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...Dead Ringer is predicated on the proposition that two Bette Davises are better than one. Bette plays a set of identical twins: one named Maggie, one named Edie, both at the hag end of middle age. Poor Edie hates rich Maggie because Maggie stole the man she had once wanted to marry. When Maggie's husband dies, Edie decides that his money rightfully belongs to her. So she puts a bullet in Maggie's head, a revolver in Maggie's hand and Edie's clothes on Maggie's back. Maggie is buried in Edie...
...check, he is abducted by some Russian agents who look as if they took sneering lessons from Little Caesar. Now get this. In the suite vacated by Edward G. Robinson the Russians install-Edward G. Robinson. No, not the same Edward G. Robinson. This one is a Russian ringer instructed to refuse the Nobel Prize, denounce the imperialists and defect to the East. Sneaky...
...Monika Henreid, 20, daughter of Actor-Director Paul Henreid, has appeared as a cocktail lounge singer and in several television shows, will soon appear in her father's forthcoming Dead Ringer (with Bette Davis and Karl Maiden). Her father once made an evaluation of her talents that stands as a classic of celebrity kinsmanship. "I think she is enormously talented," he said, wooden-faced. "I don't say that because I'm her father...
...somewhat narrow and suitable only for couples, to whom this book sends best wishes" or "I like the hotels on Rue de Buci, a block away from all the existential activity." Of Rome's Pensione Eureka he says: "Its star attraction is impish Mrs. Imperoli, a dead ringer for Romy Schneider...
...field, six of them new 1963 Sting Rays, their powerful V-8 engines blatting angrily under shark-nosed hoods. In the cockpits sat some of racing's top drivers, among them Indianapolis Veteran A. J. Foyt. Down went the flag. Off screamed the Corvettes. And zoom-a ringer from G.M.'s family production line ran off with the race...