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Hardly able to keep his eyes on his notebook, an Escapade editor had the following
delightful chat with Britain's new sex-bomb during her recent visit to MM-land.
Q. First of all Sabrina. this is your first trip to the United States. In
the short time you've been here, have you formed any opinions?
A. Oh, yes! To start off with. I'm in love with America and American men!
I mean it. I'm fond of certain English gentlemen, of course, and a very special
titled continental chap I know is charming.
Q. Is that Prince Christian of Hanover?
A. Oh, now, let's talk about American men. I think I can say truly that I
see eye-to-eye with them. I hope that's the proper way of expressing it - even
though their eyes stray very flatteringly at times.
Q. What is it you like about American men?
A. Well, the United States itself has the life, luxury and lusty lavishness
to please any girl who's really feminine (and they tell me I am) and what is
even more appealing is that you American males have the same attractive qualities.
Unfortunately, though, this visit will be all too short. I won't be able to
meet one-fiftieth of the men I’d like to, On this holiday I’m limited
to a fortnight during which I have to do a television show and visit Hollywood.
Then, two weeks later I have to be back in London at the Prince of Wales Theatre
to rejoin my show The Pleasures of Paris . Then I have to do a cinema in Italy
and go on a tour of Australia. That means it will be a full year at least before
I can come back and spend some time here and relax - I mean really relax – with
you.
Q. Sabrina, some of your European critics accuse Americans of being puritanical
and prim and strait-laced. Have you found this to be true?
A. I don't see that at all. Not the way you enjoy Brigitte Bardot and Gina
Lollobrigida and your own cute Marilyn Monroe. And the way - even in the brief
while I've been here - that you've welcomed me with open arms.
Q. Are European audiences fed up with bosoms? A Spanish film actress. Sarita
Montiet recently said so.
A. Sounds like publicity. Fed up with bosoms? Q. That's what she said.
A. Well, I think it's wishful thinking or a case of sour grapes or arrested
development on her part. At any rate I don't think it's true and in a way it's
an uncalled-for insult to European men, many of whom have excellent taste,
It is a fact. though, that you Americans are much more appreciative of well-developed
bosom beauty in a woman than are most continental males. Please don't change!
I think it's a fine outlook - a nice, virile, masculine outlook.
Q. Then all attempts to explain it as something odd or unusual or infantile
are just bunk?
A. Look, if it's healthy for a girl to be round and firm and fully developed,
it’s healthy for a boy to admire it. Over here you men - whatever your
age – prove you’re young at heart when you do, and women - real
womanly women. that is - if anything, rather enjoy it I think.
Q. Is it true, Sabrina, that you are considering insurance on your bust?
A. You see, this area of my anatomy has become so well-known and played up
in the press that for professional reasons my manager felt that we should have
the size and contour of my bust insured by Lloyd's of London.
 
Q. The report we heard called it an unusual policy because it contains
a special clause protecting you against 'shrinkage."
A. Please don't use the word "shrinkage." I don't care for it,
I prefer to use the term “deflation." According to the terms of
the agreement, Lloyd's insures that my bust measurement will never go below
40 inches. If
it should they have agreed to pay me $15,000 per inch annually. They're not
taking much of a risk, really, because my bosom measurement at present is 41½ inches.
That's half an inch larger than Jayne Mansfield's. I believe, and I'm still
growing.
Q. What are the other statistics?
A. Statistics? Oh, well, my waist is 17 inches, if that's what you mean. One
thing I enjoy about you Yanks is your delightful sense of humor, I found it
even among your shopkeepers and civil servants. One of your customs men, for
instance, made a little joke when he asked me if I had "filled out my
form." I really didn't expect it! And one droll chap on the Steve Allen
television program referred to my strap-less gown as "an atomic dress
' because it was 'ninety percent fall-out!" Isn’t that amusing?
Q. That obviously wasn't one of the "sack" dresses, then.
A. You men over here are so concerned about this look in our clothes and about
hiding our figures. Personally. I can't see that it makes much difference what
the designers design. If nature has endowed a girl with the right parts in
the right proportions, no new style is going to really hide them. One way or
another they'll pop up and be apparent. It's just that in a sack they may look
like potatoes. But even in sacks, sex will still be sex and, as someone once
said, "Vive le difference!"
Q. Speaking of clothes, what about your night clothes?
A. I don t quite understand why there should be so much interest in my boudoir
habits. Well, actually, at home I slip into either a shortie silk night gown – the
shorter and frillier the better - or a brief pajama top. But, frankly, the
hotels here in New York are so warmly heated that I've been climbing in between
the sheets these nights in the altogether and, even with the windows wide open,
I must confess that I’m still hot!
Q. Sabrina. Did you know that the National Fan Clubs have named you "The
Most Provocative Star of 1958?"
A. You're so titillating! is it any wonder that I want to hug you Americans
close to my heart? And, honestly. what other country would think to call one
of its mountain ranges the Grand Tetons?
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