Though he had no sons to take over his businesses, his four daughters Anna, Bessie, Cissy and Doreen - named in alphabetical order the "better to remember them by, " he said - all married well.
That is why many of the actresses who have won Oscars in the 1980s and 1990s to date were dumpy (Kathy Bates), tiny (Holly Hunter), cosy (Frances McDormand) or downright plain (Cissy Spacek and Sally Field).