Breckinridge

[brek-uhn-rij]

noun

1. John Cabell, 1821–75, vice president of the U.S. 1857–61: Confederate general in the American Civil War.

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"I'm just thrilled," Teresa Breckinridge, owner of the Silver Skillet Diner in Atlanta, Georgia, told the BBC.

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The youngest vice president. was John C. Breckinridge, a Kentuckian who served in the U.S.

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You can buy “Myra Breckinridge” on DVD or VHS via Amazon, or watch it in Spanish on YouTube.

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After Myron Breckinridge gets a sex-change operation in Copenhagen, she returns to America as Myra, where she arrives at her Uncle Buck’s acting school claiming to be Myron’s widow and that she’s been granted half of the school or $500,000 in his will.

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During a career that spanned more than five decades, her roles ranged from a transgender woman in Michael Sarne’s 1970 adaptation of Gore Vidal’s satirical novel “Myra Breckinridge” to the gritty 1972 roller derby movie “Kansas City Bomber” to her Golden Globe-winning performance in the star-studded 1973 comedy “The Three Musketeers.”

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