Word: sacha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Married. Sacha Guitry, 64, France's jack-of-all-theatrics, wartime favorite of the Nazis, but officially cleared of collaboration charges; and Leading Lady Ecaterina ("Lana") Marconi, 26; he for the fifth time, she for the first; in Paris...
Private Life of an Actor (Siritzky International) is the first film made by Sacha Guitry, France's scampish old do-it-all of stage & screen, since he was cleared of charges of collaborating with the Nazis. The movie was mildly applauded in Paris, but stirred up an anti-Guitry demonstration in Lyon (TIME, June 7). On its own account, it is worth little fuss of any kind. It is a tribute, redolent of grease paint, to Sacha's famed actor father . Lucien. The son's brittle wit shows to best advantage when he is dishing out impudence...
...said Sacha, "we haven't eaten...
...Sacha's chauffeur was told to drive back to town. At the Place Bellecour, on the site of a monument to the Resistance, he was made to get out of the car. Said a patriot: "On this spot six of our men were odiously assassinated by the Nazis. If you did not know it, now you do. Take off your hat and observe one minute of silence." Clenching his teeth, Sacha complied. Notoriously fond of talking, he was silent for an entire minute. His captors took flashbulb pictures which turned up in the Lyon newspaper Le Progres. Humiliated...
...French press, which somehow got all the details, had a field day. Headlined the Paris Liberation: SACHA GUITRY EXECUTED BY RIDICULE. Said Sacha: "This is a veritable scandal...