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Has anyone ever heard of this one-name celeb?
Self | 1/21/'13 | Zionist Conspirator

Posted on 01/21/2013 12:14:37 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator

I bought my first World Almanac in the last week of December 1970 (I have bought one each year since then). I was fascinatined by the miscellaneous facts and statistics. One section I enjoyed was the "celebrities" section, giving the birth place and birth years of famous people in the entertainment business. Of course, there were many listed in this section I had never heard of.

One of my major discoveries was the "one-name celebrities." I had never heard of such a thing before. But here they were--Annabella, Cantinflas, Dagmar, Fabian, Fernandel, Genevieve, Hildegarde, and Margo. Who were these people?

Since then I have learned who all these people were (they're mostly gone now). But one mysterious name is still utterly unknown to me. I can't find it in Wikipedia or the Internet Movie Database, and any name that isn't on one of those two lists must have been a very strange kind of celebrity.

The name was listed as "Lili." To the side it had in parentheses "Liliane Lewin." The only information was that she was born in France in 1925. That was all.

As I said, I can't find a "Liliane Lewin" or "Lili" in either of the two major online celebrity references. I did an Internet search and turned up plenty of hits, but they appear to be referring to currently living non-celebrities on Facebook of Linked In. So I am at a complete and total loss.

Does anyone out there recall a celebrity of any kind named Liliane Lewin, born in France in 1925, who went by the name of "Lili?"

Thanks!

PS: Please don't refer me to the MGM movie Lili starring Leslie Caron. That's not the subject.


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KEYWORDS: entertainment; trivia; vanity; wherearetheynow
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To: saminfl

My parents went to see that movie when it first hit the theatres and brought back the illustrated souvinir book (remember those?) which I had for many years.


61 posted on 01/21/2013 3:17:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
How about the zero-name celeb.


62 posted on 01/21/2013 3:25:02 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant
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To: DainBramage


63 posted on 01/21/2013 3:28:06 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: LaybackLenny
Dagmar was actually quite...ahem...memorable.

Her husband had the only known case of double Pectus excavatum.
(look it up)

64 posted on 01/21/2013 3:34:33 PM PST by Vinnie (A)
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To: vladimir998
ZC, you never heard of Cher? Bono?

In the 1971 World Almanac there was no "Bono." And Cher listed as "Bono, Cher."

65 posted on 01/21/2013 3:39:59 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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To: Revolting cat!
When everything under the sun is now on Internet and this Lili ain’t, is it possible that Lili never existed and was somebody’s inside joke when you saw the reference?

Hmm . . . now that you mention it . . .

66 posted on 01/21/2013 3:41:07 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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To: LaybackLenny

Damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead!


67 posted on 01/21/2013 3:42:03 PM PST by Defiant (If there are infinite parallel universes, why Lord, am I living in the one with Obama as President?)
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To: All

Just want to thank everyone for his contribution. This thread has been a lot of fun!


68 posted on 01/21/2013 3:47:16 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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To: nd76
When I was about 10 or 11 (which would have been in the mid-60s), I had a piano teacher who must have been at least 65 at the time who claimed that she had traveled with and played in the shows put on by Hildegarde, who was a renowned concert pianist and singer back in the 20s and 30s.

Hildegarde (who died a few years ago) was the original one-name celeb. Well, except maybe for:


69 posted on 01/21/2013 3:51:50 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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To: DainBramage
Aka Mon Cheri

That was Morticia Adams, AKA Carolyn Jones.

-PJ

70 posted on 01/21/2013 3:51:50 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

I seem to recall “Fabian” was a singer/actor from the 1950s/1960s. That’s the only one though...

Mark


71 posted on 01/21/2013 3:56:56 PM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: HomeAtLast

You may be right. “Lilo” was certainly born in France in 1925. However, here surname (so far as I can tell) was not Lewin, and I honestly can’t see the Almanac misspelling her name.


72 posted on 01/21/2013 4:03:12 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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To: Political Junkie Too

LOL thats right, got em mixed up. Loved both of them.


73 posted on 01/21/2013 4:27:01 PM PST by DainBramage
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To: Zionist Conspirator

It’s Lilo and the almanac did misspell, or you remember it wrong! I’ll see if I can find something to corroborate.


74 posted on 01/21/2013 5:00:47 PM PST by HomeAtLast ( You're either with the Tea Party, or you're with the EBT Party.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

Well that was easy. Search “Lilo Liliane Lewin” in google books. First up is the world almanac. Second entry offers more info.
Where’s my prize? :)


75 posted on 01/21/2013 5:05:35 PM PST by HomeAtLast ( You're either with the Tea Party, or you're with the EBT Party.)
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To: HomeAtLast
Well that was easy. Search “Lilo Liliane Lewin” in google books. First up is the world almanac. Second entry offers more info. Where’s my prize? :)

Well I'll be . . . I think you've solved it!

Still, the "Lilo" at IMDB isn't named "Liliane Lewin." Oh well . . . this is probably as close to The Truth as we'll ever get!

How strange for multiple issues of the World Almanac to misspell her stage name by one letter.

76 posted on 01/21/2013 5:35:50 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
How strange for multiple issues of the World Almanac to misspell her stage name by one letter.

They copied the last year's text, mistake and all. Like that island that never existed they recently uncovered. Seems it got stuck on a map hundreds of years ago and everybody else added it to their map, even though it wasn't there.

77 posted on 01/21/2013 5:41:09 PM PST by eartrumpet
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To: eartrumpet

I live in France and Lilo was the sister in law of my mother.

She is born Liliane Lewin but her husband was the theater producer Marquis de la Passardiere.

Lilo was famous in USA for her performance in “Can-can” (50’)

I dont known if is always alive today.


78 posted on 04/17/2013 7:19:21 AM PDT by Epinoel
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