Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gavotte these three dance is a glum one, too stately in pace. Offstage, there are rumbles of Fascism's approach, and doubtless the message is that private preoccupations of the sort described here made Mussolini's triumph easy. But Director Griffi is more interested in art deco interiors than he is in that or any other theme. The result is an irritating and so porific film. Those in need of an Antonelli fix are advised to see Till Marriage Do Us Part a second time - at least it's funny about decadence...
...some place in Europe tossed by convulsions of war or politics. One story follows the sad, late return (1950) to Berlin of a German prisoner of war in France. Another recounts the trials of an Italian servant girl on the Riviera, working for a neurotic English couple just before Mussolini declared war on France...
DIED. Rachele Mussolini, 89, shy, fiercely loyal widow of Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini; of a heart attack; in Carpena di Forli, Italy. Rachele Guidi met Mussolini in 1906 while working in the kitchen at his father's inn. He threatened to commit suicide if she would not marry him, but they lived together five years before the union was made legal in 1915. During Il Duce's rise and reign from 1922 to 1943, Donna Rachele remained at home, keeping house and rearing their five children. After the dictator was shot by partisans and hanged by the heels...
...Curley it is said he once wanted to become ambassador to Italy and thought his good friend Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 had promised him the job. Curley got assurances from Mussolini, from King Victor Emmanuel and from the Pope. FDR, however, had other ideas and offerred Curley Poland instead. in The Purple Shamrock, Joseph Dineen describes Curley's response...
...earliest modern-dress Caesar apparently was the anti-Fascist one with which Orson Welles, at age 22, inaugurated his Mercury Theatre in 1937 (the previous year he had mounted an all-Negro Macbeth set in the voodoo world of Haiti). In 1939 Henry Cass put the play in Mussolini's Italy. Donald Wolfit, Minos Volanakis, Michael Croft and others have since updated this drama...