People: Mar. 2, 1962

Irreverently telling her mother before she told it to Louella, Dancer Juliet Prowse, 25, phoned her South African home with "heartsore" news. Informed by Fiancé Frank Sinatra, 46, that "there's millions of girls who'd give up work to marry me," the lissome cineminx had decided that she wasn't one of them. But there was consolation amid the wreckage of her six-week trial engagement. "You have to hand it to Juliet," confided a Sinatra intimate. "For all those weeks, there was never any other girl." Besides, the career that Juliet had declined to sacrifice...

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