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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Actresses have always counted their physical charms as attributes, but how much of them they revealed has varied vastly with the times. In the forgotten '20s, bosoms were sometimes bared in flickering film orgies; in the '30s, Norma Shearer in the sheerest of slips was enough to make temperatures simmer. World War II G.I.s strained at the sight of Lana Turner in a sweater. Then came Marilyn Monroe's enamel-textured calendar shot and Brigitte Bardict's nudity-with-towel, and most barriers were down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: It-Up to Date | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

...woman for years dump her a head later take I other woman v who has dump & lt; band, it's certainly going to effect." In Long Island, c Rockefeller territory, Republician governor John Chafee said, " there are small children of hers involved is extremely unfortunate." Added Kent Shearer, energetic Young Republican leader in Utah: "The married women in the 40s and 50s won't have him. Some of them who are lifelong Republicans warn us, 'Don't make us choose between Kennedy and Happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: This President Thing | 6/14/1963 | See Source »

Born. To Moira Shearer, 37, titian-haired British ballerina-actress (The Red Shoes) and Ludovic Kennedy, 43, radio and TV broadcaster and sometime Liberal politician: their fourth child, first son; in Amersham, Buckingham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 22, 1963 | 2/22/1963 | See Source »

Hearst haunted the sets of Davies pictures, giving two dozen orders a minute to hapless directors; and after Norma Shearer managed to beat out his protégée for a part, Hearst told his editors from coast to coast never to mention Norma's name in print. With uncanny foresight, Hearst papers could be counted on for banner headlines such as MARION DAVIES' GREATEST FILM OPENS TONIGHT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Pop's Girl | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

...main thing was that he took no nonsense from women. In Gone With the Wind, when he snarled at Scarlett O'Hara, played by Vivien Leigh, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn," he taught the talkies how to swear. And when he slapped Norma Shearer's face in A Free Soul (1931), he slapped into obsolescence the smooth and courtly Valentino school of hand-kissing elegance. "Perhaps," said Norma Shearer last week, "that was where Noel Coward got the idea for his line: 'Every woman should be hit regularly-like a gong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: Hero's Exit | 11/28/1960 | See Source »

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