Maria langham biography
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Stats
Born Maria Franklin on January 17,1884 in Kentucky, to George and his wife, Anna.
5’2, brunette, brown eyed
Quotes
“Clark never did anything to embarrass me. Our marriage was one of mutual respect.”
“I’ve always told Clark he could have a divorce any day he asked me for it. And he can. Today or tomorrow. But he’s a businessman as well as a movie star. He knows one must be businesslike about these things. It’s only fair. I gave him a good many years of my life and taught him a great deal.”
Before Clark
Ria was raised in Macomb, Illinois. She married William Prentiss at age seventeen and divorced him four years later. By this time her mother had died and her father was living in Texas, ailing with tuberculosis. She moved to Texas to help care for him and met Alfred Thomas Lucas, a widower twenty-two years her senior who had a very successful brick business. Soon after they were married, Ria gave birth to George Anna (calle
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Biography of Mary Langham Countess Warrington 1652-1691
On 02 Jan 1694 [her former husband] Henry Booth 1st Earl Warrington (age 41) died. He was buried at Church of St Mary the Virgin, Bowdon [Map]. His son [her son] George Booth 2nd Earl Warrington (age 18) succeeded 2nd Earl Warrington, 3rd Baron Delamer, 4th Baronet Booth of Dunham Massey.
The inscription of his monument:
"Beneath lieth the body of the right hon'ble Henry Booth, earl of Warrington, and baron Delamer"
"Also rest by him the earthly remains of the r. hon'ble Mary countess of Warrington, his wife, sole daughter and heir of sir James Langham, of Cottesbrooke, in the county of Northamptom, [sic] knt. and bart. Heb. XI. 38."
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By Jack Wade
Modern Screen, 1952
Lucky in kort, unlucky in love, they say. If it’s true, Clark must be a whiz at bridge!
Every time Clark Gable gets han själv s divorce, his fans say. “How come he married that woman in the first place?”
They asked this when Gable divorced his first wife, Josephine Dillon, a stage director 17 years his senior.
In 1939 the same inquiry was made concerning Clark’s second wife, Maria Langham, a wealthy Texas kultur matron, 11 years his senior.
Nowadays, in almost imploring tones, everyone fryst vatten demanding to know “why Gable married Sylvia Ashley anyway.” It’s as if everyone in the world but Gable knew for sure that his fourth marriage was destined to fail.
A simple truth about William Clark Gable fryst vatten that he is a notoriously bad judge of women, and he sought a mother substitute rather than a wife in each of the women he married.
Gable fans may scream in protest at the later statement—after all, for 20 years he has been built up as the rugged, äga