Helena Modrzejewska (Polish: [mɔdʐɛˈjɛfska]; born Jadwiga Benda; October 12, 1840 – April 8, 1909), known professionally as Helena Modjeska, was a Polish-American...
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Helena Modjeska Chase Johnson Drea (born Helena Modjeska Chase, September 23, 1900 – December 22, 1986) was an artist, writer, poet, musician, photographer...
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Helena Modjeska, a Shakespearean actress and Polish patriot. The property is located in a live oak grove on the banks of Santiago Creek in Modjeska Canyon...
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Anaheim, California (section Helena Modjeska)
friendship which Helena Modjeska and Clementine Lagenberger shared. Modjeska Park in West Anaheim, is also named after Helena Modjeska. During the first...
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Shakespearean actress Helena Modjeska, who was performing there in the US debut production of Ibsen's A Doll's House. After Modjeska granted Busath permission...
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Modjeska may refer to: Modjeska (name), a surname and given name Modjeska (confection), a caramel and marshmallow candy named for Helena Modjeska Modjeska...
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dubbed Modjeska Peak following the death of Helena Modjeska. The Ebell Society of Santa Ana campaigned in June 1909 for the new name to honor Modjeska and...
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Sanctuary. Modjeska is named after the 19th-century Polish stage actress, mother of the famous bridge engineer Ralph Modjeski, Helena Modjeska, who settled...
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1995), Australian high diver Helena Modjeska (1840–1909), Polish actress Helena Molony (1884–1967), Irish labor activist Helena Moreno (born 1977), American...
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Award for Fiction. It is based on the true story of Polish actress Helena Modjeska (called Maryna Zalewska in the book), her arrival in California in...
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Modjeska is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Drusilla Modjeska (born 1946), Australian writer and editor Helena...
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tour with him and Helena Modjeska in a play he had written. Georgiana and the children had converted to Catholicism under Helena's influence. Learning...
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Modjeska, a street in Irvine named in honor of Helena Modjeska. Modjeska Canyon and Modjeska Canyon Rd, named in honor of Helena Modjeska. Modjeska Park...
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disease on 9 October 1903, in Denver, Colorado. Victorian actress Helena Modjeska, died on 8 April 1909. North Dakota Senator Martin Nelson Johnson,...
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Bełcikowski (1839-1909) philosopher, historian of literature, poet Helena Modjeska (1840–1909), actress. Anton Rehmann (1840–1917), geographer, geomorphologist...
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sabbatical to Santa Barbara, California, not far from where family friend Helena Modjeska had a retreat. Georgie did not recover and died in July 1893 at age...
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reconciled. He asked her to tour with him and Helena Modjeska in a play he wrote. Learning that he and Helena had resumed their romance, Georgie, who had...
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Modjeska: On Tour in Poland and America is a 2011 biography by Beth Holmgren about the Polish actress Helena Modjeska. From a young age, Modjeska's interest...
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Gustav Sinnmayer Modrzejewski and actress Helena Opid Modrzejewska (best known outside Poland as Helena Modjeska). In 1865, his mother left Sinnmayer, and...
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actor; paternal grandmother, Joan Stolarczyk, was of Polish descent Helena Modjeska (1840–1909), Polish-born actress who specialized in Shakespearean roles...
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Grand Opera House in Toronto in 1878. He played juvenile roles in the Helena Modjeska company and performed with Ada Cavendish in the Adelaide Neilson company...
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Moberly, Missouri, on November 9, 1871. A protégé of Helena Modjeska, she was touring in the Booth-Modjeska Dramatic Company when she met actor Otis Skinner...
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actors as John Edward McCullough, Joseph Jefferson, Edwin Booth, and Helena Modjeska. She and her husband, actor William Courtright, appeared together in...
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were similar to or copied from passages in four other books about Helena Modjeska without attribution. Sontag said of the passages, "All of us who deal...
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Dolores del Río, Eva Le Gallienne, Isabelle Adjani, Cacilda Becker, and Helena Modjeska. Bernhardt quickly became associated with the role after starring in...
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Szymon Benda, and a nephew of the actress Helena Modrzejewska (known in the United States as Helena Modjeska), W.T. Benda studied art at the Kraków College...
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interbellum period the town attracted such individuals as Ludwik Solski, Helena Modjeska, Władysław Reymont, Julian Tuwim, K.I. Gałczyński and Jan Kiepura....
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Sugar Ray Mike Ness, musician and songwriter of Social Distortion Helena Modjeska, actress Anton Newcombe, guitarist, vocalist and founder of The Brian...
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the other in 1939. The US cargo steamer (and former Liberty Ship) SS Helena Modjeska, battered by a gale, ran aground on Goodwin Sands on 12 September 1946...
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of the Modern Stage, p.171 at Project Gutenberg "Sarah Bernhardt; Helena Modjeska; Ellen Terry; Gabrielle Réjane; Eleonora Duse; Ada Rehan; Mary Anderson;...
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