Here's my new story! Just to let you know, it will start out as being really funny but will then contain some more serious parts (including some more mature content than in my last story). There are also some name changes on account of it taking place in more modern times, which you'll notice as you read the story. As always, please review to let me know if I'm doing a good job.
It is a universally acknowledged truth that a former actress will do whatever it takes to get her daughters into showbusiness with the hope that they will be more successful than she was.
Isabella Portillo Bennet had obtained a small amount of fame in the 1950s when she stared in a low budget film called The Lonely Lover, which gained some success when it was released in 1953 on account of the attention it obtained from directors and producers who had created infamous but banned movies. She stared in two other films called Singing the Night Away in 1954 and Innocent Women a year later.
However, her career turned out being very short. In 1956, she became involved in a scandal when she was caught trying to seduce a producer when she was visiting Beverly Hills. Although they didn't have intercourse and Isabella later apologized for the incident, no one would hire her anymore. So she had to go back to her home on the south side of Chicago, where she later married Tom Bennet, had five daughters, and worked mainly as a secretary for a modest but still low salary.
But despite all this, Mrs. Bennet vowed that each of her daughters were going to become successful actresses. From the moment her first daughters Jane and Elizabeth were born, she had them dressed nicely and took them out to see theater productions where babies were allowed. When they were toddlers, instead of playing with dolls, they had to act out given situations ( such as being angry about a lost toy) in front of their mother, and instead of reading books like The Cat in the Hat, they read books like Romeo and Juliet for Young Readers and any simple scripts their mother could find. When they entered school, any extracurricular activity they were involved in had something to do with acting: school plays, drama club, improv sessions for beginners, etc. However, when Mrs. Bennet realized any particular talents her girls had,( like Jane's singing and Lindsay's dancing), she had them join choir and take ballet classes, as long as they would use those skills to improve their chances of becoming actresses. So this was the early life of Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Katie, and Lindsay Bennet.
It wasn't until 1984 that the girls got their first big break. Since Elizabeth and Jane had a reputation of being funny in their performances, they were discovered in a new workshop/comedy club called Little City, which recieved support Chicago's the Second City. The young women( who were twenty and twenty-one at the time) happily accepted. However, Mrs. Bennet was not happy.
"Jane, Lizzie, do you two have any idea what you're getting yourselves into?"
"Yes, mom. We just got our first jobs in acting!" exclaimed Elizabeth.
"Comedy and acting are two very different things. An actress is respected, appears on the covers of magazines, and wins Oscars. A comedian is just a stupid and silly person who gets paid millions of dollars for fooling around on stage and doing ridiculous movies like that National Lampoon trash. No one really likes comedians, they just like laughing at them when they have trouble sleeping on Saturday nights."
"Mom, a lot of respected actresses have done comedy. Just because we start out like this dosen't mean we can't win Oscars," said Jane, who loved keeping the peace.
"Yeah, Isabella. Just let them do this," said Mr. Bennet, who thought everything that his wife did was ridiculous.
Mrs. Bennet sighed. "All right, but don't come crying to me when you careers are over."
Little did Elizabeth and Jane know how much their lives were going to change, both professionally and romantically.