Word: linda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since she left her native Mexico 16 years ago, sometime Cinemactress Linda Christian, 33, has mastered most of the trick-or-treat rules of the international set. She racked up a lushly alimonied divorce from Tyrone Power, was the rumored reason for the divorce of British Actor Edmund Purdom. She collected some controversial jewelry from Milwaukee Playboy Robert Schlesinger, kissed the Marquis Alfonso de Portago goodbye before he raced his Ferrari off to death in last year's Mille Miglia in Italy. Linda learned a lot, but last week she proved she was still no match for Brazil...
...Sight. In a Rome nightclub two months ago with Brazil's metals-rich Francisco ("Baby") Pignatari, Linda lost a jade earring. Sympathetically, the 41-year-old Baby suggested a trip to Hong Kong for a replacement, and off they flew. When their shopping was done, they decided to go on around the world to Rio. Linda collected a few baubles along the way-including a $4,000 diamond "engagement ring...
Before the wedding, Linda made a quick trip home to Mexico from Rio. As soon as her plane was out of sight, Baby called in the press and, reported the Brazil Herald,'"told reporters that his affair with Linda Christian was definitely at an end." Later, Baby put his position more bluntly. "I made no promises," he said. "I just said we were engaged so I could get her into the same hotel suites with me." Linda dashed back, spent several days chasing Baby by phone, then made a face-saving retreat to a film festival at Uruguay...
...once had to croon to make them swoon, arrived in Nice to work on his new movie, Kings Go Forth, was recognized at the airport with the ecstatic cry, "C'est Frankie!", engulfed, hand-passed over a tidal wave of hysterical women to a waiting Cadillac while Actress Linda Christian, there to meet him, was left behind. Tremoloed a shaken Frankie: "It was rough...
Priscilla Foley skillfully portrays Elizabeth Stone's variety of emotions and dignity. Betty Black and Henry Mann decrease the smoothness of the performance by muffing lines; but Linda Gitter as Helen Halsey adds brashness, and Robert Dargie's Col. Keogh and Constance Walsh's Sally add color, humor and vitality...