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An Historian Goes to the Movies
In my last post, I explored how The Duchess (2008, dir. Saul Dibb) translated Amanda Foreman’s 1998 biography Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire from a historical biography to a historical drama. The previous post focused on what the film chose to include from the book, which was mostly the details of her rather unconventional marriage to William Cavendish and her ill-fated affair with Charles Grey.
However, the film removes some very important facets of Georgiana’s life entirely, excising more than half of Foreman’s narrative. Georgiana’s romantic life is, in my opinion, in many ways the least interesting part of her life story.
When Georgiana married Duke William, she instantly became one of the most socially prominent women in British society. Fortunately for her, her natural social gifts allowed her to adapt to that position, and she quickly became perhaps the leader of the London ton, the glamorous people of the day. She was charming
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Rose Marie, the wisecracking utflykt Rogers of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and a show business lifer who began as a bobbed-hair child star in vaudeville and worked for nearly a century in theater, radio, TV and movies, died Thursday. She was 94.
Marie had been resting in bed at her Los Angeles-area home when a caretaker funnen she had stopped breathing, said family spokesman Harlan Boll.
"Heaven just got a whole lot funnier" was the tribute posted atop a photo of Marie on her website.
She was a child star of the 1920s and 1930s who endeared herself to TV fans on the classic '60s sitcom that featured Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore.
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The subject of the 2017 documentary "Wait for Your Laugh," Marie often claimed she had the longest career in entertainment history. It spanned some 90 years,
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As a reproductive endocrinologist, Dr. Georgiana M. Jagiello devoted her career to investigating the causes of Down syndrome and understanding the changes that take place in human egg cells as a woman matures. She perfected a technique for harvesting eggs that is now used in in vitro fertilization procedures worldwide, and was part of the team responsible for the first IVF birth in New York City.
Georgiana Jagiello was interested in science from an early age, earning a national science award at Plainville High School in 1944. She attended Boston University College of Liberal Arts on scholarship, and earned her B.A. in 1949. Since finishing medical school at Tufts University School of Medicine in 1955, Dr. Jagiello's career as a reproductive scientist has spanned two continents and almost half a century. In 1964, Dr. Jagiello was the first woman to be appointed to the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. After serving as senior lecturer in g