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by Gary E. Andrews - 06/05/26 04:07 PM
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Highwomen
by Gary E. Andrews - 06/02/26 08:15 PM
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HiDee Mz Heidi!
I'm sure you'll find Lots To Like about this Pic! (I kinda pity the guys who write these reviews for a living...ONE Bad Flick per-Week is easy-to-take, but 3-5 would kill me!)
I found this to be very UN-Male-Bashing, even tho a lot of it centers around Mary's Hubby's Infidelity. The Original Careful Handlin' of the Storyline probably owes its Sensitivity to the fact that Claire Booth Luce had a lifelong extramarital affair with Financier/Presidential Advisor/Witty-Guy Bernard Baruch (After she, herself, divorced..then married New Hubby Henry Robinson Luce, wealthy Editor of Time/Fortune/& Life Magazines.)
CBL was definitely one of the ORIGINAL Women's Libbers, & a Love-Child of Dancer Ana Snyder & Violinist William Franklin Booth. Dad deserted them when she was 9/Childhood spent in Chicago, Memphis, Illinois, & Tennessee..& in France, tagging along with Mom. Age 10, she understudied for Mary Pickford on a Broadway Play/had more Acting Schooling in NYC..Married George Tuddle Brokaw (NY Clothing Tycoon/Alcoholic) & divorced, w/ 1 child, in '29. '35, she married Henry/Wrote several Plays (The Women ran 657 performances..it was her Second one.) Battlefront Reporter for TIME in WW2..Interviewed Chian Kai-Shek & Jawaharal Nehru/Got into Politics, 2 Term Congresswoman, once Ambassador to Italy, Reagan awarded her a Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1983. Most Memorable Quote she pioneered: "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished"....
By the time of her death in '87, she bequeathed HER fortune to her Hubby's Already BIG Foundation, & to this date grants of $120 Mil have supported 1,550 women in Higher Education. (Not bad for a Love-Child, eh?) ;-)>
Bernard Baruch was Quite a Guy, too...Give the Guy a Google!
(Among HIS better Quotes:)
"Never Follow The Crowd"
"To Me, Old Age is always 15 years Older Than I Am"...
And..he was the First to use the term "Cold War"..in a speech Apr 16, 1947. (You'll find HIS views on "how to manage a US Wartime Economy" to be Quite-Interesting...)
Apologies for the Info Overload....BUT..CB Luce and her Lover ARE Quite Interesting People. (&..their REAL Lives certainly Outshadow anything in this Flick..Incredibly-So!)
None of which I'd have learned if it weren't for this Movie!
Thanks for Your Encouragement & Kindness, M'LadyChum!
Big Chipmunky Hugs,
Stan
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