Word: reba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sisters shun the seamy side of Hollywood with Victorian primness. They are less interested in Charlton Heston's love life than in how he kept fit for all those chariot rides in Ben-Hur. "This means a lot to the reader," Reba says...
...drain if you aren't wearing the proper foundation under your basic dress.") They never miss a chance to add that the prettiest face will turn witchy, too, if the proper moral foundation isn't underneath. "We want our readers to think of themselves as beautiful gifts," Reba says soulfully...
...couple of fine young girls," said the man from MGM. "You are perfect examples of the American girl-honorable, honest and forthright." In Hollywood such praise usually ends with "Now go home to Iowa." But the Churchill sisters were delighted. Reba, 29, and Bonnie, 26, were already home; they are old hands in Hollywood. In a town that makes a business of manufacturing dubious glamour, they have made a virtue of pink-scrubbed cheeks and moral beauty. They have also packaged their wholesome views into a weekly column that is carried by 270 papers in the U.S. and abroad. Last...
...Memphis. Just four days after that, they are back home in Jefferson again. In a series of outlandishly comic episodes, they have somehow lost the car and won it back, found a stolen horse and raced it, spent an innocent night in a Memphis bordello run by young Miss Reba, the madam who, some 25 years later (Yoknapatawpha time), was to figure in the downfall of Temple Drake in Sanctuary...