Word: sons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sailor trade. He has been there ever since. Meanwhile, Mickey's mother had pushed Mickey into the films. A good friend of Mickey and his mother, nowadays "the old man" is often invited to swim and ride on their swank San Fernando Valley estate, occasionally takes his son to a prizefight or baseball game...
...made her the most celebrated siren of the screen since Theda Bara. After spending a small fortune on a picture with Spencer Tracy that had to be junked, M.G.M. handed Hedy and Screenwriter Ben Hecht over to Producer Sam Zimbalist, fresh from Tarzan Finds A Son. Practical Mr. Zimbalist, correctly figuring that audiences would like a picture as much like Algiers as possible, let the camera eye ogle Lamarr's uncanny physical charms, duplicated Producer Wanger's feat of making the Lamarr torpidity seem exotic. Somewhat bowled over himself, Producer Zimbalist observed: "Hedy is just a nice girl...
...Netherlands' fast-driving Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld, madcap son-in-law of Queen Wilhelmina, went a-racing across a lake in his speedboat, crashed smack into a small motorboat, sank it. Into the water jumped Prince Bernhard, pulled out a wet father, three wet little children. When Netherlands newspapers got wind of the episode they promptly printed nothing about it, instead plastered their front pages with the first pictures of Papa Bernhard's two-weeks-old second daughter, Irene...
...Prime Minister a fine worldly Whig: William Lamb, Lord Melbourne. For four years, he, the representative of a passing era, patiently tutored the young Queen who was to play the title role in a new age. But the same man had had another life, as William Lamb, second son of worldlywise, domineering Lady Melbourne. As William Lamb, he was the husband of Byron's mistress, Caroline Lamb, and was by all odds the most urbane of the many cuckolds whom George Gordon Lord Byron left on his pilgrimage through British bedrooms...
...that he was, William Lamb owed to his mother, Lady Melbourne. She presented her husband with six children, few of whom were his. William was universally supposed to be the son of Lord Egremont, who, scandal had it, bought Lady Melbourne from Lord Coleraine for ?13,000, of which Lady Melbourne got a cut. ("Your mother is a whore," a young Cambridge friend once shouted at William's brother George...