Word: tessa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...narrator. Publication of the novel coincided with another first in the author's otherwise scandal-free life. For two weeks in December 1926, Agatha Christie, 36, was officially a missing person. A frenzied nationwide search led to a Yorkshire hotel, where she was found registered as Tessa Neele, the name of the woman Colonel Christie married after his divorce from Agatha two years later. Doctors said the disappearance was caused by amnesia...
...quest for the genuine, he sometimes found unusual props or received unexpected help. Spanish Heiress Carmen Ordóñez de Rivera blossomed while swinging from-of all things-a block and tackle used to hoist bulls into her father's ring for a corrida. Actress Tessa Dahl's radiant smile came while shooting in London's Hyde Park, when Tessa looked past Dirck and saw a dog in the act of mistaking his camera bag for a fireplug...
Identity problems also plague Patricia Neal's daughter Tessa Dahl, 18. When Tessa decided to act, Bette Davis told her, "If you do a nude scene, I shall never speak to you again." Tessa does not want to do a nude scene, but she would do almost anything for a break. She promises to be her mother's double: tall and graceful with the same wide face and wide-spaced eyes; she has the same seductive smile. The only thing missing is what Critic Kenneth Tynan called Pat Neal's "dark brown voice." Her father Roald Dahl...
...Tessa's ambitions have been frustrated. She appeared with her mother in Happy Mother's Day . . . Love, George in 1973, but the movie flopped. Recently John Houston saw her and flipped; she was offered the only female role in his movie The Man Who Would Be King on condition she slimmed down by 20 lbs. and had her eyeteeth capped. She dieted so enthusiastically she became ill, only to learn the part had gone to the wife of Michael Caine, the film's star. "I cried all night...
...Tessa is the Dahls' eldest daughter since her sister Olivia died of encephalitis in 1962, and there is something wistful in her striving to be a star. She really believes "a woman's place is in the home and an acting career is not good for marriage," but she is not ready to settle down. Her parents are encouraging her independence. They recently bought a London apartment for her. But she does not want it known too quickly that she has stopped housekeeping for her boy friend, the Hon. Patrick Fisher, a rich young man about town. Show...