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Downing was born on March 7, 1904, in Washington, D.C. [1] She graduated from Bryn Mawr College and worked as a translator of plays for Garson Kanin.She was in the 1990 play Richard III which also starred Denzel Washington.
Virginia Anna Adeleid Weidler (March 21, 1927 [1] – July 1, 1968) was an American child actress, popular in Hollywood films during the 1930s and 1940s. [ 2 ] Early life and career
Shelley Winters (born Shirley Schrift; August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was an American film actress whose career spanned seven decades.She won Academy Awards for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and A Patch of Blue (1965), and received nominations for A Place in the Sun (1951) and The Poseidon Adventure (1972), the latter of which also earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a ...
William Winter Payne (January 2, 1807 – September 2, 1874) ... Payne returned to Virginia in 1847 and engaged in planting near Warrenton. He served as chairman of ...
Orlando: A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928, inspired by the tumultuous family history of the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, Woolf's lover and close friend. It is arguably one of her most popular novels, a history of English literature in satiric form.
Virginia Hall was born in Baltimore, Maryland on April 6, 1906, to Barbara Virginia Hammel and Edwin Lee Hall. [7] She attended Roland Park Country School and then Radcliffe College of Harvard University and Barnard College of Columbia University, where she studied French, Italian, and German. [7]
Elise Varner Winter (May 9, 1926 - July 17, 2021) was an American civic leader and activist who served as the Second Lady of Mississippi from 1972 to 1976 and as the First Lady of Mississippi from 1980 to 1984. She was an advocate for public education, affordable housing, prison reform, and advancement of the arts.
[75] Her mother stayed with Poe until his own death in 1849. As Virginia was dying, the family received many visitors, including an old friend named Mary Starr. At one point Virginia put Starr's hand in Poe's and asked her to "be a friend to Eddy, and don't forsake him". [76] Virginia was tended to by 25-year-old Marie Louise Shew.