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sister, Mary. Only six months into the marriage, Hart told his pregnant wife to leave his home, and she went to live with her mother in Santa Monica. During the divorce hearing, Westover testified that Hart’s sister was the reason for the separation, and that her husband had insisted on keeping open
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In order to portray the heavyset servant, who’d been given the derogatory nickname of Lummox, Westover ate fatty food, avoided exercise, and gained forty pounds. To help her appear to be a person who worked long hours of wearying labor, the director gave her shoes soled with fifteen pounds of lead,
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Winifred Helena Heide was the daughter of Thomas C. Heide and Sophia Heide. On July 14, 1904 Sophia Heide filed for divorce on the grounds of cruelty, non-support, and desertion. She later married Clyde C. Westover, a writer best known for his 1912 novel
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