On Nov 04, 1997, David Wennberg wrote to ** ALL **:
DW> I have two lp's by Claudine Longet. I can't find any
DW> information about her at all, or whether these are
DW> collectable. If I remember correctly (and I probably don't)
DW> this was the pretty french girl that I first saw on the 60's
DW> series Hogan's Heros.
Maybe collectable, maybe not. You're right, she was on Hogan's Heroes.
She's also credited with at least four movies and I'm virtually positive that
she was in one of the early Bond flicks.
DW> For some reason, I seem to think that she is/was imprisoned
DW> for murdering her husband or something, but I'm not sure.
Not imprisoned, David. Here's some info.:
Born: 29 January 1942, Paris, France
Pop culture remembers Claudine Longet for just two achievements: her
co-starring role in the 1968 Peter Sellers vehicle The Party, and her
starring role in the 1976 murder of professional skier Spider Sabich. Her
past marriage to singer Andy Williams doesn't quite register-- after all,
Williams is barely remembered himself beyond the cozy nostalgia of the
Branson set. Meanwhile, Longet's vocal albums are so utterly forgotten
that they've never appeared on CD (except in Japan, where "cute pop" is
practically the national pastime), have rarely been anthologized and
haven't even been compiled into a decent best-of disc.
On Thursday, March 21, 1976, Spider Sabich was shot and killed in the
bathroom of his Aspen, Colo., home. His live-in girlfriend, singer-actress
Claudine Longet, was convicted of criminally negligent homicide, a
misdemeanor.
DW> Any information or directions to a source of information
DW> about her and her albums would be appreciated.
If you have Internet access, you can find lots more information at:
http://users.deltanet.com/~gondola/longet/longet.html
Best,
-JrS
ogre@nashville.com
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