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...Pickup. Most klaxoners, known by such names as Yvette of the Opel, Rossana of the Dauphine, Maria of the Appia, discreetly toot horns and flash headlights to attract the prospect's attention. In a favorite gambit, pairs of klaxon girls pull right alongside male motorists; the one at the wheel keeps the car just abreast, the other casually unbuttons her blouse. Blonde "Insurance Nadia," on the other hand, got her name by her habit of gently jostling a male driver's rear bumper, then sidling out to coo that her insurance company will pay damages...
Helen of Troy turns out to be Rossana Podesta. It's quite a spectacle, but otherwise awful. At the Metropolitan...
...about the Helen, Rossana Podestá is a charming girl, but the customers like King Priam (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), may well ask: "Is this the face that launched a thousand ships?" And is this Hector (Harry Andrews), dreadful in his wrath and fierce Achilles (Stanley Baker), both with arms like lath? They look, as on the field of Mars they clash, like aging brokers at a game of squash. They talk like brokers, too, except when the scriptwriter tries to belt out a Homer but winds up with a high-flown foul, e.g., "Tell her she will walk...
Mostly, the cast is one that Homer might have approved. In her revealing classical finery, Silvana Mangano is as provocative and enticing as a Tanagra figurine. Rossana Podesta plays the abandoned Nausicaä with all the sad airs and graces of a bereft princess. In the role of Penelope's leading suitor, Anthony Quinn shows a wily nobility, and young Franco Interlenghi as Ulysses' son gives real substance to his role of a stubborn adolescent. Kirk Douglas is more at home in the acrobatics of his part than in its subtleties, and occasionally seems tempted to reach...
...about the same time had her nose fixed up by Paris surgeons. "I would give up everything for my career," she says, "and I mean everything." She has a speaking voice that would send her back to Genoa if her fans ever got to hear it. ¶ Rossana Podesta (35, 21, 33) stands 5 ft. 4 in., has dark hair and eyes, and is about the nearest thing the Italians have to Terry Moore. Born in Tripoli, North Africa, she wanted to be a doctor until she was discovered by a movieman in a swimming pool four years ago. Since...