Word: berge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Envious Americans have long considered the French their unchallenged masters in the art of theatrical nudity, and many a Minsky patron has dreamed of the unlikely day when he might graduate to an evening of the famed Folies-Bergère. But the fact is that the Minsky form of perambulant, progressive nudity known as the striptease is an American art form...
Mellowing (49) Singer Josephine Baker, onetime (circa 1927) light-brown toast of Paris when she danced without wraps at the Folies-Bergère, was far past her spicy past. At her 460-acre estate near Périgord in southwestern France, Expatriate Baker was busily tending the fabrication of a startling memorial to herself...
Perry Como Show (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC). With Gertrude Berg, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Polly Bergen, Jean Pierre Aumont...
...itself a bigger slice of this audience, Manhattan's WRCA-TV, flagship of the NBC network, moved right into the boudoir last week with a silken five-minute sign-off spot called Count Sheep (weekdays, 1 a.m.). Its star is Nancy Berg, a 24-year-old, Wisconsin-born model, who floats onscreen in filmy lace, stretches her bare arms, yawns delicately, glances teasingly out of her cathode bedroom, pops into bed and out again for a moment's play with her French poodle...
...Miss Berg, who wants to be an actress ("Of course, I don't consider that I act on this show-I'm being myself, which is harder than acting"), earns $150 for each five-minute performance, will get $500 when she gets a sponsor. In her opening week, she wore a different full-length nightie for each show, but now she feels comfortably at home, henceforth will skip about in scanties...