Word: mistinguette
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mistinguett, whose lyric legs drew ahs and ohs before Chevalier ever saw a razor, was finally being typecast. The ancient musicomedienne's next Paris show, hopefully titled Life Begins Tomorrow, would show her as an octogenarian...
...Mistinguett, ancient (seventyish) Parisian music-hall favorite whose shapely legs have outlasted two World Wars, saw Marlene Dietrich perform in Paris, cooed to a lobby listener: "Marlene was marvelous, but, chérie, you know, she's really getting very...
...distinctions-uninhibited mobility, a primitive comic sense, a fearless voice-from the U.S. to Paris, shot to quick fame at the Folies Bergère, where she danced in a costume consisting of a girdle of bananas. She became as glittery a fixture of the Paris theater as Mistinguett and Chevalier, stayed famous and wealthy through the late '20s and '30s, grew to be a legend-a gay darling who lived in a turreted chateau, surrounded herself with monkeys and birds, kept a perfumed pig. walked abroad with two swans on a leash, and fed on rooster combs...
Sweethearts. Everybody's marraine in this war as in the last is venerable, foghorn-voiced Mistinguett, 64, triumphant sexy grandma of the Folies Bergère and Casino de Paris. Her famed extremities are still as shapely as they were generations ago (see cut, p. 25). Nobody looks at her now-withered face, and since "Mees" no longer has the strength to do her Apache dances under her own power she is swung and flung about the stage by two virile youths. "Mees" last week came tottering from Bordeaux where she had been helping the Duchess of Windsor raise...