Word: hiver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chevalier mugging and clowning were newsreels of Wehrmacht troops marching up the Champs-Elysées, the swastika fluttering on the Eiffel Tower, and German soldiers ogling nudes at the Lido nightclub. Even grimmer was the shot of the roundup of 13,000 Jews at the Velodrome d'Hiver for deportation to Nazi death camps...
Some big lights of the movies were hiding under bushels. For Jerry Lewis it was a bushel of clown makeup, which disguised his identity as he brought down the house at Paris' Cirque d'Hiver benefit for old and ailing showfolk. And when Ringmaster Maria Callas announced who the clown really was, the house came down all over again. For Jerry is an important personage in France, an actor whose films are seriously studied. Lewis says he is even thinking of moving to Paris-"a good place to come if you're feeling low." For Bette Davis...