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President Woodrow Wilson and Steven Spielberg - This Day in History – Dec 18th
President Woodrow Wilson and Steven Spielberg - This Day in History – Dec 18th
Widower, President Wilson remarries a descendent from Pocahontas
Back in 1915, President Woodrow Wilson marred for a second time after his first wife, Ellen died from a kidney ailment. Mr. Wilson’s second wife, Edith was a wealthy widow who was a direct descendent of Pocahontas. There was a 16-age difference between Woodrow and Edith, he was 59 and she was 43.
History.com states that, “According to the National First Ladies' Library, the couple was introduced by his cousin and a mutual friend. Unlike Wilson's first wife, who was shy and avoided politics, Edith shared Wilson's passion for the subject. Wilson proposed three months later and they married at her Washington, D.C. home. As the 1916 presidential campaign heated up, many of Wilson's advisors worried that his whirlwind courtship and marriage to Edith so soon after his first wife's death would become a political liability. By the time of his second inaugural in March 1917, though, Americans soon had more serious matters to think about: America's entry into World War I. Throughout the war and the rest of Wilson's second term, Edith was constantly at her husband's side and her presence irritated and frustrated his advisors.”
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Edith would later become here husband’s “steward,” screening the mail and official papers when the president suffered a stroke in 1919.
According to history.com, “Wilson won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1920 for his work on brokering the treaty that ended World War I. At the conclusion of his second term in 1921, he retired, though he and Edith continued to live in Washington, D.C. Wilson passed away three years later; after his death, Edith dedicated herself to compiling her husband's presidential papers. She died in 1961 at the age of 89.”
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Hollywood director, Steven Spielberg is born
Back in 1946, Cincinnati OH, welcomed future Hollywood Director, Steven Spielberg, known for his work in classic movies, “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial,” “Saving Private Ryan,” “Schindler’s List,” and “The Raiders of the Ark,” series.
Mr. Spielberg, a California State University film Graduate, directed his first full-length feature television film, “Duel,” when he was 25. He would later make his Hollywood directing debut in the Goldie Hawn film, “The Sugarland Express,” in 1974 but would gain rave reviews in “Jaws,” the Richard Dreyfuss and Roy Scheider movie that became the first film to gross over $100 million.
According to history.com, “In addition to writing and directing, Spielberg has served as a producer on a variety of television and film projects, including the 2001 HBO series Band of Brothers and Clint Eastwood’s Flags of our Fathers (2006) and Letters from Iwo Jima (2006). Spielberg was married to the actress Amy Irving (Crossing Delancey) from 1985 to 1989 and has been married to the actress Kate Capshaw (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom) since 1991.”
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