Word: cassini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with slick, whiny music (written by a freelance arranger named Mitch Lee). And immediately after the triumphant choral movement, while the timpani had scarcely stopped vibrating and the listener was still under the spell of the music, an oily announcer's voice heralded a "visit with Mrs. Igor Cassini," who then proceeded, on film, to demonstrate the charms of the new Lincoln Continental...
When she eloped at 20 with thin-lipped Oleg Cassini, a dress designer and erstwhile Russian count, her beloved father threatened to sue her for $50,000. Charge: breach of contract with the family corporation formed to control her earnings. (Legally of age by marriage, she had signed a new contract with 20th Century-Fox.) Though eventually settled with a tearful reconciliation, the threatened suit was a severe shock, soon followed by the unexpected divorce of her parents after 25 years of marriage...
Though a second Cassini daughter, Christina, was born normal in 1948, Gene's agony over the first child left a deep scar. "That was my war effort," she says...
...marriage to Cassini, Gene could find no emotional stability. In 1953 she got a divorce, soon found herself in another romance with Aly Khan. Marriage appeared to be close, but it didn't work out. He rebuffed her plea to quit intercontinental fun and games; his father, the Aga Khan, sternly opposed another movie-actress marriage after Aly's divorce from Rita Hayworth. With her need for stability unmet. Gene's anxiety grew worse. In New York she walked out on a TV commitment to play Nora in Ibsen's A Doll's House...
...figure in the movies after displaying it in Manhattan in a record-breaking number of stills, Jayne Mansfield described her year in New York as "an intellectual phase I went through." Said Jayne: "I wore black, black, black up to my ears and went out with Oleg Cassini. You go out with the right people, everything's black, even the cars...