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unusual facts about Effie


Effie: Just Quietly

Effie is a suburban Greek Australian hair goddess, who naively interrogates the inherent and often ludicrous contradictions in Australians' everyday attitudes and prejudices.


1865 in art

July 21 - Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) photographs Effie Gray Millais, John Everett Millais, and their daughters Effie and Mary at 7 Cromwell Place, London.

3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows

Effie, Lena's younger sister plays a significant role in the book.

A Man Called Sloane

The pair were also assisted by "Effie", a computer voiced by Michele Carey.

Andrea Day

She has won numerous EFFIE awards for her distinctive advertising for brands, including Clairol and Kodak.

Effie Neal Jones

Effie Neal Jones died on April 30, 2002 at Moore Regional Hospital, Pinehurst, North Carolina of Heart Failure.

Effie Wilder

South Carolina Governor Jim Hodges proclaimed August 28, 2001 as Effie Wilder Day.

Feel My Soul

Feel My Soul followed Holliday's success in her role as Effie White in the original Broadway production of the musical Dreamgirls.

Greeks on the Roof

--irrelevant: Kris Noble is known for being Director of Drama for the Nine Network before working with Seven. He is now Executive producer for Big Brother (Australia) -- 2004 onwards -- and is also the voice of Big Brother.--> The cast included Angus Sampson as Effie's cousin Dimi.

Louisiana Highway 454

The western end of the highway is at Cedar Grove and the eastern end is at Effie.

Newton Earp

Both Earp's daughter Effie May and wife Jennie died on March 29, 1898 in Paradise Hill, Nevada, also known as Paradise Valley, while Newton died thirty years later in Sacramento, California, on December 18, 1928.

Riverside, Texas

Two famous natives of Riverside are singer-actress Jennifer Holliday (born 1960), best known for her creation of the role of Effie in the successful Tony-award winning Broadway musical "Dreamgirls"; and Eugene C. Barker, Texas historian (born 1874).

Susan McFarland Parkhurst

She married E.A. Parkhurst and had a daughter Effie but her husband died in action in 1864 during the Civil War.

The Black Bird

It is a comedy sequel to the well-regarded 1941 film version of The Maltese Falcon with Segal playing Sam Spade's son, Sam Spade, Jr., and Lee Patrick and Elisha Cook Jr. reprising their roles of Effie Perrine and Wilmer Cook.

Yvette Cason

Yvette Cason is an American television, theatre, and film actress, and a former Miss Black America from Washington, D.C. She was an understudy for the character of Effie White in the original 1981 Broadway musical Dreamgirls.


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