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Word: bumpstead (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...actress. In a school Hansel and Gretel, she played the mother, the head angel and the second witch-and bitterly resented not being cast as Gretel. But Stepfather Fontaine disapproved of the stage. In her junior year in high school, when he forbade her to play Violet in Mrs. Bumpstead-Leigh, Olivia left home. Although she later made her peace with her stepfather, she "never slept under that roof again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shocker | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

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