Judi Rolin

This is a 1966 Lydia Lane article. Enjoy!

The intelligent way to handle excess fat is to eliminate the cause. “This is easier said than done,” cute Judi Rolin observed.

“When we started taping the Dean Martin Summer Show (on NBC-TV) I took a good look at myself and wanted to lose. I am only 5-feet-2, SO even an extra pound shows on me and is exaggerated on film.” Judi does not believe in crash diets. “The most sensible thing is to be honest: Admit what fattening foods get you in trouble and stop keeping company with them. I adore peach ice cream and sourdough bread, but I wanted to lose so I gave them up.” Her diet consisted of two soft boiled eggs and an eight ounce glass of fruit juice for breakfast. She does not like tea or coffee.

“Lunch could be any lean meat, but I enjoy hamburger with melted jack cheese on top. With this I have a low calorie soft drink.” When Judi is working hard she eats an apple in the middle of the afternoon. “Often I was not hungry and would wait for dinner. This always begins with a green salad, a steamed vegetable and something broiled such as chicken, fish or chops. But no starches or sugar. “I find that it is best for me to avoid desserts with my evening meal because I am small and must eat less. But I don’t go without any dessert; I just have my ice cream during the morning.”

One week of eating like this and Judi was back to normal.

Lynn Borden

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“I want to talk about femininity,” said Lynn Borden of the CBSTV Hazel series. “I’m really worried about it. “The balance of the sexes is being upset. It is not that I feel a woman’s place is in the home, but when we go out to compete with men, will that lady do the same for her husband?” Lynn mentioned that as a school girl her complexion was somewhat of a problem.

Now that I have heavy make on so much of the time I am careful to get my skin clean each night. I use regular mineral oil to remove my make up, then wash with a mild soap and finish by patting in safflower oil, “Once a week I give myself a milk of magnesia facial. After the usual cleansing routine I smooth this on my face and neck and lie down until it dries thoroughly. It rinses off easily with warm water. “Do what you can to be attractive, but don’t let your husband see you working at it.

I try to do my beauty routines my husband is not around,” she confessed. “It’s just another way of keeping

Petula Clark

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Shortly after the box office opened for Petula Clark’s concert, the Hollywood Bowl’s 20,000 seats were sold out. This extraordinary popularity is international, for she sings such hits as “Downtown” in six languages in countries around the world. What is the secret of her acceptance? It is charm, heart and the determination to better her best. “You can’t stop working, not even when you are pregnant,” this young singer from London told me. Petula looks like a teen-ager although she is the mother of two. “The kids know am not one of them, but they know that I am with them.

The youth of today are going through a revolution that has depth, and it is not confined to the underprivileged. “They are rebelling against the attitude that children should be seen and not heard. They want a voice in shaping their world, and they resent parents who either fail or are unqualified to exert authority.  not demand. “I am glad to find so many young people appreciate the importance of acquiring a solid education.” Pet, as she is familiarly called, is just a little over five feet. “I used to hate being tiny,” she confessed, “but now I don’t even wear high heels.

I think tall, and the audience gets the message,” Petula was lunching on a fine herb omelet. “There have been so many parties for me here that I am following my favorite three-day diet.” 

For breakfast she has half a melon or grapefruit and hot tea. Lunch is two eggs fixed simply or fruit with yogurt and more tea. Dinner offers a choice of broiled chicken, fish or lamb chops with cucumbers and tomatoes or a green salad. When I remarked about her beautiful skin she told me she never wears make-up when she is not working.

Her beauty routine is simple but sound. “You must remove your make up thoroughly, for if your Pores are not clean you are headed for trouble.” The other enemy of a good skin is dryness, and to combat this she uses oil of almond, which is available at any drug store. After cleansing she applies a thin film over her face and neck, and, she says “it seems to go right into my skin.” Petula also uses almond oil to keep her cuticles soft, and the night before she shampoos she strokes the oil into her hair and sleeps in a protective cap to keep her hair from drying.

Marie Cheatham

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Marie Cheatham believes that it is not what you do but how you do it that counts. “Practice does not always make perfect; if you work the wrong way it makes imperfect. “As the result of a careless ballet teacher I have had to struggle to reduce my overdeveloped calf muscles. “This could have been so easily prevented if she had insisted we bring our heels down all the way to the floor each time we went up on our toes.

“Here are two simple exercises. I can assure any girl with too thin calf muscles that she can fill them out with these.” We were chatting on the set of Marie’s Days of Our Lives series at NBC-TV when she kicked off her pumps. Holding onto the back of a chair for support she rose high on her toes, then lowered her feet again. Doing this in an upbeat tempo will develop calf muscles.” She began the second exercise in the same position, but this time after she rose on her toes she bent her knees, still keeping her heels off the floor. “Keep your back straight and come down slowly. Then work up to down and repeat as many times as you can do it.

As she replaced her shoes Marie added, “Be patient. Nature never does anything in a hurry. “One good thing ballet taught me,” she continued, “is the importance of body alignment. Posture makes the difference re between a good and bad presentation. “My mother threw her spine off balance by carrying me on one hip when I was a baby. Now she has costly alterations every time she buys a new dress.

I mention this so young mothers won’t make a similar mistake.”

Jean Hale

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“They say eyes are the windows of your Jean Hale commented. “But it is the hair blonde. brunette or redhead that designate the girl. “I am a natural redhead, but my features are small, so light hair is a more flattering frame for my face.

My acting career didn’t get into high gear until I became a blonde.” Jean’s current movie is “The Oscar.” In one scene when she sees herself in a snapshot her reaction is to rush upstairs and change her dress. “You can get a perspective from a photograph that you can’t get in a mirror. never decide on a new hat without using my instant camera. If you are in doubt about a costume, look at yourself on film in it and you’ll know instantly whether you like or dislike it.” We discussed the pros and cons of dyeing your hair. “Before you make a drastic Jean warned, “prepare yourself that it will be costly.

As a blonde I can no longer wear clothes and makeup that suited me as a redhead. “The desire to change your image implies that you are dissatisfied. Whether taking care of your hair properly is worth that effort depends on your emotional response. “If no problems,” Jean advises, “stay as you are. But if you want to give your life a lift, go blonde.” 

Claudia Cardinale – Take two

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Claudia Cardinale speaks four languages (French, Italian, Spanish and English) and men from four countries have succumbed to her charms. When she was making “The Centurians” In Madrid, a much sought after bachelor said, “The moment I looked into her eyes I felt a shock all through me.” When I asked Claudia the key to appealing to the opposite sex she said in flawless French, “Etre soi-meme. Be yourself. A man is quick to recognize insincerity. He looks into your eyes.

Regardless of what your lips are saying or what effect you are trying to present, he knows the truth. “Many young girls unsure of themselves put on airs that are not their real selves. This is understandable but it’s a mistake. It is ridiculous to think that copying someone else is the answer.

It may not be the easiest but the most effective way is to strive to develop and express your own personality. The attempt to be ‘a la a slave to fashion, deprives you of your individuality. Be strong enough to reject what is not suitable.” Claudia is quick to confess her ultimate aim in dressing is to please men. “I have men to my hair and advise me on make up. They can be more impersonal because their own image does not influence them.

They have no prejudices.” No girl who wants to be well liked by men can neglect her figure or her grooming. “In Italy men prefer more curves. That is a question of taste, but all men respond to grooming, to essential cleanliness. The appeal of the sense of smell is basic. “I don’t think men like obvious make up.

I prefer not to wear any base when I am not working.” This means Claudia must have a lovely  skin with natural coloring. “When I eat well my complexion looks well.

You can dry out your skin with fat-free diets, make it flabby by great weight fluctuations. It is going against nature taking off and putting on The secret is to be disciplined and catch those first few extra pounds. In one day Claudia can get back to normal with her favorite diet: six eggs, two large tomatoes and two small grapefruit. “You may have tea and coffee but nothing else. This is a scientific diet, I like it because I lose fast and feel well.”

Michele Carey

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Many girls were tested but Michele Carey was chosen for “Eldorado.” “It’s beauty remembered that counts,” Howard Hawks said, offering her a contract. Michele establishes her individuality with her hair style.

She dresses it with showmanship never forgetting the prime purpose of spotlighting herself. “I dislike hairsprays extremely or a stiff coiffure that belongs more to the world of sculpture than life. I love the look of windblown hair.” As a finishing touch Michele faces an electric fan briefly. She feels hair must be clean and healthy to be beautiful. She washes hers every other day and brushes it, painstakingly polishing it with a sheer nylon stocking drawn over a brush so that the bristles come through.

“I wind my hair on enormous magnetic rollers, setting it with lukewarm water scented with bath perfume.” Sometimes she uses a filler for height, sometimes she back combs, but basically it remains the same. As for color, she highlights It here and there, “as if the sun pouring on it through a Venetian blind. I don’t change. Fashion is tempting but I feel that once you find what goes well for you, you should resist adopting a style just because it is new.” 

Christina Schollin

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Christina Schollin had many opportunities to show her undraped body in the prize winning Swedish film “Dear John,” so it was surprising to learn that at the time of filming she had a baby less than a month old.

“It is not difficult to regain your figure if you exercise during pregnancy and afterward,” she told me on her recent visit here for the Academy Awards. Swedes are “‘We physical culture minded, but it is only recently that we have adopted your habit of counting calories.” Christina praised the slim figures of the American girls and matrons. “It is an inspiration,” she said, ordering a salad for lunch. We talked specifically about exercise, and Christina confessed that a few hours after her born she began bed exercises. With the doctors permission she sat up and then slowly lowered her back to the mattress.

She lifted one leg at a time and rotated her foot, circling her ankle first in one direction and then the other. She raised her head and lowered it to touch her chin to her chest. “These exercises don’t sound strenuous, but it is an important beginning,” she said. There is a uniformmity to diets that transcends nationality. According to Christina the girls in Stockholm take off extra pounds with a diet like this: black coffee, fruit juice and dry melba toast for breakfast.

Cold sliced beef and a generous serving of. lettuce, tomato and cucumber salad make up a lunch. Dinner may be fish with wine and more “The important point,” she emphasized, “is to eliminate bread, butter, potatoes and rich desserts.”

Binnie Barnes

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Binnie Barnes, who was making movies in the 1930s, doesn’t believe in growing old, but she doesn’t believe in clinging to youth, either.

“There is a way of accepting maturity gracefully,” she observed. “You can keep a young body and a young mind indefinitely if you use both of them. You have to be active physically and mentally. “I swim every day every night after I left the set of ‘The Trouble a With and when I am not working I go to a gym several times a week. We all need some form of regular exercise.” Binnie confided that she has lots of interests.

“You have to build a life outside of yourself. I feel sorry for those who allow egotism and selfishness to close them in. “About age, I pity those who struggle hang on to that ‘little girl’ look. You have to dress and act within your age limitation. A woman who has only her beauty and youth to offer panics when she sees them going.

“Accepting maturity implies an acceptance of responsibility.” She feels that today too little emphasis is put on character. Binnie discussed the need of some religion, saying “Everyone who wants to relate to reality must have a belief. “I expect to radiate when I am 90 and have a sense of humor. Nothing helps to keep you young and healthy like the ability to laugh at yourself.”

Tina Aumont

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Tina Marquand, Jean Pierre Aumont’s beautiful daughter, won a term contract at 20th Century Fox after being seen in “Modesty Blaise.” Before that she was a model in Paris for Chanel. “I am very fortunate for this experience,” Tina said in very good English, “because you cannot wear Chanel’s clothes without learning a great deal about fashion. She makes her clothes so comfortable that they move with you.

I think a woman has a difficult time looking her best when her clothes constrict her movements.” Tina does not believe you have to spend a lot of money to be well dressed. “The secret is being able to recognize quality. Look, I paid $10 for this. Isn’t it beautiful?” She showed me a pea jacket that had been designed originally for American sailors. 

 “The fabric is lovely. The length is right, and shoulders are a perfect fit.” Tina talked about discovering one’s true style. “It is not easy. My biggest mistake was being tempted by something because it was different. Now I have learned to look for basic beauty.” From Paris Tina brings this mask for your complexion. Take soft leaves from a head of lettuce. Wash them and wrap them in a damp towel and place them in the refrigerator until they are crisp and cold. You can put them in the freezer compartment if you are in a hurry.

When your skin is thoroughly clean lie down and place these leaves all over your face. “You will be surprised,” Tina promises, “at how lovely your complexion will look after about 15 or 20 minutes.”