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Eleanor Gehrig
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Overview
Born
March 6
,
1904
·
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died
March 6
,
1984
·
New York City, New York, USA
(undisclosed)
Birth name
Eleanor Grace Twitchell
Mini Bio
Eleanor Gehrig was born on March 6, 1904 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was a writer, known for
A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story (1978)
and
The Ed Sullivan Show (1948)
. She was married to
Lou Gehrig
. She died on March 6, 1984 in New York City, New York, USA.
Family
Spouse
Lou Gehrig
(September 29, 1933 - June 2, 1941) (his death)
Trivia
Father was Chicago Parks Commissioner Frank Twitchell
Her upstairs neighbor in her apartment on the East Side of Manhattan where she lived after her husband's death was the late boxing great Jack Dempsey.
Quotes
On her marriage to Lou Gehrig: "I would not have traded two minutes of joy and the grief with that man for two decades of anything with another."
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