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Quick answer: According to the stage notes in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, Blanche is "about five years older than Stella." Stella appears in the play and she is described...
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From Season 1 to Season 7: 55 to 62 Years Old
Rose became the signature role of TV and movie sweetheart Betty White: a cheerful and somewhat naive Midwesterner who moves in with the others after her husband passes away. She's played as a bit of a dim bulb, full of wild stories about her very rural (fictional) town of St. Olaf, Minnesota. The stories often gave White a chance to display her peerless comic timing, and helped earn her the Emmy for Best Actress in a Comedy in 1986 -- the first for the show's cast -- for Season 1, Episode 16,...
From Season 1 to Season 7: 53 to 60 Years Old
Dorothy Zbornak is the de facto centerpiece of the show: a non-nonsense substitute teacher from Brooklyn who comes to Miami after a painful divorce. She's acerbic and short-tempered, but also the most sensible and practical of the four women. Actor Bea Arthur had already achieved worldwide fame as Maude Findlay, first on the groundbreaking All in the Family and then on her own spin-off series, Maude, which ran from 1972 to 1978. The latter series also featured Rue McClanahan, who rejoined Art...
From Season 1 to Season 7: 79 to 86 Years Old
Sophia is Dorothy's mother, born in Sicily and fleeing to America in order to escape an arranged marriage. She moves in with the other three, following a fire at her retirement home. She's smart and sharp-tongued, though often more emotionally detached than her daughter. Though she remained a central part of the show throughout, Getty was billed as a supporting actor, which allowed her to win the Emmy for the part in 1988: the same year as Arthur, and Getty's third straight nomination. Sophia...
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Blanche symbolizes the Old South and its defunct social hierarchy throughout the play "A Streetcar Named Desire." Blanche was raised in Laurel, Mississippi, where she was expected to behave like a ...
Born: March 1, 1841 in Farmville, Virginia. Died: March 17, 1898 in Washington, District of Columbia. United States Senator, 1875–1881. Republican from Mississippi. Blanche Kelso Bruce was the second African American to be elected to the U.S. Senate, and the first to serve a full term.
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- 1925. May 19: Malcolm X is born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska, the fourth of Earl and Louise Little's seven children. Earl, a Baptist minister, is a follower of Marcus Garvey's black nationalism and serves as Omaha chapter president of Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association.
- 1926. December: The Littles leave Omaha and move to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
- 1928. The Littles move again, this time to Lansing, Michigan. Settling in a white neighborhood, they are sued for eviction on the basis that a restrictive covenant prevents their home from being sold to any non-Caucasians.
- 1931. September 28: Louise has a premonition about her husband and asks him not to leave the house. Later that night, Earl Little is killed in what police term a streetcar accident, but Malcolm later says that the Ku Klux Klan was behind it.
The rapid expansion of education past age 14 set the U.S. apart from Europe for much of the 20th century. [82] From 1910 to 1940, high schools grew in number and size, reaching out to a broader clientele. In 1910, for example, 9% of Americans had a high school diploma; in 1935, the rate was 40%. [190]
Jan 13, 2017 · 8. King started speaking out for civil rights in college. In the summer between his sophomore and junior years, he published a letter to the editor in the Atlanta Constitution about what black ...
