Word: jacquese
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CRISE SUR LE JAZZ AUX ETATS-UNIS, said the headline in Paris' Combat. French zazous (pure-jazz bugs) who think of the U.S. as a land paved with Louis Armstrongs and Sidney Bechets got a depressing firsthand report on the "crisis," far from new, of U.S. jazz. Wrote French...
For a costume ball in Paris, Viscountess Marie-Laure de Noailles asked guests to come dressed as if they were going to a 1900 frolic at a seaside resort. The result: U.S. Ambassador David Bruce came as a valet de chambre, with Mrs. Bruce turned out as a lady'...
Unfortunately, the film's continuity is almost as ragged as its moppets, and just as inclined to make too much of a good thing. But Director Robert Varnay knows how to cut loose a camera for comic effect, and the kids (Jacques Gencel,* Sophie Leclair, De Meulan, et al...
Helped the late General Jacques Leclerc rally French Equatorial Africa to the Free French banner. Became Commissioner of Colonies, later Minister of Finance. Broke with De Gaulle in 1947, forming his own small party, Union Democratique et Sociale de la Resistance, which stands between the Radical Socialists and the Socialists...
The movie is as corny, and often just as pleasantly mellow, as a fond recollection of barefoot boyhood-which is what it is. The period and locale come alive in fine sets and props; Actor Hernandez and Dean Stockwell (as the parson's ward) give unusually good performances; the...