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Lottie Williams
Lottie Williams may refer to: * Lottie Williams (actress, born 1866) (1866–1929), American actress * Lottie Williams (actress, born 1874) (1874–1962), American actress * Lottie Williams, an Oklahoma resident who is the only person to have been struck by re-entering space debris, when a small piece of the rocket launching the Midcourse Space Experiment harmlessly struck her shoulder in 1997 * Lottie Williams, a victim of a 1980 murder for which Leonard Marvin Laws was executed by the U.S. state of Missouri in 1990 {{hndis, Williams, Lottie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lottie Williams (actress, Born 1874)
Lottie Williams (January 20, 1874 – November 16, 1962) was an American character actress whose career spanned both the silent film, silent and sound film eras. Early life Lottie Williams was born on January 20, 1874, in Indianapolis, Indiana. Career Williams debuted on film in a supporting role in the 1920 silent comedy ''A Full House''. She appeared in over 70 films, mostly in smaller and supporting roles, during her 30-year career. Some of the more notable films in which she appeared include: Michael Curtiz' ''Angels with Dirty Faces'' (1938), starring James Cagney and Pat O'Brien (actor), Pat O'Brien; the 1939 melodrama ''Dark Victory'', with Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart and George Brent; ''Meet John Doe'' (1941), directed by Frank Capra, and starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck; the screwball comedy, ''The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942 film), The Man Who Came to Dinner'' (1942), starring Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, and Monty Woolley; and ''Edge of Darkness (1943 film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lottie Williams (actress, Born 1866)
Charlotte Louise Johnson, known as Lottie Williams and Lottie Thompson (1866 – March 17, 1929), was an American actress, singer, and dancer. A pioneering performer in African-American musical theater, she is best remembered for starring in several stage works with her second husband, Bert Williams, both on Broadway theatre, Broadway and in vaudeville. These included several musicals created by composer Will Marion Cook, lyricist Paul Laurence Dunbar, and the playwright Jesse A. Shipp; including ''Sons of Ham'' (1900), ''In Dahomey'' (1903), and ''Abyssinia (1906 musical), Abyssinia'' (1906) among other works. In these musicals she portrayed mainly supporting character roles and was usually a featured singer and/or dancer. However, she portrayed the title role and the main protagonist in the Cook, Dunbar, and Shipp musical ''My Tom-Boy Girl'' (1905). As a dancer, Williams was particularly associated with the cakewalk, and a sketch of her alongside her future husband in that danc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midcourse Space Experiment
The Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX) is a Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) satellite experiment (unmanned space mission) to map bright infrared sources in space. MSX offered the first system demonstration of technology in space to identify and track ballistic missiles during their midcourse flight phase. History On 24 April 1996, the US Air Force launched the MSX satellite on a Delta II launch vehicle from Vandenberg AFB, California. MSX was placed in a Sun-synchronous orbit at 898 km and an inclination of 99.16 degrees. MSX's mission was to gather data in three spectral bands (long wavelength infrared, visible, and ultraviolet). From 13 May 1998, MSX became a contributing sensor to the Space Surveillance Network. Launch debris incident Lottie Williams was exercising in a park in Tulsa on January 22, 1997, when she was hit in the shoulder by a piece of blackened metallic material. U.S. Space Command confirmed that a used Delta II rocket from the April 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
