Mildred Dunnock of roles in Broadway productions during the 1930s, Dunnock won praise for her performance as a Welsh school teacher in "The Corn is Green" in 1940. The 1945 film version marked her screen debut. During the 1940s she performed mainly on stage, in such dramas as "Another Part of the Forest" (1946) and "Death of a Salesman" (1949) and in the musical "Lute Song" (1946). In 1947, Dunnock became a founding member of the Actors Studio. Dunnock reprised her "Salesman" role in the 1951 film version. She originated the role of Big Mama in the Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a
Common nightingale happy songs, and since then, nightingales have visited Ukraine every spring to hear Ukrainian songs. National poet Taras Shevchenko observed that "even the memory of the nightingale's song makes man happy." Common nightingale The common nightingale or simply nightingale ("Luscinia megarhynchos"), also known as rufous nightingale, is a small passerine bird best known for its powerful and beautiful song. It was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae. It belongs to a group of more terrestrial species, often called chats. "Nightingale" is derived from