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 ...

Eleanor Parker, who was nominated for Academy Awards three times for her portrayals of strong-willed women and played a scheming baroness in “The Sound of Music,” has died at 91. Family friend ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES — Eleanor Parker, who was nominated for Academy Awards three times for her portrayals of strong-willed women and played a scheming baroness in The Sound of Music, has died at 91.

In this Feb. 28, 1967 file photo, film actress Eleanor Parker visits Palm Mallorca, while in in town trying to purchase a villa in Spain. (The Associated Press) LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Eleanor Parker ...