Word: starlet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solemn sort of flapper. She can imitate a drum, a trombone or a sea lion brilliantly, 'but just as often she imitates Joseph Alsop, brooding fitfully about life and Laos ("The world's problems bother me"). Although she is more than a starlet-Hollywood has no word for a young actress who is steadily but not spectacularly employed-she is not yet a star. But she is serious enough about show business to have fired four pressagents, to be considered difficult on the set, and to date Frank Sinatra...
Born. To Kay Williams Spreckels Gable, 42, onetime Hollywood starlet, fifth wife and widow of the late Clark Gable: his first child (she had a son and a daughter by her marriage to Sugar Millionaire Adolph Spreckels II), a son; in Hollywood. Name: John Clark Gable...
Married. John Barrymore Jr., 28, bearded son of The Great Profile; and Italian Starlet Gabriella Palazzoli, 23; he for the second time, she for the first; in a church atop Rome's Palatine Hill...
Reminiscent of his late great-profiled father, Actor John Barrymore Jr., 28, whose profile is partially obscured by dense shrubbery, has spent most of this month in the headlines and eight days of it in a Roman jail. His troubles revolve around a pretty girl, Italian Starlet Gabriella ("Gaby") Palazzoli, 23. A street brawl erupted when three Roman punks taunted two of Gaby's brothers about young Barrymore's beard-a male appurtenance made to order for some special Italian insults. After the brawlers were hauled off to Rome's Queen of Heaven clink, Barrymore, Gaby...
...jumped in a car to drive to her side. At week's end the aging "Sex Kitten" of French moviedom was recovering. Paris' deadly serious Le Monde, customarily oblivious to BB, accorded her a sort of ghoulish obituary-in-life: "Once upon a time there was a starlet who saw happiness only in glory. She had glory beyond all expectations. Even her name vanished and remained only as two initials: BB. Glory devoured everything: private life, peace, human personality-real or imagined...