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...face, figure and elegance made for the movie screen. "Her features were sharply defined, her hair long, dark and straight, and her eyes a vibrant green," writes Bogle of Fredericka Carolyn Washington. "In Harlem society in the 1920s and 1930s, she and her sister, Isabelle, were legendary beauties, hotly pursued and discussed." Washington's light-skinned beauty both enhanced and abridged her showbiz career; but her exotic outsider status pursued her, defined her, wherever she went. Her husband, Lawrence Brown, was a trombonist with Duke Ellington, and in the 30s she would occasionally accompany the orchestra on dates...
Born. To Kevin McClory, 41, Irish movie producer, latest of the Bondsmen (Thunderball), and Fredericka Ann ("Bobo") Sigrist, 25, heiress to the Hawker-Siddeley aircraft fortune: their second child, a daughter (she also has a daughter by First Husband Gregg Juarez, with whom she eloped at 17); in Dublin...
...Born. To Fredericka Ann ("Bobo") Sigrist, 23, jet-set heiress to a British aircraft fortune, and Kevin Donovan McClory, 39, Irish movie producer, longtime friend and her husband since March 27 (when the annulment of her marriage to Decorator Gregg Juarez came through): a son; in Dublin...
...Married. Fredericka Ann (''Bobo'') Sigrist, 23. jet-set heiress to a British aircraft (Hawker-Siddeley) fortune; and Kevin Donovan McClory. 38. Irish-born English movie producer, who was associate producer with Michael Todd of Around the World in 80 Days: in a Roman Catholic ceremony after church annulment of her first marriage following a civil divorce; in Nassau...
...York socialite and a heroine of the French underground during World War II; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. After brief flings at real estate, the stage and auto racing, she joined the Maquis in 1940 at her summer home, in Auribeau on the Riviera. Known as "Fredericka" and la fille å la mėche blonde (because of a lock of white hair on her forehead), she served the Resistance movement for four years, once rescued 16 U.S. paratroopers stranded behind enemy lines...