[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 20 (Tuesday, February 24, 2004)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
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          HONORING THE LIFE OF ESTHER ``KITTY'' BUHLER BRADLEY

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                             HON. TOM DAVIS

                              of virginia

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, February 24, 2004

  Mr. TOM DAVIS of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the 
life of the late Mrs. Esther ``Kitty'' Buhler Bradley, widow of General 
Omar N. Bradley, the last five-star general of the U.S. Army.
  Mrs. Bradley was born in New York City and graduated from Manhattan 
Business College. In the late 1940s, she took a U.S. Government job in 
Japan and also began freelance writing for the military newspaper Stars 
& Stripes and the news service United Press. While on an assignment for 
the United Press in Okinawa, she first met General Bradley. She soon 
developed a close relationship with General Bradley and secured the 
rights to his life story, which she hoped to turn into a motion 
picture.
  Upon returning to the United States in the 1950s, Mrs. Bradley found 
work as a film and television writer under the name Kitty Buhler. Some 
of her most notable projects were the 1958 Victor Mature film, ``China 
Doll,'' and two television production series, ``The 20th Century Fox 
Hour'' and ``My Three Sons.''
  In 1966, following the death of General Bradley's first wife, Mrs. 
Bradley and General Bradley were reunited, then married in San Diego.
  Although Mrs. Bradley never realized her dream of taking her 
husband's life story to the big screen, parts of General Bradley's 
career were chronicled in the 1970 ``Patton,'' starring George C. Scott 
as General George Patton and Karl Malden as General Bradley. The couple 
worked closely together, assisting in the making of the film.
  For nearly 15 years, the Bradleys lived happily together. Mrs. 
Bradley not only was a loving wife to the highly respected and admired 
five-star general but also a successful freelance writer and 
screenwriter in her own right.
  Mr. Speaker, in closing, I would like to pay tribute to the life and 
work of Mrs. Bradley and express my deepest condolences to all who knew 
and loved her.

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