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Halstead's assignment was to try to "portray the real girls journalistically, not stylistically." In his quest for the genuine, he sometimes found unusual props or received unexpected help. Spanish Heiress Carmen Ordóñez de Rivera blossomed while swinging from-of all things-a block and tackle used to hoist bulls into her father's ring for a corrida. Actress Tessa Dahl's radiant smile came while shooting in London's Hyde Park, when Tessa looked past Dirck and saw a dog in the act of mistaking his camera bag for a fireplug...
...time warp intervenes between 20th century Paris and Spain. The only swinging Carmen Ordóñez de Rivera, 21, does is from the ropes in her father's bullring. Then her stark beauty sparks into a dazzling smile, she starts to laugh and becomes a kid on a spree. Normally, Carmen, the elder daughter of one of Spain's greatest matadors, Antonio Ordóñez, is as poised as an infanta. Descended on both sides from bullfighters, she is an elegant young woman with a simpler joie de vivre than her contemporaries in such racy cities...
...Nelson Rockefeller have the Diego Rivera mural he commissioned removed from the RCA Building...
...area of expertise that Nelson stumbled. He decided to cover a wall of the main building at Rockefeller Center with a mural worthy of St. Sophia, and he commissioned the Mexican artist Diego Rivera, a celebrated Communist, to paint it. All went well until an unmistakable likeness of Lenin turned up in the mural. That was not acceptable in the citadel of capitalism in the 1930s. "As much as I dislike to do so," Nelson wrote Rivera, "I'm afraid we must ask you to substitute the face of some unknown man where Lenin's face now appears...
...leading roles, Chita Rivera is a properly fiery and recalcitrant Katherine-Lilli; especially effective is her "I Hate Men." And Hal Linden, if no Alfred Drake, is a solid enough Petruchio-Fred, notably in "Where Is the Life...