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...gallery of elegant, gorgeous, witty leading ladies that Britain showcased in the years just after World War II is crowded and entrancing: Deborah Kerr, Claire Bloom, Kay Kendall, Joan Greenwood, Dorothy Tutin and of course Audrey Hepburn - whose career was launched as the princess in Roman Holiday because Howard Hughes, the owner of Simmons' contract at the time, refused to loan her out for the role. She determined never to be indentured to a studio again, and as a freelancer forged a strong résumé that cast her opposite Marlon Brando, Laurence Olivier, Robert Mitchum (twice with each...
Soon Simmons had caught the eyes of virtually every top filmmaker in Britain. After her turn in Great Expectations, Olivier tangled with Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger over who would win her services, either as a Himalayan dancing girl in Powell and Pressburger's Black Narcissus (1947) or as Ophelia in Hamlet (1948). The directors finally agreed to rearrange their schedules so Simmons could appear in both films. In Black Narcissus she donned brownface to play the Himalayan girl Kanchi, who performs a wild native dance (it's mostly just running) and gets whipped for her insolence. Simmons's blond...
...same time.) French boardrooms are far less diverse than those in other nations; a survey last month by the independent Politico-Economic Observatory of Capitalistic Structures (PEOCS) indicates that the concentration of business power is greater in France than in most other Western countries - especially the U.S. and Britain...
...there's another way change could come to the top of France's economic pyramid: the foreigners who hold 40% of the CAC 40 companies' capital could increase that amount and then demand the kinds of shareholders' rights and powers they enjoy in the U.S. and Britain - and stage a mini-coup of the France Inc. boardrooms...
...playing up the Britishness and keeping a link to the heritage" of its spruced-up new models, says David Bailey, a professor of international business strategy and economics at Coventry University. Ford, on the other hand, fell afoul as the former owner of Jaguar by trying to take Britain's luxury sports-car brand into the mass market. Overseas buyers must "be aware of sensitivities of the brand and preserve it to sell the product successfully," Bailey says. "That's a key lesson for Kraft...