Word: doe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...until she briefly became Frank Sinatra's wife. She almost became a major star in Rosemary's Baby. But after marrying Conductor Andre Previn, she opted for domestic life in England with the couple's twin sons and their adopted Vietnamese daughter. Quiet, sparrow-thin and doe-eyed, Mia hardly seems a candidate to play Fitzgerald's teasing, haughty heroine. Yet in Theoni Aldredge's exquisite period costumes, she is at the very least the most beautiful thing in the picture...
...LEGEND OF BABY DOE...
...ruination of the Old West was the advent of good women, who shuttered the bordellos, sent the highrollers packing, and imported pianos and preachers in a wistful attempt to transform mining camps into mini-Philadelphias. Baby Doe was not one of them. A pocket Venus from Oshkosh and no better than she should be, blonde, blue-eyed Elizabeth McCourt Doe had shed a feckless husband and arrived in Leadville - Colorado's Magic Mountain - almost at the moment in 1880 when the played-out gold fields turned out to be mere icing on the world's richest slice...
...with the Matchless and other prodigious silver mines that were to earn him as much as $4 million a year - in taxless 1880 dollars. After his first meeting with Baby, who had judiciously selected him as her private grubstake, Hardrock Horace bought off her current protector and made Baby Doe his mistress. No matter that he was 53 and she 23, or that he was married. It was conglomeration at first sight. After divorcing his wife, Hod married the designing Doe (her décolleté bridal gown cost $7,500), and they set out to live lavishly ever after...
Still an extraordinarily attractive woman at 33, Baby Doe refused to remarry-or rather, she remained faithful to the Matchless. For the next 30 years, she wooed lenders and lawyers, fought off creditors and dug relentlessly into her mine. To no avail. Finally, on March 7, 1935, she was found frozen to death in a mountain shack beside the shaft...