In Pictures: Anjelica Houston Submerged In Flowers

Anjelica Houston grew up in Galway in a splendid Georgian mansion. “It was wonderful, untrampled country,” Anjelica remembers. “Enormous flowering rhododendron and miles and miles of gorse that smelled like butter. We romped through it all with the dogs and rode for hours on beautiful horses—my father kept 50 Thoroughbreds in his stables. Sometimes we waded in the river and caught eels, or played hide-and-seek in the formal gardens, or jumped and jumped on the trampoline in the barn, or crept about in the twilight looking for fairies. Oh, there was a lot of love and magic in St. Clerans! I can’t imagine why I ever chose to grow up.”

From a 1985 People magazine article about Prizzi’s Honor, which she starred in with Jack Nicholson. …

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