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When Ava was assigned to play the goddess of love in One Touch of Venus, Sculptor Joseph Nicolosi was commissioned to do a statue of her. She began posing for him in a two-piece bathing suit, but he found that this interfered with his artist's conception of the foam-born one, so Ava obligingly removed the bathing-suit top. This, said Nicolosi, after working for a while, was better, but still not satisfactory. So Ava rolled the bottom of the suit down to G-string size, and Nicolosi turned out a magnificent, realistic statue. When a studio...
...Venus Observed. No one could survive two Hollywood marriages unchanged. When she married Rooney, Ava was still a slightly chunky, giggling kid who would playfully scuffle with Mickey on the living-room floor; by the time of her divorce from Shaw, she had grown sleeker, more self-possessed. She had also become tougher, more aggressive. She began to get better parts (The Killers, The Hucksters'). To go out with Ava began to be considered a distinction. She began figuring as the heroine of many a Hollywood anecdote...
...Juilliard School, 1928-37); of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Starting on a novelist's career at the age of 46, he scored an immediate success with Helen, thereafter wrote 18 more novels in the same mold, using figures from legend and history (Galahad, Adam & Eve, Francois Villon, Venus) to satirize 20th Century manners & morals. At the end he was still writing his streamlined version of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Working title: The Wife of Bath and Her Boy Friends...
...Dresden museums since 1945. After months of temporizing, Russian authorities finally answered an East German museum official's request for the return of the masterpieces with a flat no. Their reason: the treasures (including Raphael's Sistine Madonna, Correggio's Holy Night, Giorgione's Venus) were legitimate "war booty...
Other plays by Fry include "The Lady's Not For Burning" and "Venus Observed...