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...current history's most spectacular Cinderella story, the life of Eva PerÓn is a logical subject for cinema treatment. Last week a winsome Parisian actress, her blonde hair combed back and tied in a bun as Evita used to wear hers, was in Buenos Aires seeking the leading role...
Andrée Debar* first heard that she looked like Evita a year ago, when she appeared at a film festival in Uruguay (as a brunette). After Evita's death last July, Andrée wangled a promise from France's Elysée studios to star her if she could get Argentina to approve the filming of the life of Eva Pero...
...another part of the hemisphere, at another time, it could have been Evita instead of Oveta...
...Juan Duarte's luck to be the brother of a frail, high-voltage blonde named Evita, who married Juan Peron and became the most powerful woman of her time. In 1946, at Evita's suggestion, Soap Salesman Juan became Peron's No. 1 secretary. Though he liked to hit the nightclubs of Buenos Aires with an endless chain of slick señoritas, Bachelor Duarte never became much of a public figure. But over the years, he prospered wondrously. Rigged deals on the stock exchange, a cut on imported cars and machinery, black-market operations in meat...
Juan Duarte still rode high after his sister's death last year. But last week, with the heat turned on high for officials suspected of corruption and with no Evita around to speak for him, Juan Duarte was dumped overboard. The night the blow fell, Duarte aimlessly took in a girlie-girlie show, idly went on to a nightspot. Two days later, in a more determined frame of mind, he appeared at Buenos Aires airport with a toothsome movie actress and reservations for two on a plane to Madrid...