leading woman
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Sarah Funderburk, the leading woman as darkness falls at Battersea, is partial to salted potatoes.
From BBC • Oct. 8, 2024
That would put Alcaraz and the leading woman, Iga Swiatek, in the top line of each bracket.
From Washington Times • Jun. 26, 2023
The Satie was followed by a screening of a dance scene from Josephine Baker’s lacking-but-landmark 1934 film “Zouzou,” the first major motion picture with a Black leading woman.
From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2022
In an earlier version of the conclusion, for example, Michael Dorsey, now unmasked, apologizes to Julie Nichols, the leading woman with whom he's smitten.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2019
In the spring of 1892 John Drew left Daly's, whereupon Charles Frohman decided to make him his first star, and he chose Maude Adams to be his leading woman.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 5 July 1906 by Various
