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Irreverently telling her mother before she told it to Louella, Dancer Juliet Prowse, 25, phoned her South African home with "heartsore" news. Informed by Fiancé Frank Sinatra, 46, that "there's millions of girls who'd give up work to marry me," the lissome cineminx had decided that she wasn't one of them. But there was consolation amid the wreckage of her six-week trial engagement. "You have to hand it to Juliet," confided a Sinatra intimate. "For all those weeks, there was never any other girl." Besides, the career that Juliet had declined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 2, 1962 | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

...were intended by their sponsor to imply that even infants go for Perrier's bottled mineral water, much of which gushes from a spring near the town of Charrier. Unfortunately, French for baby is bébé, pronounced "B.B.," who, as 45 million Frenchmen know, is Cineminx Brigitte Bardot. In turn, making the coincidence the more monstrous, B.B. is married to highstrung Cinemactor Jacques Charrier. Was Perrier, with gauche humor, hinting of discord in the Charrier family? Brigitte concluded just that, had her lawyers ask the Seine Tribunal to muzzle the ads because they cast doubt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 21, 1960 | 3/21/1960 | See Source »

...recalls June Havoc, successful cineminx, Broadwayward girl (Sadie Thompson, Pal Joey), Shakespearean (A Midsummer Night's Dream) and grown-up (41) kid sister of Stripper Gypsy Rose Lee. June, who was worked so hard as a child star that she never learned how to write properly in longhand, took two years to type out the saga of her youth, called it Early Havoc (Simon & Schuster; $3.95). Though some of it covers the same ground Sister traveled in her own autobiographical story, Gypsy,* which appeared in a musical version on Broadway last week (see THEATER), the book is a remarkable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VAUDEVILLE: Saga of Dainty June | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...perusing the guest list at Madrid's Castellana Hilton hotel, genealogically minded Madrileños could contemplate in wonderment what complex twigs sprout from Hollywood's family trees. There, for example, in the splendid boarding house of Hotel Magnate Conrad Hilton was Cineminx Eva Gabor, sister of Hilton's ex-wife Zsa Zsa, whose former husband, Cinemenace George Sanders, had recently moved out with his new bride Benita Hume, widow of Cinemactor Ronald Colman. Eva, it so happens, is a former potential step-aunt of Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor (through Liz's first marriage to Hilton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 23, 1959 | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...your complaint that your husband has treated you in a cruel and inhuman manner." "Well," came the soft, well-rehearsed response, "my husband has become interested in another woman.'' When the five-minute colloquy in a Los Angeles court ended, the 3½-year marriage of Cineminx Debbie Reynolds and Crooner Eddie Fisher was over. Except for the property settlement and alimony. Eddie was free, although under California law he may not marry the other woman, Actress Elizabeth Taylor, until the divorce becomes final after a year. But freedom's price was high. Debbie kept: a Palm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 2, 1959 | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

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