Word: rebecca
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foremost pinup girl by shamelessly exposing her ankles, Dame Gladys early turned to the legitimate stage. After achieving stardom in The Second Mrs. Tanqueray in 1922, she managed London's Playhouse Theater. Planning to spend three weeks in Hollywood making Alfred Hitchcock's 1940 melodrama Rebecca, she remained for nearly three decades, playing in such movie classics as Now, Voyager and Separate Tables. Then she became the matriarch of a mob of high-class swindlers on the NBC comedy series The Rogues, cultivating yet another generation of fans during the mid-'60s. Her lifelong interest...
Couple No. 2 (Christian Holder and Rebecca Wright), in revealing skin-toned body suits that appear to have been glued on, carry out a lyrical sequence of serpentine, limb-entangling maneuvers that resemble moving illustrations for a graduate course in the Kamasutra. The third duo (Susan Magno and Tony Catanzaro) assay an updated version of that dreadful comic cliche of Pigalle nightclubs, an apache dance. The will-they, won't-they jousting ends, amusingly enough, when the girl resoundingly slaps her passionate but reluctant lover. He swats her one right back...
Born. To James Roosevelt, 63, eldest son of F.D.R., a former U.S. Congressman and currently a business consultant in Switzerland, and his fourth wife, onetime British Schoolteacher Mary Winskill Roosevelt, 32: their first child (his seventh), a daughter; in Geneva. Name: Rebecca Mary...
When the unnamed heroine of Rebecca thought she went back to Manderley again, she was dreaming, of course, about the grief-drenched mansion where she had been so scared and had acted so dumb. But there has nevertheless been a real and steady procession back to Daphne du Maurier's literary landmark by women who know exactly how to conduct themselves. Some of the world's most prosperous authors check in every year either at Manderley or at one of the two other historic homes on the tour: Thornfield Hall, where Jane Eyre was governess, and Wuthering Heights...
...genre, the breakthrough book was Victoria Holt's Mistress of Mellyn (1960), which sold a million copies. Though it was in itself a touchingly direct tribute to Rebecca, Mellyn has become the model for many of the new romances. The plot concerns Martha Leigh, a young gentlewoman in reduced circumstances, who comes to a vast mansion in Cornwall to care for the motherless daughter of enigmatic Connan Tre-Mellyn. Even before Martha falls reluctantly in love with Connan, she learns that his wife's death was both scandalous and mysterious, that he is surrounded by neighbors with ambiguous...