Miranda Galadriel Capra
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Miranda's Miranda Fest: Media
For musicians and musical groups see my Famous People page.
Plays, Movies, and made-for-TV movies
- Miranda...a movie starring Christina Ricci as Miranda, a girl with "eyes like a panda" who captures the heart of a lonely librarian.
- Miranda Frost, played by Rosamund Pike in the James Bond movie Die Another Day.
- Miranda...Prospero's daughter in the play The Tempest, by William Shakespeare.
I have an entire page devoted to The Tempest and related plays/movies/etc.
- Miranda... Jim Carrey's boss in Liar, Liar, played by Amanda Donohoe.
- Miranda...a waitress in Whatever It Takes, played by Rachel Kaber (it's a pretty smal part, so you'll have to go to the credits page to see her listed)
- Miranda...a physics graduate student and Declan Dunn's assistant in Mysterious Ways, a show on PaxTV about
a fellow who believes in miracles, so he spends his time looking for
scientific reasons to explain events that have been called "miracles", hoping
he will some day find on that can be proved to be a miracle.
- Miranda...the daughter in Message to My Daughter,
released for TV in 1973, and starring Bonnie Bedilia and Martin Sheen. (thanks, Miranda Leigh Owens)
- Miranda... the mom in Mrs. Doubtfire, played
by Sally Fields.
- Miranda the Mermaid...
a movie someone found while searching their library's catalog
for info about the Miranda programming language.
- Miranda... one of the girls in "Picnic at Hanging Rock".
This movie is based on a true story about Australian schoolgirls who
went on a Valentine's Day picnic to the rock (around 1900?). Some of
them (Miranda included) wandered off and were never seen again.
- Kissing Miranda...
a made-for-TV movie from 1995 about a guy who's friend gets a mail-order
bride from Mexico named Miranda Castillo.
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Miranda Jeffries
...the daughter in the movie Chances Are,
played by Mary Stuart Masterson
- Miranda
...a movie from 1948 directed by Ken Annakin, starring Glynis Johns,
Margaret Rutherford, David Tomlinson, and Googie Withers
- Miranda
...a movie from 1985 directed by Tinto Brass and starring
Serena Grandi and Andrea Occhipinti
Television Series
Books and Poetry
- Miranda Goshawk...the author of several Hogwarts Student Books in the Harry Potter Series, mentioned in several books.
- Miranda Mope...one of the main characters in Henry James' book A Bundle of Letters. You can read free electronic versions from The Free Library or Project Gutenberg, and you can buy a book or ebook from Amazon.
- Miranda Brain...a secondary character in Theater Shoes, a children's book by Noel Streatfeild (also published under the name "Curtain's Up"). "Their father has been lost at sea, and so Sorrel, Mark, and Holly go to war-torn London to live with their actress grandmother. She's determined to have them follow in the family's theatrical footsteps--no matter how much they protest! This story will enchant young theater lovers and fans of Streatfeild's Ballet Shoes and Dancing Shoes." Miranda is their cousin, and she thinks she's much better at acting than the others, but they eventually show her to be wrong.
- Miranda...in Tarantela, a poem by Hilaire Belloc which
starts Do you remember an inn, Miranda? Do you remember an inn?
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Miranda Melendy
...a daughter in the book The Four-Story Mistake by Elizabeth
Enwright. Only she hates being called Miranda, and goes by 'Randy'.
Actually, there was a Randy in my high school who told me that her name
wasn't short for anything and she was glad because it would have been
short for Miranda, and she hates that name. Some people... :)
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Amanda/Miranda
...a book by Richard Peck, set in 19th century England, about a poor
country girl (Miranda) who becomes the personal maid of a beautiful
and selfish young heiress (Amanda). Amanda is mean to Miranda and uses
their identical looks to do things a maid can but an heiress can't,
but eventually Amanda dies and Miranda takes her place and finds
true hapiness. (awwww...)
- Miranda
...a character in Neal Stephenson's book "The Diamond Age". She is
the charactor that reads to Nell through the Primer and essentially
becomes her mother. (thanks bgross@uiuc.edu)
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Miranda... "the attractive young woman kidnapped and
kept in the basement by the mentally challenged amateur butterfly
collector in John Fowler's "The Collector." Made into a motion
picture", or so says Scott Stewart, Scott_Stewart@qmail4.nba.trw.com
- The Secret in Miranda's Closet... a book
by Sheila Greenwald. I forget where on the net I found this,
but someone describes it as "Written for the
9-13-year-old range. An 11-year-old girl comes to recognize her value
as an individual with her own convictions, and her mother, a feminist
activist, develops an understanding of feminism's errors as well as its
strengths. A beautiful testament to the importance of following your own
dreams, as opposed to those that are mapped out for you by others. Even
more relevant today than when it was written in the mid-'70s."
- Miranda's Closet...
a short story by Beth Bernobich
- Miranda... a romance novel by
Susan Wiggs.
You can read an
excerpt
from the book, or a review
from The Romance Reader.
- Aunt Miranda... One of Rebecca's aunts in Rebecca of Sunny-Brook
Farm. This is a book by Kate Douglas (Smith) Wiggin, first published in
1910. There have been several plays, movies, and rewrites of the book.
Probably the most famous was a movie starring Shirley Temple as Rebecca.
- Miranda's Smile...
a wonderful children's book by Thomas Locker about a young girl whose father is an artist
and is doing a portrait of her when she looses a tooth, and he has to
find a way to finish the portrait and still capture the real Miranda.
(thanks, Minerva456@aol.com)
- Paco and Miranda and The Land of the Rainbows...
a (very) short story about two children who save the Land of Rainbows.
- Miranda... a young mother who doesn't love her baby
in the short story Mother,
by Jill Burgess.
- Speaking to Miranda... a drama/mystery book
by Caroline MacDonald
- Miranda in the Middle... by Elizabeth Winthrop
(thanks, Patty Lindley <patty@partnersphoto.com>)
- Miranda's Day to Dance...by Jackie Jasina Schaefer.
A children's counting where each day of the week a
different South American animal brings fruit to Carmen Miranda, and
they all dance in the forest. Beautiful, despite Carmen's blond hair.
Also available in Spanish.
(thanks, Patty Lindley <patty@partnersphoto.com>)
Songs and Music
- Miranda... the main character in the song Midnight Wind, by John Stewart on his album Bombs Away Dream Babies. Stewart was a member of the Kingston Trio and wrote the song "Daydream Believer" that was recorded by the Monkees.
- Miranda...a song by Fleetwood Mac on their 2003 album Say You Will. For more information, you can read the lyrics, or learn about the musical structure of the song in an interview with Lindsey Buckingham in Acoustic Guitar Central.
- Miranda's Smile...a song on Paquito D'Rivera's Cuban Jazz album "90
Miles to Cuba"
- Smile Miranda...
a song by the Voodoo Pimps of Dixon, Illinois
- Miranda...
a song by Phil Ochs
- Miranda... a song by the former group Violet. The song has since been renamed Regrets (what a mistake,
eh?)
- Sweet Miranda brings me the wine...
the opening lines of Innocent One by
Michael Penn,
younger brother of Sean Penn
(thanks Andrew Siff)
- Miranda Music...
"a grass-roots company dedicated to fostering the living tradition of American popular standards.
We bring together
resources that performers need to keep this tradition in the lives of audiences who appreciate it so. "
From my own hometown, New York, NY.
- Crazy Miranda...
a song by Jefferson Airplane,
off their album "Bark", released in 1971. (thanks, Miranda R Doucet) If
you're a Jefferson Airplane fan, here's a good fan site.
I'm always looking for
more Miranda trivia, so if you have any drop me an email.
(I used to have a guestbook, but it got too much spam.)
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