About
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Angie was born September 30, 1931 in Kulm, North Dakota. She has German ancestry. Young Dickinson competed on beauty pageant in the year 1953 and ended on second place. Her first movie was Death Valley Days in 1954. Many of her following films included revealing hot scenes and Dickinson wasn’t shy even in later movies. For example in 1980, Angie showed a lot from her attractive body measurements on thriller Dressed to Kill.
Angie married former football player Gene Dickinson on June 2, 1952, and they divorced in 1960. Dickinson said that she and Frank Sinatra “got very close to getting married in 1964,” and though there were rumors that she had an affair with John F. Kennedy, Angie has always denied it. She married Burt Bacharach on May 15, 1965, and they welcomed daughter Lea Nikki on July 12, 1966. Nikki was born three months prematurely and spent her life dealing with chronic health problems; she was also diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome. Angie and Burt placed Nikki at a Minnesota psychiatric residential treatment facility called the Wilson Center, and she stayed there for nine years. Sadly, Nikki died by suicide at age 40 in 2007. Dickinson and Bacharach divorced in 1981, and Angie later dated actor Glenn Ford and interviewer Larry King.
Quotes by Angie Dickinson
"Growing older doesn't bother me."
Angie Dickinson
"My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra."
Angie Dickinson
"I remember a Humphrey Bogart movie where he was a reporter, so I wanted to be a reporter, and then he was a parachutist, and I wanted to be a parachutist."
Angie Dickinson
"I wouldn't want to be known only as a sex symbol. I wanted to be known as an actress equally or even more so."
Angie Dickinson
"I have never knowingly dated a Republican."
Angie Dickinson
