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Bride-to-be is Pamela Odede B.A. (as the wedding invitations call her), a recent scholarship graduate of Western College in Oxford, Ohio. Along with the willowy, ebony-skinned bride of 23, the young trade-union boss will acquire added political prestige, for Pamela is the daughter of Walter Odede, for years a prominent African nationalist and close associate of | the revered Jomo Kenyatta...
...local tradition, it is Mboya who must pay a dowry for Pamela's hand, and Father Odede decided that 16 cows was about the right price. "It would have been twelve if I had been kind, or 24 if I had been harsh," he declared, adding reflectively, "No woman is worth more than 24 cattle...
Superficially, the book and the film tell the same story: a parson's daughter (Deborah Kerr), half in love with a charming bounder (Michael Redgrave), hires on as governess to his niece (Pamela Franklin) and nephew (Martin Stephens)-in the picture the girl seems about eight years old, the boy about ten. The children are charming and she loves them dearly, but after a few days at Ely, the vast old country house the children live in, she begins to notice prowlers about the place -first a man, then a woman, both of them surrounded by an uncanny emanation...
...drop overnight from a cover on Vogue to a back page in a mail-order catalogue. Few of her breed are known by name except in the fashion world they rule and serve, and most of those so blessed (Grace Kelly, Suzy Parker, Jane Fonda and, this year, Pamela Tiffin) are quick to grab their identity and take it to Hollywood to see it in neon...
...Secretariat that will 1) insinuate the pause that refreshes into the Communist way of life, and 2) install him in London as chief of European operations. While the deal is still pending, the hero is ordered to keep tabs on the boss's giggly, wiggly, teen-aged daughter (Pamela Tiffin), who is flying to Berlin for a two-week visit. Woe is Cagney. The boy-crazy bag stays for two months, then casually announces that she has secretly married a red-hot Red (Horst Buchholz) and will be moving to Moscow the next...