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Mary Dunn (Texas Student Media)
Mary Dunn may refer to: *Marie Prevost (1896–1937), Canadian-American actress born Mary Bickford Dunn * Mary Dunn (writer) (1900–1958), British author who created Lady Blanche Addle *Mary Dunn (yoga) Mary Louise Palmer Dunn (2 June 1942 – 4 September 2008) was an American instructor in Iyengar Yoga, and a founding member of its institutes in America. She was seen as a teacher's teacher within the tradition. Life and career Dunn was born in ... (1942–2008), American Iyengar yoga instructor * Mary Maples Dunn (1931–2017), American historian * Mary Dunn (sports executive) (1903–1965), Canadian sports executive {{hndis, Dunn, Mary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Prevost
Marie Prevost (born Mary Bickford Dunn; November 8, 1896 – January 21, 1937) was a Canadian film actress. During her 20-year career, she made 121 silent and sound films. Prevost began her career during the silent film era. She was discovered by Mack Sennett who signed her to contract and made her one of his "Bathing Beauties" in the late 1910s. Prevost appeared in dozens of Sennett's short comedy films before moving on to feature-length films for Universal. In 1922, she signed with Warner Bros. where her career flourished as a leading lady. She was a favorite of director Ernst Lubitsch who cast her in three of his comedy films: ''The Marriage Circle'' (1924), '' Three Women'' (1924) and '' Kiss Me Again'' (1925). After being let go by Warner Bros in early 1926, Prevost's career began to decline and she was relegated to secondary roles. She was also beset with personal problems, including the death of her mother in 1926 and the breakdown of her marriage to actor Kenneth Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Dunn (writer)
Mary Dunn (1900–1958Brown, Michèle, O'Connor Ann (1986). ''Hammer and Tongues: A Dictionary of Women's Wit and Humour.'' ) was an English writer and satirist best known for the Lady Addle books.Muir, Frank (1990). ''The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose.'' Oxford University Press Richard Geoffrey George Price (1957). ''A History of Punch.'' Collins ASIN B000HJN2D6 Selected publications *''Lady Addle Remembers: Being the Memoirs of the Lady Addle of Eigg'' (1936) *''Lady Addle at Home'' (1945) *''The Memoirs of Mipsie'' (1947) *''Round the Year with Lady Addle'' (1948) *''The World of Lady Addle'' (1986) References 1900 births 1958 deaths English satirists British women satirists British satirists British satirical novelists 20th-century English women writers British humorists British women humorists {{England-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Dunn (yoga)
Mary Louise Palmer Dunn (2 June 1942 – 4 September 2008) was an American instructor in Iyengar Yoga, and a founding member of its institutes in America. She was seen as a teacher's teacher within the tradition. Life and career Dunn was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan on 2 June 1942 to Mary and William B. Palmer in a house designed for them by Frank Lloyd Wright. After graduating University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1964, she married Roger Dunn in 1965 and moved to San Francisco, California in 1967. Her mother was a student of B. K. S. Iyengar and helped bring him to the United States in 1973. She went to Pune each year to study directly under Iyengar. Dunn began learning under Iyengar in 1974, eventually becoming a founding director of the Iyengar Yoga National Association of the United States and a co-founder of three Iyengar Yoga Institutes in America, namely San Francisco, New York, and San Diego. Jenny Snick, in ''Yoga Journal'' in 1983, wrote that Dunn looked like a woman liv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Maples Dunn
Mary Maples Dunn (April 6, 1931 – March 19, 2017) was an American historian. She served as the eighth president of Smith College for ten years beginning in 1985. Dunn was also the director of the Schlesinger Library from 1995 to 2000. She was acting president of Radcliffe College when it merged with Harvard University, and she became the acting dean of the newly created Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study after the merger. Dunn later became a Radcliffe Institute Fellow and served as co-executive officer of the American Philosophical Society from 2002 to 2007. Early life and education Mary Maples was born on April 6, 1931, in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, to Eva Moore Maples and Frederic Maples, who owned a clothing store. She was the second of four children and the only daughter. While in Wisconsin, she attended a two-room school house. Her father joined the Army during World War II where he remained as an officer after the war, retiring as a Colonel As a result, the family ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |