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Word: starlet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their numbers. They just strip. All those great big girls lumber around like cows." ¶Italy-"I don't know why, but they import all their strippers. Italian girls are only interested in the movies. It's like Hollywood 15 years ago; every girl is a starlet. I didn't meet one who didn't claim to have been in Ben Hur." ¶Denmark-"The emphasis is on vaudeville acts. One of the best had a man in an upper berth peering at a girl in a lower as she got ready for bed. They have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURLESQUE: Baedeker | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...back roughly $1,000,000 so far, sprang a few surprises that set even jaded old Hollywood buzzing. First off, Mickey casually let drop that he had divorced Elaine, by her leave, in Mexico last December. His fiancée-to-be, Barbara Thomason, 22, a sometime starlet, had gone along for the ride. Feeling free as an uncaged lovebird, Rooney married her on the spot. Then Mickey uncorked a real showstopper: Barbara expects a child around September's end. Elaine sidled back into the act to declare: "I won't feel I'm divorced from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 15, 1959 | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov. In the night sky of literary erotica, no falling starlet shines quite like Nabokov's Dolly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Time Listings, Jan. 26, 1959 | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

...admittedly not up to that of former years, the Reventlow Scarabs completed a double victory, won the 252-mile Nassau Trophy event to match an earlier triumph in the 112.5-mile Governor's Cup race. Flushed with success, Reventlow returned to New York and a rendezvous with Starlet Jill St. John, on whose pretty finger he had placed a spectacular ring set with 100 diamonds. There were marriage rumors, but Reventlow declared a more serious ambition: developing a smaller-engined car to compete on the international Grand Prix circuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lance's Legacy | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

Divorced. Wanda Hendrix, 30, sometime movie starlet (Miss Tatlock's Millions, Prince of Foxes); by James Langford Stack Jr., 42, rich Nevada sport; after four years of marriage; in Reno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 17, 1958 | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

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