Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heaped honors on much-honored Director Elia Kazan (recently Oscared by Hollywood for directing Gentleman's Agreement). But the prize had a more personal significance for Producer Irene Selznick : Streetcar was her first Broadway production (her Heartsong was a pre-Broadway flop). This clinched the fact that the daughter of Cinemogul L. B. Mayer who is also sister-in-law of Cinemogul William Goetz and ex-wife of Cinemogul David O. Selznick, had at last made a success in show business that she could call...
Stubborn old L.B., who is accustomed to getting his own way, never quite accepted the fact that Irene, his second daughter, was not a son. But L.B. saw that she had lessons in piano, violin and cooking - as well as in golf, tennis and swimming. He routed her out of bed early every morning for an hour's horseback ride before breakfast. Even now he sometimes says to her sadly: "Just think, if you had only been a boy. Aaaah...
Born. To Jackie Coogan, 33, Hollywood's No. 1 baby bright-eyes of the '20s (now co-owner of a small movie studio), and third wife Ann McCormack Coogan, 23, ex-nightclub singer: their first child, his second, a daughter; in Glendale, Calif. Name: Joann Dolliver. Weight...
Born. To William Samuel Paley, 46, well-tailored board chairman and principal stockholder of the Columbia Broadcasting System, and Barbara Gushing Mortimer Paley, 31, perennially best-dressed daughter of the late, great brain surgeon Harvey Gushing, sister of Betsey Gushing Roosevelt Whitney and Mary Gushing Astor: their first child, his third,* her third, a son; in Manhattan. Name: William Gushing. Weight...
Died. Abby Greene Aldrich Rockefeller, 73, publicity-hating, art-loving (she was a co-founder of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art), wife of John Davison Rockefeller Jr.; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Daughter of Rhode Island's Nelson Aldrich, one of the richest men to serve in the U.S. Senate, she married John D.'s only son in 1901, devoted her private life to philanthropy and the strict upbringing of their six children...