PART I The flowers were remarkable. In the hours and days after the death of the Princess of Wales, mourners from all over the United Kingdom streamed to the gates of Buckingham Palace, to St. James’s Palace, to Kensington Palace to lay bouquets in tribute to...
Innocence, Angst and Elbow Grease—by Timothy White...
When your heart's in there bighting, there; no end to the thing you can do...
The bells tolled, the black-draped drums acknowledged and echoed the news. King George VI was dead, and a 25-year-old young woman ascended the throne of a realm that encompasses a quarter of the globe and a fourth of its inhabitants....
Leslie Townes Hope was born in Eltham, England on May 29, 1903. If anyone predicted that this small, good-natured baby would someday become one of America’s most popular entertainers...
“When you’re in love, you flip. You throw caution to the winds. You’re alive and you gamble. So you fall over on your head. So what?”...
Today Natalie Wood is riding the wave of success. It is a tremendous wave. She has been acclaimed for “Splendor in the Grass”—a drama; praised for “West Side Story”—a musical. She rode a success wave once before—and almost drowned....
Last month, Part 1 of Ann-Margret’s life story described how she and her parents left their native Sweden and came to live in Illinois. In Wilmette, a high school teacher told Ann-Margret, “I predict Hollywood for you” A short time later his prediction came true....
Ann-Margret Olson—twenty-one, five-feet-four, green-eyed, with that long silken brown hair of hers, pretty as they come, more talented than they usually come, definitely headed for the Big Time—is no exception to the rule....