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DIED. Marcel Dalio, 83, demitasse-size comic and dramatic actor in French and Hollywood films; in Paris. Born Israel Moshe Blauschild of Rumanian Jewish parents, Dalio made his movie debut in 1933 and came to prominence in Pepe le Moko (1937). For Director Jean Renoir he anchored two great films, playing Rosen-thai, the reluctantly heroic clown in Grand Illusion, and the Marquis, a sweet cuckold dancing under the war clouds in The Rules of the Game. With his photograph posted by the Nazis on Paris street corners as the "typical Jew," Dalio fled occupied France for Hollywood...
...Moko is a nubile, café-au-lait disciple of Eros, bare to the waist; Mary, a Whistleresque composition in white, is buttoned to the neck. Sechele looks like a prototype of the Noble Savages; Livingstone shuffles about, bowed by duty...
...Moko speaks as a tribal skeptic. If Livingstone's God is potent, why do the rains not come? Barred from Sechele's bed, she slithers back into it like a serpent of old Nile. When he reads from the Scriptures, Sechele's eyes are radiant. But is he a convert, or a con man more anxious for British guns than for God's grace? As for Livingstone, is not a single believer a joy to heaven? Or is he trying to amass a head count of natives for personal glory? Pownall raises these questions without really...
Rules of the Game. Sunday at 7:45. With Pepe Lo Moko...
...office stars for four decades; following a heart attack; in Neuilly, France. A factory laborer before becoming an actor, Gabin was best known for his low-key portrayals of handsome, earthy loners: the Spanish legionnaire in La Bandera (1935), the jewel thief in Pépé le Moko (1937), the soldier-mechanic in Jean Renoir's classic, Grand Illusion (1937). His memorable later roles included the lawyer who falls in love with a prostitute (Brigitte Bardot) in Love Is My Profession (1959). As bourgeois in his private life as he often was on screen, Gabin told a recent...