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...while this legend bothers them, it does not upset them nearly as much as what they claim the whole movie industry boils down to these days. In 1969, they will say, a starlet will have to sleep her way to the top. What these cynics fail to realize is that sometimes a girl hits stardom with the help of such things as beauty and talent...

Author: By Thomas M. Caplan, | Title: B-School Boy Meets 'Virgin Sex' | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...there on location in Malta were a lot of people the new starlet probably hadn't met before. For instance, George Jessel played The Presence, who follows Hieronymous, wears ivory suits with ivory lace shirts and ivory ties, carries an ivory parasol, and goes through Borscht Belt jokes (very well, if you like them) at several crucial points. Milton Berle was the devil, Mr. Goodtime Eddie Filth, who honest-to-God baked big-breasted sex in a private oven and also hand cranked the shaft that turned Mercy's Merry-go Round...

Author: By Thomas M. Caplan, | Title: B-School Boy Meets 'Virgin Sex' | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

Divorced. By Jill St. John, 28, an eternal starlet (Tony Rome) with more talent for marrying (three times) than acting: Jack Jones, 31, television and nightclub singer; after 16 months of marriage, no children; in Juarez, Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 7, 1969 | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

Died. Conrad ("Nicky") Hilton Jr., 42, a director of his father's 41-nation hotel chain and inveterate playboy, who in 1950 became the first husband of an 18-year-old super-starlet named Elizabeth Taylor, was divorced by her after nine months and later remarried only once; of a heart attack; in West Los Angeles, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 14, 1969 | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

When Swedish Starlet Britt Ekland, 26, first announced her intention to divorce peripatetic Comedian Peter Sellers, 43, she pleaded a case that would pluck at any mother's heartstrings. "You can't imagine," she wailed, "how exhausting it is transporting a baby, a nanny and all your possessions all over the world." So saying, Britt left Peter and began transporting baby, nanny and possessions all over the world-off to New York for the filming of Britt's latest movie, Stiletto, then down to Puerto Rico for more shooting, then back to London for the Sellers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 10, 1969 | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

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