An American man has been seeking to make contact with a protracted misplaced good friend he had in Madrid greater than 60 years in the past.
George Mattox from Miami, Florida, has positioned an advert on the lookout for Annie Stringer whom he met in Madrid after coming to Spain in 1963.
George had booked his passage from New York on an Atlantic freighter and located himself in Madrid the place he had hoped to observe an appearing profession. Spain “gave the impression to be a great place since many main producers had been filming within the nation.”
Indeed a few of which went on to turn into iconic movies of the period together with Dr Zhivago and 100 Days in Peking.
For George, Madrid was a perfect place to be – it was low-cost, he spoke Spanish and “producers like Samuel Bronston had been producing main films”.
George discovered work together with singing at Madrid´s iconic Teatro Zarzuela and it was throughout this time that he met Annie, “a younger English woman from Middlesex, England”.
They had been collectively at some point of George´s keep however his appearing profession didnt materialise and in late 1964 he returned to New York.
They had been in contact by letter after that however “time and distance” took its toll.
Many years handed till prompted to write down his memoirs by his three kids he began going by means of outdated bins of his life within the performing arts and located all of Annie´s outdated letters.
Re-reading them was ” fairly an emotional journey” into George´s previous and was the spur to see if he may discover Annie in any case these years. Despite some leads and emails to individuals that may have a contact he drew a clean.
Annie in the present day can be round 80 years outdated and when you’ve got any details about her George can be delighted to listen to from you.
