Word: actress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wanted to do a TV gig with Actress Mae West for years, recalled Nostalgia Hound Dick Cavett. "But she always resisted, especially talk shows, which she thinks destroy a star's mystique." Mae's mystique stayed fully intact last week, however, during a six-hour taping session for Cavett's April TV special, Backlot U.S.A. "This is the kinda room I like, wall-to-wall men," growled la West, surveying the 50 male extras hired for the session. Mae, 83, sang Frankie and Johnny and other oldies, hugged herself suggestively, and then fretted: "I hope the television...
...mailing after the Florida primary. In addition, he organizes countless cocktail parties, receptions and dinners-at up to $250 a person-sometimes with Carter in attendance. On Valentine's Day, Carter presided over a five-hour telethon in Georgia that featured Rock Stars Gregg Allman and James Brown, Actress Peggy Cass and Ballplayer Henry Aaron, and pulled in pledges...
...filmed A Doll's House in Norway, The Blue Bird in the Soviet Union, and now Actress Jane Fonda has begun her first Hollywood movie in three years. Titled Dick and Jane, the film has Fonda, now 38, in the role of a suburban housewife who fights the recession with a little bit of larceny. Off-camera, of course, the actress-activist keeps busy as a speechmaker and fund raiser for her husband, Senate Candidate Tom Hayden, 36, of Chicago Seven fame. "I have a lot of energy," says Jane of her moonlighting, "and I don't waste...
After five divorces and assorted careless raptures, Actress Elizabeth Taylor has made more exits than a cross-country truck driver. Last week she added still another. Taylor, who first wed Actor Richard Burton in 1964, divorced him in 1974 and then remarried him last October, went to New York City to watch his opening in the Broadway show Equus. Liz was miffed, however, to find Dick spending his offstage time with Susan Hunt, 27, estranged wife of Race-Car Driver James Hunt. For his part, Dick, 50, was said to be troubled by Liz's reported outings recently...
Died. Angela Baddeley, 71, stage and screen actress for 60 years, mostly in supporting roles, who found a new career as the crotchety cook, Mrs. Bridges, second-in-command of the class-conscious squadron of servants in BBC-TV's Upstairs, Downstairs series; of the effects of flu and bronchitis contracted while starring as Madame Armfeldt in the musical A Little Night Music; in Essex...