Word: wife
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sexually deviate or profligate. The most colorful of the odd lot was Charles Augustus Howell. One of his exploits was to dig up the coffin of Elizabeth Rossetti by moonlight to retrieve a manuscript her grieving husband, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, had buried with the body. Howell housed his wife, a bevy of artistically inclined mistresses, and half a dozen children under the same roof. Howell kept the girls busy forging art works, and in particular a set of obscene etchings, which he peddled as originals...
...Dunham, the sullen, tormented father, dominates the story. Ambitious and immature, he marries beautiful Fanny June Taylor, a well-to-do woman many years older than he, and for a time is able to regard himself as a man of property. But not long after Katherine is born, his wife dies, and the property is dissipated among relatives...
Dunham eventually remarries, after a harrowing period in which Katherine and an older brother are farmed out haphazardly to a succession of relations. But the new wife is plain and the family poor. Dunham withdraws into brooding resentment, emerging now and then to tongue-lash his wife and belt-whip his children...
Happy Anniversary. On their 13th anniversary, Husband David Niven and Wife Mitzi Gaynor remember their premarital hotel room in a mattress farce that is slick, sleazy, but hilarious...
...Story. Half soap opera and half documentary, often absorbing, about a G-man (Jimmy Stewart), his job, his wife and kids...