Melanie

[mel-uh-nee]

noun

1. a female given name.

Example Sentences

A corporate Cinderella story, the 20th Century Fox comedy starred Melanie Griffith as Tess, a tenacious secretary at a Wall Street brokerage firm who learns that her boss, Katharine, has taken credit for her business proposal.

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Instead of Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedren playing picture-perfect Mitch and Melanie, the original presents Nat Hocken, a disabled war veteran who works as a farm laborer, and whose wife remains a nameless domestic drudge.

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At the end of Hitchcock’s film, Mitch and Melanie drive away slowly from Bodega Bay as the birds survey them balefully; in the story, the Hockens retreat into their boarded-up cottage and await a far less certain fate.

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Melanie Winter, who dedicated much of her life to reimagining the Los Angeles River as a natural asset, has died.

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“Thanks to Melanie, there are so many more people imagining a living L.A. River than ever before,” she said.

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