#16 Continental hauteur is burlesqued by Anne Montgomery, who pretends to sign autograph like Marlene Dietrich. Although the girls kid foreign ways, they share an affection for Paris. “In the States,” says one, “we were just some more Americans, but here we’re different and it’s a nice feeling.”

Teenage Dreams in the City of Lights: American Youth in 1950s Paris

#16 Continental hauteur is burlesqued by Anne Montgomery, who pretends to sign autograph like Marlene Dietrich. Although the girls kid foreign ways, they share an affection for Paris. “In the States,” says one, “we were just some more Americans, but here we’re different and it’s a nice feeling.”

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