Nina Van Pallandt

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BIRTHDAY

July 15, 1932

Copenhagen, Denmark

RECENT CREDITS

O.C. & Stiggs (FILM) Nov. 12, 1987

O.C. and Stiggs (FILM) Jul. 10, 1987

The Sword and the Sorcerer (FILM) Jul. 9, 1982

Cutter's Way (FILM) Mar. 1, 1981

American Gigolo (FILM) Feb. 1, 1980

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BIOGRAPHY

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Glamorous Danish cabaret singer Nina Van Pallandt became a baroness by marriage in the 1960s, but this domestic accomplishment paled in comparison to her involvement in "l'affair Irving." When writer Clifford Irving made headlines in 1972 for allegedly gaining access to the elusive Howard Hughes, it became public knowledge that Nina Van Pallandt had been having an affair with Irving. Shortly after publishing a series of Hughes "interviews," Irving was exposed as a literary fraud, having completely fabricated the interview sessions. While Irving protested the authenticity of his writings, Van Pallandt drove the nail in his credibility coffin by insisting that Irving had been vacationing in Mexico with her at the time he was supposedly picking Hughes' brains. Even as Clifford Irving was being escorted to prison, Van Pallandt's singing career soared. Nina Van Pallandt was able to finesse her 15 minutes of fame into a 15-year film career; merely ornamental in many of her films, Nina Van Pallandt actually delivered a semblance of a performance in Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye (1973).

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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