Monday, Feb. 20, 1950
Divorced. By Cinemactress Ingrid Bergman, 34: Los Angeles Neurosurgeon Dr. Peter Lindstrom, 42; after twelve years of marriage, one child; in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico (see CINEMA).
Divorced. Cinemactor John Payne (Sentimental Journey), 37; by Cinemactress Gloria De Haven (Two Girls and a Sailor), 24; after five years of marriage, two children, four separations; in Los Angeles.
Divorced. John Huston, 43, writer-director of topnotch U.S. Army and Hollywood films (San Pietro, Treasure of Sierra Madre); by Cinemactress Evelyn Keyes, 28, his third wife (he was her third husband); after 3 1/2 years of marriage, one adopted son; in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Died. Mary Curley Donnelly, 41, and Leo Curley, 34, only daughter and eldest son of Massachusetts' ex-Governor James Michael Curley, longtime mayor (off & on) of Boston, the sixth and seventh of his nine children to die; she of a cerebral hemorrhage; he, the same day, of a heart attack, while making arrangements for his sister's funeral; in Boston.
Died. Hartvig Frisch, 57, Danish Minister of Education, a onetime Social Democratic leader in the Rigsdag (Parliament), one of 49 signers-of the United Nations charter at the San Francisco Conference; of cancer; in Copenhagen.
Died. Ernest Lessing ("Ernie") Byfield, 60, waggish Chicago hotelman (the two Ambassadors, the Sherman) and nightclub impresario (the Pump Room, the College Inn); of a heart ailment; in Chicago. Hotelman Byfield once defined the perfect hotelman as the "master of opposites. He needs to be a greeter and a bouncer, pious but ribald . . . noted as a connoisseur and competent as a plumber."
Died. Arthur ("Art") Fletcher, 65, who saw action in 14 World Series, four times as a peppery, slick-fielding Giant shortstop in the McGraw era, ten times as a wily, hawk-eyed Yankee coach; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Fletcher joined the Yankees after four seasons (1923-26) as manager of the lackluster Phillies, turned down the chance to manage many another big-league team--including the Yankees--and stayed on until 1945 as one of baseball's highest-paid coaches.
Died. Rafael Sabatini, 75, author of more than 40 jack-booted cloak-and-rapier romances (Scaramouche, The Sea Hawk, Captain Blood), historian and playwright; in Adelboden, Switzerland. Born in Italy and raised as a polyglot cosmopolite, Sabatini made England his home and English ("All the best stories are written in English") his language.
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