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Word: sunsuits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...husband's corpse half a dozen times, looking fond, puzzled, but no more perturbed than the president of a garden club transplanting gardenias. Next came Artists and Models, one of the last joint Martin & Lewis enterprises, in which Shirley ("I was a forward comedienne in a yellow sunsuit") distinguished herself chiefly by becoming the first performer ever to steal a scene from Jerry Lewis. In Around the World in Eighty Days (1956), she tripped into a memorable bit of miscasting-Ouida, the Hindu princess. Despite wig and dark makeup. Shirley looked about as Indian as Miss Rheingold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: The Ring -a- Ding Girl | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

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