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Word: starlet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accept this sage ethic. Louis Calhern's part involves an early and unlikely double-cross from which, as far as the story goes, he never recovers. But he, too, sees his errors, commits suicide, and the Witches are all happy again. playing at being Calhern's moll, a young starlet named Marilyn Monroe in her first performance reaches the peak of her acting career...

Author: By G. ROBERT Wakefield, | Title: The Asphalt Jungle | 2/9/1956 | See Source »

Political Coca-Cola. About the same time that the generals were returning from the war, Idella Ruth Blackadder, then 21 and an RKO starlet, came back from an overseas stint with a U.S.O. troupe and met Marx at a party the next day. Idella, who is Ecdysiast Lili St. Cyr's half sister, married Marx. When Marx took Idella, who is two inches taller and 28 years younger, to meet General Gruenther on a European trip, Gruenther greeted Idella with: "What on earth did you marry him for?" Declared Marx: "I'm the one with the brains." Although some acquaintances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The Little King | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

...Marie Saint have paraded through the front page colunms in various degrees of exposure. Almost everyone enjoys ribald whimsy, but the News handles its sex with heavy hands, as in the ludicrous interview with a breasty wench named Meg Myles, whom the OCD reporter referred to as "Hollywood starlet and two of America's rising beauties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Yale Daily News | 11/19/1955 | See Source »

...Starlet Jil (A Twinkle in God's Eye) Jarmyn, 23 and a well-turned no Ibs. Prize: the affections of straight-shooting Horse Operactor Donald ("Red Ryder") Barry, 45, who, true to the best traditions of the Wild West, took no side in the ladies' brawl. Dropping around to Red's house, unannounced, at 11 a.m. for a spot of coffee. Jil was startled to find Susan in bed wearing blue and white pajamas. Barry, in maroon pajamas, suggested that Jil's visit was untimely. It was. After that, declared Jil, Susan came at her with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 14, 1955 | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

...gave 90 minutes to a sentimentally tinted reprise of Judy Garland's famed 1951 song-and-dance act at the Palace. Judy performed with all the stridently throaty nostalgia of a starlet just picked to play the lead in some future filming of The Judy Garland Story, and if the stage seemed overly empty when Judy was making her changes, her legs at least -when they reappeared-proved more than adequate to any candidate's platform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

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