Word: ann
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four years later that farm failed, too, and the Crowells moved into Pittsburg. There, when Angeline was eight, her mother and father were divorced. Last week father Jesse Crowell, 64, a retired streetcar conductor in Gaylord, Mich., was amazed and "awful sorry" to learn that Ann Woodward was the daughter he had not seen or heard of in 23 years. "I taught her how to sit on a horse, and she later became a good rider," he recalled proudly. "I'm sure that was a great help to her when she began to associate with high society." For years...
After graduating from Kansas City's Westport High School in 1932, the girl clerked in the Kansas City Junior League Thrift Shop, later worked as a salesgirl and a model in Harzfeld's specialty shop. In 1938 she changed her name to Ann Eden and went to New York in search of fame. She was a Powers model. ("An all-round, wholesome-looking girl," recalls John Robert Powers. "We don't get calls for them like that any more. Nowadays they want a cadaverous look...
...Girl in the Copa Line. From modeling, Ann progressed to acting. In 1939, when Bill Woodward was a schoolboy at Groton, she was a showgirl in Noel Coward's girlshow, Set to Music. Later she had some minor success in radio soap operas, e.g., Joyce Jordan, Girl Interne, and in nightclubs.. One night in 1943 Ensign Bill Woodward, just out of Harvard and just sworn in for wartime service with the Navy, spotted a girl wearing a cat costume in the chorus line at the Copacabana. It was Ann, and it was love. After a two-week engagement...
...Woodwards were frankly disappointed with their son's wife, but accepted her "with reserve." Under the tutelage of Mrs. William Woodward Sr. (one of the Cryder triplets of New York), at whose balls guests are lighted up the stairway by a row of candelabra-bearing footmen, Ann met the family friends...
...girl from Kansas caught on fast. When Bill Woodward came home from the war, Ann led him rapidly away from the staid social world, in which his family had always moved, into gayer, more publicized spheres of international society. "Bill was brought up differently," says...