They were were famous throughout the US as exhibition ballroom dancers. Tragically Genevieve died of tuberculosis two years later; John never remarried.
Jeanne Roques (23 February 1889 – 11 December 1957), known professionally as Musidora, was a French actress, film director, screenwriter, playwright and novelist. A major figure of French silent cinema, she became internationally known for portraying Irma Vep in Louis Feuillade's serial Les Vampires (1915–1916), and Diana Monti in Judex (1917).
Musidora was one of the earliest "vamps" in cinema, and was later embraced by surrealist writers and filmmakers as a cultural icon. She was one of the first women to direct films, also screenwriting and producing several features in the 1910s and 1920s.
Breck Shampoo, 1972, with Ann & Kim Basinger
Capa was a war correspondent and photographer, Hemingway a famous journalist and novelist, and Tompkins (from the 2nd Armored Div) was their driver.
Capa (Endre Friedmann) was killed when he stepped on a land-mine in Indochina in 1954, aged 40. Ernest Hemingway took his own life in 1961, aged 61. Tompkins (of Jamestown, Tennessee) died in 2007, aged 89 .
Mary Kenneth Keller, B.V.M. (1913 – 1985) was an American Catholic religious sister, educator and pioneer in computer science. She was one of the first people, and the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in computer science in the United States. Keller and Irving C. Tang were the first two recipients of computer science doctorates (Keller's Ph.D. and Tang's D.Sc. were awarded on the same day).
Great to see her back again, she keeps very low profile these days!
The romance blossomed after Shields mentioned on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson that she had a crush on the singer. They went on a few dates, but the relationship remained strictly platonic on George's side. Shields later detailed the experience in her memoir, There Was a Little Girl. Because she was famously a virgin at the time, she originally assumed George was just being extraordinarily respectful of her. She later understood that the dynamic was because George was gay, a reality he had not yet come out with publicly. Despite the short-lived, one-sided romance, the two remained close friends for years.