Jacques Bergerac is 81 today. In case you're thinking, Jacques who?, the photos provided should help you determine that A) he was a consort of Ginger Rogers', and B) one of the most beautiful men who ever walked the earth. He also apparently had a thing for blowsy, older blondes; after his 1954-1957 marriage to La Rogers ended, he promptly took up with Dorothy Malone, until their divorce in 1964. Bergerac was also an actor, appearing most prestigiously in MGM's Les Girls (1957) and Gigi (1958), but most famously in the cultish The Hypnotic Eye (1960). Retired from show business since the late Sixties, Bergerac eventually became head of Revlon's Paris office. (Imagine, if you dated him...all this, and free cosmetics, too!)
Ginger Rogers got her start here in Oregon, these are great photos. Your blog is simply the best.
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