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...result of a natural union between Riccardo Scicolone, who called himself a "construction engineer," and a tall, red-haired girl named Romilda Villani. Scicolone did nothing constructive, preferring to hang around the edges of show business. Romilda was a would-be actress with a striking resemblance to Greta Garbo. Entering her picture in a contest, Romilda won a trip...
...nylon "invisible shoe," an apprentice cobbler at the age of 9, who eventually came to employ 600 craftsmen in three factories (including a $175,000, 13th century palace in Florence) hand-producing 60,000 pairs of shoes annually for a well-heeled clientele including Queen Elizabeth II and Greta Garbo; of a heart attack; in Fiumetto, Italy...
...Ninotchka (ABC), a new version of Hollywood's 1939 Greta Garbo classic about a dehumanized female commissar who goes to France on official duty and turns into a woman under the warm touch of Paris. While hindered by a plot that is out of date in this age of itinerant dictators and a so-so performance by Actor Gig Young, the show was carried along on the sense and sensuality of Actress Maria Schell, whose eyes alone contain more sex than all the perfumed jades of Hollywood...
Ninotchka (ABC, 8:30-10 p.m.).* The hat-happy comrade whose first incarnation was Greta Garbo returns in the shape of Cinemactress Maria Schell. Costars: Gig Young, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Mischa Auer...
...Louis B. Mayer. By quoting the remark near the start of his new biography, Hollywood Rajah (Holt; $5.50), New York Times Movie Critic Bosley Crowther makes plain that he feels no kindlier toward the onetime junk dealer who became one of Hollywood's gaudiest tycoons, created stars from Garbo to Rooney, wrote his name on some of the best and worst pictures of his day, and ruled much of the movie business with his special brand of sanctimonious piracy...