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Archives: Historical Baby Names
Cayla
Cayla
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Deja
Deja
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Kamya
Kamya
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Cristal
Cristal
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Lorena
Lorena
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Paula
Paula
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Charlize
Charlize
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Bonnie Elizabeth Parker (1 Oct 1910 – 23 May 1934)
Bonnie Elizabeth Parker (1 Oct 1910 – 23 May 1934)
Bonnie Parker was the celebrated girlfriend of Clyde Barrow, and with him and his gang, participated in a rampage of robbery and murder between 1931 and 1934. Born in Texas, Bonnie, her two siblings and her widowed mother lived with her maternal grandparents. They were reasonably well-off and Bonnie was a good student in school. Before her 16th birthday, however, she dropped out of school and married her boyfriend. The union was short-lived (though never officially dissolved) and Bonnie was working as a waitress when she met Clyde Barrow. She was immediately smitten with him and joined him and his gang without looking back. Without looking much forward, either. Bonnie was 24 years old when she and Clyde died together in a shootout by a police posse, and moved on into legend, helped in no small way by the 1967 portrayal of her by Faye Dunaway in the movie, Bonnie and Clyde.
Gloria Swanson (27 Mar 1899 – 4 Apr 1983)
Gloria Swanson (27 Mar 1899 – 4 Apr 1983)
Gloria Swanson was one of the greats of the silent screen who made a relatively successful segue into “talkiesâ€. Born in Chicago of Polish and Swedish descent, Gloria made herself into an early “glamour girl†in the movies, with her exotic dark looks and fantastic fashion style. She married six times, but is probably best remembered in that department for her long term liaison with Joseph P. Kennedy. The father of the future president, Kennedy became a business partner of Gloria’s, producing a forgettable flop, Queen Kelly, and leaving her in precarious financial straits. Not to worry – our Gloria had the gift of self-reinvention. When her movie career wasn’t exactly skyrocketing, she made a splash by writing, designing and appearing in numerous television, stage and radio productions. Her most memorable role was that of Norma Desmond in 1950’s Sunset Boulevard, in which she played a delusional, faded and aging former silent movies star in love with a young screenwriter. Art imitating life, or something of that nature. In the late 1920’s, Gloria Swanson became one of the first enthusiastic vegetarians, expounding on the joys of natural, organic eating, bringing her own food to restaurants, and, in general, making a case for a healthy lifestyle well in advance of the current craze. An adherent of yoga, Ms. Swanson was cheerfully standing on her head in her eighties. What a gal! In fact, what a “glorious†gal!