Hollywood actress Juliet Prowse dies

1996 - Juliet Prowse, the dancer and actress who high-kicked her way to fame by performing a saucy can-can before startled Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, died. She was 59. She died at her Los Angeles home after losing a two-year battle with pancreatic cancer. Prowse was a tall, auburn-haired beauty who was once linked romantically to singers Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra.