CANDIDS II
Re: CANDIDS II
LUPITA TOVAR 1910-2016 RIP
Actress Lupita Tovar, mother of Susan Kohner, died close to her daughter"s birthday. Susan is 80, her mother was 106!
Actress Lupita Tovar, mother of Susan Kohner, died close to her daughter"s birthday. Susan is 80, her mother was 106!
Re: CANDIDS II
Birthday boy Clifton Webb with his beloved mother Maybelle.
In 1892, his formidable mother, Mabelle (1869-1960), moved to New York with her beloved "little Webb," as she called him for the remainder of her life. She dismissed questions about his father, Jacob Grant Hollenbeck, a railroad ticket clerk, by saying, "We never speak of him. He didn't care for the theater." Webb and Maybelle lived together until her death at age 91. When Clifton's obsessive grieving for his mother continued on for well over a year, close friend Noël Coward, keeping their lengthy friendship in mind, is said to have remarked with a bit of exasperation, "It must be difficult to be orphaned at seventy." Webb never recovered from his mother's death. He made one film, then spent the remainder of his life in ill health and seclusion. Sad.
Joseph Goodheart