Sentences with phrase «daughter of his housekeeper»

The book's premise is that, if Hitler had been prosecuted in 1931 for the murder of Geli Raubal (the teenage daughter of his housekeeper at the time)- a murder of which he was suspected — rather than being protected by highly - placed members of the National Socialist party, modern history would have been different.

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Arguably Adam Sandler's best dramatic performance (though «Punch - Drunk Love» may have the advantage), this look at a well - off family's life through the eyes of the daughter of the Mexican housekeeper who works for them is one of the unrecognized great movies of the 2000s.

Lord Carlile also spoke to a woman named only as «Pauline» who had been the adoptive daughter of the Bell family's housekeeper and had lived within the palace itself, but was never interviewed by the original investigation.

A Jesuit group recently began efforts to have Salvadoran authorities re-examine the killings of the priests, their housekeeper and her daughter.

I hired a nanny and a housekeeper to help me do the simplest things around the house and get the errands done so that I could take care of my 4 year old daughter with the limited energy that I had.

In England at the turn of the 20th century, a year after the death of her husband, young widow Lucy Muir (Gene Tierney) decides that she, her daughter Anna (Natalie Wood), and their housekeeper (Edna Best) will move out of the house of her mother - and sister - in - law.

We meet Evelyn (Judi Dench) as the recent widow who discovers her beloved husband left her a mountain of debt; Douglas and Jean (Bill Nighy and Penelope Wilton) a hapless married couple who have invested their savings into their daughter's internet company; Muriel (Maggie Smith) is a racist and longtime housekeeper for the rich who has been put out to pasture while in need of a new hip; Graham (Tom Wilkinson) is a high court judge who is fed up with responsibility and seeking to reconnect with a long ago lover; Madge (Celia Imrie) and Norman (Ronald Pickup) are the lonely hearts looking for love, or in his case, loving.

The Second Mother, from Brazil, stars Regina Casé as Val, a longtime live - in nanny / housekeeper in São Paulo who cares for a family and raises their son Fabhino as if he were her own, at the expense of her relationship with her own daughter, Jéssica.

Bonnie Balke's ruminations on being a steelworker; her song about a veteran teacher who's hopelessly out of touch with the current state of education; and her star turn as a housekeeper who swears her daughter won't spend her life scrubbing floors are simply transcendent.

Dame Maggie Smith stars as Grace, a well - meaning sociopath who becomes the housekeeper in the house of schlub priest Walter (Rowan Atkinson), his frustrated wife (Kristin Scott Thomas), and his nymphomaniac daughter (Tamsin Egerton).

Written and directed by Anna Muylaert, The Second Mother follows Val, a live - in housekeeper who is like a mother to the son of the family she works for, but has been estranged from her own daughter for years.

The movie takes place in Houston, where Aurora lives with her loyal housekeeper Rosie (Marion Ross) and grapples unsuccessfully with the debris of her attempts to raise her late daughter's children.

The movie takes on the structure of a low - boil Agatha Christie mystery, with a succession of interviews conducted by Armand (all with people inspired by figures in van Gogh paintings): a boatman (Aidan Turner), a farmer, an inn - keeper's daughter (Eleanor Tomlinson), Dr. Gachet's caustic housekeeper (Helen McCrory), and the doctor's daughter Marguerite (Saoirse Ronan), with whom van Gogh was seen taking boat rides.

Unfortunately, the good doctor is out of town for two days, so Armand ends up talking with his stern, moralistic housekeeper Louise (Helen McCrory) and his mysterious daughter Marguerite (Saoirse Ronan), who denies knowing Vincent well even though a local boatman (Aidan Turner) saw them rowing together.

We are introduced to Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis) the daughter of Russian immigrant housekeepers living in a futuristic Chicago, where she works with her mother and aunts as housekeepers.

Moore received a supporting actress nomination for Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life, playing the housekeeper whose daughter passes for white, in the racially themed film that was based on the Fannie Hurst novel.

This one also involves some extraneous strands, including Eva's co-opting of her daughter's best friend as an empty - nest replacement and Toni Collette as Eva's best pal, a therapist who clearly might benefit from getting psychiatric help, given her furniture - rearranging obsession and passive - aggressive relationship with her inept housekeeper.

Opening July 1, the AWFJ Movie of the Week is The Second Mother, Brazilian writer / director Anna Muylaert's tale of a household thrown into upheaval by the sudden arrival of the live - in housekeeper's estranged daughter Read on...

Another thread is Jiminy's desire to get to the bottom of a decades - old mystery, of the murder of the housekeeper's daughter.

She strikes up an unlikely friendship with her black housekeeper's daughter, Jarmaine, and the two ride the bus to Montgomery in a parallel journey with the Freedom Riders, ultimately spending the night in the First Baptist Church in earshot of famous civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr..

The lives of the various characters, like the daughter adopted out of Romania who saw her parents shot by soldiers before her as they tried to flee the Nazis or the young survivor of a raid on a Jewish home who was only saved when the housekeeper took him in and raised him as a Christian, are so interwoven with the struggle to remain true to their Hasidic beliefs while living in a world that is trying to move forward following the Holocaust.

Most, like The Housekeeper's Daughter, were banned by authorities at one stage for «offensive obscenity», as it was classified, while others fell foul of sedition or blasphemy rules.

But the house is only part of it — then you need the car, the landscaper, the housekeeper, the HOA fees, the country club membership, the lavish wedding for your daughter...