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...grew up in Portugal and wrote in English. In 47 years he produced 38 sometimes absurd but usually irresistible novels for the cloak-and-sword trade. Over the years they have sold millions of copies and managed to survive six decades and 13 productions of more or less appalling filmflam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rapier Envy, Anyone? | 8/9/1976 | See Source »

...Lawford). After his suicide, poor Jean plunges into moral decay, and eventually wanders off alone to the beach in a slinky black formal, as good a way as any to catch a fatal cold. Since its script has already succumbed to silliness back in the first reel, the latest filmflam Harlow will be mourned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bunking a Legend | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

...sideline to her own profitable biological filmflam, tangle-maned Cinemactress Brigitte Bardot agreed to join Producer Raoul Levy in an undertaking of pith and moment: a series of educational movies designed to help the West "understand" the backward nations of Asia and Africa. To the regret of those piqued by the prospect of Bardot among the Zulus, Filmaker Levy decreed that swivel-hipped Brigitte's contribution would be limited: cash, but no carriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 5, 1959 | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

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