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...spice up the evening appearances of youngish (50) Cinemactress Marlene Dietrich at a plush London nightclub, the resourceful management hit on the idea of dragging in a celebrity at each show to introduce Grandma Marlene. Last week's hit curtain-raiser was Liverpool's burly (208 Ibs.), two-hourglass-figured (50 in., 40 in., 50 in.) Labor M.P Bessie Braddock (TIME, May 9), honorary president (she says) of a professional boxers' association. Arriving from the House of Commons by bus. Bessie togged in her usual drab blue suit, swept past the club's haughty doormen, bounced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 18, 1955 | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

Since Britain's doughty Poetess Dame Edith (Façade) Sitwell, 68, and Cinemactress Marilyn (The Seven Year Itch) Monroe, 29, met in Hollywood last year, Dame Edith's life has not been the same. Intrigued by the incongruity of the two ladies, the world's press thenceforth gleefully linked their names on the least pretext. Last week, Dame Edith was asked about Marilyn again, reached the end of her rope, cried: "If I hear that young woman's name again I shall shriek! Being a polite and, I hope, chivalrous woman, I said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 11, 1955 | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

...ended, 'or else.' " Henry Wales, an American correspondent in Paris, told how Fitzgerald did battle one night in an elegant Montmartre nightclub against six Argentines armed with champagne bottles, with the damages in broken glassware alone amounting to $500. Two close friends, Millionaire Gerald Murphy and oldtime Cinemactress Lois Moran, spoke as the original models of Dick Diver and Rosemary, two of Fitzgerald's principal characters in Tender Is the Night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Biography in Sound | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

Born. To Robert Taylor, 43, veteran Hollywood leading man (Many Rivers to Cross?), and Ursula Thiess, 31, German-born cinemactress (Bengal Brigade): their first child (her third), a son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Terrance. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 27, 1955 | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

...shook café society and Hollywood; it had received a worthless check from Playboy Robert Schlesinger (TIME, Feb. 21), whose mother is Countess Mona Bismarck, remarried widow of Utilities Tycoon Harrison Williams, and whose father is Henry J. Schlesinger, retired Milwaukee industrialist. Said Van Cleef & Arpels : Schlesinger had given Cinemactress Linda Christian, estranged wife of Cinemactor Tyrone Power, jewels worth $132,500, made partial payment with a $100,000 check that bounced. Unable to collect from Schlesinger, Van Cleef slapped a suit on Linda in an effort to get back the jewels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: A Hush-Hush Deal | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

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