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...Baron von Sepper, a World War I Austrian flying ace and an enthusiastic fascist, Burton feels a lugubrious vocation to dispatch a series of wives-Raquel Welch, Virna Lisi, Nathalie Delon and several other international cupcakes. "They were all monsters," he explains. "They only looked human when they were dead." His eighth frau is an American, Joey Heatherton, who comes on like a refugee from a Tijuana specialty act. With good, home-grown American intuition, Joey discovers that the baron's problems are rooted in impotence and a rather baroque affection for his departed mother. The baron rewards this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mad Chauvinist | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

...witted 1966 service comedy co-starring Tony Curtis and Virna Lisi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Old Blood and Guts | 2/9/1970 | See Source »

CHRYSLER PRESENTS THE BOB HOPE SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Special guests include Danny Thomas, Steve Lawrence, Eydie Gorme and Virna Lisi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 21, 1969 | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...steal a scene from either Bombolini would amount to grand larceny, and the supporting players are all petty. Virna Lisi, as an icy aristocrat, is confined to reaction shots opposite her two admirers: Hardy Kruger, a profile of German authority, and Sergio Franchi, a profile, period. The show's force does not reassert itself until the appearance of the extras, a cluster of paesani recruited from an Italian village 36 miles south of Rome. They provide a chorus con brio, and give the film verisimilitude no casting office could provide. "The Italian race," wrote Mussolini, "is a race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Prosciutto and Melancholy | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

...Christmas Tree begins, dozens of eager French schoolboys disembark at the Gare du Nord for a ten week summer holiday. One little mop haired cherub named Pascal (Brook Fuller) rushes into the arms of Papa (William Holden) and Papa's fiancee (Virna Lisi). All the kids are happy. All the parents are happy. Even the conductors and porters seem happy. It can never last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: White Christmas | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

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