Word: danilo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ago Danilo Dolci decided to give up studying architecture and do something practical about the poor in Italy. He went back to Sicily's bleak, bandit-ridden "Triangle of Hunger," where he had lived as a boy. There, in the fishing village of Trappeto, with his own meager savings and a few small contributions from outside, he put up a collection of shacks and shanties which he called "the Hamlet of God" to provide shelter for the area's neediest cases. He married an impoverished widow with five children; together they adopted five more childen...
...Merry Widow (MGM) is the fourth Hollywood version of the famed old (1905) Franz Lehar operetta.* This time Lana Turner is the wealthy Widow Radek from Hoboken, and Fernando Lamas is Count Danilo of Marshovia, who is assigned to marry her in order to save his country from bankruptcy, an act of cold-blooded patriotism that is complicated by hot-blooded love...
Marcel Lebon, as Prince Danilo, was even worse. When I heard that he had just come over from France, I was looking forward to a composite of Charles Boyer and Jean Sablon. And that's just what I got--he sings like Boyer and has the dramatic ability of Sablon. I must admit he is a good looking actor, and he added a lot to the show as long as he kept his mouth shut...
...Medal of Honor, Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, Croix de Guerre with palm, Order of Danilo of Montenegro...