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Sandra and her mother (no. not her sister!) spend most of W
their time together. The youngster has few friends her age.
Sandra Dee missed a lot of teen-age fun for a career but so
would other giris to play this scene opposite John Saxon!
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by Peer J. Oppenhtimer
Sixteen-year-old Sandra Dee
starred in six pictures during
this year, including the soon-to-be-released
"The Restless Years."
She's been called the new Liz Tay
lor, the Cinderella girl of 1958, the
most beautiful, talented, and envied
young actress in Hollywood.
Some of this may be true. But there
is another more compelling reason
why she has attained such success so
early in life: a persistence that would
do credit to a 32-yeai -old! She knows
what she wants, how to get it and, if
necessary, what to give up for it.
Sandra was born in Bayonne, N. J.,
on April 23, 1942. Her parents were
divorced when she was two; three
years later her mother married Eu
gene Douvain, wealthy real-estate
man and business manager who did
his best to spoil his pretty stepchild.
He died in 1956, shortly before Sandra
moved to Hollywood with her mother.
"Sandy always had a mind of her
own," admits Mrs. Douvain. "I re
member when she was about four and
wouldn't eat her cereal. Nothing
would change her mind. I could stuff
all the cereal I wanted into her mouth,
and she'd just keep it there till she
turned blue in the face."
The same persistence was evident
in her introduction to acting.
A Kid Going Places
As a 21-month-old, Sandy was a
little extrovert who loved singing,
dancing, and just chattering which
gave her older cousin and her parish
priest in Bayonne the idea of putting
her in the annual Christmas pageant
at their church. She was delighted,
but during the first rehearsal was so
scared that she wouldn't open her
mouth. As soon as she got back in the
car, however, she promptly started
singing and chattering again. This
went on for three weeks, until the
priest finally decided to let her dress
up prettily in a peasant outfit and
stand on the stage simply to add
beauty to the scene.
But a curious change took place
when she was actually facing an audi
ence. Suddenly she not only remem
bered the part she was supposed to
have played, but all the other parts as
well and ran all over the stage im
personating everybody else! After
that, there was no doubt in her mind
what she wanted to become.
No other opportunities arose, though,
until she was 12. Then, as a member
of the Girl Scouts, she modeled at one
of her troop's benefit fashion shows.
When the editor of a magazine for
girls saw Sandra, he promptly sug
gested she pose for a cover.
Her stepfather just as promptly ve
toed the idea. He had dealt with show
people long enough to know the pit
falls of the profession, and he had
every intention of keeping Sandra out
of it. But he underestimated her tre
mendous will power.
From the moment he arrived at his
club, Sandra had him paged every few
minutes, wanting to know if he'd
changed his mind. Once he had to get
up from lunch three times to tell her'
he hadn't! But he finally did and, as a
result, Harry Conover signed her as a
model. Her stepfather gave his bless
ing after warning Sandra he'd stop
her career if it ever went to her head.
A iter a successful modeling career,
Sandra became a television
actress when an agent spotted
her at Rockefeller Center and, assum
ing she was in show business, recom
mended her for the part of Vaughn
Monroe's daughter on the singer's
show. She got the part and in quick
succession appeared in a number of
other shows as well as a series of
highly paid TV commercials before
Universal-International producer Ross
Hunter offered her the lead opposite
John Saxon in "The Restless Years."
By coincidence, two other major stu
dios wanted her the same day.
Appearing in six films in only twice
as many months meant a heavy sched
ule for Sandra; in addition to her
career, she had to keep up with her
schooling, a minimum of three hours a
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Family Weekly, November 30, 1951