41. Francesca Johnson is a war bride from Italy who has settled into a humdrum life as an Iowa wife and mother. 42. As Francesca, who came to Iowa from Italy as a war bride , Ms . Streep looks 20 pounds heavier than usual. 43. Following the war, the " Henry Gibbins " was refitted as a " war brides ship, " a baby passenger liner. 44. Francesca Johnson is an Italian war bride who likes Iowa but misses the intellectual and emotional pursuits she had in Europe. 45. She was born at Covington, Ky ., her mother a New Zealander war bride of a World War II US soldier. 46. There was also the War Brides Act of 1945, which allowed spouses of US soldiers to get an expedited path towards citizenship. 47. Her European accent limited her choice of roles, and she played such parts as a Nazi spy and a French war bride . 48. They traveled with " war brides " who were traveling to the United States to live with their husbands'families during the war. 49. Born in Paris in 1919, Conein was sent to Kansas City to live with an aunt, a French war bride , in 1924. 50. His mother was an English war bride who came to Nogales to live with his Mexican-American father and the extended Rios family.
