The Bridge Ladies Characters Listed With Descriptions

THE BRIDGE LADIES
Characters By Chapter

EDITOR:
Remy Hale

CH	FIRST NAME	LAST NAME	DESCRIPTION
Pro	Billie Jean	King	American tennis player.
	Bobby	Riggs	American tennis champion.
	Gloria	Steinem	American feminist journalist and social political activist.
	Helen	Reddy	American-Australian singer, songwriter, author and actress.
	Anaïs	Nin	American-Cuban-French diarist.
	Henry	Miller	American writer and artist.
	Rhoda		Executive director of the synagogue. One of the bridge ladies.
	Montgomery	Clift	American actor.
	Rock	Hudson	American actor.
	Roald	Dahl	British novelist.
	Charles	Goren	American bridge player.
	Bette	Cohen	One of the bridge ladies.
	Bea	Phillips	One of the bridge ladies.
	Jackie		One of the bridge ladies.
	Roz	Lerner	One of the bridge ladies.
	Benjamin	Spock	American pediatrician.
	Dr.	Seuss	American children's author, political cartoonist.
	Jimi	Hendrix	American musician, singer, and songwriter.
1			A Private Language
	Eileen	Fisher	American clothing designer.
	Jenny	Joseph	English poet.
	Tony	Kushner	American playwright, author, and screenwriter.
	Seth	MacFarlane	American actor, writer, producer, and singer.
	Bob	Hope	American-British comedian.
	Karl	Marx	A philosopher.
	Emily	Post	American author, novelist, and socialite.
	Woody	Allen	American film director.
	Betsy	Lerner	An author.
	Mary	Pickford	American-Canadian film actress.
	Ethel	Barrymore	American actress.
	Florence	Henderson	American actress and singer. aka: Carol Brady.
	Shirley	Jones	American actress and the lead role of Shirley Partridge.
2			The Manhattan Bridge Club
	Barbara 1		A teacher at the bridge club.
	Keebler Elf		A dealer at the game.
3			The Athenian
	Omar		A waiter.
	Ben	Brantley	American theatre critic, journalist, editor, publisher and writer.
	Lena	Dunham	American actress, writer, director, and producer.
	Hillary	Clinton	Former United States Secretary of State.
	Arlowe	Guthrie	American singer-songwriter.
	Lynn	Carter	An actress.
	Deborah	Tannen	American author and professor of linguistics.
	Anne		A therapist.
	Millard	Fleetwood	Bea's acquaintance.
4			A Thousand Bette Cohens
	Edward	Albee	American playwright.
	Albert	Horowitz	Bette's husband.
	Bobby	Seale	Black Panther leader.
	Julia	Jacobs	The Director of the Pediatric Epilepsy Progrogram at Alberta Children's Hospital.
	Joan	Crawford	American film and television actress.
	Katharine	Hepburn	American actress of film, stage, and television.
	Bette	Davis	American actress.
	Ginger	Bailey	Bette's new friend.
	Sylvia	Cohen	Bette's mother.
	Cate	Blanchett	Australian actress, producer, and theatre director.
	John		Betsy Lerner's husband.
	Bob	Dylan	American singer-songwriter, author and visual artist.
	Zero	Mostel	American actor, singer and comedian of stage and screen.
5			Bingo
	Jeff	Bayon	The owner of the Manhattan Bridge Club.
	Pashmina		Betsy's acquaintance.
6			How I Met Your Father
	Nathan	Hale	American soldier and spy for the Continental Army.
	Dick		Jackie's husband.
	Lady		Jackie's aunt.
	Ruth Bader	Ginsburg	Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S.
	Rita	Hayworth	American actress, dancer, and producer.
	Peter		Rhoda's husband.
	Donald		A young doctor.
	Richard	Chamberlain	American actor and singer.
	Eugene	Genovese	American historian.
	Carl	Bernstein	American investigative journalist and author.
	Barbara	Streisand	American singer, actress, and filmmaker.
	Shayna		Betsy's pet name.
7			What To Expect
	Diane	Sawyer	American television broadcast journalist.
	Marion		Roz's acquaintance.
	Beth		Peter and Rhoda's daughter.
	Carl	Phillips	Bea's husband.
	Nancy	Phillips	Carl and Bea's daughter.
	Brion		Roz's acquaintance.
	Fania		A Russian manicurist.
8			Ruffing It
	Matty		Betsy's friend.
	Jeff		One of Betsy's acquaintances.
	Ellen		One of Betsy's acquaintances.
	Emily		One of Betsy's acquaintances.
	Travis	Bickle	One of Betsy's acquaintances.
	Pupik		One of Betsy's acquaintances.
	Omar	Sharif	Egyptian film and television actor.
	Louise	Brooks	American film actress and dancer.
	Philip	Johnson	American architect.
	Coco	Chanel	French fashion designer.
	Justin	Bieber	Canadian singer-songwriter.
9			Welcome To The Club
	Nina		Betsy's older sister.
	Charlotte P.	Gilman	American novelist.
	Vincent	van Gogh	Dutch painter.
	Mrs.	Kekst	A teacher at the Jewish Center.
	Pablo	Picasso	Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, and theater designer.
10			1964
	David Foster	Wallace	American author of novels, short stories and essays.
	Barbara 2		Betsy's sister.
	Shirley		One of the night ladies.
	Gloria		Roz's closest friend.
	Barbara 3		Gloria's youngest children.
11			The Finesse
	Barbara	Barkin	Betsy's acquaintance.
	Bernard	Barkin	Barbara Barkin's husband.
	Al	Cone	A Bridge player's teacher.
	Ruth		A bookkeeper.
12			The Revelation of Self
	Jerry	Garcia	American singer-songwriter.
	Francis	Kay	Rhoda's longtime friend. aka: Fran.
	George		Rhoda's gentleman friend.
	Pippin		One of Fran's boyfriend.
	Amy		Bette's daughter.
	Liza		Jackie's daughter.
	Alicia	Florrick	The main character of the TV series The Good Wife.
	Bess	Myerson	The only Jewish woman to win Miss America.
	Lauren	Bacall	American actress.
	Humphrey	Bogart	American film and stage actor.
	Alice	Munro	Canadian short story writer.
	Raffi		Betsy's daughter.
13			Zig-Zag
	Eli	Whitney	American inventor.
	Mick	Jagger	English singer, songwriter, actor, and film producer.
	Betty	Friedan	American feminist writer and activist.
	Jimi	Morrison	American singer-songwriter and poet.
	Chuck	Berry	American singer, songwriter and guitarist.
	Leon	Russell	American musician and songwriter.
	Van	Morrison	The lead singer of the Northern Irish R&B and rock band.
	Joan	Baez	American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist.
	Elton	John	English singer, songwriter, pianist, and composer.
	W.W.	Jacobs	English author of short stories and novels.
	John F.	Kennedy	35th U.S. President.
	Robert F.	Kennedy	Former United States Attorney General
	Martin Luther	King, Jr.	American Baptist minister and activist.
	Neil	Armstrong	American astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon.
	Sharon	Tate	American actress and model.
	Zac	Efron	American actor and singer.
	Hilary	Duff	American actress, singer-songwriter, producer, and writer.
	Raven		American actress and singer.
14			Get The Kiddies Off The Street
	Jonathan		Betsy's new acquaintance.
15			The Hands of a Clock
	Betty	Rollin	NBC News correspondent and author.
	Gail		Betsy's younger sister.
	Nancy	Pelosi	Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
	Freddie		Roz's granddaughter.
16			Jew in the Box
	Christy	Turlington	American model.
	Edward L.	Wallant	American writer.
	Neil	Simon	American playwright, screenwriter and author.
	Bernard	Goodman	Jackie's uncle.
	Burnett	Goodwin	Bernard Goodman's new name.
17			Bette in the Flames
	Winston	Churchill	Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
	Benito	Mussolini	Former Prime Minister of Italy.
18			When the Student is Ready, The Teacher Appears
	Amedeo	Modigliani	Italian Jewish painter and sculptor.
	Jess	Jurkovic	A Bridge club teacher.
	Yolanda		One of Betsy's acquaintances.
	Esther		One of Betsy's acquaintances.
	Shaun	White	American snowboarder.
19			Ash
	Rudie		Rhoda's friend.
	Barbara 4		Bette's roommate at Skidmore.
	Rhoda Belle	Freedman	One of Rhoda's high school classmates.
	Ruth Helen	Freedman	One of Rhoda's high school classmates.
	Vivian		One of Roz's friends.
	Sylvia		One of Roz's friends.
	Stephen	King	American author of horror, supernatural fiction and suspense.
	Maureen	O'Hara	Irish actress and singer.
	Millie	Klarik	Roz's acquaintance.
	Alan	Turing	English mathematician, computer scientist, logician.
	Jack		Beth's son.
	Davi		Bette's daughter.
20			The Bridge Ladies
	Sis	Levine	Bette's old friend.
	Siskel		One of Betsy's acquaintances.
	Ebert		One of Betsy's acquaintances.
	Bruce	Springsteen	American singer, songwriter, and musician.
	Bob	Marley	Jamaican singer, songwriter, and musician.
	Edward	Hirsch	American poet.

The Bridge Ladies suggested by Karen Miller