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Mavis is a female name. Its usage was initiated by Marie Corelli's 1895 novel The Sorrows of Satan1 which featured a character named Mavis Clare whose first name is said to be "rather odd" but suitable for Miss Clare as "she sings quite as sweetly as any thrush". Corelli patently was utilizing the common noun mavis2 which refers to the song thrush and was long obsolete by the 19th century but known from its poetic use as in Robert Burns' Ca' the Yowes ("Hark the mavis evening sang/ Sounding Clouden's woods amang") written in 1794; also the popular love song Mary of Argyle, written circa 1850 by lyricist Charles Jefferys features the line: "I have heard the mavis singing its love-song to the morn."
Mavis had its height of popularity in between the 1920s and 1940s since when its usage has decline with the name being rather unfashionable since the 1960s.
Notable persons with the first name Mavis include:
Notable fictional characters with the first name Mavis include:
Selena Marie Gomez (born July 22, 1992) is an American actress and singer best known for portraying Alex Russo in the Emmy Award-winning Disney Channel television series Wizards of Waverly Place. She subsequently ventured into feature films and has starred in the television movies Another Cinderella Story, Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie, and Princess Protection Program. She made her starring theatrical film debut in Ramona and Beezus.
Her career has expanded into the music industry; Gomez is the lead singer and founder of the pop band Selena Gomez & the Scene, which has released three RIAA Gold certified studio albums, Kiss & Tell, A Year Without Rain, and When the Sun Goes Down, spawned three RIAA Platinum certified singles, "Naturally", "Who Says" and "Love You Like a Love Song" and charted four No. 1 Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs. Gomez has also contributed to the soundtracks of Tinker Bell, Another Cinderella Story, Wizards of Waverly Place, and Shake It Up after signing a record deal with Hollywood Records.
Actors: Kevin Craig West (producer), Kevin Craig West (actor), Kevin Craig West (director), Rich Lounello (actor), Josh Wick (producer), Jon Russell Cring (actor), Yury Tsykun (actor), Joy E. Reed (editor), Susie Griswold (director), Susie Griswold (producer), Susie Griswold (writer), Susie Griswold (actress), Scott Danni (miscellaneous crew), Mark Fallon (actor), Mark Fallon (producer),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Blair Barnette (producer), Micaiah Dring (costume designer), David Louis Lankester (actor), David Shackleton (actor), Rowan Scarborough (actress), Charlotte Sanderson (actress), Tom McCarron (actor), Chris Hay (editor), Bernadette Wiltshire (actor), Bruce Woodhouse (actor), Joe Hamilton (actor),
Plot: An old man named Albert is being interviewed as he is set to become the proud owner of the world's oldest working consumer light bulb. Believed to have been imbued with the spirit of his dead father when he was struck dead by lightening while carrying the bulb home on a thundery night in 1920's Derby, Albert recounts the curious history pertaining to him and the bulb.
Genres: Drama, Romance, Short,Actors: Tony Robinson (actor), Mark Shivas (producer), Alfie Bass (actor), Michael Robbins (actor), Sam Kelly (actor), Jack May (actor), Tony Selby (actor), George Tovey (actor), Cheryl Hall (actress), Harry Landis (actor), Donald Gee (actor), Griffith Davies (actor), Clyde Pollitt (actor), Jumoke Debayo (actress), Tim Aspinall (director),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Jack Raine (actor), John Ritter (actor), Bruce Glover (actor), Larry D. Mann (actor), Booth Colman (actor), Alfonso Arau (actor), José Nieto (actor), Benny Baker (actor), Richard Hale (actor), Sam Edwards (actor), Brian Keith (actor), Paul Koslo (actor), Harry Morgan (actor), Jimmy Lydon (actor), Bill Williams (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance, Western,Actors: Andy Milligan (producer), Andy Milligan (editor), Andy Milligan (director), Andy Milligan (costume designer), Robert Dahdah (actor), Gerald Jacuzzo (actor), Hal Borske (actor), Hope Stansbury (writer), Hope Stansbury (writer), Matt Baylor (actor), Ron Keith (actor), Hal Sherwood (actor), Larry Ree (actor), Myron Williams (actor), Larry Joels (actor),
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Keywords: all-male-cast, bath-house, exploitation, homosexual, independent-film, nudity, one-word-titleActors: Hilda Fenemore (actress), Billie Whitelaw (actress), Tom Courtenay (actor), Andreas Malandrinos (actor), Alfred Burke (actor), Ann Firbank (actress), Vanda Godsell (actress), Frank Sieman (actor), Diana Beaumont (actress), Paul Stassino (actor), Marjie Lawrence (actress), Llewellyn Rees (actor), Hilary Sesta (actress), Michael Collins (actor), Michael Wynne (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Howard A. Smith (editor), Jack Chefe (actor), Charles Delaney (actor), Cyril Delevanti (actor), Edward Earle (actor), Winston Miller (writer), Maxwell Shane (writer), Alexander Laszlo (composer), William Berke (director), Charles Arnt (actor), Kit Guard (actor), Eddie Hall (actor), Donald Kerr (actor), Chester Morris (actor), Al Murphy (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Crime,Actors: Hay Petrie (actor), Michael Barringer (writer), Marie Ault (actress), Herbert Lomas (actor), George Barraud (actor), Betty Amann (actress), Gerald Rawlinson (actor), Marguerite Allan (actress), F.W. Kraemer (producer), F.W. Kraemer (director),
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Genres: Drama, War,