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Casting as he goes along, he has recently signed stuffier sterns than Fabian, Sands and Anka. Pentagon Peter Lawford will play a British commando leader,*Richard Todd a British major, and William Holden will be U.S. Lieut. Colonel Benjamin Vandervoort. Henry Fonda will be General James Gavin, now U.S. Ambassador to France (as a private little joke among peers, Zanuck earlier told Gavin that he thought Mickey Rooney would be right for the part). French Actor-Director Jean-Louis Barrault will appear as the abbe of Sainte-Mere-Eglise. Model Irina Demich, known previously only to Zanuck, will play...
...written. The Russians and the Americans present ultimatums: accept massive aid, or else. But dollars and rubles would wreck the Concordian economy, which has operated smoothly for hundreds of years because the money it circulates is worthless. The Concordian leader counters by promoting a romance between Igor Romanoff (John Gavin), son of the Russian ambassador, and Juliet Mouls-worth (Sandra Dee), daughter of the American ambassador...
...same back-slapping Americans and tractor-worshipping Russians who have populated every cold war farce, the viewer may well decide that what the world needs even more than international accord is some new international jokes. But the Ninotchka-era jokes are presented with considerable spirit, and Actors Gavin and Dee, the missile-crossed lovers, are cuddly as puppies. Writer-Director Ustinov gives himself the best lines and delivers them with practiced waggery. When the town-hall clock goes out of order, he laments that "our national tragedy is that we have been occupied by every nation except the Swiss...
...17th anniversary of its D-day liberation from the Nazis, the Norman village of Sainte-Mère-Eglise had a distinguished visitor: U.S. Ambassador to France James Gavin, better known locally as deputy commander of Matt Ridgway's hard-nosed 82nd Airborne Division, which liberated the little town of 1,261 to screen the Allied beachhead during the Normandy landings of 1944. Said the ambassador as he clambered out of his official Cadillac last week for a nostalgic slog toward the sea: "I wouldn't have recognized anything in a car. Last time I used this road...
...everyone else. At an intimate luncheon for 40 at the Elysée Palace, President de Gaulle had only perfunctory greetings for Jean Gavin, wife...