Word: edith
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gray Gardens" depicts 79-year-old Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edie eating, singing, and arguing in their run-down Long Island home...
Maysles's new film, "Grey Gardens," describes the life of Jacqueline Onassis's aunt, Edith Bouvier Beale, and Beale's daughter Edie in their dilapidated Long Island mansion...
...Edith J. Dalbey Portland...
...Belgian-born composer and singer whose 500 or so plaintive, compassionate songs became best known in the U.S. through the cabaret-style musical Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris; of a pulmonary embolism; in Bobigny, France. With a dramatic intensity often likened to that of Edith Piaf, Brel sang about loneliness, lost love, war, old age and death. At 37, not wanting to become "an old singer," he stopped giving concerts and began a new career as an actor and director. After being treated for lung cancer...
...female soloists are not up to the men. Still, contralto Patricia Leonard is an admirable Fairy Queen, stern on the outside but soft within. When speaking she sometimes amusingly summons up the inflections of the late Dame Edith Evans. Barbara Lilley's Iolanthe and Jane Metcalfe's Phyllis are acceptable but not outstanding. Metcalfe needs to work still on her diction when singing. And why doesn't Lilley use the prescribed veil in her encounter with the Lord Chancellor, who is supposed not to recognize...