Word: riviera
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...Riviera (20th Century-Fox) is that rare Hollywood accomplishment, a cinemusical whose songs, dances and laughs sparkle as brightly as its Technicolor. Set among the lavish pleasures-scenic and feminine-of the French Riviera, the movie serves a fat double helping of Danny Kaye, playing both a brash U.S. entertainer and a debonair French hero whom women cannot resist...
...refuses to admit it. "I stand before my canvas," he begins, shrugging his broad shoulders and rolling his round, bloodshot eyes, "and I pick up the brushes. Then things begin to happen all by themselves. Often I have started painting a woman and finished painting a bull. At the Riviera last summer I started painting sailboats. When the picture was finished I realized I had painted butterflies...
...vessels, the continent's biggest merchant fleet. In 1949 he sold his Compania Argentina de Navegacion Dodero S.A. to Peron's government. For pleasure, Don Alberto had a small land, sea & air fleet all his own, kept hotel-like establishments on Long Island and the Riviera, habitually spent about $50,000 a week on wine (two full-time bartenders), women (showgirls, models) & song (music all night from a 45-piece orchestra...
Rita Hayworth called it quits in Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa, sent word to husband Aly Khan, out shooting big game in the veldt, that she was taking off for the Riviera to see her children and rest in more civilized comfort...
...just Phase 1 of her campaign to win the Nationals at Forest Hills next September. "You know why I want to "win the championship? I'm using my racket to get ahead. I don't want to be a tennis bum, living off people on the Riviera...