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...PIAF AND SARAPO AT THE BOBINO (Capitol) presents the late Edith Piaf in the enthusiastic but otherwise drear company of her young (25) Greek husband, Theo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 6, 1963 | 12/6/1963 | See Source »

...plane crash in 1949, and her first marriage ended in divorce. Four separate automobile accidents all but crushed her frail body, and she was racked with ulcers, jaundice, arthritis, and cirrhosis of the liver. She took to drugs and young men, married her second husband, Hairdresser Théo Sarapo, 25, only last year, when she was 46. Each misfortune marred her voice but only seemed to give new poignancy to her artistry. Despite doctors' warnings, the nearly crippled singer insisted on going on tour because she had to "sing to live." Said she: "Each pain gives something inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: The Sparrow & the Dilettante | 10/18/1963 | See Source »

Married. Edith Piaf, 47, thimble-sized (4 ft. 10 in.) French songbird, frequently in and out of the hospital; and tousled Theo Sarapo (real name: Theophrasis Lambourskis), 23. a former hairdresser now her singing protege, in a ceremony that verged on riot when 2.000 frenzied fans tried to break through police lines for a ringside view; she for the second time; in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 19, 1962 | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

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