Addams

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Addams

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AddamsJane18601935FUSSOCIAL SCIENCE: social reformerPOLITICS: feministPOLITICS: pacifist Jane. 1860–1935, US social reformer, feminist, and pacifist, who founded Hull House, a social settlement in Chicago: Nobel peace prize 1931

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You also had a pretty uncomfortable costume in The Addams Family, which is surprising, since your performance feels so effortless.

This “Popular Song” music video is The Addams Family meets… Wicked.

When you had the bit part as a police desk sergeant in the film Addams Family Values, was it your dream one day to play Gomez?

Anyway, that's all I remember from my one day of shooting Addams Family Values.

I guess he and others were expecting the Sondheim/Tony Kushner Addams Family musical as directed by Peter Brook.

Now, thanks to Miss Addams and other settlement-workers who have studied him in action from close at hand, we have him on a film.

Within a short time Mrs. Addams was chosen massire, a position she held until the school closed.

Mrs. Addams has told us of the great success of one, Miss Prince, who had never been in an art school.

So, until Miss Addams should deign to declare herself, it seemed as if whist or dancing might break out at any moment.

And still the inscrutable Miss Addams, with her eye drifting a little more frequently towards the door, gave no sign.

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