Jitterbug
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Location | The Sunny Southwest, United States |
| Introduction | Can a 21st-century dame who hates housework with the passion of a thousand suns be made over in the image of a 1940s housewife? I've got only a handful of vintage housekeeping manuals, magazines, and cookbooks to guide me along the way. Destination 1940... here I come! |
| Interests | Animal rights, Anthropomorphic fruit and vegetables, Art Deco, Big band swing, Environmentalism, 40s, 40's, Living history, Museums, 1930s, 1940s, Old time radio, Playing the piano, 30s, 30's, Vegetarianism, Vintage radio |
| Favorite movies | Anne of Green Gables, Annie, The Best Years of Our Lives, A Christmas Story, The Clock, Ethan Frome, The Farmer's Wife, Grease, Hula Girls, It's a Wonderful Life, Meet Me in St. Louis, Once, Penny Serenade, Sixteen Candles, Splendor in the Grass, A Streetcar Named Desire, Pleasantville, Pride and Prejudice, Prime Suspect, Rear Window, Since You Went Away, The Women |
| Favorite music | The Andrews Sisters, The Beatles, The Bee Gees, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Leonard Cohen, Dixie Chicks, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Durante, Antonin Dvorak, The Eagles, The Frames, Betty Hutton, Harry James, Iz Kamakawiwo'ole, Kay Kyser, Glenn Miller, Cole Porter, Giacomo Puccini, Corinne Bailey Rae, Artie Shaw, James Taylor |
| Favorite books | An American Tragedy, As the Earth Turns, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Kingsblood Royal, Letters from the Earth, Little House series, Main Street, Nancy Drew series, Our Town, The Shipping News, Silent Spring, Strange Defeat, A Tale of Two Cities, Tess of the D'Urbervilles |