Letty
Encyclopedia
Letty, Lettie, Letti or Lety as a female given name is a shortening of Leticia
(and its variants), Violet
or Colette
. It may refer to:
Leticia
Leticia is a city in the Republic of Colombia, capital of the department of Amazonas, Colombia's southernmost town and the only major port on the Amazon river. It has an elevation of 96 meters above sea level and an average temperature of 27 °C . Leticia has long been Colombia's shipping point...
(and its variants), Violet
Violet (name)
Violet is a given name for girls.The name comes from the Violet flower. As with other such names its popularity has varied dramatically over time. Flower names were very commonly used from about 1880 through about 1910 in the United States, with usage dropping throughout the next 80 years or so...
or Colette
Colette (disambiguation)
Colette is the pen name of the French novelist Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette.Colette may also refer to:- People :* Colette * DJ Colette , a Chicago, Illinois, DJ and house musician...
. It may refer to:
Given name
- Letty AlonzoLetty AlonzoLetty Alonzo is a Filipina actress from LVN Pictures who was typecast as a Villain. She made only a few movies.-Personal life:She was married to another famous LVN star, the late Mario Montenegro...
, a Filipina actress. - Letty AronsonLetty AronsonLetty Aronson is an American film producer and sister of Woody Allen.She produced Don't Drink the Water , Bullets Over Broadway , Mighty Aphrodite , Deconstructing Harry , Celebrity , The Curse of the Jade Scorpion , Anything Else , Melinda and Melinda...
, a film producer. - Letty EisenhauerLetty EisenhauerLetty Lou Eisenhauer was an American visual and performance artist known for her free-spirited Fluxus performances during the 1960s. She is now on faculty at the Borough of Manhattan Community College as a counselor, professor, and forensic psychologist.-Bio:Eisenhauer was an undergraduate at...
, an American Pop artist and Fluxus performer. - Letty Fox, a writer for Getamungstit.
- Letty Jimenez-Magsanoc, the editor of the Philippine Daily InquirerPhilippine Daily InquirerThe Philippine Daily Inquirer, popularly known as the Inquirer, is the most widely read broadsheet newspaper in the Philippines, with a daily circulation of 260,000 copies. It is one of the Philippines' newspapers of record...
. - Letty Jones, a musician.
- Letty Lade, the wife of John LadeJohn LadeSir John Lade, 2nd Baronet was a prominent member of Regency society, notable as an owner and breeder of racehorses, as an accomplished driver, associated with Samuel Johnson's circle, and one of George IV's closest friends...
. - Letty LindLetty LindLetitia Elizabeth Rudge, better known as Letty Lind , was an English actress, dancer and acrobat, best known for her work in burlesque at the Gaiety Theatre, and in musical theatre at Daly's Theatre, in London....
, an English actress. - Letty Mullins, who bought the Revue CinemaRevue CinemaThe Revue Cinema is a film theatre located at 400 Roncesvalles Avenue in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Built between late-1911 and early-1912, it is a designated 'heritage' site and is Toronto's oldest standing movie theatre in use for showing movies...
in Toronto, Ontario, Canada with her husband Danny in 2007. - Letty Pérez, a Miss Puerto Rico 2008Miss Puerto Rico 2008Miss Puerto Rico Universe 2008, The annual competition was held at the Centro de Bellas Artes in Santurce, televised live by Telemundo Puerto Rico. It was presented by Desirée Lowry and Osvaldo Ríos. Miss Puerto Rico Universe 2007, Uma Blasini of Guayanilla was succeeded by Ingrid Marie Rivera,...
contestant from CanóvanasCanóvanas, Puerto RicoCanóvanas is a municipality in Puerto Rico, located in the northeastern region, north of Juncos and Las Piedras; south of Loíza; east of Carolina; and west of Río Grande. Canóvanas is spread over 7 wards and Canóvanas Pueblo...
. - Letty Cottin PogrebinLetty Cottin PogrebinLetty Cottin Pogrebin is an American writer and journalist. She graduated from Brandeis University and became a writer and feminist advocate in the early 1970s. In 1971, she was one of the founding editors of Ms...
, an American writer and journalist. - Letty M. Russell, the 1986 Warfield lecturerWarfield LecturesThe Warfield Lectures are named in honor of Annie Kinkead Warfield, wife of Dr. Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield professor of theology at the Princeton Theological Seminary from 1887 to 1921.Where lectures have been published the book titles are below....
. - Letty Tomlinson, a cast member of the musical iMusicalIMusical, is one of the premiere shows under regular production by Washington Improv Theater . Created by Travis Ploeger in October 2006, this audience and critical favorite regularly performs at Flashpoint in Washington, DC. In the fall of 2008, they began performing in the Source Theater, along with...
.
- LettieLettieLettie is a London-based singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.-Biography:Lettie grew up in Suffolk, England.She is a former Medieval History student, obsessed with collecting pieces of the past in the forms of books, postcards, second hand shop finds and newspaper clippings.Lettie met...
, an English musician - Lettie Pate Whitehead EvansLettie Pate Whitehead EvansLetitia "Lettie" Pate Whitehead Evans was an American businesswoman and philanthropist...
, an American businesswoman and philanthropist. - Lettie Hamlet RogersLettie Hamlet RogersLettie Hamlett Rogers was born in Soochow, central China, the daughter of missionary parents. She spent her childhood in China and Japan. After graduating from high school at the Shanghai American School she came to the United States to attend Woman's College...
, an American writer. - Lettie ViljoenLettie ViljoenLettie Viljoen was a pseudonym of the South African author Ingrid Winterbach, who primarily writes in Afrikaans. She is married to Andries Gouws and has two daughters. She lives in Durban....
, the pseudonym of South African writer Ingrid Winterbach.
In fiction
- Letty, a character played by Lillian GishLillian GishLillian Diana Gish was an American stage, screen and television actress whose film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 to 1987....
in the 1928 film The WindThe WindThe Wind is a 1928 American dramatic silent film directed by Victor Sjöström. The movie was adapted by Frances Marion from the novel The Wind written by Dorothy Scarborough. It features Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Montagu Love, Dorothy Cumming, and others...
. - Letty, a 1984 miniseries, as well as the title character.
- Letty Ortiz, a character played by Michelle RodriguezMichelle RodriguezMayte Michelle Rodríguez , known professionally as Michelle Rodriguez, is an American actress. Following on from her breakthrough role in 2000's Girlfight, she is best known for playing tough-girl roles and starring in Hollywood blockbusters such as The Fast and the Furious, Resident Evil,...
in the 2001 film The Fast and the FuriousThe Fast and the Furious (2001 film)The Fast and the Furious is a 2001 street racing action film starring Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster. Directed by Rob Cohen, The Fast and the Furious was the first mainstream film to feature the Asian automotive import scene in North America. It is the first film...
. - Letty, a character in the 1977 novel Quartet in AutumnQuartet in AutumnQuartet in Autumn is a novel by Barbara Pym, first published in 1977 and shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It was Pym's comeback novel after fifteen years of publishing rejections, following a successful record as a novelist during the 1950s and early 1960s...
. - Letty, a character in the Chronicles of NarniaThe Chronicles of NarniaThe Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven fantasy novels for children by C. S. Lewis. It is considered a classic of children's literature and is the author's best-known work, having sold over 100 million copies in 47 languages...
book series. - Letty, a character in the play Da Kink in My HairDa Kink in My HairDa Kink in My Hair is a play by Trey Anthony, which debuted at the Toronto Fringe Festival in 2001.The play's central character is Novelette, the Caribbean Canadian owner of Letty's, a Toronto hair salon...
and the Canadian TV series of the same nameDa Kink in My Hair (TV series)'da Kink in My Hair is a Canadian television sitcom. Based on the play of the same name by Trey Anthony, the story was adapted into a television show currently airing on Global.-Cast:...
. - So Long Letty, a 1920 film.
- So Long Letty, a 1929 film.
- So Long, Letty, a 1915 musical by Earl CarrollEarl CarrollEarl Carroll was an American theatrical producer, director, songwriter and composer born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.-Career:...
. - Letty, a 1980 novel by American writer Clare DarcyClare DarcyClare Darcy was the pseudonym used by the American novelist Mary Deasy for her Regency Romance novels, i.e., novels set in Regency England. She was born on May 20, 1914 in Cincinnati, Ohio, and died in Ohio in May 1978...
. - Moran of the Lady LettyMoran of the Lady LettyMoran of the Lady Letty is a 1922 silent film adventure produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures. The picture reunited director George Melford and star Rudolph Valentino after their monumental success with The Sheik in 1921...
, a 1922 film starring Dorothy DaltonDorothy DaltonDorothy Dalton was an American silent film actress and stage personality who worked her way from a stock company to a movie career. Beginning in 1910, Dalton was a player in stock companies in Chicago and Holyoke, Massachusetts. She joined the Keith-Albee-Orpheum Corporation vaudeville circuits...
and Rudolph ValentinoRudolph ValentinoRudolph Valentino was an Italian actor, and early pop icon. A sex symbol of the 1920s, Valentino was known as the "Latin Lover". He starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle and Son of the Sheik...
. - Aunt Letty, a character played by Sara HadenSara HadenSara Haden was a character actress in Hollywood films of the 1930s through the 1950s.She was born Sarah Haden on November 17, 1899 in Galveston, Texas. Haden was the daughter of another character actress, Charlotte Walker, who was active in silent films and early talkies...
in the 1941 film Barnacle BillBarnacle Bill (1941 film)Barnacle Bill is a 1941 feature film starring Wallace Beery and Marjorie Main. The screen comedy was directed by Richard Thorpe.-Cast:* Wallace Beery as Bill Johansen* Marjorie Main as Marge Cavendish* Leo Carillo as Pico Rodriguez...
. - The Loves of Letty, a 1919 film.
- Letty, a character in the 1917 musical MaytimeMaytime (musical)Maytime is a musical with music by Sigmund Romberg and lyrics and book by Rida Johnson Young, and with additional lyrics by Cyrus Wood. The musical is based on the 1913 German operetta Wie einst im Mai, composed by Walter Kollo, with words by Rudolf Bernauer and Rudolf Schanzer. Maytime introduced...
. - Letty the Basketmaker, an 1868 opera by Michael William BalfeMichael William BalfeMichael William Balfe was an Irish composer, best-remembered for his opera The Bohemian Girl.After a short career as a violinist, Balfe pursued an operatic singing career, while he began to compose. In a career spanning more than 40 years, he composed 38 operas, almost 250 songs and other works...
. - Letty, a character played by Helen GibsonHelen GibsonHelen Gibson was an American film actress, vaudeville performer, radio performer, film producer, trick rider and rodeo performer; and is considered to be the first American professional stunt woman.- Rodeo riding :...
in the 1919 film Gun LawGun Law (film)Gun Law is a 1919 short Western film directed by John Ford.-Cast:* Pete Morrison - Dick Allen* Helen Gibson - Letty* Hoot Gibson - Bart Stevens, aka Smoke Gublen* Jack Woods - Cayuse Yates* Otto Myers - Gang Member* Harry Chambers - Gang Member...
. - Letty, a blitzball player in the video games Final Fantasy XFinal Fantasy Xis a role-playing video game developed and published by Square as the tenth title in the Final Fantasy series. It was released in 2001 for Sony's PlayStation 2, and will be re-released for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita in 2012...
and Final Fantasy X-2Final Fantasy X-2is a console role-playing game developed and published by Square for Sony's PlayStation 2. It was released in 2003 and is the sequel to the best-selling 2001 game Final Fantasy X...
.
- Letty Bell, a character in the radio and TV series Little BritainLittle BritainLittle Britain is a British character-based comedy sketch show which was first broadcast on BBC radio and then turned into a television show. It was written by comic duo David Walliams and Matt Lucas...
. - Letty Carrington, a character played by Loyola O'ConnorLoyola O'ConnorLoyola O'Connor , was an American film actress of the silent era. She appeared in 48 films between 1913 and 1922.She was born in St...
in the 1915 film The Lily and the RoseThe Lily and the RoseThe Lily and the Rose; sometimes Lily of the Rose is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by Paul Powell and starring Lillian Gish...
. - Letty Carroll, a character played by Dorothy DunbarDorothy DunbarDorothy Dunbar was a American actress and socialite, who appeared in silent movies in the 1920s.Born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, she appeared on the Broadway stage as a child in The School Girl ....
in the 1927 film When a Dog Loves. - Letty Edwards, a character in the 1990s British TV series Games WorldGames WorldGames World was a British computer games-based television programme, made by Hewland International and broadcast on Sky One each weekday from 1993-98...
. - Letty Fox: Her LuckLetty Fox: Her LuckThe Australian-born author Christina Stead’s sixth novel, Letty Fox: Her Luck, is an energetic tribute to the drama of the urban environment and its role in socializing its occupants. Published in 1946, Stead wrote the lengthy Letty Fox after living in New York City for seven years...
, a novel by Australian writer Christina SteadChristina SteadChristina Stead was an Australian novelist and short-story writer acclaimed for her satirical wit and penetrating psychological characterisations.-Biography:...
. - Letty Gaunt, a character played by Jill GascoineJill GascoineJill Gascoine is a British actress and novelist. She is most widely known for her role as Detective Inspector Maggie Forbes in the 1980s television series The Gentle Touch and its spin-off series C.A.T.S. Eyes...
in the 1970s TV series The Onedin LineThe Onedin LineThe Onedin Line is a BBC television drama series which ran from 1971 to 1980. The series was created by Cyril Abraham.The series is set in Liverpool from 1860 to 1886 and deals with the rise of a shipping line, the Onedin Line, named after its owner James Onedin...
. - Letty Gilmore, a character played by Lillian LehmanLillian LehmanLillian Lehman is an American actress most notably recognized from her recurring role as Lena Hart in NBC's soap opera Sunset Beach, and as Dr. Joyce Meadows on ABC's General Hospital. Other roles include various guest roles on TV, as well as a starring role in Tenafly and Fay...
in the TV series FayFay (TV series)Fay was a TV series starring Lee Grant as Fay Stewart, a woman in her 40s who after 25 years of marriage to attorney Jack Stewart started a new job and begin dating....
. - Dr. Letty Jordan, a character played by Anna Deavere SmithAnna Deavere SmithAnna Deavere Smith is an American actress, playwright, and professor. She is currently the artist in residence at the Center for American Progress.-Early life:...
in the 2000s American TV series Presidio MedPresidio MedPresidio Med is an American Television series which aired 2002–2003, centering around a San Francisco hospital. It was created by John Wells and Lydia Woodward, who also created ER.-Series premise:... - Letty LyntonLetty LyntonLetty Lynton is a 1932 MGM drama film starring Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery and Nils Asther. The film was directed by Clarence Brown, and based on the 1931 novel of the same name by Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes. Crawford plays the title character, in a tale of love and blackmail.The film has...
a 1932 film, as well as the title character. - Letty Pace, a character played by Mary AstorMary AstorMary Astor was an American actress. Most remembered for her role as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon with Humphrey Bogart, Astor began her long motion picture career as a teenager in the silent movies of the early 1920s.She eventually made a successful transition to talkies, but almost...
in the 1933 film Jennie GerhardtJennie GerhardtJennie Gerhardt is a 1911 novel by Theodore Dreiser.-Plot summary:Jennie Gerhardt is a destitute young woman. While working in a hotel in Columbus, Ohio, Jennie meets Senator George Brander, who becomes infatuated with her. He helps her family and declares his wish to marry her...
. - Letty Whiterock, a fictional character in Touhou ProjectTouhou ProjectThe , also known as Toho Project or Project Shrine Maiden, is a Japanese dōjin game series focused on bullet hell shooters made by the one-man developer Team Shanghai Alice, whose sole member, known as ZUN, is responsible for all the graphics, music, and programming for the most part...
games.
- Lety, a character in La Fea Más BellaLa fea más bellaLa Fea Más Bella is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa. It is the second Mexican version of the popular Colombian telenovela: Betty la fea...
, a Mexican telenovela (soap opera).
Places
- Letty, Canada
- Letty, France
- Letty, Papua New Guinea
- Letty Harbour
- Letty-Yaun-Pugol, a variation of Letta-Yaun-Pugol.
See also
- Laetitia (disambiguation)
- Leticia (disambiguation)
- LetitiaLetitiaLetitia is a feminine given name derived from a Latin term meaning "joy, happiness." It appeared in the form "Lettice" in medieval England and is rarely used today.-Variants:*Letícia , Hungarian)*Letitia...
- VioletViolet (name)Violet is a given name for girls.The name comes from the Violet flower. As with other such names its popularity has varied dramatically over time. Flower names were very commonly used from about 1880 through about 1910 in the United States, with usage dropping throughout the next 80 years or so...