From Eleanor Parker, lecturer in Medieval English at the Univeristy of Oxford: “Henry VIII destroyed more things of beauty and more things of promise than any other man in European history.

She received the nomination for best actress. Eleanor Parker, an actress of patrician beauty nicknamed “the woman of a thousand faces” for the range of parts she played, from a terrified ...

Oscar-nominated actress Eleanor Parker, best known today for her role as the Baroness, the lady friend of Captain Von Trapp who loses out to Julie Andrews’ Maria in 1965 film “The Sound of ...

Eleanor Parker, who received three best actress Academy Award nominations during her career and is perhaps best remembered for her role as the Baroness in the 1965 film "The Sound of Music," died ...