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...Graham played her most satisfying role during the three years (1937-40) she spent in Hollywood with F. Scott Fitzgerald, then at the end of his tether. With Ghostwriter Gerold Frank, Miss Graham told that story in the bestselling Beloved Infidel (TIME, Nov. 24, 1958). "I was never a mistress," writes Miss Graham firmly in her current book, whose very title pays tribute to the depth of that experience. "I was a woman who loved Scott Fitzgerald for better or worse until he died...
Gauguin's instinct for self-dramatization came alive most fully after he settled in Tahiti, where he painted some of his most celebrated canvases, took a Tahitian mistress and fathered two children. He saw himself as "a savage returning to savagery," and he was plainly delighted by the effect of his departure, as described to him in a letter from Europe: "You are at the moment that extraordinary, legendary artist who, from the far Pacific, sends disconcerting, inimitable works, the definitive works of a great man who has, so to speak, disappeared from the world...
...detain the Master Builder. He begins to question the pious motives which led him to marry her, his "daughter in God," to an important church sweeper. But even here some of the circumstances seem arbitrary. The spire's mysterious patroness turns out to have been the dead king's mistress, angling for immortality. The news that this woman also has supervised his rise in the church hastens Jocelin further into delirium...
...bleached their hair for the super-Aryan look, the Nazis frowned on such womanly weapons as alluring clothes and makeup, considered that cotton undershirts and muslin slips were the proper attire for the descendants of breast-plated Valkyries. Their functional ideal was personified by Hitler's dark-blonde mistress, Eva Braun, and like her, it died with Hitler...
...Tempt the Devil. Over a midnight snack, lush Marina Vlady mulls over legal problems with her lawyer-lover, Pierre Brasseur. She has recently disposed of her wealthy husband, neatly pinned the murder on his nurse-mistress. But things aren't working out according to plan. "I wish I hadn't bothered with the serum," she pouts. Then, "Oh well . . . next time." As a girl whose Mona Lisa face masks the soul of a Borgia, Actress Vlady almost turns Devil into an elegant spoof of French justice. Brasseur, too, seems drolly aware that Justice is a lady...