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SANDRA DEE ASKS:
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Why do they lie
She's been called "spoiled" and 'bored?9 and other unflattering things ; now hear Sandra set the record straight
photos by Gene Trindl, Topix
SANDRA'S mother is justifiably proud of her daughter who was a successful teenage fashion model before becoming a movie star.
By HELEN LOUISE WALKER
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IF I WERE a stranger, reading some of the things which have been written about me, I think I'd hate me!"
This was little Sandra Dee, not yet 17, who is learning at too young an age what it is to be a celebrity and what it is to be misunderstood and misinterpreted. She seemed so bitter and so bruised about it all that we suggested, "Let's set the record straight. Suppose you tell us what things have been printed about you that you feel are false or twisted . . . and we'll put them right."
"Well . . ." she took a deep breath. "People have said that I am spoiled and bored. I don't know quite what they mean by being 'spoiled' but how could I possibly be 'bored' when such exciting things have been happening to me?" She thought a moment.
"Do you suppose when they say that I am 'spoiled" that they mean I have had such an easy . time getting where I am, that my training was a lot "different from that of other girls my age? Well, that's true. I've had some of my growing up in reverse in a lot of ways. I had the older part first and I'm just learning about the younger part. I've never had any real 'young fun' until just recently. But . . . does that make me 'spoiled'?"
A brief explanation is due just here.
Sandra became a model when she was very young and was noticed at a Girl Scouts' fashion show. Her mother and her stepfather (Eugene Douvan) were understandably proud of their beautiful little daughter and they used to take her with them when they went dancing at places like the Waldorf-Astoria. That's how Sandra came to the notice of Harry Conover, who heads one of the big model agencies, and Oleg Cassini, the fashionable couturiere. That's how she became a top-flight model and that's how eventually she was signed for TV and at last for pictures. Her first picture was "The Restless Years" with John Saxon. Then followed another with
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