Word: vadim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vadim. Pet's own life has been filled with more familial traumas. She had a mother who taught her to sing and a stage father who pushed her onto a BBC wartime show called It's All Yours, followed by her own Pet's Parlour. Dad eventually parlayed all that into an almost endless J. Arthur Rank contract. At Rank, she played in 25 films including a kind of female Andy Hardy role in the Huggett series. Thanks to a restraining bra and taut parental control of her public image (no dates or off-the-shoulder dresses...
...visiting him in Tucson, Stormy MacDonald slashed his wrists, then shot himself. Mother, girlfriend, best man ? all suicides. Intimations of mortality began to cling to Peter. Nothing he said seemed edited by his brain. His sister had gath- ered a barefoot-in-St.-Tropez reputation as Director Roger Vadim's newest protegee. When Henry objected to Jane and Roger's live-in arrangements, Peter announced, "Father was living in Malibu and the only difference was that he'd send his chick home at night. His duplicity blew our minds...