Author Topic: Whuzzat #17 - Margaret Gorman, first Miss america, and a 1921 Birmingham  (Read 2284 times)

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Who is this girl seated among leopard furs? She was once quite famous, and had a very episodic connection with automobiles. Which one?

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Re: Whuzzat #17
« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2011, 04:46:24 PM »
Let's narrow the things down a bit: She was an American movie actress of the late 1920s.

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Re: Whuzzat #17
« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2011, 11:17:41 PM »
Did ha appear in any Charlie Chaplin movies?
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Re: Whuzzat #17
« Reply #3 on: April 08, 2011, 04:21:41 PM »
Let's narrow the things down a bit: She was an American movie actress of the late 1920s.

No, sorry.
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Re: Whuzzat #17
« Reply #4 on: April 08, 2011, 04:22:09 PM »
Did ha appear in any Charlie Chaplin movies?

Neither.
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Re: Whuzzat #17
« Reply #5 on: April 08, 2011, 04:23:24 PM »
No actress at all?

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Re: Whuzzat #17
« Reply #6 on: April 08, 2011, 04:29:24 PM »
Right, un less I am wrong: she doesn't appear at an actress in film encyclopedias.
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Re: Whuzzat #17
« Reply #7 on: April 08, 2011, 04:30:39 PM »
Was she a dancer like Isadora Duncan?

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Re: Whuzzat #17
« Reply #8 on: April 08, 2011, 04:37:57 PM »
Not a dancer
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Re: Whuzzat #17
« Reply #9 on: April 09, 2011, 12:20:03 AM »
A singer?
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Re: Whuzzat #17
« Reply #10 on: April 09, 2011, 05:01:18 AM »
She didn't dance, didn't sing (except maybe under the shower).
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Re: Whuzzat #17
« Reply #11 on: April 09, 2011, 05:06:43 AM »
Athlete?
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Re: Whuzzat #17
« Reply #12 on: April 09, 2011, 07:28:30 AM »
Writer?
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Re: Whuzzat #17
« Reply #13 on: April 09, 2011, 08:05:12 AM »
Two domains in which she never attained any achievement.
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Re: Whuzzat #17
« Reply #14 on: April 09, 2011, 08:09:02 AM »
Politician?

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Re: Whuzzat #17
« Reply #15 on: April 09, 2011, 08:58:31 AM »
She had not that kind of talent either.
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Re: Whuzzat #17
« Reply #16 on: April 09, 2011, 09:06:48 AM »
Was she an aristocrat?
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Re: Whuzzat #17
« Reply #17 on: April 09, 2011, 09:14:30 AM »
Scientist?
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Re: Whuzzat #17
« Reply #18 on: April 09, 2011, 09:33:23 AM »
No, and no.
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Re: Whuzzat #17
« Reply #19 on: April 09, 2011, 09:35:15 AM »
Aviatrix?
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Re: Whuzzat #17
« Reply #20 on: April 09, 2011, 04:47:09 PM »
Not an aviatrix.
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Re: Whuzzat #17
« Reply #21 on: April 09, 2011, 06:57:28 PM »
Not an aviatrix.

known for driving?
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Re: Whuzzat #17
« Reply #22 on: April 10, 2011, 06:12:04 AM »
Not as I know of. As I said above, her connection with cars appears to be quite episodic (of a kind you recently used yourself).
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Re: Whuzzat #17
« Reply #23 on: April 10, 2011, 06:15:17 AM »
Photographer?

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« Reply #24 on: April 10, 2011, 06:17:09 AM »
Not that.
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