Word: englishwoman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sweeping saga of unrequited love in the Outback was considered by some to be the Australian Gone With the Wind, and for the filmed version, yet another fair Englishwoman walked off with the lead. Rachel Ward, 24 (Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid), is cast as Meggie in The Thorn Birds, a nine-hour ABC-TV "novel for television" based on Colleen McCullough's 1977 bestseller. Richard Chamberlain, 47, plays Meggie's paramour, Man of the Cloth Ralph de Bricassart. Jean Simmons, 53, has the role of her mother Fee, and Barbara Stanwyck, 74, is cast...
...stroke; in Nettlebed, Oxfordshire. A veteran of the English stage since 1928, Johnson endeared herself to U.S. audiences through such films, besides Brief Encounter, as In Which We Serve (1942), This Happy Breed (1947) and Captain's Paradise (1953), in which she embodied the quintessential Englishwoman, mature and intelligent. Last year she was made a Dame of the British Empire...
Fitzgerald, 50, is a prim, efficient Englishwoman who has worked with Bush since he was director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Aides say Bush trusts her judgment completely. But her overprotectiveness and flashes of anger in public toward other staff members alienated Bush's top aides even before he became Vice President. Baker, who is Bush's close friend, in 1980 threatened to resign as campaign manager unless Bush dumped Fitzgerald. Baker felt that she had more influence over the candidate than he did. After serious reflection, Bush did drop her temporarily, but then paid...
...life," writes Tennant, "Conrad would record no other occasion on which his heart leaped or his breath was taken away, and indeed it may be that in a sense this was his deepest sexual experience." Conrad was cooler and more practical in his feelings toward Jessie George, the Englishwoman he married in 1896 and used as a servant for most of her life. Nor did he manage to make and keep many friends. Only Ford Madox Ford, with whom he collaborated, and the sickly Stephen Crane became more than colleagues. But the absence of intimacy bothered Conrad far less than...
DIED. Margaret Lindsay, 70, Iowa-born actress who posed as an Englishwoman to land a film role in Cavalcade (1933), and appeared in 80 other movies over the next 30 years, mostly mysteries and melodramas, including The House of the Seven Gables (1940); of emphysema; in Los Angeles...