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Can Peppy Miller Oscar-nominated Bérénice Bejo -- the charming female ingenue who climbs the studio ladder to achieve leading-lady status -- help bring him back from the abyss?
Coeli Carr: The Artist Talks Loud About Innovation in Business Coeli Carr 2012
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Ms. Carano, a star mixed-martial-arts competitor, is demure and brutal in her leading-lady debut opposite veterans including Michael Douglas, Ewan McGregor and Antonio Banderas.
Hollywood's New Kick Don Steinberg 2011
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I like leading-lady Ann Hathaway and was feeling weepy when my daughter discreetly asked me to leave the classroom after I took her to school.
Mallory McDuff, Ph.D.: One Day: Faith, Fate And The Climate Ph.D. Mallory McDuff 2011
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I like leading-lady Ann Hathaway and was feeling weepy when my daughter discreetly asked me to leave the classroom after I took her to school.
Mallory McDuff, Ph.D.: One Day: Faith, Fate And The Climate Ph.D. Mallory McDuff 2011
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Can Peppy Miller Oscar-nominated Bérénice Bejo -- the charming female ingenue who climbs the studio ladder to achieve leading-lady status -- help bring him back from the abyss?
Coeli Carr: The Artist Talks Loud About Innovation in Business Coeli Carr 2012
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Kate Shindle is the consummate vamp as Marlowe's leading-lady daughter.
Regina Weinreich: Hamptons Journal: Enter Laughing at Bay Street and Authors Night at East Hampton Library Regina Weinreich 2011
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Can Peppy Miller Oscar-nominated Bérénice Bejo -- the charming female ingenue who climbs the studio ladder to achieve leading-lady status -- help bring him back from the abyss?
Coeli Carr: The Artist Talks Loud About Innovation in Business Coeli Carr 2012
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I like leading-lady Ann Hathaway and was feeling weepy when my daughter discreetly asked me to leave the classroom after I took her to school.
Mallory McDuff, Ph.D.: One Day: Faith, Fate And The Climate Ph.D. Mallory McDuff 2011
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Those adept theater craftspersons were so accomplished at their individual tasks -- director-choreographer Fosse, songwriters Fields and Coleman and multiple-Tony-winning leading-lady Verdon, to be specific -- that the result looked and sounded a great deal better than it actually was then.
David Finkle: First-Nighter: London's Sweet Charity Sufficiently Sweet 2010
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If you had to pinpoint the leading leading-lady in musicals today, you
David Finkle: First Nighter: Thoroughly Entertaining Sutton Foster 2010
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