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...quite some keys, though-they open the front doors of three luxurious villas in a pine forest overlooking the Mediterranean. The ladies' admirer is Mario Marello, a real estate developer who is building a community of $40,000 vacation homes near Fréjus on the French Riviera. While he followed the moon shot, says Marello, "I couldn't keep my mind off the wives and children and the terrible anxiety they were feeling. I wanted to do something for the wives. So I decided to offer what I had-my houses." Although Marello declares that he will...
...first year instead of the customary 15 or 17, and payment for a second season of 26 shows "whether it bombs or not." For that unprecedented, sweet contract, Robbins gave ABC only a nine-page "treatment," conferred a few times with Universal, and then took off for his Riviera home...
Thus, after two months of shooting (most of it on location on the Riviera) and $1,000,000 of expenses, Universal still had to get its first usable episode...
HOUSTON, TEXAS. Town and Country Dinner Theater. Noel Coward's classic farce Private Lives finds Amanda and Elyot, who were previously married to each other, in adjoining Riviera hotel rooms with their new mates...
...lady was vacationing at Cap-Martin on the Riviera and doing her usual best to frustrate a curious world. Early each morning before Greta Garbo, 63, came down for a swim, a maid would appear to case the beach for prowling photographers. If the place was deserted, the maid would deliver an "all-clear" signal and Garbo would appear in a white terry-cloth wrap and plunge in for a brief, ever-watchful dip. Security broke only long enough for some quick shots by a long-lens camera that recorded the famous face, still beautiful despite advancing...