A postcard bearing no publisher's name that was posted in Eastbourne, Sussex using a 1d. stamp on Monday the 29th. May 1939. The card was sent to:
Mr. A. Bellevue, 79, Huntingdon Road, East Finchley, London.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Dear Arthur, I got your letter this morning. We are coming home Tuesday evening. We shall get to Victoria about.7 pm. We shall be at the Stag at about 8 o'clock if you would like to come there to meet us. We have been to Beachy Head and Wannock. The weather has been fine so far. Fancy you getting top score - the others must have been rotten. Love from Vi."
Danica d'Hondt
So what else happened on the day that Vi posted the card to Arthur?
Well, the 29th. May 1939 marked the birth in London, England of Danica d'Hondt.
Danica is an English-Canadian actress, writer and businesswoman. She was a winner of the Miss Canada pageant in 1958, and has worked in American television and film, as well as theater productions in the San Francisco area.
Danica d'Hondt was born of an Irish mother and a Belgian father. She is the sister of Canadian Olympic Gold Medalist Walter D'Hondt.
Danica began her acting career at the age of nine by appearing in a movie at Shepperton Studios in England.
She then worked in radio, TV and on stage in Canada, where her family emigrated while she was still in school.
Danica graduated from high school in Montreal, and returned to England after attending the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
She worked as a stage actress in London, also performing in radio and TV dramas for the BBC, before relocating to Toronto, where she became a CBC-TV game show personality and a talk show host at an early age.
Danica also appeared on TV shows out of New York City, and in summer stock theatre in New York and Illinois. She starred with comic Harvey Korman in Living Venus (1961), a film shot in Chicago.
D'Hondt's Hollywood career spans the years from 1960 to 1990, during which time she starred in "B" movies, played supporting roles in major Hollywood movies, and performed guest-starring roles on TV shows of the time including The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964); The Wild Wild West (1965); Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964); and Tarzan (1966).
Danica left Hollywood from 1966 to 1971, during which time she worked as a theatre director in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she also wrote for a magazine, produced educational films and taught acting at her own school, "The Actor's Lab", on Sacramento Street.
Upon her return to Hollywood in 1971, Danica directed several stage productions, worked as a writer and associate producer in film and television, and did a stint as a television journalist, becoming the Consumer and Financial Reporter to a syndicated daytime magazine show called "Breakaway."
Danica relocated to Northern California in the 1990's, became active in real estate investing, and had two non-fiction books published.
D'Hondt is married to businessman and winemaker Nello Olivo, and they have had six children together. The couple live on a vineyard in the Sierra Foothills, where Danica writes, teaches, and helps tend their vineyard.
Danica and her husband also own a large restaurant and banquet facility in Placerville, California, named "Sequoia."
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