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2 unusual facts about Muriel


Abba-esque

The greatest hits album ABBA Gold would be released by the end of the summer, and the coming years saw a heavy emphasis on ABBA music in the Australian motion pictures Muriel's Wedding and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

Daniel Battsek

His responsibilities also included involvement in the acquisition of distribution rights across numerous territories for such films as Muriel's Wedding, Shine, Central Station, Kolya, and Ice Storm.


Charles Morice

Through Muriel, he is the great-grandfather of actors Edward Fox and James Fox.

Daniel Wyllie

He counts actress Toni Collette as a close friend, and appeared with her in the films Muriel's Wedding and Così.

Faris Glubb

Born in Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine as Godfrey Peter Manley Glubb, he was the son of the noted British officer Sir John Bagot Glubb KCB CMG DSO OBE MC, who, as the chief military advisor to the Jordanian military, became known as Glubb Pasha, and his wife, Muriel Rosemary Forbes.

Fundiciòn Richard Gans

Juventud (1950, Joan Trochut-Blanchard), known in Spain as Escritura Juventud, released by Française as Muriel, digitized by Canada Type as Blanchard.

George Throckmorton

Their daughter, Muriel Throckmorton, married Thomas Tresham, and is the ancestor of prominent members of the royal family and the nobility, including Diana, Princess of Wales, Sarah, Duchess of York, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall and HM Elizabeth II.

Henry Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 9th Duke of Newcastle

Born at Whitehall Court, he was the oldest son of Francis Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 8th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, and his wife Olive Muriel Thompson, daughter of the Australian banker George Horatio Thompson.

I Go to Rio

The song has also been featured in a number of movie soundtracks, including One Crazy Summer (1986), Dominick and Eugene (1988), The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), Muriel's Wedding (1994), Hotel Sorrento (1995) and Strange Bedfellows (2004).

James Burns, 3rd Baron Inverclyde

He married on 2 April 1891, Charlotte Mary Emily, youngest daughter of Mr. Nugent-Dunbar of Machermore Castle, Newton Stewart, and had two daughters, Emily and Muriel, and a son, John Alan Burns, who succeeded him.

John Copnall

His father was the eminent sculptor Edward Bainbridge Copnall (1903–1970) whilst his mother Muriel, his uncle and aunt Frank and Theresa Copnall were both enthusiastic amateur artists.

Leslie Munro

Munro's second marriage, to Muriel Sturt in 1931, was to last until his death in Hamilton in 1974.

Matthew Henry Davies

They produced a family of 6 children - Arnold Mercer Davies 1876, Marion Agnes Davies 1877, Henry Gascoigne Davies 1879, Beatrice Elizabeth Davies 1880, Muriel Kate Davies 1882, and Olive Blanche Davies 1884.

Michael Lindsay, 2nd Baron Lindsay of Birker

They had one son, James, born on 29 January 1945, and two daughters, Erica (1942-1993) and Mary Muriel (b. 1951).

Muriel Baumeister

Muriel Baumeister (born January 24, 1972 in Salzburg, Austria) is a German-Austrian film and television actress.

Muriel Foster

Muriel Foster performed in Edward Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius under Julius Buths in Düsseldorf in May 1902, of which the Manchester Guardian wrote: "The part of the Angel was given by Miss Muriel Foster with the wonderfully beautiful and genuine voice ..." She had previously sung in Elgar's Sea Pictures.

Muriel Herbert

Through the efforts of a former student, Bill Lloyd, and Muriel's daughter Claire Tomalin, her music has begun to be performed and recorded.

Muriel Hurtis-Houairi

Muriel Hurtis-Houairi (born March 25, 1979 in Bondy, Seine-Saint-Denis) is a track and field athlete from France who specialises in the 200 metres.

Muriel K. Rand

Muriel Kappenberg Rand (born Muriel Louise Kappenberg; 1959-) is an author for Merrill-Pearson Education and NAEYC as well as professor at New Jersey City University.

Muriel Vanderbilt

Muriel Vanderbilt married three times, the first in 1925 to Frederic Cameron Church, Jr., a Boston insurance executive.

Nancy Dussault

On television, she was a regular on the 1970s series The New Dick Van Dyke Show, and played Ted Knight's wife in the role of the photographer Muriel Rush on the 1980s situation comedy Too Close for Comfort.

Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden

The garden was designed by landscape designer Elsie Cornish, and the statue created by Ola Cohn was unveiled by Lady Muriel Barclay-Harvey (the wife of the Governor of South Australia, Sir Malcolm Barclay-Harvey) on 19 April 1941.

The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue

#"Breakout/Muriel and Floyd Get the Shaft/Trapped by Martin" (instrumental by Lee Holdridge)

#"Timmy Meets Jenny/Killer, the Attack Dog/Jenny's Story/Muriel and Floyd" (instrumental by Lee Holdridge)

Tracy Middendorf

Middendorf won an Ovation Award for her interpretation of Alma in Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke at the Fountain Theater in 1999, and starred opposite Craig T. Nelson as Muriel McComber in the 1998 Lincoln Center production of Ah, Wilderness!.

Valentine Quin, 1st Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl

He married (1) Lady Frances Muriel Fox-Strangways, daughter of Stephen Fox-Strangways, 1st Earl of Ilchester, on 24 August 1777.

Vanda Godsell

Her father was an officer in the Navy and served in the Battle of Jutland whilst her mother, Muriel, was the sister of novelist and actress Naomi Jacob.

Virginia Fair Vanderbilt

They settled in a mansion at 666 Fifth Avenue in New York City and had three children: Muriel (1902–1982), Consuelo (1903–1994) and William Kissam III (1907–1933).


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