Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Ann Farley Hickey, 23, daughter of ex-Postmaster General James A. Farley, and Edward John Hickey, 26: their first child (and big Jim's first grandchild), a daughter; in Detroit. Name: Ellen Louise. Weight...
Born in London's poor East Ham district, the daughter of a plumber, Vera knew five songs, Peggy O'Neil and K-K-K-Katy among them, before she was three. At seven, she was singing, in frills and bows, for Masonic dinners and charity benefits. "A straight-faced kid, couldn't get her to smile," says her dressmaker-mother, who always went along. At school, "they thought I had a terrible voice," says Vera, "but they always put me up in front because I opened my mouth so nice and wide...
...Vera is not much interested, she says, in coming to New York ("too much of a headache"). She would rather be with her husband Harry and three-year-old daughter Virginia at home in Regent's Park, where she still does most of the housework-"anything with my hands, and not much with my brain." Vera's explanation of her success: "I suppose I'm the girl in the street, singing to the man in the street...
...Tossy finds a few minutes to teach his blonde daughter Ruth, 10, his special brand of fiddling. But as for Ruth having a fiddler's career, Tossy says "too strenuous for a woman, at least our little woman...
Bendix plays a morose, bumbleheaded factory hand with a careful blend of "bathos, confusion and corny humor. His enemy is his landlady (Beulah Bondi); his daughter is being courted by the boss's son and the landlady's nephew; his old pals (including Jimmy Gleason) scorn him when he gets to be an executive, but welcome him back to the fold when it turns out that his daughter won't marry the boss's son after all. Even a character named "Digger" O'Dell, an undertaker with a morgue full of morbid jokes...