Adding to the list of intriguing Madame Armfeldts, Leslie Caron, the courtesan-in-training — and Gingold's screen granddaughter — in "Gigi," graced the French premiere at the Théâtre du Châtelet, in Paris, in February.
"Where were the media calls when we showed it to the Sierra Club or the AARP?" Mary Lee Pennington of Sacramento said she heard about the Disney film on a conservative talk show on a Sacramento station and took her granddaughter, Paige Siri, to the screening.
As soon as you realize that a TV set or computer screen will turn your granddaughter into a hypnotized zombie and give yourself some precious quiet time, you'll start to feel like you're her drug dealer.
They managed to break a hole in a screen and get the granddaughter Dixie out, but they were trapped inside and drowned.
In another commercial, as a video plays of an elderly man speaking, words on screen describe how someone, presumably a grandson or granddaughter, taped him talking about "God, women, money, art and family".
This is my home," she says, moving from her chair with difficulty to stop her granddaughter, Grace, 2, from patting at the characters on the television screen.
When Deborah Lafferty, 55, and her granddaughter Natalie, 2, want to hug, for instance, Natalie comes to the screen in Seattle and squeezes her own face, just as her grandmother does to her when she visits from England.
The cloth screens concealing the fountain were then removed by Du Pont's granddaughter, Sophie Du Pont Ford, and the band performed the national anthem and "Narcissus" by Ethelbert Nevin.
Diana Gilbert often picks up her granddaughter on Sundays, and Deyani sits in front of the television, eyes locked on the screen, screaming, "Daddy!
Pravda, an actor and director who had a long career on stage and screen and died at the age of 90 in 2008, is played by her own granddaughter.
On May 23, Princess Soraya, granddaughter of the late King Amanullah Khan of Afghanistan, visited the Afghan Voices office and collected five films for screening at the Elba Film Festival in Italy.
