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Word: pittypat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan. She spent most of her life playing the parts of bird-minded flibbertigibbets. She had a thwacking success in one serious role: the pathologically possessive mother in Sidney Howard's The Silver Cord. When sound came to the cinema she went to Hollywood, was flibberti-gibbety Aunt Pittypat in Gone With the Wind. As one of the solicitous old poisoners in Arsenic and Old Lace she played her last part; she was the fourth famed character actress to die in five weeks (the others: Dame Marie Tempest, May Robson, Edna May Oliver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 23, 1942 | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

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