Overview: Carole Lombard was an actress best known for parts in screwball comedies. She was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana on October 6th, 1908 as Jane Alice Peters. Her family moved to Los Angeles, California after her parents’ divorce. At a young age, she decided to pursue an acting career in the movies. She fulfilled her goal and even became the highest paid actress in Hollywood in 1937.
Mary died in 1884, at the age of 29 because of a presumed brain tumor. Two years later, Tom married Mina Miller (“Thomas Edison”). Tom worked hard to invent until he couldn’t do it anymore. His last patent he had was when he was 83, which would be his 1,093rd patent. By the 1920’s Thomas’s health had started to fail because of his diabetes (“Edison Biography”).
He passed away due to lung cancer (Walter par. 8). Walter Disney had gone into surgery for back pain relief just one month before in November of 1966. During his surgery, the doctors found a malignant tumor in his lung. Disney was told that he only had months to live.
In shock over their deaths, Liesel drops her book, yet its picked up by Death. Since Liesel has no one left, the police hold her, not certain what to do with her. Before long Ilsa Hermann arrives and takes her in. Soon Alex Steiner returns , and Liesel spends time with him. As the novel ends, we first discover that Liesel has passed away at an old age.
Grace had so many injuries on her brain, her thorax, and a fractured femur that the doctors couldn’t do much of anything to try and save her life. She had died the following night, at age 52. On the other side, Stephanie had a hairline fracture, but she lived. But due to her injuries, she couldn’t attend her mother’s funeral. Grace’s funeral was held on September 18, 1982 at the Saint Nicholas Cathedral in Monaco.
Thomas Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. Thomas died of complication of diabetes on October 18, 1931 in his home, ¨Glenmont” in Llewellyn Park in West Orange, New Jersey. That Thomas had purchased as a wedding gift for his wife Mina also Thomas is buried behind his house. Thomas was eighty-four when he died. Mary Stilwell Edison, Thomas’s first wife, died on August 9, 1884 at the age of twenty-nine.
Around that same time, her mom was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic (“Marilyn”). During her first part of her acting career, she only got small parts in movies (Owings 36). Later the studio dropped her after her first year (Owings 36). Her role in Love Happy only lasted 38 seconds (Owings 38). Around that time, she changed her name to Mona Monroe (Owings 40).
When her mother was giving birth to the baby, he was born dead, she then needed to do a hysterectomy, she could not have more babies. Chanhassen then wanted to travel to find herself. When Sal 's mother got to Idaho, she died in the tragic bus accident, Sal started to blame herself "I didn 't want to blame her. She was my mother, and she was part of me." (Creech, page 109) .
Toby Wing Martha Virginia Wing also known as Toby Wing was a showgirl and an American actress whose birth date was on July 14, 1915. Her father named Paul Wing was the Paramount Pictures’ assistant director and at the age of 9, Toby started working onscreen. She became a member of the first Goldwyn Girls however, she seldom got lead roles. Toby was very well-known as a sex symbol. She was also recognized for her romances offscreen and was being associated to Franklin Roosevelt Jr., Maurice Chevalier and Jackie Coogan whom she was affianced during 1935.
In the movie Lucy and her father had a serious car accident and left Lucy with anterograde amnesia, and because of that she wakes up every morning thinking it is the same day of the accident without any recollection of the accident. Although this movie is fictional, the form of amnesia Lucy experienced can potentially happen in cases of shock, psychological disturbance, brain injury, and illness. Anterograde amnesia refers to the loss of memory for events after an accident. Therefore, a person can’t store new information in their short term memory (McLeod, 2011). In the film 50 First Dates Lucy’s family goes out of their way to set up each day according to the day of the accident so that she does not find anything unfamiliar.