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Died. Martine Carol, 46, French movie star and prototype for the postwar sex-bombes, a pillowy, green-eyed blonde who triggered the explosion by appearing topless in 1950's Caroline Chérie, went on to make nearly 40 films, a few good (Lola Moniés), a lot more bad, but every one displaying Martine, usually in a bath, be it bubble, champagne or Roman, by daylight, moonlight or candlelight, all of which made her one of France's highest paid stars until Brigitte and the other girls took over the tub in the late 1950s...
...Blue Blood. Two films shared the Itching Palm for overpromotion: Alfie and Caroline Chérie. Alfie, the story of a cockney-of-the-walk starring Michael Caine (The Ipcress File), was advertised widely at the airport with signs that read ALFIE is ROCKING, ALFIE IS TERRIFIC, ALFIE IS THE MOST. "It really isn't vulgar, is it?" asked a French critic as he watched the signs walking. "After all, the print is very small." And so it was. In fact, when the models in tight stretch pants sat down, nobody could see their...
Caroline Chérie's promoter was much less reticent. Producer Jacques-Paul Bernard declared that his remake was "very erotic" and set out to prove it. Caroline is a hot-and blue-blooded beauty who uses her body to save her head during the French Revolution, and Bernard generously showed what she saves and what she gives away. Giant billboards were plastered everywhere with photographs showing Caroline Starlet France Anglade naked to the waist. Malheureusement, that was all Bernard was able to show. The picture has not yet been shot...
Died. Henri Borgeaud, 68, one of the wealthiest and most influential Europeans in Algeria, an unswerving champion of "Algérie Française who was a French Senator for Algiers from 1946 to 1959, upholding the conservative colonial cause so vehemently that Moslem terrorists machine-gunned his car in Paris in 1957 (he escaped uninjured) and Ben Bella last year saw fit to confiscate all his lands and industrial holdings, valued at close to $100 million; in Paris...
Love and marriage? For five years Film Stars Romy Schneider, 25, and Alain Delon, 28, had one without the other. But last week Romy returned to their Paris apartment from Hollywood, and there, instead of Alain, was a bouquet of red roses and a note: "Ma chérie, je regrette...