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They call her the new Salome, for on her face there is a touch of striking Eastern beauty...
Yvonne De Carlo dances, and hearts dance to the fall of her steps, as she "bends her burning frame"... And everyone loves her, in appreciation of her and in fascination with her splendid art.
Yet this bewitching dancer has an ambition beyond the stage and the screen, with all the glory and eminence that attend them... When her true self is uncovered to us, it becomes plain that this charmer, with the two marble-blue eyes, lowers her gaze in modesty — unlike her fellow women of the profession — and aims at a happy marriage and a contented, secluded life, dear to the young dancer's heart!
Yvonne De Carlo goes to great lengths in welcoming her guests, after the manner of the daughters of bygone generations. She explains the
reason: when she was a child in Canada, her birthplace, she kept much company with her grandmother, and this companionship gave her a modest nature and certain habits which people count "old-fashioned" — but Yvonne loves them and is at every pains to preserve them.
She loves singing more than dancing, and hopes to meet with brilliant success in it. Those who heard her sing in her film "River Lady" believe she is truly gifted, and that this gift is enough to secure her fame and glory...
Yvonne De Carlo
In one of the suburbs of Hollywood, far from its clamor and its social din, which stirs
This is a mother's advice to her daughter... spoken to her as she breathed her last.
— I have suffered much, my daughter, and I do not want you to suffer as I suffered. I was the victim of a mistaken idea. I believed that love was the breath of life that I inhaled — nay, the aim of life and its hidden secret. But I found in love only a frail tree over which the seasons of the year pass, changing its state... I found in it a tree that withers in autumn, flourishes in spring, shrinks in winter, and rustles its dry leaves in summer!
How sweet sleep must be in this bed