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After seeing a Sophie Marceau movie called Fanfan, I commented to my friend Maria how I wish it had come out in the U.S. "Christina," Maria began, "Americans are too narrow-minded to watch French films. They don't like things that are foreign. They can't appreciate them...
Died. Gerard Philipe, 36, dashing French film star who was equally at home in farce (Fanfan the Tulip), tragedy (Devil in the Flesh), or existentialist love (The Proud and the Beautiful); of a heart attack; in Paris...
...small but enthusiastic minority has seen Gina body out her bodice in the French-made Fanfan la Tulipe, show some charmingly unexpected dimples in the bath scene from Beauties of the Night (seen in full by the Queen of Britain, but sharply censored for U.S. moviegoers), and play her cheesecake for comedy-with a side dish of macaronic English-in John Huston's Beat the Devil...
...Fanfan the Tulip (Lopert). A French folk tale dressed up as hard-swaggering farce; with Gerard Philipe, Gina Lollobrigida (TIME...
...Fanfan the Tulip. A farcical take-off on costume dramas, with Gérard Philipe as the swashbuckling hero; Gina Lollobrigida is the eye-filling heroine (TIME...