Word: ex-showgirl
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...Born Yesterday remains remarkably, if depressingly, up to date in its two main themes--corruption and sexism. Harry Brock (Lorenzo Mariani), a nouveau riche junkyard magnate, comes to Washington to "buy himself a senator," bringing in tow his empty-headed mistress, an ex-showgirl named Billie Dawn (Sarah McClusky). Deciding that Billie needs a little polishing up in order to "fit in" with the Washington social scene, Brock hires Paul Verrall (Jerry Colker), an earnest young writer for The New Republic, to be her tutor...
...level of Period of Adjustment. The three characters who constitute the cast are scarcely well adjusted. Lot (Brian Bedford) has come home to the Delta to claim the decayed house and rich land bequeathed to him by his mother. He brings with him his two-day bride, a jittery ex-showgirl named Myrtle (Estelle Parsons), without having told her that they will confront his half brother Chicken (Harry Guardino). He is partially of Negro blood, and has lived in the house and slavishly farmed the land for years...
...Wonderland of Manhattan's Four Seasons restaurant, seven precocious Alices tucked their curves into kiddie clothes at ex-Showgirl Gregg Sherwood Dodge's Thank Heaven for Little Girls fashion show to raise money for her pet charity-Girls' Town, U.S.A.-an as yet unbuilt Florida home for "abandoned" girls from ten to 18 years old. Onto a makeshift stage pranced such moppets as Actresses Susan Kohner, 25, Susan Strasberg, 24, and Tisha Sterling, 17, daughter of Actress Ann Sothern; then came a formation of New York-Rome jet setlets, led by Harper's Bazaar playgirl Christina...
Divorced. Sugar Ray Robinson (born Walker Smith), 41, five times world's middleweight champion; by ex-Showgirl Edna Mae Robinson, 38; on uncontested grounds of incompatibility; after 19 years of marriage, one son; in Juarez, Mexico...
...took time off from filling out his collection of A.T.&T. shares (with 80,000, worth roughly $11 million, he is now the company's second biggest stockholder) to swell his collection of marriage licenses to four. For his latest fling at matrimony, Billy chose a familiar partner: ex-Showgirl Joyce Mathews, 42. to whom he was previously married from 1956 to 1959. (His first two wives: the late Fanny Brice and Big Dipper Eleanor Holm.) For Joyce, even a nuptial doubleheader was no novelty, two of her four earlier flounces to the altar having been made with Milton...