Alien (film) (John Hurt), Warrant Officer Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), Navigator Lambert (Veronica Cartwright), Science Officer Ash (Ian Holm) and two Engineers, Parker (Yaphet Kotto) and Brett (Harry Dean Stanton). Detecting a transmission from nearby moon LV-426, the ship's computer, Mother, awakens the crew. Company policy requires any potential distress signal be investigated, so they land on the moon, sustaining damage from its atmosphere and rocky landscape. Parker and Brett repair the ship while Dallas, Kane and Lambert head out to investigate. They discover the signal comes from a derelict alien ship and enter it, losing communication with the "Nostromo". Ripley deciphers part
Eleanor Holm to the "New York Times". This sensational divorce trial was called "the war of the Roses" and is the subject of a chapter in Louis Nizer's book "My Life in Court." Several months later, she married Thomas Whalen, an oil-drilling executive. In 1966, Holm was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame. She died of renal disease in Miami, Florida, on January 31, 2004 at the age of 90. Holm is portrayed by Heidi O'Rourke in the 1975 film "Funny Lady". A protagonist based on Eleanor Holm, with the fictionalized name Eleanor Emerson, appears in the 2012 novel "Flight