel Adrián Caetano. Biography She has been working in the Argentine cinema since she was hired as an assistant director for the film ''Diario de campamento'' (1965). Stantic then began making short films in the mid 1960s, but then changed her focus to advertising. She remained active in Argentine cinema via the "Cine Liberacion," an underground production and distribution collective that secretly showed films that would have otherwise been banned in Argentina by the military government. During the politically tumultuous 1970s in Argentina, Stantic worked on over a dozen films including Aleja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lita Roza
Lilian Patricia Lita Roza (14 March 1926 – 14 August 2008) was an English singer best known for her 1953 recording "(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?", which reached No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart. She was the first British woman to have a No. 1 hit in the UK chart. Early life and career Lilian Patricia Lita Roza was born in Liverpool on 14 March 1926, the eldest of seven children. She began work at an early age to support the family. She owed her sultry looks and passion to her father, an amateur accordionist and pianist of Filipino descent who played in Liverpool nightclubs. At the age of 12, she saw an advert in the local newspaper for juvenile dancers and passed the audition. She took to the stage at that age in a pantomime, and by the time she was 15, was working with the comedian and fellow Merseysider Ted Ray. When she was 16, she answered an advertisement and got a job as a singer in the "New Yorker" club in Southport for £5 per week. Soon afterwards she signed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lita Prahl
Lita Prahl (21 March 1905 – 7 May 1978) was a Norwegian actress and costume designer. In the years 1925-1937, she acted at Den Nationale Scene in Bergen and at the Nationaltheatret. From 1938–1975, she worked in costume design at Nationaltheatret in Oslo where she became head of costumes. She may be best-remembered for her role as the governess ''Mlle de Polignac'' in the Norwegian Christmas film ''Tante Pose'' (1940), written by Gabriel Scott and directed by Leif Sinding Leif Sinding (19 November 1895 – 13 May 1985) was a Norwegian film director and journalist. He worked for the newspapers ''Verdens Gang'', ''Aftenposten'', and ''Morgenbladet''. Among his silent films are ''Himmeluret'' from 1925, based on G .... She was listed as Lizzie Prahl and was also credited with costume design on this film. References External links * Norwegian costume designers Norwegian stage actresses 1905 births 1978 deaths 20th-century Norwegian actresses {{ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lita Liem Sugiarto
Lita Liem Sugiarto (born 27 February 1946), sometimes known by her maiden name Lita Liem, a former Indonesian professional tennis player. She played at Grand Slam events between 1968 and 1975, in women's singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles. In women's doubles, she and partner Lany Kaligis reached two Grand Slam quarterfinals: the Australian Open in 1970 and Wimbledon in 1971. As such, she and Kaligis were among the first Indonesians to reach the later rounds of a Grand Slam competition. Kaligis was the only partner that Sugiarto ever played with in Grand Slam doubles competition. In singles, her best results were her third round exits from the Australian Championships in 1968, the Australian Open in 1970, Wimbledon in 1972 and the French Open in 1974. At the 1966 Asian Games at Bangkok, she won the bronze medal in the women's singles, the gold medal in the women's doubles with Lany Kaligis, and the bronze medal in the mixed doubles with Sutarjo Sugiarto. She won the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lita Grey
Lita Grey (born Lillita Louise MacMurray, April 15, 1908 – December 29, 1995), who was known for most of her life as Lita Grey Chaplin, was an American actress and the second wife of Charlie Chaplin. Background She was born in Hollywood, California, to Lillian Carrillo Curry Grey, and christened Lillita Louise MacMurray. Her father was of Scottish descent, and her mother's family was descended from an illustrious ninth-generation Californian Spanish family, whose luminaries included Antonio Maria Lugo. The Lugos were from Andalusia, Spain, and were one of the first families to bring horses to the country. In a 1993 interview, Grey claimed to be a grandniece of former California governor Henry Gage. Life and career Grey married four times. By her own account she first met Charlie Chaplin at the age of eight at a Hollywood café, and first worked with him at the age of 12 in the part of the "flirting angel" in ''The Kid''. She appeared briefly as a maid in ''The Idle Class''. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lita Ford
Lita Rossana Ford (born 19 September 1958) is an English-born American guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. She was the lead guitarist for the all-female rock band the Runaways in the late 1970s, before embarking on a successful glam metal solo career that hit its peak in the late 1980s. The 1989 single "Close My Eyes Forever", a duet with Ozzy Osbourne, remains Ford's most successful song, reaching No. 8 on the US Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Early life Ford was born to Harry Lenard Ford and Isabella Benvenuto in London, England; her father was British and her mother was Italian. When she was in second grade, she moved with her family to the United States, eventually settling in Long Beach, California. Inspired by Ritchie Blackmore's work with Deep Purple, she began playing the guitar at the age of 11. Her vocal range is mezzo-soprano. Music career The Runaways (1975–1979) In 1975, at age sixteen, Ford was recruited by recording impresario Kim Fowley to join t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lita Chevret
Lita Chevret (May 27, 1908 – May 23, 2001) was an American actress who began her career at the genesis of sound films. She appeared in over 60 films between 1929 and 1940, although in most of those she had small or non-billed parts. Life Chevret was born on May 27, 1908 in Oakland, California, to show-business parents, who ensured that she received training in both singing and dance. Career Chevret began acting with a stock theater company when she was 16 years old. She also appeared in Berkeley productions of Irving Pichel and in Fanchon and Marco revues. Based on her dancing ability, Chevret broke into the film business in 1929's ''Fox Movietone Follies of 1929'', with an uncredited role. The following year she appeared in '' Words and Music'' in a small unbilled role, in John Wayne's first film where he had a significant role (billed as Duke Morrison). That same year, she appeared in RKO Radio Pictures' Rio Rita, their most successful picture of the year. In 1930, RKO ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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