She was twelve years old. And she had been awake all night pondering her future.
Ever since she was a very little girl, friends of her daddy used to pick her up on their laps—and say:
“And what are you going to be when you grow up?”...
It was a night in 1951. Jacqueline Bouvier was twenty-one. She lived in Washington, D. C., and worked as a reporter-photographer on the Times-Herald. She had the reputation of being one of the prettiest, quietest and best-dressed young women in the capital, and (because of her job,...
Pat Ryan was seventeen, the daughter of a Nevada miner, when she went to Hollywood. She was full of hope and dreams. She stayed for a month. It was a disillusioning experience. She got one job, as a walk-on in a picture called Becky Sharp. She...
“AS AN EMCEE,” SAYS RED BENSON, “THERE’S NO SUBSTITUTE FOR HONESTY, SINCERITY AND GOOD FUN.” IT’S THE HAPPY BLENDING OF THESE THAT MAKES THE “NAME THAT TUNE” QUIZMASTER TOPS...
It is practically standard procedure in Hollywood for a new feminine star to declare that she is completely disinterested in romance, and then in almost the next gasp to announce her engagement. But it was not so with Audrey Hepburn.
Audrey came into the limelight already...