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...attentions. "I'm shy and introverted with them, and wondering if I'm doing the right thing," she says. "I wouldn't presume to try to be anything but myself with them." The Clan, in turn, treats her as a sort of mascot. Says Clansman Peter Lawford: "She's a guy, a funny girl, a natural clown." Says Dean Martin: "She's also a great audience. She loves to laugh. I'd be the biggest hit in the world if I only had 500 like her in every audience." Adds Sinatra: "We have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: The Ring -a- Ding Girl | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...Thin Man (NBC. 9:30-10 p.m.). Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk tangle in their debonair fashion with a character who claims to be the last of the West's badmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Time Listings, Jun. 15, 1959 | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

Born. To Peter Lawford, 35, London-born actor of films (It Should Happen to You) and TV (The Thin Man), and Patricia Kennedy Lawford, 33, younger sister of Massachusetts' Senator John F. Kennedy: a second daughter, third child; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Victoria. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 17, 1958 | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...Thin Man (Fri. 9:30 p.m., E.D.T., NBC). Though his own private eye is often trained on blondes, Nick Charles (Peter Lawford) has a pert wife named Nora (Phyllis Kirk) to whom he is professedly faithful, and a wire-haired terrier named Asta who is faithful to him. Genteel and wryly suave, Nick seldom tangles physically with the blackmailers, assassins and sundry evildoers whom he ferrets out with one hand while reaching for a martini with the other. He rarely finishes a drink during the half-hour program, giving the impression that he is a frustrated alcoholic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Snoopers | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...rough spots and got good performances out of a good cast. Sarah Churchill was a handsome, if not sufficiently Scott Fitzgeraldean, Bess Harcourt of the mill-owning Harcourts. Particularly when it came time to let the hypocrisy in his soul take over from the loyalty in his manner, Peter Lawford effectively carried Willis Wayde to his ultimate decision: if he could not have Bess, he would have her family mill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Kudos & Cholers | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

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