People wondered why the dashing Franklin Delano Roosevelt married Eleanor.
“What lay behind the mutual attraction between the smooth, handsome youth and the old-maidish young woman?” asks Joseph Persico in his book Franklin & Lucy—President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherford and the Other Remarkable Women in His Life.
Persico’s answer? “In Eleanor, he found a different sort of young woman than those he was accustomed to, one who thought beyond fashion, parties and appearance. Eleanor offered intellectual companionship, a novel experience for him with a girl.”
Sounds like an interesting book!
cheers,
Mary
While thousands of screaming fans were safely kept outside, it was the mothers, wives, girlfriends, sisters and daughters of film industry executives who mobbed Radcliffe at the party.