"before honeymooning in Rome. She lived on her beloved Isle of Capri for the remainder of her life, at her home ""La Canzone Del Mare"", a swimming and restaurant complex which Fields' home overlooked. It was favoured by many Hollywood stars during the 1950s, with regular guests including Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Greta Garbo and Noël Coward. She began to work less, but still toured the UK under the management of Harold Fielding, manager of top artists of the day such as Tommy Steele and Max Bygraves. Her UK tours proved popular, and in the mid-1960s she performed farewell tours"
"a fish and chip shop – I never thought I'd be singing in one!"" claimed Fields during the performance recorded by the BBC. In 1975, her album ""The Golden Years"" reached No. 48 in the UK Albums Chart. In 1978, she opened the Gracie Fields Theatre, next to Oulder Hill Community School in her native Rochdale, performing a concert there recorded by the BBC to open the show. Fields appeared in ten Royal Variety Performances from 1928 onwards, her last being in 1978 at the age of 80 when she appeared as a surprise guest in the finale, in which"
"to where she went. It was later discovered that on July 6, 1953, she collapsed on a sidewalk in the Spanish Harlem section of Manhattan, and later died of pneumonia at a hospital in Harlem at the age of 39. Since no one claimed her body and she had no identification on her, the city gave her a pauper's burial on Hart Island, the city's only potter's field. Eventually, some of her friends and relatives were able to trace her, find her grave, and claim her body. A committee was organized in Puerto Rico, presided over by Dr. Margot Arce"
"a fall-off in her popularity at home. She performed many times for Allied troops, travelling as far as New Guinea, where she received an enthusiastic response from Australian personnel. In late 1945 she toured the South Pacific Islands. After the war, Fields continued her career less actively. She began performing in Britain again in 1948 headlining the London Palladium over Eartha Kitt who was also on the bill. The BBC gave her her own radio show in 1947 dubbed ""Our Gracie's Working Party"" in which 12 towns were visited by Fields, and a live show of music and entertainment was"
"1957, Fields moved to Las Vegas, Nevada and became part owner of the Tropicana Las Vegas. He eventually sold his interest in the hotel, but stayed on as public relations director. In the 1960's, he worked as Chairman of the Nevada State Athletic Commission. In 1965, Fields coached the U.S. boxing team at the 1965 Maccabiah Games. While in Las Vegas, he married his second wife, a former New York model and Las Vegas on-stage performer, Marjorie Fields, with whom he raised several step children. Fields died in 1987 at the age of 79 at a nursing home in Las"
"Foundation, under whose auspices she gave financial support to The Salvation Army, persuading them to set up the first bail hostel in Britain, in 1971. She was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1958, and appeared as a ""castaway"" on the BBC Radio programme ""Desert Island Discs"" on 12 June 1967. She also won the Royal Horticultural Society's Veitch Memorial Medal, in 1972. She married Dr. James Field, a much older man, in 1936; he died only five years later. She died at Goldsborough Nursing Home, Ladbroke Road, Kensington, London on 24 January 1998,"
"some time. There she befriended a small American boy who was taken ill while on a different vessel passing through Torres Strait. After his death, Nordica installed a gravestone in the local cemetery in his memory. She was well enough on Thursday Island to make a new will, which disinherited her husband. (The Australian poet and novelist Thomas Shapcott dramatised these events in his 1998 novel ""Theatre of Darkness"".) She was then transferred to Batavia in the Dutch East Indies (now Jakarta, Indonesia). She lingered for months, seeming to improve, only to fail again. She died on May 10, 1914,"
"Vegas’ Sahara Hotel when, on the eve of the opening, she was stricken at home by a blood clot, suffering a fatal pulmonary embolism. She was rushed to nearby Sunrise Hospital & Medical Center, but was pronounced dead soon after. Her ashes were interred in Las Vegas; after her husband George Johnston's death in January 1995, her remains were moved to the Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, to be interred together. Totie Fields Totie Fields (May 7, 1930 – August 2, 1978) was an American comedian. Fields was born Sophie Feldman in Hartford, Connecticut. She started singing"
"approximately of carriage roads around the eastern half of the island. These roads were closed to automobiles and included many scenic vistas and beautiful stone bridges. Approximately of these roads are within Acadia National Park and open only to hikers, bicyclists, horseback riders, horse-drawn carriages and cross country skiers. In 1950, Marguerite Yourcenar and Grace Frick bought a house, ""Petite Plaisance"", in Northeast Harbor on the island. Yourcenar wrote a large part of her novel ""Memoires d'Hadrien"" on the island, and she died there in 1987. Their house is now a museum. Both ladies were cremated and their ashes are"
"did not regain consciousness. She died in Lewisham, London on 8 May 1987. Described variously as ""an individual of great personal warmth"", ""the Gracie Fields of the psychic world"" and ""a ruthless moneymaking confidence artist"", she continued to give free consultations or ""sittings"" until a month before her death, when she left only £15,291. Stokes was accused of using various forms of deception to achieve the effect of communicating with the dead. These included cold reading, eavesdropping, and planting accomplices in the audience. Stokes's death coincided with the publication of Catholic author Ian Wilson's 1987 book, ""The After Death Experience"","
"Swift died in 1984; Pardoe lived in Norfolk until 1986 when a fall forced her into a nursing home. She lived there until her death in 1996. A short article about her was published in the Summer 2004 issue of ""This England"" magazine. M. Pardoe's first book ""The Far Island"" introduces readers to Jean and Dick Fraser, adventure-loving and sophisticated children who have been used to spending their holidays at luxurious foreign resorts. They suffer a culture shock when sent to Mora Island in Orkney by their great-grandmother, but gradually adjust to the new circumstances, and end up discovering the"
"there for more than three months. Swedish Queen Victoria often stayed there because Axel Munthe was her doctor. Rose O'Neill, the American illustrator and creator of the Kewpie, owned the Villa Narcissus, formerly owned by the famous Beaux-Arts painter Charles Caryl Coleman. Dame Gracie Fields also had a villa and restaurant on the island and is buried there. Mariah Carey owns a villa on the island. In 1908, Lenin was hosted by Maxim Gorky, the Russian author, at his house near the Giardini Augusto. In 1970, a monument by Giacomo Manzù was erected during the centennial celebration in Lenin's honour."
"and they married in March 1940. As an Italian national, he would have been classified as an 'enemy alien' in Britain during World War II. Consequently, he and Fields left the UK for Canada initially, and then the neutral United States in order to prevent his internment. Italian American internment also came into place in the United States during 1941 and 1942, affecting thousands of Italians, but this was eventually relaxed. He held dual Italian and U.S. citizenship. He died on the Orient Express train outside Arona, Italy, of a heart attack, aged 52. In his home town of Cesena"
"years. In 1833 Isabella II of Spain recalled Valdés and named him Captain General of Cadiz and later of the Spanish Navy. Vayetano Valdés died on June 6, 1835, in San Fernando, Cadiz. Valdes Island, an island on the Strait of Georgia, is named for Cayetano Valdés, as is Cayetano Point on that island's southwestern end. Other features on Valdes Island that relate to the 1792 voyage include Mexicana Hill, named for Valdés's ship the ""Mexicana"", Dibuxante Point, named for the artist José Cardero who sailed on board the ""Mexicana"", and Vernaci Point, for Juan Vernacci y Retamal, one of"
"Pointedly, she noted that rivalries between the various islands in the Caribbean were a result of the broader system, which simultaneously united and divided them. Because the ""system"" required that they support the hierarchy, individual islands communicated with their colonizers, rather than among themselves and competed for status rather than overall improvement of the citizenry. From 1961, Goveia had health issues which curtailed her publishing output to an extent, but she continued teaching until her untimely death at age fifty-five. Goveia died at her home in Hope Mews Kingston, Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica on 18 March 1980. In 1985, a"
"Phillips while touring extensively until the early 1970s when she relocated to Miami Beach to become a co-partner in Turnberry Isle, a lucrative mixed-use luxury condominium resort. She was extremely successful as a businesswoman. Her yacht, ""Monkey Business"", was the boat upon which Gary Hart was photographed with Donna Rice, ending the former's presidential ambitions. She died of lung cancer in Miami, April 11, 1998. A comprehensive CD collection of her recordings was released in 2013 by Jasmine Records Lillian Briggs Lillian Briggs (born Lillian Biggs, June 3, 1932April 11, 1998) was an American rock 'n roll performer and musician."
"died, aged 66. Carlotta Monti wrote that in his final moments, she used a garden hose to spray water onto the roof over his bedroom to simulate his favorite sound, falling rain. According to a 2004 documentary, he winked and smiled at a nurse, put a finger to his lips, and died. This poignant depiction is uncorroborated and ""unlikely"", according to biographer James Curtis. Fields' funeral took place on January 2, 1947, in Glendale, California. His cremation, as directed in his will, was delayed pending resolution of an objection filed by Hattie and Claude Fields on religious grounds. They also"
"by Ann Chapman. The actor Graham Fellows owns a disused church on the Orkney island, which he intends to turn into an ""artists refuge"". The late artist Margaret Gardiner spent a large part of her life on Rousay and founded, in 1979 the Pier Art Gallery in Stromness. Rousay Rousay ( meaning Rolf's Island) is a small, hilly island about north of Mainland, the largest island in the Orkney Islands of Scotland, and has been nicknamed ""the Egypt of the north"", due to its archaeological diversity and importance. It is separated from mainland Orkney by the Eynhallow Sound, and, like"
"the flowers in her garden. Celia was present at the time of the infamous murders on Smuttynose Island, about which she wrote the essay, ""A Memorable Murder"". William Morris Hunt, a close family friend, spent the last months of his life on Appledore Island, trying to recover from a crippling depression. He drowned in late summer 1879, three days after finishing his last sketch. Celia Thaxter discovered the painter's body, an apparent suicide. That same year, the Thaxters bought 186 acres (75 hectares) along Seapoint Beach on Cutts Island, Kittery Point, where they built a grand Shingle Style ""cottage"" called"
"figures of her time. Her closest friend was Sarah Orne Jewett, a novelist and story writer whom her husband had published in ""The Atlantic"". Fields and Jewett lived together for the rest of Jewett's life (Jewett died in 1909). Jewett spent the winter of 1881–1882 with Fields at her Boston home immediately after her husband's death. From then on, they shared their homes for one another for about half the year. The two also traveled together, including in 1882 when they visited Ireland, England, Norway, Belgium, France, Switzerland and Italy together. During the trip, Fields's networks allowed them to meet"
"any offers on her cabin and at the same time, refused old age pension. In 1993, she was airlifted to the hospital in Campbell River but recovered and returned to her home on Cortes Island where she died, surrounded by friends and loved ones, on October 31, 1993. Douglas lived to be ninety-three and accomplished a lot as a journalist, a historian, a feminist, and a nature writer. The themes embedded in her writings and her photographs were fundamentally linked to her experiences with nature and the wilderness; her love for nature and her love for writing are thus intertwined."
"156, was named in her honour. Fields was granted the Freedom of Rochdale. The local theatre in Rochdale, the Gracie Fields Theatre, was opened by her in 1978. In September 2016, a statue of Fields was unveiled outside Rochdale Town Hall which is the first statue of a woman to be erected for over a century in Greater Manchester. For a number of years, British film exhibitors voted her among the top ten stars in Britain at the box office via an annual poll in the ""Motion Picture Herald"". Gracie Fields Dame Gracie Fields, (born Grace Stansfield; 9 January 189827"
"the Gold Coast of Long Island, New York. They named the manor house ""Coe Hall"". Mai and her husband shared a love of horticulture. Following an extended illness, Mai died in 1924, and was interred nearby. In 1949, their estate was donated by Coe to become Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park. Henry Huttleston Rogers Jr. was born in 1879. He came to be known as Harry. He was the youngest of the Rogers children. Harry became a favorite of Rogers family friend Mark Twain, who in 1897 dedicated his new book ""Following The Equator"" with the following quipping preface:"
"Tahiti, such as the Royal Tahitien, the Royal Papeete or Les Tropiques, a famous hotel, which Paul Gauguin and Marlon Brando in their days would have hung out at. She then sets up the first professional dance troop that performs during cruise ship stopovers. She moves from French Polynesia to Honolulu in Hawaii in August 1959, and eventually moves to the mainland United States. She and her bands perform under different names, such as ""The Marie Terangi Trio"", ""Marie Terangi Et Son Groupe"" or ""Mariterangi"". She dies from cancer in Papeete in 1971. She is interred at cemetery in Papeete."
"with his wife to Mexico in a ""self-imposed exile"", but he kept up many of his associations. A 1962 visit by Marilyn Monroe was monitored by the FBI out of concern over the actress's connections to Communism, and a ""mutual infatuation"" between her and Field concerned both ""some in her inner circle, including her therapist"", according to investigators' files. There was ""dismay among her entourage and also among the (American Communist Group in Mexico)."" Those file notations were kept redacted until a FOIA request in 2012. He died on February 1, 2000 at the Walker Methodist Health Center in Minneapolis,"
"the island and the secure the autonomy of the Audit Bureau. That same year, Rouss ran unsuccessfully for governor, but was reelected to the Senate in 1985 and as Senate president in 1987. Rouss died on 8 May 1988 of complications from diabetes in St. Croix Hospital, Christiansted, St. Croix and was buried in the Kingshill Cemetery in Christiansted. Immediately following her death, she received accolades for her years of service from both the Legislature of the Virgin Islands and the United States Congress. Posthumously, she was inducted into the Virgin Islands Women's Hall of Fame in 2005. In a"
"her Irish Town home for the last two years of her life. Her condition suddenly worsened around 10:00 am on 25 July 2009. She was rushed to the hospital by her caregivers. However, Bustamante died at approximately 4:40 pm on 25 July 2009, at the Tony Thwaites Wing of the University Hospital of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica. She was 97 years old. Bustamante had no children. Bustamante lay in state at both the BITU headquarters and the Jamaica Labour Party headquarters on 4 August 2009. She was moved to the National Indoor Sports Centre for viewing on 7"
"Thing, It's Another"" was his only ""Billboard"" Hot 100 entry. His other big seller was ""Your Wife Is Cheating On Us"". He had several less successful follow-ups before Boardwalk Records folded in 1983. He then signed with RCA Records, but was dropped after several unsuccessful singles and albums. Renamed simply ""Dimples"", he continued to record for the Columbia and Life record labels. He also worked as a record producer with 9.9, Pat Benatar and The Ohio Players among others. Fields died in Novato, California, in January 2000, at the age of 57, as the result of a stroke. Richard ""Dimples"""
"of a whip. After so many years living in isolation on her island, Rice became worried for her own sanity. She left the wilderness in 1960 at the age of 77 to check into the Brandon Mental Institution. After examination, the doctors assured her she was not crazy, but rather was ""just a prospector"". Nonetheless, in 1962 Rice moved herself into a nursing home in Minnedosa, Manitoba where she died a year later. Penniless in the end, she was buried in an unmarked grave. The island upon which Rice lived on Wekusko Lake was officially recognized as Rice Island in"
"Island, Co. Mayo, Ireland but died in 1989 in a nursing home in Oxford, England. She had been married briefly and divorced and had no children. A. N. Wilson's biography of Sir John Betjeman, published in August 2006, included a letter to Tracy which purported to be by Betjeman detailing a previously unknown love affair. They had worked together at the Admiralty during the war. The letter turned out to be a hoax on Wilson, containing an acrostic spelling out an insulting message to him. Her travel works include: Tracy's novels include: Honor Tracy Honor Tracy (October 19, 1913 –"
"In 1930, she was awarded the Decoration al Merito by Luis E. Feliú, the consulate of Chile, on behalf of the Chilean Government. Peck started a world tour in 1935 at the age of 84, but became ill while climbing up to the Acropolis of Athens. She returned to her home at the Hotel Monterey in New York where she died of bronchial pneumonia on July 18, 1935. She was cremated and her ashes were buried in the North Burial Ground cemetery in Providence, Rhode Island. Her personal papers (1873–1935), including diaries, correspondence and photographs are housed at the Brooklyn"
"Beach, which was created by Onassis, who brought sand from Salamis Island for this purpose. There is also a small sand beach where Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was photographed nude by an Italian paparazzo. Skorpios is mainly known as the private island of the late Greek shipping billionaire Aristotle Onassis. It was the site of his wedding to former United States First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy on October 20, 1968. Upon his death it passed to his daughter Christina, and then in turn to her daughter Athina Onassis Roussel. Onassis, his son Alexander, and his daughter Christina are all buried on the"
"her partner Marie Grice Young lived in the Briarcliff Lodge, where an extension was built for them to reside. The two held a long-term lease there before they boarded the RMS ""Titanic"" and survived its sinking; they continued to live at the lodge until later in their lives. Marian Cruger Coffin, a landscape architect, was born and grew up in Scarborough. Emily Taft Douglas, a U.S. Representative and wife of Senator Paul Douglas, lived in Briarcliff Manor from 1986 to her death in 1994. Composer and conductor Aaron Copland, famous for ""Rodeo"" and ""Fanfare for the Common Man"", began spending"