How many SWMBOs out there?

Posted by Clot on October 17, 2009, 7:42 pm

RicodJour wrote:

> wrote:

>> SWMBO, an acronym for "She Who Must Be Obeyed" was originally used
>> in H. Rider Haggard's 1930s novel "She".

> Sir Henry Rider Haggard KBE (22 June 1856 – 14 May 1925)
> Maybe you read it in the 30's....? ;)
> R

Like it!

Posted by jeff_wisnia on October 18, 2009, 7:04 pm

RicodJour wrote:

> wrote:
>

>>SWMBO, an acronym for "She Who Must Be Obeyed" was originally used in H.
>>Rider Haggard's 1930s novel "She".

>
>
> Sir Henry Rider Haggard KBE (22 June 1856 – 14 May 1925)
>
> Maybe you read it in the 30's....? ;)
>
> R

Your correct of course, the movie I referred to was released 1n 1935,
that's what probably threw me off.

I have a VCR of that movie and also one of the 1965 remake of "She" with
Ursala Andress in the title role.

Jeff

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Posted by David Nebenzahl on October 17, 2009, 8:30 pm

On 10/17/2009 2:36 PM jeff_wisnia spake thus:

> SWMBO, an acronym for "She Who Must Be Obeyed" was originally used in
> H. Rider Haggard's 1930s novel "She".
>
> The book was made into a movie starring Helen Gahagan in the title
> role, she was a broadway stage actress, and it was her only film
> role. The movie used some of the sets which had beed built for the
> original version of "King Kong".
>
> Gahagan married actor Michael Douglas, and using the name Helen
> Gahagan Douglas, she entered California politics and made a
> notoriously unsuccessful run for the US Senate against Tricky Dick
> Nixon whose campaign discredited her.

Um, that was Melvyn Douglas, not Michael. Mike would have been a trifle
young for her.

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Posted by jeff_wisnia on October 18, 2009, 7:10 pm

David Nebenzahl wrote:

> On 10/17/2009 2:36 PM jeff_wisnia spake thus:
>

>> SWMBO, an acronym for "She Who Must Be Obeyed" was originally used in
>> H. Rider Haggard's 1930s novel "She".
>> The book was made into a movie starring Helen Gahagan in the title
>> role, she was a broadway stage actress, and it was her only film
>> role. The movie used some of the sets which had beed built for the
>> original version of "King Kong".
>> Gahagan married actor Michael Douglas, and using the name Helen
>> Gahagan Douglas, she entered California politics and made a
>> notoriously unsuccessful run for the US Senate against Tricky Dick
>> Nixon whose campaign discredited her.

>
>
> Um, that was Melvyn Douglas, not Michael. Mike would have been a trifle
> young for her.
>
>

Yer absatively right!

Jeff

--
Jeffry Wisnia
(W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)
The speed of light is 1.8*10e12 furlongs per fortnight.

Posted by HeyBub on October 17, 2009, 8:33 pm

jeff_wisnia wrote:

> SWMBO, an acronym for "She Who Must Be Obeyed" was originally used in
> H. Rider Haggard's 1930s novel "She".
> The book was made into a movie starring Helen Gahagan in the title
> role, she was a broadway stage actress, and it was her only film
> role. The movie used some of the sets which had beed built for the
> original version of "King Kong".
> Gahagan married actor Michael Douglas, and using the name Helen
> Gahagan Douglas, she entered California politics and made a
> notoriously unsuccessful run for the US Senate against Tricky Dick
> Nixon whose campaign discredited her. She lost that election by a
> mile.

According to one biography, she made the beast with two backs with LBJ when
both were members of Congress. She did, however, coin the phrase "Tricky
Dick" (referring to Nixon) while he successfully painted her pink (as in
Communist) for, among other things, opposing the House Un-American
Activities Committee.

And she married MELVIN Douglas (not Michael).

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