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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost before golden-haired hazel-eyed Joanne Connelley was old enough to tell time, her mother was ready to tell her fortune. Mother was Margaret Dorner Connelley Watts, an ex-debutante turned saleslady (after two faded marriages) in a Manhattan East Side dress salon. Conventtrained Joanne was her only daughter (by husband No. 1), and only passport back to the glittering world of Manhattan society. Nine years ago Joanne, a ripe, 18-year-old beauty, began to see the same dazzling future that her mother saw, began to understand that a radiant smile and a certain passive sophistication (plus society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: End of the Chronicle | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

...morning last week the maid found Joanne Connelley Sweeny Patiño, 27, unconscious and pale, breathing heavily. Two hours later, the rich little poor girl was dead-of a heart attack, the doctor said. By her bedside was her mother; her last decision on behalf of the golden girl had been to send for the priest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: End of the Chronicle | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

...Joanne Connelley Sweeny on grounds of adultery, named Rubi, and won the suit. Lately Rubi has been romancing Hungarian Beauty Zsa Zsa Gabor, whose husband, Cinemactor George Sanders, is suing on the ground of mental cruelty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: A Spell of Unemployment | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

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