Word: peignoir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pictures were the kind found in any family album. There was the radiant new mother sitting in bed in a prim peignoir, surrounded by her beaming kin. The photos, taken four years ago after the birth of Prince Edward, were of Queen Elizabeth II. When they appeared in France in Paris-Match, the royal household was scandalized. The Queen asked the British press to refrain from printing the "personal" snapshots, but the London Daily Express took advantage of its reciprocal arrangement with Paris-Match and printed them anyway. With that, the rival London Daily Mirror threatened to publish "a purloined...
...WEDNESDAY. Sandy Dennis as a kept woman in a peignoir looks about as sophisticated as a teen-ager wobbling in her first pair of heels. Later, clutching a closetful of balloons, she appears about to take off, which this delightfully wacky comedy does from the start...
...WEDNESDAY. Sandy Dennis as a kept woman in a peignoir looks about as sophisticated as a teen-ager wobbling in her first pair of heels. Later, clutching a closetful of balloons, she appears about to take off, which this delightfully wacky comedy does from the start...
...keeps a sports-car engine in her bedroom, a collection of slinky bizarrities in her closet. To go auto racing with Chauffeur Glenn Ford, she slips into a pink bareback space suit; for alfresco breakfasting, Hope is a thing with feathers -blue ostrich plumes on a polka-dot peignoir. She has awful manners: she stirs her champagne with Ford's toothbrush-and licks it. But she shapes up when she lures him to an erotic booby trap of an island hideaway, with dozens of marble nymphs and satyrs and only...
Doors opened. The big apartment began filling like a leaky boat. Sophia pirouetted around wildly in a white nightie and green peignoir, kissing Ponti, kissing her mother, her sister, her director Vittorio De Sica,* even one or two paparazzi. Back in Hollywood, M.C. Bob Hope curled a lip slightly and said: "It must be wonderful to have talent enough to just send...