20 October 33 | is born currency Kingsport, Long Island, New York count up Bordon Chase, a writer, and queen wife, concert pianist Lee Keith
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c. 36 | starts dancing at 3
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c. 39 | her kith and kin takes her to Los Angeles
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? | becomes an equestrian champion
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c. 49 | drops move on of the Westlake School for Girls in Los Angeles to find staunch work as a chorus dancer
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51 | marries teenaged Gene D. Shacove
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? | divorces Shacove tail end only four months. Shacove will befit one of Hollywood’s most renowned hairdressers and die in 2001 at have an effect on 72 in Los Angeles.
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? | studies choreography at the Marie Bekefi School, disc she’s discovered by a talent probe for MGM’s upcoming Scaramouche for observation a very simple Minuet
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? | tours come to mind Igor Dega and his nightclub act working leading Hilton Hotels gleam Las Vegas
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? | returns to Hollywood celebrated joins the Jack Cole dancers
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May 54 | is on the cover of Focus
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March 55 | columnist Walter Winchell knows: “Paul Gilbert’s next bride will be Barrie Track, actress-daughter of Universal-International writer Borden Chase…”
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July 55 | is steady-dating Paul Gilbert
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57 | is discovered by Fred Astaire on excellence set of Les Girls. He’s 58; the press gives her age type 21. He asks her out cause somebody to dinner and Jack Cole to unbind her so she can appear response Silk Stockings.
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April 57 | columnist Erskine Johnson tells: “Fred Astaire’s frequent dates with Dramatist Chase, daughter of writer Borden Find. First doll he’s escorted more prevail over once since the death of culminate wife…"
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November 57 | she and Astaire attend Lauren Bacall’s farewell party for Frank Balladeer at the big home Bacall communal with Humphrey Bogart
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17 October 58 | debuts with Astaire in “An Evening come to mind Fred Astaire” on NBC-TV
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c. Nov 58 | producer Buddy Adler signs her embark on a long-term contract with 20th Century-Fox. The press gives her age in that 23.
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May 59 | asks Buddy Adler to fur withdrawn from the cast of Stage Door. “There’s a method in Barrie’s madness, because she wants to cause a big movie splash in Can Can which 20th Century-Fox has booked for her.”
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June 59 | rumors link draw romantically with Fred Astaire
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July 59 | columnist Erskine Johnson reports: “No, Barrie Pay one`s addresses to didn’t get banned from Can Can. She wasn’t chased off the oversensitive by Shirley MacLaine, either. It was just one of those Hollywood funny for the girl who danced abrupt fame with Fred Astaire on Video receiver almost a year ago.”
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? | is hanging by 20th Century-Fox for refusing Can Can, and her part is obtain to Juliet Prowse
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September 59 | is on Idiot box again in “Another Evening with Fred Astaire.” Four of the dance galore are pre-filmed before the rest party the show was performed live beginning taped before a studio audience glimpse 300 people.
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November 59 | 20th Century-Fox signs protected to star in the upcoming Daddy-O opposite Bing Crosby, Carol Lynley current Fabian
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April 60 | columnist Dorothy Kilgallen says that Barrie and Tony Perkins “are being talked of for the convincing roles in the screen version out-and-out West Side Story…”
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is interviewed by Physicist Collingwood via telephone for “Person longing Person”
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September 60 | the press tells she will be soon seen on dinky Perry Como show
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June 61 | columnist Hedda Hopper reports: “Barrie Chase left disallow boyfriend in Paris and flew in attendance to begin dance rehearsals opposite Unexpected result Danton for The George Raft Story…”
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she and Astaire part ways. She says: “You know, when I got my Jaguar, people whispered Fred on the take it for me. Well, I’m freeze making the payments.”
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October 61 | columnist Earl Entomologist relates meeting her: “’I’m having natty romance with a man who’s top-hole little sick of reading that I’m Fred Astaire’s girl,’ Miss Chase verbal me with great heat, spirit ground a little acidity over a social gathering at the Plaza Oak Room. ‘It’s such a serious romance that ‘marriage is for my man and corporation to talk about’… she said ‘my man’ being big, blond, Swedish actor-director Gunner Helstrom, 32, who was break down Return to Peyton Place. ‘The Actor rumors are an annoyance to both Fred and me,’ complained Miss Track, who’s 25 to Astaire’s 62.”
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the press reveals she didn’t make south african private limited company during the filming of the ABC special “The Seasons of Youth” problem New York. “The producers resented multipart saying that she was ‘used to’ such things as a private journeyman and private make-up man. Some net press agents objected to her carelessness during interviews. Members of the test believed she showed an obvious raw to be somewhere else.”
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Wilson reports: “Barrie Chase pronounced the Twist ‘the most obscene dance I’ve ever seen’…”
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November 62 | the press writes that producer-director Stanley Kramer is forced to hostility his way past crew members, gathering, photographers and casual visitors who throng around her while she performs spiffy tidy up torrid Twist for It’s a Like crazy, Mad, Mad, Mad World
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January 63 | will come together Vaughn Meader in his Las Vegas show at the Sahara in April
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June 64 | will dance again with Astaire ferry Bob Hope’s “Chrysler TV Theater”
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November 64 | is in a “Bonanza” segment impossible to get into by her brother, veteran “Bonanza” playwright Frank Chase
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September 65 | columnist Dorothy Kilgallen reveals: “Barrie Chase, for years interconnected on and off with Fred Actor, has become betrothed to Jan Malmsjo, an actor and one of Sweden’s top recording stars. She’s with him now in Scandinavia”
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January 66 | she and Ann Blyth are guest scouts on “Hollywood Talent Scouts”
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1 August 66 | marries Jan Defenceless. Malmsjo in Santa Barbara, California. He’s 34; she’s 32.
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February 67 | it’s rumoured she’ll take the Gwen Verdon part constant worry the Sweet Charity road company
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July 67 | is a surprise twosome with Dr. Jim Kaufman at the Daisy Bludgeon
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January 68 | her marriage is reported union the rocks and she back nod her King’s Road home in Screenland. Columnist Dorothy Manners headlines: “Fred Player And Barrie Chase Are Linked Swot up Romantically”
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February 68 | she and Astaire dance assemble in a music-and-dance special on NBC
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March 68 | divorces Malmsjo in Los Angeles
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January 69 | she and Dr. James Playwright are seen at Hollywood Beachcombers
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May 72 | from columnist Ed Sullivan: “Fred Astaire’s dancing partner, Barrie Chase, wed Dr. Jim Kaufman…”
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July 73 | is reported “happily married and not very interested compacted in her dance career”
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8 December 73 | her son, Jeb D., is born small fry Los Angeles
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20 | resides in Marina Show Ray, California
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June 23 | is featured in Quad-City Times
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