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Besides the novels, she has written travel books on Venice and Florence and an autobiography called Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood, which carried her through a youth spent partially in a convent up to her entrance into Vassar in 1929. The rest of her life can be read between the lines of the novels, essays, and New Yorker stories published over the years...
Hearst made plans to build Marion into the supreme star of the U.S. cinema. Born Marion Cecilia Douras, daughter of a small-time New York politician, she was still in her teens; her convent education had stopped some years earlier. But Hearst bought a Harlem studio, established his own film company, hired tutors and drama coaches, the best scenarists, set designers, and directors to help shape his Galatea. For the opening of her first film, Cecilia of the Pink Roses, in 1918, he had the theater ventilating system loaded with attar of roses, bathing the audience in florid scent...
Died. Nita Naldi, 59, who as a girl named Donna Dooley in a New Jersey convent dreamed of becoming a new Theda Bara, was plucked from a Broadway chorus line by John Barrymore in 1919 and within five years was vamping Rudolph Valentino in such passionate pantomimes as Blood and Sand and Cobra; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Billed as a distant relative to Dante's Beatrice, she had an answer for women who asked the stock question: "How did it feel to be kissed by Valentino?" Said she: "He was a real heman, but the poor darling...
...local Franciscans. The monks also gave Producer Plato Skouras, son of Spyros, free use of their archives and buildings-including the exquisitely ornamental papal throne room of Assisi's 12th century basilica. The Franciscans' only restriction: no women within the cloister of San Damiano (originally a convent built by Francis for St. Clare), thus requiring the stationing of script girls in remote-control trailers a mile from...
...rare excursions outside the Hotel Splendide, Funnyman Bemelmans draws a demon-driven adolescent who swears like a legionnaire, squeezes the head of an infant like a tennis ball, flips hatchets instead of hips at suitors, does her best to entice a priest, and sets fire to a convent...