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Griselda is a feminine given name used in the English, Italian, Spanish, and Germanic languages. According to the 1990 United States Census, the name was 1066th in popularity among females in the United States.
Most experts agree that the name came from the Ancient Germanic phrase "gris hild", meaning "dark battle". However, a few believe that the name came from the ancient Germanic word "gries", meaning "gravel" or "stone".
The name can also be spelled "Griselde", "Grisselda", "Grieselda", "Grizelda" and "Gricelda". Other forms include "Grisel", "Grizel", "Grissel", "Grizzel", "Grisell", "Grizell", "Grissell", "Grizzell", "Grisleys" and "Criselda".
A person with this name is often referred to as "Zelda" or "Selda".
People named Griselda include:
Griselda Blanco (born February 15, 1943) is a former drug lord for the Medellín Cartel, and was a pioneer in the Miami-based cocaine drug trade and underworld during the 1970s and early 1980s.
Blanco was born on 15 February 1943 on the north coast of Colombia, and moved to Medellín when she was three years old. In the film Cocaine Cowboys II: Hustlin' with the Godmother, Blanco's former lover, Charles Cosby, recounts how Griselda, at age 11, allegedly kidnapped, tried to ransom, and eventually shot a child from the upscale flatland neighborhood near her hillside slum neighborhood. By her preteens, she had become a pickpocket, and at the age of 14 she ran away from her physically abusive mother and resorted to prostitution for a few years in Medellín, until age 20. She married her first husband, Carlos Trujillo at that time, and bore him three sons: Dixon, Uber, and Osvaldo.
In the mid-1970s, Blanco and her second husband, Alberto Bravo, emigrated to the United States, settling in Queens, New York. They established a sizable cocaine business there, and in April 1975, Blanco was indicted on federal drug conspiracy charges along with 30 of her subordinates, at that time the biggest cocaine case in history. She fled to Colombia before she could be arrested, but in the late 1970s she returned to Miami.
Actors: Jorge Aldama (director), Flavio Peniche (actor), Jorge Aldama (actor), Manuel Ramirez (editor), Estrella Cervantes (actress), Estrella Cervantes (producer), Estrella Cervantes (writer), Eliseo Flores (actor), Julian Rodriguez (actor), Oscar Medina (actor), Sky Cervantes (actress), Lourdes Alanis (actress), Dante Miranda (actor), Martin Fulgencio (actor), Javier Lara (actor),
Genres: Action,Actors: Titus Welliver (actor), Shannon Edwards (actor), Charles S. Dutton (actor), Don Kress (actor), Ross L. Kulma (miscellaneous crew), Vinnie Jones (actor), Jason Patric (actor), Bailee Madison (actress), Lucy Punch (actress), Mike McNamara (actor), Jim Nieciecki (miscellaneous crew), Jim Nieciecki (miscellaneous crew), Jim Nieciecki (actor), Kenneth Yoder (miscellaneous crew), Matthew W. Allen (actor),
Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi,Actors: Sergio Surraco (actor), María Dupláa (actress), Nicolas Dalmasso (producer), Nicolas Dalmasso (director), Nicolas Dalmasso (writer), Slifkin Martin (producer), Slifkin Martin (producer), Roco de Grazia (actor), Silvio Cheli (editor),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Adrian Guerrero (producer), Adrian Guerrero (writer), Adrian Guerrero (editor), Adrian Guerrero (director), Adrian Guerrero (writer), Eduardo Rodriguez (producer), Kayla Stone (actor), Baldomero Briseño (actor), Baldomero Briseño (actor), Jay-el Hinojosa (actor), Stephanie Hernandez (actress), Roy Bazan (composer), John F. Rivas (actor), Neena Hernandez (actor), Artimus Garza (actor),
Genres: Action, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance, Sport,Actors: Siân Phillips (actress), Julian Clary (actor), Ronnie Corbett (actor), Philip Pope (composer), Harry Hill (actor), Paul Merton (actor), Ben Miller (actor), Frank Skinner (actor), Alexander Armstrong (actor), Simon Nye (writer), Humphrey Barclay (producer), Samantha Womack (actress), Nick Ames (editor), Lisa Stevens (actress), Bryn Walters (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Frank Klein (miscellaneous crew), Toni Collette (actress), Peter Greenaway (writer), Bob Bellion (miscellaneous crew), Amanda Plummer (actress), Kees Kasander (producer), Toni Collette (actress), Jimmy de Brabant (producer), Vivian Wu (actress), Peter Greenaway (director), Peter Greenaway (actor), John Standing (actor), Denis Wigman (producer), Hairi Katagiri (actress), Don Warrington (actor),
Plot: After his wife dies, 55-year-old businessman Philip Emmenthal, at the prompting of his playboy son Storey, populates his Geneva villa with eight and a half concubines. Three are from Kyoto, where Storey manages Pachinco palaces. Each has a distinctive personality: a nun, a child bearer, a gambler, a student of Kabuki, a horsewoman with a pet pig, a maid. Philip throws off his strait-laced and repressed attitudes, immersing himself in pleasure. After about a year, the women begin to assert their own power. Side adventures pre-figure the household's breakup, and the women depart in one way or another, one at at time. Philip's fate is in the hands of Palmira, his favorite.
Keywords: annotation, arcade, asian, bare-breasts, bath, bathtub, blood, bloody-nose, book, breastsActors: Charles Band (producer), Oana Paunescu (costume designer), Jeff Burr (director), Mark Headley (producer), Donald Kushner (producer), Vlad Paunescu (producer), Ian Abercrombie (actor), Jack Donner (actor), Pat Crawford Brown (actress), Peter Locke (producer), Michael Ansara (actor), Russ Tamblyn (actor), Amber Tamblyn (actress), Magda Catone (actress), Benjamin Carr (writer),
Genres: Adventure, Fantasy,Actors: Núria Casanueva (miscellaneous crew), Fermí Reixach (actor), Vicky Peña (actress), Abel Folk (miscellaneous crew), Carles Cases (composer), Abel Folk (actor), Guillermo S. Maldonado (editor), Joan Potau (actor), Joan Potau (writer), Adrià Collado (actor), Iván Morales (actor), Sergi Calleja (actor), Roberto Bodegas (director), Manel Castillejos (actor), Fina Brunet (actress),
Genres: Thriller,Actors: Heinz Bennent (actor), Hans Quest (director), Raimund Rosenberger (composer), Willy Semmelrogge (actor), Agatha Christie (writer), Helga Anders (actress), Herbert Mensching (actor), Inge Langen (actress), Fritz Haneke (actor), Ingrid Capelle (actress), Paula Denk (actress), Edith Schneider (actress), Peter Goldbaum (writer), Paul Neuhaus (actor), Moie Charles (writer),
Genres: Crime, Mystery,Actors: Vittorio De Sica (director), Adriana Novelli (editor), Mirella Pamphili (actress), Carlo Ponti (producer), Marcello Mastroianni (actor), Ennio De Concini (writer), Tonino Guerra (writer), Cesare Zavattini (writer), Manuel De Sica (composer), Enrico Sabbatini (costume designer), Faye Dunaway (actress), Enrico Simonetti (actor), Brunello Rondi (writer), Elvira D'Amico (miscellaneous crew), Arthur Cohn (producer),
Plot: Julia, a divorced American fashion designer, is dying of a tragic, incurable disease. With only ten days to live, she spends her time vacationing in an Italian villa and watching television. She spots a TV interview with an Italian engineer Valerio, who designs plastic air bags to protect passengers in automobile collisions. She recognizes his face as having met him before at the airport and calls him up to invite him over to her villa where they decide to spend the next several days together, making love. Julia's friend Maggie reappears and reveals that Julia is actually an escapee from the hospital where she was being treated for her disease. Maggie urges Julia to return to the hospital where she can die a painless death. Julia ignores her and returns to the villa and the arms of her lover. Maggie then telephones Valerio and tells him about Julia's condition. Valerio is willing to stay for the duration but Julia is so upset by the fact that her lover knows her secret that she runs to a nearby mountaintop with the intention of committing suicide.
Keywords: airbag, airport, alps, american, based-on-play, business-card, chalet, chance-meeting, crying, days-to-live