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Meg Johnson (other)
Meg Johnson may refer to: * Meg Johnson (actress) (1936–2023), English actress * Meg Johnson, American poet * Meg Johnson, a character in '' Light in the Piazza'', a 1962 film See also * Margaret Johnson (other) * Megan Johnson, a New York City Ballet dancer {{hndis, Johnson, Meg ...
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Meg Johnson (actress)
Margaret Mary Foster (30 September 1936 – 1 July 2023), better known as Meg Johnson, was an English actress. Over a career spanning almost six decades, she became known for her soap opera roles as Eunice Gee in ''Coronation Street'', Brigid McKenna in ''Brookside'', and Pearl Ladderbanks in ''Emmerdale''. She also appeared in musicals including ''Chicago'' and ''Follies''. Early life Johnson was born Margaret Mary Green in Manchester on 30 September 1936 to Eleanor (''née'' James), a former bus conductor, and Stan Green, a brewery foreman. Johnson was evacuated to Bolton during World War II and made her stage debut there, aged six, singing and dancing at the Grand theatre. After developing asthma, she began singing lessons to improve her breathing. Career Johnson's first professional acting role came in May 1961, when she was 24, in a television series titled ''Here's Harry''. She continued in the show until 1964. Subsequent roles included ''Family Solicitor'' (1961) and ...
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Meg Johnson
Meg Johnson is an American poet and lecturer. Her poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines, including '' Midwestern Gothic'', '' Slipstream Magazine'', '' Word Riot'', ''Hobart'', and many others. Her first collection of poems, ''Inappropriate Sleepover'', was released in 2014, her second collection, ''The Crimes of Clara Turlington'', was released in December 2015., and her third book, ''Without: Body, Name, Country'' is due to release in September 2020. She is also the current editor of the ''Dressing Room Poetry Journal''. Early life and education Johnson was born and raised in Ames, Iowa. She enjoyed dance as a child and wrote poems in high school. She danced with the Iowa State University dance department in high school and later studied dance at Columbia College Chicago and the University of Iowa. Johnson left college early in order to pursue a professional career in dance. She eventually became a principal dancer at the Kanopy Dance Company, the resident compa ...
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Light In The Piazza (film)
''Light in the Piazza'' is a 1962 American romantic comedy drama film directed by Guy Green and starring Olivia de Havilland, Rossano Brazzi, Yvette Mimieux, George Hamilton, and Barry Sullivan. Based on the 1960 novel '' The Light in the Piazza'' by Elizabeth Spencer, the film is about a beautiful but mentally disabled young American woman traveling in Italy with her mother and the Italian man they meet during one leg of their trip. Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, ''Light in the Piazza'' features extensive location shooting in 1960s Florence and Rome by the cinematographer Otto Heller. At the Imdb article, accessed Jan 2012 at the Turner Classic Movie Movie database, accessed Jan 2012 Plot While taking a summer holiday in Florence with her mother Meg, 26-year-old Clara Johnson, an American who was kicked in the head by a pony during childhood and now mentally disabled, meets and falls in love with a young Italian named Fabrizio Naccarelli. Fabrizio is blinded by his ...
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Margaret Johnson (other)
Margaret Johnson may refer to: * Margaret Johnson (vocalist), American blues and jazz vocalist and pianist * Margaret Johnson (pianist) (1919–1939), American jazz pianist *Margaret Johnson (advertiser), executive creative director and partner at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners * Margaret Johnson Erwin Dudley (née Johnson, 1821–1863), Southern belle, planter and letter writer * Margaret Johnson (artist) (1898–1967), Sri-Lankan born Australian portrait artist * Margaret Johnson (athlete) (1937–2015), Australian athlete * Margaret Johnson (politician), Canadian politician in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick *Margaret Johnson (scientist), British physician * Maggie Pogue Johnson (1883–1956), Black American composer and poet * Margaret Delia Johnson (?–2016), chairwoman of West Sussex County Council, 2001-2008 *Maggie Johnson, character in ''Central Intelligence'' *Maggie Johnson, wife of Clint Eastwood *Margaret Johnson, later Goldwater (died 1985), wife of Barry Gol ...
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