Word: sweetheart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the jokes are over, his multiple marriages are an obvious embarrassment to him. "Nobody's proud about having eight wives," he says. "You're supposed to marry your childhood sweetheart and go off into the sunset with a box of Duz, saying, 'It's forever, darling.' It doesn't work out like that, and every marriage and every divorce are like a five-car crash." Several of those marriages lasted long enough to produce children, however: a total of five boys and five girls...
DIED. Yaeko Mizutani, 74, grande dame of the Japanese stage for a quarter of a century; of cancer; in Tokyo. A breathtaking beauty, Mizutani made her stage debut at eight and became the national sweetheart, playing romantic roles in plays by Tolstoy, Shakespeare and Ibsen. In 1928 she joined Japan's renowned Shimpa theater company, and later proved her acting talents in films and on television...
...like being in a wonderful musical comedy where the critics mentioned everybody but me." No sooner is his two-year hitch in stir over than Starbuck runs afoul of more millions. He stumbles into a decrepit old shopping-bag lady in New York who turns out to be his sweetheart from Harvard days. She is also majority stockholder of the RAMJAC Corporation, a conglomerate that owns...
What younger generations could not know, since she closely guarded her films and an image she felt could no longer be appreciated, was that she was a great deal more than "America's Sweetheart." The plots of her films were often sentimental, but Pickford was not. She was a subtle actress, the best at the lost, enormously difficult art of silent-picture performance...
DIED. Mary Pickford, 86, "America's Sweetheart"; of a stroke; in Santa Monica, Calif. (see SHOW BUSINESS...