Word: laura
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cinemillions had already unanimously voted that Clark Gable must play Rhett Butler. Selznick also bowed to them when he cast Olivia de Havilland as sweetish, big-eyed, thrushlike Melanie Hamilton, Leslie Howard as smooth, anemic, intellectual Ashley Wilkes, Laura Hope Crews as futile, flustered foolish Aunt Pittypat. Two of Selznick's minor castings were inspired: 1) Thomas Mitchell as old hard-riding Gerald O'Hara, who (after his mind is gone) by sheer power of pantomime dominates the scenes in which he has almost nothing to say or do; 2) colored Cinemactress Hattie McDaniel, who comes from Kansas...
...Manhattan's Riverside Church tower, 16 well-muscled men and one well-muscled woman shivered in a northwest gale and listened. They did not have to prick up their ears. The din was deafening enough to split eardrums less inured. Around them boomed the 72 bells of the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Carillon, loudest and biggest in the U. S. The biggest of these bells weighed as much as a good-sized army tank, the loudest of them could be heard in the neighboring State of New Jersey. But to the 17 listeners this tintinnabulation was a concord of sweet...
LIVES OF WIVES-Laura Riding-Random House...
...women would like things to happen swiftly and largely-but, the things they would have happen being so different from the things likely to happen, most of them prefer slow, small lives to naked contact with the insufficiencies that their times and their husbands represent." Thus expatriate Poet Laura Riding compresses the theme of Lives of Wives, and invites readers to take another good look at history...
...most dramatic portrait is that of Olympias, wife of lusty, roughneck Philip II, mother of psychopathic Alexander the Great. Her sinister and violent career has always given historians the creeps. But no historian has shown so shrewd an insight into her character as Laura Riding. She poses a daring speculation: Was Olympias perhaps a noble woman embittered and corrupted by her coarsely disappointing husband? Likewise the career of Cleopatra becomes a seductive peg on which to hang the thesis that women are pretty much what men make them...