Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GEORGY GIRL. The rags-to-riches story of a butler's dumpy daughter is like a thousand eccentric English comedies, but it boasts one sterling asset in Georgy herself, played with vibrant good humor by 23-year-old Lynn Redgrave, daughter of Sir Michael and sister of Vanessa...
...SHAMELESS OLD LADY. An old woman, having spent long years in servitude as daughter, wife and mother, wins a new lease on life when her husband dies. She outrages her family by becoming the liveliest widow in Marseille. Played to perfection by the veteran star of the Paris stage, Sylvie (like many other French performers, she uses only one name...
...plea was as old as justice itself. You have the wrong man, argued Timothy Evans, who was charged with strangling his wife and infant daughter. The real killer, he swore, was the prosecution's chief witness, John Christie. Neither judge nor jury was impressed, and in 1950 Evans was hanged in a London prison...
...States. It was an era when women washed their own hair, when a lady used glycerine, rose water and talcum powder in moderation, when the vilest words that could be hissed were "She paints." Petite (5 ft. 2½ in.), fluttery, auburn-haired Florence Nightingale Graham was only the daughter of an immigrant Ontario truck farmer, but she intended to be a lady. Borrowing 1) a name from two genteel Victorian books (Elizabeth and Her German Garden and Enoch Arden), 2) the technique of giving "scientific treatments" to customers by massaging on creams and lotions from a previous employer, Eleanor...
When crusty, 80-year-old Judith Pedlock visited London, she wrote a postcard to her daughter Gertrude reporting that the weather was rainy, that the stiffness had left her right knee, and that she was bringing back to the U.S. a Mr. Jacob Ellenbogan, whom she intended to marry. The news infuriated the wealthy Pedlock family down to the third and fourth generations. Mama must be off her rocker! It was all rather nasty, unhealthy, and yet somehow not un-Jewish-not that any of them really gave much of a damn about being Jewish. Then anger turned to consternation...