Word: lilian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dorothy Gish, like her sister Lilian, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin, was a matinee idol in the golden era of American film making. She recently celebrated her sixtieth year as an actress and has had a distinguished stage career in addition to her movie credits. Her last visit to Boston was in 1940, when she was touring in Life With Father, and she is currently playing a character role in Otto Preminger's The Cardinal which is being filmed locally...
After 42 years on the boards. England's first prima ballerina, Alicia Markova (nee Lilian Marks), 52, ever so casually announced that she was turning in her tutu to teach. Boarding a New York-bound jet at London Airport, the Dresden-fragile dancer, who has been plagued with illness since a tonsillectomy last February, told reporters simply: "My New Year's resolution is to give up active dancing...
Died. Ethel Lilian Boole Voynich, 96, Irish-born English author of the global bestseller (estimated copies: 5,000,000) The Gadfly, a romance written in 1897 about an Italian revolutionary's fight on Austrian rule, who settled in the U.S. in 1920; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...