Word: mamma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time she entered high school, Anne was a slick, style-conscious teen-ager -far more "sophisticated" than she is today-with a great interest in the boys. But always Mamma was there to keep her in check. "Once," says Anne, "my mother caught my older sister having sneak dates and beat hell out of her. I didn't want a licking, so I didn't do too much of that." And another time, when Annie smoked a cigarette onstage in an amateur production of Night Must Fall, her Aunt Kate yelled terrifyingly from the back of the hall...
...Dates. Bronx neighbors still remember the thin, dark-haired girl on the way home from school, munching a 5? pickle and reading plays as she walked. But in her senior year Anne inexplicably decided to become a lab technician and work nobly at the side of some great researcher. Mamma again called the shots, scraped up the $500 tuition to send Anne to the august American Academy of Dramatic Arts. It was just two weeks before graduation from the Academy that she was discovered practicing alone on the school's darkened stage while everyone else was out to lunch...
...20th Century-Fox screen-tested an aspiring actor named Doug Rogers, and Anne agreed to help him out by playing opposite. Result: no one noticed Rogers (says Anne: "I don't know where the kid is now"), but Fox signed Anne. Of course Mamma went along to Hollywood-on Anne's first plane ride. She had to see her daughter settled in a small Sunset Boulevard apartment before she felt it safe to return to Macy...
...wealthy woman now, with a $150,000-a-year income, but she gets only a $50-a-week allowance from her business manager. When she does not cook aftertheater snacks for herself, she relies on what Mamma sends down from Yonkers, where the Italianos now live. She owns Manhattan real estate, has an interest in a California bank and a Texas oil well, but she keeps warm by huddling in the kitchen of her Greenwich Village apartment, with both stove and oven going full blast...
...matches were made on a balance sheet, a few ended with mutual love and respect. Mary Leiter of Chicago married Lord Curzon and went with him to India, where she served selflessly as Vicereine. At her early death, he was heartbroken. She was beautiful, but her parents were colorful. Mamma Leiter was something of a malapropster. With an imperious gesture she would call attention to the imported "statutes in the nickies" of her marbled mansion in Washington...