Word: desirability
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...Bess Simmons was a budding Queen of England, co-starring with her first husband, Stewart Granger. She ornamented De Mille-style antique epics like The Robe and The Egyptian, which required only that she look good and speak well. And she went up against Brando first in the 1954 Desirée, where she's a French maid with a crush on Napoleon, then a year later in Guys and Dolls, an undervalued movie much more crucial to Simmons's screen persona...
...Lloyd Bridges, alcohol and suicide attempts. It earned her that second Oscar nomination but no good roles in big pictures. Going where the work was, she exiled herself to TV and the stage. She earned an Emmy in the miniseries North and South and played a more worldly-wise Desirée, singing "Send in the Clowns," in the West End edition of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music. She divorced Brooks in 1977, struggled with alcoholism in the '80s. She had summed up her two marriages by observing that "when I wanted to be a wife, Jimmy [Granger...