Sentences with word «landlady»

A "landlady" refers to a woman who owns and rents out a property to tenants. Full definition
Lady DJ has now taken up new post as chief executive of family bed and breakfast and is no doubt best - dressed landlady in Llandrindod Wells, or wherever it is she has gone, and is treating her customers as she would our punters, ie telling them to speak loudly and clearly, not to sit down until she tells them to and dismissing them when their stay is finished.
Harrelson's Roy Munson, the 1979 Odor Eaters Ten - Pin Bowling Champion, has been 17 years on the skids, paying off the bubo - encrusted landlady of his verminous flophouse with vomit - inducing bouts of sex.
The acting's superb throughout, with crucial contributions coming from Dorothy Atkinson (as the housemaid who's also Turner's sometime, much - neglected lover) and by Marion Bailey as the twice - widowed landlady who takes a flat in Chelsea with the iconoclastic Turner.
Turner prefers to live the life of a bohemian bachelor, sexually exploiting his housekeeper, Hannah (Dorothy Atkinson) and then becoming obsessed with his Margate seaside landlady Mrs Booth (Marion Bailey) for whom he conceives a great, uxorious love.
Profoundly affected by the death of his father, loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and occasionally exploits sexually, he forms a close relationship with a seaside landlady with whom he eventually lives incognito in Chelsea, where he dies.
Edith is a widowed landlady who rents apartments in her Brooklyn brownstone to an unlikely collection of humans, all deeply in need of shelter.
And if all that doesn't sound like TMI, you can click over to iVillage, which plans to post an EXCLUSIVE interview with Kate and William's former landlady.
She drops off papers, eats pizza with her best friend Megan (Greta Gerwig), and wonders aloud how on Earth she's going to manage to come up with the money to pay her new landlady (a Dee Wallace cameo) the first month's rent.
When we got married over 7 years ago we were a pair of broke - ass, newlyweds living in dingy a basement apartment (with a lovely landlady who lived upstairs).
In 1962, Gelbart penned his first screenplay The Notorious Landlady, but his best - known screenplay from that era is A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, on which he collaborated with Burt Shevelove.
It works out, and they settle into their new home with the help of an eccentric cast of characters; Tim's best friend / aspiring soldier Mike (Frost), Daisy's mildly vapid, fashionista best friend Twist (Katy Carmichael), tortured artist neighbor Brian (Mark Heap), and their chain - smoking, wine - chugging landlady Marsha (Julia Deakin).
Landlady Marsha (Julia Deakin) is never seen without a cigarette or a glass of red wine in hand.
Julie Walters, as Eilis» Irish landlady Ma Kehoe, cracks sardonic comments at her boarders, but also shares a glass of sherry with Eilis on Christmas Eve.
Quincy and Biddy seem at first to have little in common with each other — let alone with their elderly landlady — but the three soon form a friendship that will help them meet ongoing challenges from the past as well as new ones in the present.
Infinite Home By Kathleen Alcott Riverhead • $ 16 • ISBN 9780399576027 The residents of a rundown Brooklyn brownstone band together to protect their aging landlady from her scheming son in Alcott's sensitive and critically acclaimed second novel.
Theatrical landlady offers 1 double room for short lets, in delightful, spacious, central flat, near The Meadows.
My career was sparked by a single bite of a chocolate truffle, made by my Paris landlady in 1972.
It was because of our sweet landlady who gave us her garden bed back when we first lived in California that I learned of the labor, love, and devotion needed in order to grow and harvest my own produce.
Those players had served apprenticeships which involved sweeping out the changing rooms, cleaning the senior players boots and living in a single room in a house with an Arsenal sourced landlady.
A deaf Staten Island landlady won a $ 750,000 settlement from the city after claiming she was falsely arrested by NYPD cops who refused to get her a sign - language interpreter while...
An unhappy landlady in her 50s finds the love she has been pining for in the arms of her daughter's boyfriend, 23 years her junior.
Making the transition from stage to screen in 1934, Ms. Urecal appeared in innumerable bits, usually as cleaning women, shopkeepers and hatchet - faced landladies.
Kimmy goes to college and learns The Reverend (Jon Hamm) is not quite out of her life as her roommate Titus and landlady Lillian (Carol Kane) deal with relationship issues in the third season of the comedy from Tina Fey and Robert Carlock.
After William lands in London to take up his new position and get settled in his new digs, he becomes involved with his gorgeous landlady Carlye Hardwicke (Kim Novak).
The movie also contains a brief, charming appearance by Jessica Tandy (who died last September at age 85) as Sully's eighth - grade teacher and current landlady.
Herbert Lom and Peter Sellers co-star as members of his gang who meet their match when they try to bump off their dotty landlady.
With her new life circumscribed by a kindly priest and mother - hen landlady — Jim Broadbent and Julie Walters respectively providing awards - season pedigree — Brooklyn itself turns out to be something of an Irish colony, but night - classes and the romantic attentions of Emory Cohen's hard - working Italian - American plumber, spark an appreciably developing self - confidence.
When his elderly, Mexican - American landlady blackmails him into taking her with him, he is forced to confront his past and, ultimately, find hope in the future.
Su Li - zhen's Shanghainese landlady «can't bear to throw things away» and Chow must physically unburden himself of the past by burying his memory in an ancient monument.
Directed by David Leitch (John Wick, Atomic Blonde), Deadpool 2 will see the return of plenty of faces from Tim Miller's 2016 movie - including the awesomely - named Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand), Deadpool's landlady Blind Al (Leslie Uggams), Deadpool's girlfriend Vanessa (Morena Baccharin), Deadpool's best bud Weasel (TJ Miller) and Deadpool's go - to taxi driver Dopinder (Karan Soni).
Set in WWI Russia by way of claustrophobic sets transformed into Maddin's dreamland imagery, this story of a one - legged soldier (Maddin regular Kyle McCulloch) caught in a romantic triangle between his lovesick landlady and a married nurse (Kathy Marykuca) who resembles his dead lover is less a parody of silent cinema than a loving crackpot tribute.
A menacingly good evening, with Zoë Wanamaker sublime as the prattling, over-motherly boarding landlady.
One of the better lines: landlady Joan Blondell to nude, sunbathing three - year - old after a talent scout has left: «All right, Norma Jean, you can put your clothes on again!»
After taking the anguishing death of his father hard, Turner immersed himself deeper into his work and began a courtship with a twice - widowed landlady named Sophia Booth (Marion Bailey, another Leigh regular).
They sizzle in their own warped way, but Esther Howard as the beer - chugging landlady steals the show in this early work by director Robert Wise.
At times, its abundant silliness becomes too much to swallow, such as the film's repeated resorting to voodoo doll control, the funny - at - first, but run - into - the - ground joke about landlady Mrs. Petersen thinking Nanu's tiger is a person, and a prolonged detour featuring a shrunken Conway slowly making his way around bar props.
The film stars Damon Carney, Randy Wayne, Alexandra Harris, Jeff Fenter, Helena Grace Donald, Grace Montie, John Gulager, Diane Goldner, Andi Powers, Mike Jay Regan as Chatterer, Heather Langenkamp as a foul - mouthed landlady, and Paul T. Taylor as Pinhead.
Leachman's longest running role was the nosy, self - centered and manipulative landlady Phyllis Lindstrom on the 1970s TV series Mary Tyler Moore, and later on the spinoff series, Phyllis.
Meanwhile, in what begins as a lighter storyline, Cal starts seeing Jessica Halliday (Helen Shaver), the attractive, divorced landlady who lives across the street.
But the mature actress Deirdre O'Connell outshone her as her maternal landlady.
Every other character — Li - zhen's philandering boss, Chow's happy - go - lucky friend, the nosy landlady («Young wives shouldn't stay out so late — people will start to wonder»)-- is a satellite, and the husband and wife go almost unseen, their offscreen voices used as rhythmic punctuations in a movie that feels less like a narrative than a beautifully drawn - out musical improvisation — Wong Kar - wai's «Blue in Green.»
Awaiting Eilis in Brooklyn is a room in a female - only boardinghouse run by an eagle - eyed landlady (Julie Walters) obsessed with protecting the reputations of the gullible, young Irish immigrants placed under her supervision.
Over the course of this short, accessible book, developmentally disabled high school graduates Biddy and Quincy and their recently widowed landlady Elizabeth gradually transform from characters weighed down by their pasts — and by the labels society has assigned them — into people who can build friendships and careers and find happiness despite obstacles.
But then Melina's entire life veers off course when she finds her temperamental landlady in her best friend's psychic shop next door, lying in a pool of blood, with a crust of bread sticking out of her mouth!
But she worries that if her 80 - year - old landlady passes away, her sons may decide to reevaluate their mother's decision to choose reliable tenants over extra rental income.
Holly Cave is a travel writer, science writer and part - time landlady based in the UK.
Landlady Lezl is a perfect hostess.

Phrases with «landlady»

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