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Lillian Russell's Birthday |
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Alice Faye as Lillian Russell and Edward Arnold as Diamond Jim Brady in Lillian Russell (1940) |
Like Harlow and Monroe, Lillian Russell was also marked with an extreme insecurity and vulnerability that resulted in a series of tragic marriages. Her second husband, Edward Solomon, conveniently forgot to tell her that he was already married. Her third husband, the soi-disant Italian Giovanni Perugini (who was in reality an American named Jack Chatterton), was a homosexual tenor who not only never consummated the marriage but attempted to throw her cut of a seventh floor window. Lillian
was a close friend of "Diamond Jim" Brady who adored her and
tried on several occasions to have Lillian accept his marriage proposals,
one of which was dramatized by dumping one million dollars in
$1,000.00 bills in her lap. However, Lillian always refused, claiming
that marriage would only ruin their friendship. Lillian and her lover Jesse
Lewisohn made a constant foursome with Brady and his mistress, Edna
McCauley, whom Brady passed off as his
"niece".
True to form, I.ewisohn eloped
with McCauley leaving the two friends to drown their sorrows in an endless
sea of food.
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Ingredients |
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4&/2 cups diced lobster meat and coral |
6
TB olive oil |
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Instructions |
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© 2012 Gordon Nary and Tyler Stokes