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Mary Parker (German Actress)
Mary Parker may refer to: People * Mary Parker (American actress) (1918–1998), American stage, television and screen actress/performer * Mary Parker (Australian actress) (1930–2023), English (later Australian) actress and news reporter; first woman to appear on Melbourne television * Mary Parker, governess of Erasmus Darwin * Mary Parker, Jr. (1774–1859), daughter of Erasmus Darwin, born of an extra-marital affair * Mary Elizabeth Parker, American poet * Mary Elizabeth Parker Bouligny Levey (1839–1908), author and socialite * Mary Evelyn Parker (1920–2015), former Democratic state treasurer of Louisiana * Mary-Louise Parker (born 1964), American actress * Mary Parker Follett (1868–1933), American social worker and management consultant * Mary Parker Lewis, political consultant who served as Chief of Staff to Alan Keyes, candidate for President of the United States * Mary Parker (Salem witch trials) (died 1692), executed for witchcraft in the Salem witch trials * Mary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Parker (American Actress)
Mary Parker (born Mary Frances Roberson; August 28, 1918 – March 2, 1998) was an American stage, television and screen actress/performer. Parker appeared in 17 films from 1938 to 1954, but was also known for her dance work with partner Billy Daniel. Life and career Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Parker (also known as "Punkins" Parker), was a protégé of Mitchell Leisen. Leisen recruited Parker for various projects both on and off the screen starting in 1938. Parker was discovered while performing at the Casa Mañana Theatre in her native Fort Worth, Texas during the Texas Centennial celebrations and given a contract with Paramount Pictures. She performed in several large budget films, and was chosen by Paramount and Max Factor Jr. as "The Real Miss America", yet her fame was short lived. In 1943, Parker signed a contract with MGM. Courtesy of MGM, in April 1944 Parker starred in a production of ''The Desert Song'' for the troops at Camp Roberts, California. Parker and Daniels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Parker (Salem Witch Trials)
Mary (née Ayer) Parker of Andover, Massachusetts Bay Colony, the daughter of John Ayer, was executed by hanging on September 22, 1692, with several others, for witchcraft in the Salem witch trials The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused. Thirty people were found guilty, 19 of whom w .... She was a 55 year old widow. It is believed that Mary Parker’s family buried her body on their property, as was tradition for those who were executed. Mary's husband, Nathan, died in 1685.Kelly, JacquelineThe Untold Story of Mary Ayer Parker: Gossip and Confusion in 1692. Revised for presentation at the Berkshire Conference. June 2005. Nicholas Noyes officiated. Her daughter, Sarah Parker, was also accused. At the time of her execution, historians discovered the existence of three others with the same name as Mary Parker. Robinso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Jane Parker
Mary Jane "MJ" Watson is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by Stan Lee and John Romita Sr., and made her first appearance in '' The Amazing Spider-Man'' #25 (June 1965). Since then, she has gone on to become Spider-Man's main love interest and later his wife. Mary Jane is the most famous and prominent love interest of Peter Parker due to their long history, as she is also represented in most Spider-Man media and adaptations. Although she made a brief first appearance in '' The Amazing Spider-Man'' #25 with a plant obscuring her exterior, as part of a then-long-running recurring gag about Aunt May attempting to set Peter up with her friend's "nice girl" niece, Mary Jane's first official face reveal was a cameo appearance in '' The Amazing Spider-Man'' #42 (November 1966). Designed and drawn by John Romita Sr., her entrance is regarded as one of the most iconic introductions in comic history, owing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard And Mary Parker
Richard and Mary Parker are fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. They are the parents of Peter Parker, the superhero known as Spider-Man. Richard and Mary Parker have been adapted to appear in several animated television series and video games. Campbell Scott and Embeth Davidtz portrayed the characters in the films ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' (2012) and ''The Amazing Spider-Man 2'' (2014). Publication history Richard and Mary Parker were created by Stan Lee and Larry Lieber. For many years prior to ''The Amazing Spider-Man Annual'' #5 (published in 1968), there had been no explanation of why Peter Parker was being raised by his aunt and uncle, with his parents only appearing in flashbacks and photographs. That issue finally answered the question: Richard and Mary Parker were murdered by Albert Malik, who was one of Johann Schmidt's successors to the persona of Red Skull. In ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #365 (August 1992), Spider-Man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Celestia Parler
Mary Celestia Parler (1904 - September 15, 1981) was a folklorist and professor at the University of Arkansas. She and her husband Vance Randolph recorded folk music in Northern Arkansas from the 1930s until the 1960s. They also established the Arkansas Folklore Society in 1950. It lasted until 1960. Folklorist Rachel Reynolds wrote a chapter about her in ''Arkansas Women: Their Lives and Times''. She made recordings with Max Hunter. She recorded Maxine Hite singing ''The Dogs and her gun'' in Prairie Grove, Washington County, Arkansas, in 1959. During the 1950s, Robert Mottar accompanied Parler undertaking the Folklore Research Project (1949–1965). His photographs feature Mary Celestia Parler and others active in collecting folklore, as well as the subjects of Ozark folklore Folklore is shared by a particular group of people; it encompasses the traditions common to that culture, subculture or group. This includes oral traditions such as Narrative, tales, legends, proverbs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Ann Parker
Mary Ann Parker (1765/6–1848) was an English traveller and writer whose 1795 book ''A Voyage Round the World, in the Gorgon Man of War'' included the first published description by a woman of an Australian colony. Travel She travelled to New South Wales and back in 1791–2 on board the frigate which was captained by her husband John Parker. The ship was taking desperately-needed supplies, and a few personnel and convicts as well, to the settlement at Port Jackson. The Governor of Norfolk Island, Philip Gidley King, was on board with his new wife, Anna Josepha King, Anna King, the only other woman on the voyage. She was the same age as Mary Ann Parker and an "amiable companion"Mary Ann Parker, ''A Voyage round the World, in the Gorgon Man of War'', 1795. on the way out. At that time it was the "longest and most dangerous voyage on earth""The Great Circle", Vol. 13, No. 2 (1991), ''Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History''. but Parker did not emphasise the di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Parker, Countess Of Macclesfield
Mary Frances Parker, Countess of Macclesfield (c.1761 – 1 January 1823), formerly Mary Drake, was the wife of George Parker, 4th Earl of Macclesfield. Mary was the daughter of the Reverend Thomas Drake, rector of Amersham, who claimed descent from Sir Francis Drake; he died when she was in her teens. She married the earl, then an MP and heir to the earldom, on 24 (or 25) May 1780, while she was still technically a minor. Her sister, Sarah, married Augustus Pechell, a son of Sir Paul Pechell, 1st Baronet. Parker succeeded to the earldom in 1795, whereupon his wife became a countess. They had one daughter, Lady Maria Parker (1781-1861), who married Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington, but had no children. The countess was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, queen consort of King George III of Great Britain, from 1801 until the queen's death in 1818. She died at the family seat of Shirburn Castle Shirburn Castle is a Grade I listed building, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Parker (ice Hockey)
Mary Parker is an American professional ice hockey player for the Boston Pride of the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL). Career Parker began skating at the age of two, when her mother, who taught figure skating, brought her and her sibling to the New England Sports Complex in Marlborough, Massachusetts, and began playing hockey at the age of six. During her teenage years, she played for Assabet Valley before joining the Noble and Greenough School for her last two years of high school. She was awarded the 2012 John Carlton Award by the Boston Bruins along with Jimmy Vesey. From 2012 to 2016, she played in the NCAA for Harvard University, often playing on a line with Lexie Laing and Karly Heffernan. She was named a Second Team All-ECAC and First Team All-Ivy League in 2015. She then missed almost all of the 2015–16 season after suffering a hip injury that required surgery. In 2016, she moved to Boston University for graduate studies, being offered a scholarship, and joine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Parker Lewis
Mary Parker Lewis is a political consultant who most famously served as Chief of Staff to Dr. Alan Keyes, candidate for President of the United States in 1996 and 2000. In addition to running both Keyes presidential campaigns, Lewis also ran the statesman's historic campaign for the U.S. Senate from Illinois against Barack Obama in 2004. Her political works have come under scrutiny due to reports that in 2010, while these Political Action Committees (PACs) took in millions of dollars in donations, they paid out only a very small percentage to the causes they claim they are working to defend. Mary also took considerable compensation packages as well from these PACs. Lewis was born and raised in southern California where she attended Scripps College in Claremont. She then completed graduate studies at Claremont Graduate School (now Claremont Graduate University) in her home state and at Notre Dame Institute in Virginia. Early in her career, Lewis served as a staffer with the Free ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Parker (Australian Actress)
Mary Clare Avison Fitzgerald (née Parker; 31 October 1930 – 13 May 2023) was an English-born actress and Australian television presenter, who started her career in her native country as a stage, screen and television actress. After emigrating to Australia, she became notable for being the first woman to appear on Melbourne television. Early life and personal life Parker was born on 31 October 1930 in Keynsham, Somerset, and was a twin; her sister Sue was born two hours later. Her father, Charles Avison Parker, was a British native and high-ranking officer with the Royal Navy and later served with the Australian Navy; her mother was Australian. Parker's brother Michael served in the Royal Navy with Prince Philip and became his secretary and equerry-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth II. Parker grew up in the Melbourne suburb of Kew and attended Genazzano Convent School. She was married to Australian portrait artist Paul Fitzgerald in 1957 until his death in 2017. They had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Parker Follett
Mary Parker Follett (3 September 1868 – 18 December 1933) was an American social worker, management consultant, philosopher and pioneer in the fields of organizational theory and organizational behavior. Along with Lillian Gilbreth, she was one of two great women management experts in the early days of classical management theory. She has been called the "Mother of Modern Management". Instead of emphasizing industrial and mechanical components, she advocated for what she saw as the far more important human element, regarding people as the most valuable commodity present within any business. She was one of the first theorists to actively write about and explore the role people had on effective management, and discuss the importance of learning to deal with and promote positive human relations as a fundamental aspect of the industrial sector. Life Follett was born in 1868 in Quincy, Massachusetts, to a wealthy Quaker family. Her family was composed of Charles Allen Follett, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary-Louise Parker
Mary-Louise Parker (born August 2, 1964) is an American actress. After making her Broadway debut as Rita in Craig Lucas' '' Prelude to a Kiss'' in 1990 (for which she received a Tony Award nomination), Parker came to prominence for film roles in '' Grand Canyon'' (1991), '' Fried Green Tomatoes'' (1991), '' The Client'' (1994), '' Bullets over Broadway'' (1994), '' A Place for Annie'' (1994), '' Boys on the Side'' (1995), '' The Portrait of a Lady'' (1996), and '' The Maker'' (1997). Among stage and independent film appearances thereafter, Parker received the 2001 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her portrayal of Catherine Llewellyn in David Auburn's ''Proof'', among other accolades. Between 2001 and 2006, she recurred as Amy Gardner in the NBC television series '' The West Wing'', for which she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2002. She received both a Golden Globe and a Primetime Emmy Award for h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
