What actress famously played in Miracle Run and also was Rita in the Broadway production of "Prelude to a Kiss"?
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Miracle Run Miracle Run is a 2004 Lifetime Television film starring Mary-Louise Parker, Zac Efron, Bubba Lewis, Aidan Quinn and Alicia Morton
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Mary-Louise Parker Mary-Louise Parker (born August 2, 1964) is an American actress and author. After making her stage debut as Rita in a Broadway production of 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), "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 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her portrayal of Catherine Llewellyn in David Auburn's "Proof" in 2001, among other accolades. Between 2001 and 2006, she recurred as Amy Gardner on 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.
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Barbara Lang (Broadway actress) Barbara Lang is an American actress who has been featured in many Broadway productions of the 1960s and 1970s.
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Lillian Lorraine Lillian Lorraine (January 1, 1892 – April 17, 1955) was an American stage and screen actress of the 1910s and 1920s, best known for her beauty and for being perhaps the most famous Ziegfeld Girl in the Broadway revues Ziegfeld Follies during the 1910s.
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Margaret Avery Margaret Avery (born January 20, 1944) is an American actress and singer. She began her career appearing on stage and later has had starring roles in films include "Cool Breeze" (1972), "Which Way Is Up?" (1977), "Scott Joplin" (1977), and "The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh" (1979).
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Etta Hawkins Henrietta Luna Hawkins Morris (August 21, 1865 – July 13, 1945), known as Etta Hawkins, was an American comedic stage actress during the early 1900s. She gained prestige with her work in the productions of "Lord Chumley" with E.H. Sothern, "The Charity Ball" and "The Lost Paradise".
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Nancy Marchand Nancy Marchand (June 19, 1928 – June 18, 2000) was an American actress. She began her career in theatre in 1951. She was perhaps most famous for her television portrayals of Margaret Pynchon on "Lou Grant" and Livia Soprano on "The Sopranos".
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Maude Odell Maude Odell (also spelled Maude O'Dell and sometimes known as Tillie Doremus or Maude Odell Doremus) (November 10, 1870 – February 27, 1937) was an American actress. She was one of the United States' best-known stage actresses of the early 20th century.
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Grace Keagy Grace Keagy (December 16, 1921 – October 4, 2009) was an American actress, best known for her work on the stage in character roles. She is best known for her Drama Desk Award nominated performance as "Rosa" in the original 1979 production of Joseph Stein and Alan Jay Lerner's "Carmelina".
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Rita Fornia Rita Fornia (17 July 1878 – 27 October 1922) was an American opera singer. She began her career in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century singing coloratura soprano roles. Early on in her career her voice darkened and dropped slightly causing her to focus more within the mezzo-soprano repertoire while still singing some soprano roles. She joined the Metropolitan Opera company in 1907 where she performed regularly in mostly supporting roles until her retirement in 1922. She is best remembered today for portraying the role of the Abbess in the original production of Puccini's "Suor Angelica" in 1918.
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Lila Finn Lila Finn (born Lila Shanley; November 28, 1909 - November 15, 1996) was an American actress and stunt woman who performed in films for almost six decades and was known for such films as "Gone with the Wind", "It's a Wonderful Life", "Blazing Saddles", "The Goonies", "Drum", "The Towering Inferno", "Suburban Commando", "" and "The Poseidon Adventure".
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Stephanie Mills Stephanie Dorthea Mills (born March 22, 1957) is an American R&B, soul and gospel singer, songwriter and Broadway star. She rose to stardom as "Dorothy" in the original Broadway run of the musical "The Wiz" from 1975 to 1977. The song "Home" from the show later became a No.1 U.S. R&B hit for Mills and her signature song. In the 1980s she scored five No.1 R&B hits, including "Home", "I Have Learned to Respect the Power of Love", "I Feel Good All Over", "(You're Puttin') A Rush on Me" and "Something in the Way (You Make Me Feel)". Mills' 1980 song "Never Knew Love Like This Before" won a Grammy Award for best R&B vocal performance.
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Irene Dailey Irene Dailey (September 12, 1920 – September 24, 2008) was an American stage, film, and television actress.
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Black dress of Rita Hayworth In the 1946 film "Gilda", Rita Hayworth wore a black dress made by American costume designer Jean Louis. It was used in one of the most famous scenes of the film: one in which the character of Gilda sings the song "Put the Blame on Mame", improvising a quick striptease, choreographed by Jack Cole. The dress has helped consolidate the image of the "femme fatale", as well as being universally recognized as an icon of fashion and cinema. "The Independent" named it as one of the Ten Best Fashion Moments in Film.
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Irene Champlin Irene Champlin (born Irene Parsons March 16, 1931 in Waurika, Oklahoma, died July 10, 1990, Greenwich, Connecticut) was an American actress. Her most prominent role was as Dale Arden in the 1954-1955 syndicated television series "Flash Gordon". Her portrayal of Arden has been praised for breaking from the typical damsel in distress of the earlier comic strip and film serials to present the character as a trained scientist and a "quick thinker who often saved [Flash and Dr. Zarkov] from perishing." In addition to her role as Arden, Champlin had lead roles in the stage productions "Calculated Risk" and "For Crying Out Loud" and played the female lead in the motion picture "Resistance". Other television appearances included "The Perry Como Show", "The United States Steel Hour" and "The Guiding Light".
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The Toast of New Orleans The Toast of New Orleans is a 1950 MGM musical film directed by Norman Taurog and choreographed by Eugene Loring. It starred Mario Lanza, Kathryn Grayson, David Niven, J. Carrol Naish, James Mitchell and a teenaged Rita Moreno. The film was made in the wake of "That Midnight Kiss", Lanza's successful film debut, as an opportunity for Lanza to sing on the big screen again.
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Betty Lou Holland Betty Lou Holland (born December 25, 1926) is an American actress who worked on stage, in television, and in film during the decades of the 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s. She is best known for her work on Broadway and as a lead in a 1960 television adaptation of "The Devil and Daniel Webster."
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Daphne Rubin-Vega Daphne Rubin-Vega (born November 18, 1969) is a Panamanian-American dancer, singer-songwriter, and actress. She is best known for originating the roles of Mimi Marquez in the Broadway musical "Rent" and Lucy in the Off-Broadway play "Jack Goes Boating".
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Diana Van der Vlis Diana Van der Vlis (June 9, 1935 - October 22, 2001) was a Canadian-American stage, screen and television actress best known for her characters Dr. Nell Beaulac on the ABC soap opera "Ryan's Hope" and Kate Hathaway Prescott on the CBS soap opera "Where the Heart Is". Two other roles on daytime dramas that she played were Sherry Rowan on "Ryan's Hope" and Susan Ames Carver on "The Secret Storm", when she was a substitute for Judy Lewis in the role.
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Lizabeth Scott Lizabeth Virginia Scott (born Emma Matzo; September 29, 1922 – January 31, 2015) was an American actress, known for her "smoky voice" and being "the most beautiful face of film noir during the 1940s and 1950s". After understudying the role of Sabina in the original Broadway and Boston stage productions of "The Skin of Our Teeth", she emerged in such films as "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers" (1946), "Dead Reckoning" (1947), "Desert Fury" (1947), and "Too Late for Tears" (1949). Of her 21 films, she was the leading lady in all but one. In addition to stage and radio, she appeared on television from the late 1940s to early 1970s.
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Nell Carter Nell Ruth Carter (born Nell Ruth Hardy; September 13, 1948 – January 23, 2003) was an American singer and actress. Beginning her career in 1970, Carter started in theater; singing and later crossed over to television. Carter was perhaps best known for her role as Nell Harper on the NBC sitcom "Gimme a Break!" which originally aired from 1981 to 1987. Carter received two Emmy and two Golden Globe award nominations for her work on the series. Prior to Gimme a Break!, Carter won a Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical" in 1978 for her performance in the Broadway musical "Ain't Misbehavin'", as well as an Primetime Emmy Award for her reprisal of the role on television in 1982.
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Sharon Farrell Sharon Farrell (born December 24, 1940) is an American television and film actress, and former dancer. Originally beginning her career as a ballerina with the American Ballet Theatre company, Farrell made her film debut in 1959 in "Kiss Her Goodbye", followed by roles in "40 Pounds of Trouble" (1962), "A Lovely Way to Die" (1968), and the neo-noir "Marlowe" (1969). She would go on to work prolifically in television, including recurring parts in the series "Saints and Sinner" (1962), "Dr. Kildare" (1965), and "Hawaii Five-O" (1977–1980).