Word: gendebian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reporters groped for the right words for the newest French import. Wrote one: "She sounds like Edith Piaf [TIME, Oct. 3, 1949] but looks like a younger edition of Peggy Hopkins Joyce." Tried another: "A young Piaf, but pretty." Meanwhile, blonde Marjane (short for Marie Jane Thérese Gendebian) had Manhattan café socialites begging for more of her songs...
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