Word: barbara
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Barrel of Monkeys. The blonde's name was Barbara Payton, 25, who has been playing around Hollywood for three years in & out of grade-B pictures. Her latest is called The Bride of the Gorilla. What she mainly does is to run, scantily clad, through jungles while an ape-man pursues her. It also came natural for her to be seen cooing with Franchot Tone in the places where Hollywood people go to be seen cooing with each other. During a court battle with his exwife, another blonde named Jean Wallace, Tone was asked about Barbara. "How many times...
Those happy days were eight long weeks ago, before Barbara got a second look at Actor Tom Neal, a 37-year-old cowboy actor and onetime amateur boxer. The first look had been disappointing. "Last year, Tom and I have a date." Barbara explained a few weeks ago. "and he's playing it real nothing, you know? I think to myself: What have we here, dear? From then on, I avoid...
...trouble with the first date was that Tom had his clothes on. On the second occasion, explained Barbara, "I see him at the Sunset Plaza swimming hole. He's in a pair of bathing trunks. Honey, I just take one look at him and positively flip." She sighed. "More fun than a barrel of monkeys...
...Floodlights limned the arriving guests while gapers gawked from windows made available by neighboring palace owners at up to 80,000 lire a head. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, among the invited, never showed up. Winston Churchill, vacationing at Lido, stayed home. The Aga Khan (in Venetian domino), Barbara Hutton (dressed as Mozart, at a reputed cost of $15,000), Prince and Princess Chavchavadze (whose noble name is pronounced like a sneeze), and practically everyone else who was anybody was there. Shortly before midnight, a flourish of trumpets sounded, and the guests (1,500 in all) were ushered into...
Divorced. By Woolworth Heiress Barbara Hutton Troubetzkoy, 38: Lithuanian Prince Igor Troubetzkoy, 39, her auto-racing fourth husband; after four years of marriage; in Cuernavaca, Mexico...