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...hard work as well as the element of chance. He admires entertainers tremendously. "My mother liked theatrical people and they were always around the house -- not the big names, of course, but they had it in their blood. I remember in particular one family in Flatbush -- one was a showgirl. A showgirl considers herself much above a chorine, you know. There's a world of difference...

Author: By Joseph A. Kanon, | Title: Grendel, Fedora, and a Big Fat Hit: William Alfred is Still 'Just Folks' | 7/5/1966 | See Source »

...hard work as well as the element of chance. He admires entertainers tremendously. "My mother liked theatrical people and they were always around the house - not the big names, of course, but they had it in their blood. I remember in particular one family in Flatbush -- one was a showgirl. A showgirl considers herself much above a chorine, you know. There's world of difference...

Author: By Joseph A. Kanon, | Title: Grendel, Fedora, and a Big Fat Hit: William Alfred is Still 'Just Folks' | 5/19/1966 | See Source »

...second marriage, to a Broadway showgirl in 1932, ended in divorce six months before he died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporters: The Sentimental Cynic | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

...where a royal delegation has arrived from the mythical kingdom of Carpathia for the coronation of George V. José Ferrer is a middle-aging, sleep-around prince, though he acts more like a wooden horse. His fancy, his fury, and his fate is to seduce a visiting American showgirl (Florence Henderson), a sunny birdbrain incubated in Wisconsin. Between Ferrer's dead-pained expression and Henderson's unvaryingly cheery smile, the pair manage to drive away all thoughts of sex and romance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Disaster Area | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

...portrait. His close friend, Soviet Naval Attaché Evgeny Ivanov, was a spy who made no secret of his activities. Poor Christine was "enmeshed in a network of wickedness" from the time she arrived in London at the age of 16 and took a job as a showgirl-"which involved, as she put it, just walking around with no clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Ineffectual but Innocent | 10/4/1963 | See Source »

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