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Then Edwards fell in love with an actress, and just when Misia was feeling most deeply forsaken, Jose Maria Sert, the Spanish painter, walked into her apartment wearing a sombrero and Spanish cape. Before leaving, he asked her to go to Rome with him for a few weeks. Amused, irritated and taken aback, she heard herself say she would be delighted. With Sert she "knew what it was to have a dazzled heart," and for the first time had the "calm and frightening feeling of something final...
This time he talked to dead poets, declaiming memorial odes for Burns, Scott and Byron, and even tried to sleep in Westminster Abbey to save on hotel bills. London's literati could not resist his sombrero, chaps, and jangling spurs-or his tall tales. Dante Gabriel Rossetti watched wide-eyed when Joaquin put two cigars in his mouth, lit them up, and bellowed, "That's the way we do it in the States!" Others stood spellbound as he told of lassoing buffalo as they stampeded down Beacon Street in Boston...
While gun fights raged around him, 61-year-old William Beaudine Sr. scrambled last week over the rocky hills of Big Bear, Calif. Looking like a scarecrow in a straw sombrero, worn levis and scuffed sneakers, Director Beaudine shouted, "Cut it! Print it!" and wound up the shooting of an eight-episode package of Wild Bill Hickok TV films. Bill Beaudine was making TV movies as quickly and cheaply as any director in the business...
...Sombrero (M-G-M), an excessively picturesque romantic drama with a Mexican setting, seems to have just about everything in it except Quetzalcoatl and Pancho Villa. Among its ingredients: three love stories involving three sets of dashing caballeros (Ricardo Montalban, Vittorio Gassman, Rick Jason) and beautiful señoritas (Pier Angeli, Yvonne de Carlo, Cyd Charisse), a bullfight, a cockfight, a feud between two villages, bastardy, incurable illness, a fiesta, a beauty contest, a contested will, gypsy witchcraft...
Adapted by Director Norman Foster and Josefina Niggli from her 1945 novel, A Mexican Village, the picture was entirely photographed in authentic settings. Although it tries to affect a rakishly romantic tilt, Sombrero is mostly...