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Marin, the coiffeur, who is the hero of the production, is played by Fernand Granery, while Aline, the young heroine, is portrayed by Mona Goya. Both are French cinema favorites...
Private little Mona Lisa...
...dealer's window in Paris and pulled wires to have it bought for the Luxembourg. Two years later the French Government got it for 2,000 francs ($400). In 1926 it was promoted to the Louvre to take its place with Venus de Milo and Mona Lisa as one of that vast repository's prime attractions...
...week's conversation. Besides the obvious question of whether slavish copying of another man's work gives a student technical training as much as it deadens his individuality and imagination, was the larger problem of whether great paintings should be copied at all. Familiarity does breed contempt. Mona Lisa is undoubtedly a great painting, but two generations of post cards, meat calendars, candy boxes and gift shoppes have spoiled it for the youth of this century...
...police-clad confederates. The final insult to Guerchard occurs in the Louvre at a moment when it is surrounded by police. While Guerchard, twenty-five feet away, is standing in the very same room, the words "tut, tut", are scrawled across the front of a reproduction of the Mona Lisa, and the real one, locked in a nearby room, is cut out of its frame and made away with...