Word: cinemactor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sprung to fame as the nemesis of Alger Hiss, Nixon ran for the Senate in 1950 against liberal-wing Democratic Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas (wife of Cinemactor Melvyn Douglas), defeated her in what he called a "rocking, socking campaign." It featured Nixon's documented allegation that her voting record resembled that of New York's Commu nist-lining Congressman Vito Marcantonio-a charge originally hurled at Candidate Douglas not by Nixon but by an opponent in the Democratic primary...
...Brigitte: "Her eyes were closed, her teeth slightly parted, and her arms were red with blood." It was her 26th birthday-and it ended up in a neurological clinic in Nice, where the diagnosis was barbiturate poisoning, plus slight wrist lacerations. Brigitte's periodically estranged husband, Cinemactor Jacques Charrier, far off on the other side of Southern France, in Biarritz, where he had gone after their latest spat, jumped in a car to drive to her side. At week's end the aging "Sex Kitten" of French moviedom was recovering. Paris' deadly serious Le Monde, customarily oblivious...
Good Listener. Greensboro was the week's lone occasion when Nixon went to the people. For the rest of the time, people came to him. Among them: Cinemactor George Murphy and Actress Helen Hayes, to report formation of a "Celebrities for Nixon Committee" ("Anyone who considers himself a celebrity," said a Nixon aide, "is eligible to join"). The heads of the Big Three farm organizations, the American Farm Bureau Federation, the National Grange and the National Farmers Union, came by to talk farm policy. Said Farmers Union President James Patton afterwards: "He had some very worthwhile ideas ... I also...
Divorced. By Jean Simmons, 31, British-born cinemactress recently in Elmer Gantry: Stewart Granger, 47, British-born cinemactor; after almost ten years of marriage, one child; in Nogales, Ariz...
...second wife, Danish-born Cinemactress Annette Stroyberg, because she is spending all her time with Sacha Distel, the same guitar-strumming troubadour who once paid court to Vadim's first wife, Cinemactress Brigitte Bardot. But that wasn't all: BB's current marriage to nervous Cinemactor Jacques Charrier is reported to be on the skids, and BB of late has longed aloud for Vadim...