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...Women was also directly responsible for ending Ros's career as Hollywood's No. 1 Bachelor Girl. In 1939, a Danish-born theatrical agent named Frederick Brisson was crossing the Atlantic on the overcrowded, submarine-dodging S. S. Washington. His deck chair was just outside the main lounge where The Women, the only film aboard, was played and replayed endlessly throughout the stormy crossing. Says Brisson: "I'd hear those screaming voices. I couldn't stand it. After the 12th or 13th day, I went in to see it. I saw every other performance until...
...Smile for Gary. In Hollywood, Brisson moved in with his friend Gary Grant, who was making His Girl Friday with Rosalind Russell. One night when Grant had a date with Ros, he brought Brisson along. Ros says: "I opened my door with a big smile for Gary, and then I saw this other fellow with him. 'Great!' I thought. 'I have a date with Gary Grant and he brings a chaperon...
...next few months, Brisson phoned regularly for dates of his own. Just as regularly, Ros said no. Today, she is still impressed by the mysteries of love. "All of a sudden," she recalls. "I found myself saying yes to Freddy and no to other people." She gestures, helplessly: "Then we got hitched...
...Freddy Brisson, who went to work as a Hollywood agent, is resigned to being introduced as "Rosalind Russell's husband." Before they were married, he was usually introduced as his father's brother, because Singer Carl Brisson feared that having a grown son might handicap his career...
...literary and theatrical criticism, but these days it lays more emphasis than ever before on sports, serial stories of topical interest and Page One editorials by Mauriac and Author Andre Siegfried (America Comes of Age). The change in ownership will presumably bring no change in policies. Under Director Brisson, Le Figaro will continue to mock whatever fools and opposition it chooses...