war bride

The War Bride is based on the memoir of Felix's late grandmother, Jean Groundsell-Contreras, who married Joe Contreras during World War II in Great Britain.

Her first words on War Brides, Curran's introduction to the world, come from a song called "Scattered and Small" and are strangely already posthumous: "I was so alive, I can only look back." This, of all things, at the start, words from the talking dead: beginnings containing their endings, nows resurrecting their thens.

Projects since have included award-winning play Closer and movies Sunset Strip, The War Bride, Me Without You, Goal!

A major figure in the international art sphere, Paolozzi's work features familiar faces and brands in unusual settings, with titles such as Totems and Taboos of the Nineto-Five Day, Twenty Traumatic Twinges and Cary Grant as a Male War bride.

Imagineer Productions will perform War Bride, a visual/ physical choreographed performance with an emotive underscore representing ideas of peace and reconciliation.

O'Hara's soaring dramatic soprano is sweet and true enough to earn her a pass on the atrocious accent she struggles with as Francesca Johnson, an Italian war bride slowly turning to dust as a farmer's wife in 1960s Iowa.

A war bride who traveled from England to Australia in 1919, she was a prominent figure in Australia's sufferage movement, left-wing politics, the crusade for "equal citizenship", and a Melbourne committe dedicated to creating a non-denominational women's college.

THE WAR BRIDE BBC2, 12pm A cockney seamstress marries a Canadian serviceman after a whirlwind romance in London during the Second World War.

"Because of their arrival in the United States, they petitioned a lot of their family members to arrive, so many Korean Americans can trace their immigration roots to a war bride," she said.

A young Japanese war bride and her grown daughter explore their relationship and cross-cultural experiences in a moving story inspired by the author's own experience with a mother who was a Japanese war bride.

War bride Zoe had left Scotland for Canada in 1946 without ever having laid eyes on Elize or her brothers John and Jim, who her dad had with his second wife during World War II.

In London, he met an English girl named Sheila, married her within five weeks and took his war bride and the journal back to Canada where the couple had four daughters.

Anna Lewis, aged 38, of Allesley Old Road, Chapelfields, won first prize last year for her piece, The War Bride, and is entering the sporting life section this year.

In the 1970s, war bride organizations sprung up or were revived all over Canada.

Characters include the husband of a Korean war bride who doesn't wish to westernize, the cleaning lady in Madame Curie's laboratory who shares her employer's fascination with radium, an ignorant British ex-pat living in Asia who discovers she will not be invited to the prince's annual gala, a married pair of circus performers who yearn to make love standing on their heads, a scientist in an imperiled commune of like-minded idealists, a slick fire eater in a traveling tent show, the conflicted teenage daughter of a high-profile evangelical right-to-lifer, and others.