Word: cid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...racing to annul their marriage before they could be booked for bigamy (Italy does not recognize Ponti's divorce from his first wife). In New York Supreme Court, where Sophia was suing Bronston Productions, Inc. because she was billed below Charlton Heston on a Broadway sign ballyhooing El Cid. Justice Samuel Hofstadter chucked out her requested injunction. Said he: "Such vanity doubtless is due to the adulation which the public showers on the denizens of the entertainment world in a profusion wholly disproportionate to the intrinsic contribution which they make to the scheme of things...
...Cid. The Spanish Lancelot, hero of the wars against the Moors, is celebrated in the year's best superspectacle...
...Cid. The Spanish Lancelot, hero of the wars against the Moors, is celebrated in the year's best superspectacle...
Before Sophia Loren agreed to make El Cid in Spain, she demanded everything from a $200-a-week hairdresser to a $200,000 salary for ten weeks' work. Producer Samuel Bronston obliged. But Sophia has now filed furious suit against Bronston Productions Inc. in New York State's Supreme Court, charging a grievous breach of contract. On a 600-sq.-ft. billboard facing south over Manhattan's Times Square, Sophia Loren's name appears in illuminated letters that could be read from an incoming liner, but-Mamma mia!-that name is below Charlton Heston...
...Cid. The Spanish Lancelot, hero of the wars against the Moors, is celebrated in the year's best superspectacle, directed by Anthony Mann...