In the 2004 film Vanity Fair, LaRue's singing was used to voice-over Reese Witherspoon's three songs: "Over The Mountains/The Great Adventurer", "Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal", and "The Mermaids Song".
His love of theatre was stimulated at an early age by attendances at Blackpool’s ornate Victorian Tower Circus where the circus ring magically filled with water, fountains and mermaids.
Ponsoldt has written and directed two short films, Coming Down the Mountain and Junebug and Hurricane, and co-directed a documentary short called We Saw Such Things, about the mermaids of Weeki Wachee Springs, Florida.
Katya Chilly's debut album Rusalki in da House (Mermaids In Da House) was released in 1998, when she was only 16 years old.
Delibes also composed various operas, the last of which, the lush orientalizing Lakmé (1883), contains, among many dazzling numbers, the famous coloratura showpiece known as the Légende du Paria or Bell Song ("Où va la jeune Indoue?") and The Flower Duet ("Sous le dôme épais"), a barcarolle that Patricia Rozema made famous in her film "I've Heard the Mermaids Singing" and later used by British Airways commercials.
Films like Bride of Frankenstein briefly employed tails, and the development of synchronized swimming became a major influence on many modern mermaids.
Its grand ceiling – with Neptune, shells and mermaids in high relief plasterwork of Wedgwood style – is said to be the work of Roberts of Oxford circa 1725, though some accounts attribute it to carver William Perritt.
She has played in several films, including starring in Wild Things: Diamonds in the Rough and Mermaids.
In 2007, he received a Guggenheim fellowship, which funded his book The Mermaids of Lapland, about William Cobbett.