By Michelle Rosenberg “I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for Lassie.” Immortalised by the tongue-in-cheek animated character Edna Mode in Pixar’s The Incredibles, the original Edith Head won a record eight Academy Awards for costume design between 1949 and 1974 for movies including All About Eve, Roman Holiday and Samson and Delilah. […]
Dorothy Hale. January 11, 1905 – October 21, 1938 By Michelle Rosenberg It was only in death that Ms Hale achieved the dramatic notoriety she appeared to have craved in life, leaping from the roof of her 16th floor New York City apartment on Central Park South at 0515 on October 21st 1938, aged just […]
By Michelle Rosenberg A social worker, labour activist and passionate suffragist for women’s right to vote, Maud was the first daughter of Annie Augusta and Robert Weeks Nathan, descendants of one of the most distinguished Sephardic Jewish families in the United States. She was married at just 17 to her first cousin Frederick Nathan, a […]
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