Word: heartthrob
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Rod La Rocque, 70, movie matinee idol of the '20s and '30s, who rose to stardom in such silent swashbucklers as Captain Swagger and The Love Pirates, married the Hungarian heartthrob Vilma Banky in one of the film colony's splashiest weddings in 1927, and in defiance of all Hollywood tradition remained married to her forever after; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills...
...With one jolt from his cigarette lighter-ray gun, James Coburn became the roguish superspy in Our Man Flint. Zap! Zap! And the near-impossible switch from heavy to heartthrob was complete. It was Coburn's first leading role, but Flint made him a star, which means, among other things, that everybody wants him. They can get him too - for only $500,000, plus a slice of the profits...
...Robert Goulet, 31, is the biggest heartthrob since Perry Como (who has now slowed down to seven TV specials a year). Toothy and darkly handsome, Goulet arrived at full gallop as Sir Lancelot in the 1960 musical Camelot. His rich, he-man baritone and baby-blue, bedroom gaze have since made him one of the nation's most pawed-after TV and nightclub performers. Son of a Lawrence, Mass., bartender, he moved to his grandparents' farm in Edmonton, Canada, when he was 14, later won a scholarship in Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music. Forsaking a career...
Born. To Rod Taylor, 34, onetime Australian artist turned Hollywood heartthrob (Sunday in New York), and Mary Hilem, 26, former Manhattan model: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood...
From the first heartthrob, it's been a mess, but this week the issue will be settled. The Netherlands' Princess Irene, 24, will marry her Spaniard, Prince Carlos de Borbón y Parma, 34, "in Rome on neutral territory, thus avoiding any accusations of political intention." Irene's mother, Queen Juliana, nonetheless announced that neither she nor any of the royal family would attend the wedding for fear of lending impetus to Carlos' bid for the currently nonexistent Spanish throne. Nothing daunted, Carlos' family moved the ceremony from a chapel to a larger church...