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    The Oldie

    GOLDEN OLDIES

    Aug 25, 2021 1 minute
    IMOGEN THOMAS LITTLEBROOK

    The year was 1954 and I was 21 and loving my job as personal assistant/secretary to the actor-manager Donald Wolfit.

    Marlene Dietrich – the 120th anniversary of whose birth is in December – was been 53

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