Sure enough, she walked into the weekly open auditions for all the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway shows, and the casting director, upon hearing her sing, sent everyone else home. Shirley Jones, later to star as David Cassidy’s on-screen mother in The Partridge Family (as well as become his real-life stepmother), was dropped off at the Barbizon by her parents with $200 in her pocket. Phyllis Kirk, lead actress in The Thin Man television series, stayed at the Barbizon at her mother’s insistence. Together they calculated that close to “100 famous fashion models, radio and television actresses” along with many more “stage and screen hopefuls, girls studying art, music, ballet and designing” were residing at the Barbizon at any given time. Mae Sibley, was now finding it a challenge to coordinate all the various reservations. Connor, with the help of assistant manager Mrs. But even if left to her own devices, she would never have wanted to stay anywhere else she loved “the atmosphere of a sorority house,” where “you can never run out of bobby pins.” The hotel manager Hugh J. Meche Azcarate from Mexico, for example, was forbidden by her mother to stay anywhere other than the Barbizon. Throughout the late 1940s and early 1950s, requests for rooms at the Barbizon Hotel for Women grew exponentially.
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