Word: weds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Trust Barbara Walters to ferret out a secret. Interviewing Fred Astaire, Walters bluntly asked Hollywood's soigné cine-dancer whether he planned to marry Woman Jockey Robyn Smith, 35. Said Fred, 80: "She is a great girl." Well, had he popped the question? "Yes, sure." Would they wed soon? "I think so." What about the age difference? "I don't even think about it." Smith, once a jock for and good friend to Maryland Horseman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 67, met Widower Astaire eight years ago while she was riding the California tracks; their feelings quickly became parimutual...
...bishops bowed to papal insistence on a more stringent policy concerning mixed marriages. It has become common for mixed couples to wed in Protestant churches, or in a Catholic church with the Protestant spouse taking Communion...
...spotted Jillian two years ago, Rooney has also wangled her a part as a showgirl in his Broadway hit Sugar Babies and a role in the upcoming movie, Panic on the Potomac, in which they will both play spacepersons who land in Washington. Jillian is described as eight-times-wed Rooney's "official protégée," meaning she gets the jobs because, as Mickey insists, "her looks are superfluous to her talent...