Word: cartier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rich degenerate, a luxurious locale. (The Fabulous Hotel in Las Vegas), and a spectacular chase sequence near the finish. Only this time Victor Mature (not Robert Mitchum) plays the hero, and Hoagy Carmichael has been thrown in for kicks too, along with an incredible diamond necklace rented from Cartier, Inc. The result, as usual, is a preposterously silly picture...
Behind these two protagonists lies a shadowy plot dealing with a diamond necklace (for which Cartier, Inc. gets a screen credit), a murder, and the inevitable chase sequence: villainous Brad Dexter, absconding in a stolen car with both Jane Russell and the jewels, as pursued and overtaken by Mature in a helicopter. Besides petulantly tossing her head at both Mature and Vincent Price, Jane sings three songs by Hoagy Carmichael, and is thoroughly photographed in bed, in a glass-walled shower, and in & out of a succession of deep-plunging evening dresses...
Returning from Paris recently, a Paulista friend brought Baby's bride-to-be a Cartier cigarette lighter adorned with a sapphire as big as a robin's egg. The friend was Sáo Paulo's fabulous press lord, Assis Chateaubriand, 60, who shares Baby's dislike for Matarazzo and likes to print whole pages of pictures of underpaid Matarazzo workers and their crowded hovels. "Chatô's" head office, two of his 28 newspapers and one of his TV stations are in Sáo Paulo. So is his new Museu de Arte...
...spend five days as the house guest of Luisa Maria, Duchess of Valencia, the often-arrested monarchist gadfly of Franco Spain. After sightseeing in Madrid and a round of motoring, swimming and riding, the Earl presented the Duchess with a small memento of the occasion: a pair of Cartier's diamond cuff links bearing the Warwick coat of arms. The little interlude ended with gallant restraint as the Earl kissed his hostess' hand, boarded a plane and made his farewell: "Thank you, Luisa Maria. This has been a wonderful excursion...
...made up of collectors' items and almost none of it was intended for the Christmas trade. This, in a way, was a pity. Shoppers working their way down Fifth Avenue from the gallery could hardly hope to find baubles so fine, even at Tiffany's or Cartier...