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...Elga Andersen as a French fille de joie who waives her diplomatic immunity in pajama tops. True love is the Belgian lass (Michele Mercier), a high-minded guide from the Low Countries. Obviously, the movie makes a negligible contribution to world amity and understanding, despite such gimmicks as a walk-on role by U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson. Stooped, sage and sober, the ambassador looks like a man who knows the U.N. will survive even this sad Affair...
...makes Stalin out to be Lenin's right-hand strongman, which he was not, while also creating the illusion that Stalin was capable of nimble ideological disputes with Lenin. Trotsky (Alvin Epstein) is portrayed as a kind of effete dancing master and relegated to a stage-struck walk-on part in the Revolution, so that no playgoer would ever guess that he was looking at the man who forged the Red army...
This time Bob Hope, 59, is on location as a Bob-nosed U.N. employee with a stray baby on his hands. Wouldn't it be great, hoped Hope, if U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, 63, could be persuaded to do a quick walk-on? "I don't know if I'm dressed properly," laughed Stevenson, but soon he was outside mugging through a long double take as he passed Hope in the plaza. After two takes, Stevenson had the bit clown so pat that the camera crew burst into applause. "Hey," called the upstaged comic, "that...
Casting about for a regal type for a walk-on part in the film version of the famed Swedish fairy tale The Wonderful Adventures oj Nils, the producers gave the royal palace a "call. The scene required a noble-looking gentleman to walk through his chamber onto a balcony and peer at a flock of wild geese flying overhead, astride one of which is a ten-year-old boy, Nils. Most of the scene was shot from a hovering helicopter and two time-consuming retakes were needed. Patiently doing his bit: good old (79) King Gustav VI Adolph of Sweden...
...scraped along on occasional television appearances, started (but never finished) four films that he financed himself. Then Producers Michel and Alexander Salkind (a father and son team; Michel produced Greta Garbo's first film outside Sweden, the team an occasional epic in recent years) offered him a walk-on in Taras Bulba. Though he needed the money, Welles indignantly refused, trumpeting, "Are you crazy? I am Taras Bulba." But Welles seized the opportunity to tell the Salkinds of his long-cherished dream of making a movie of The Trial. "Sure we were scared," says Alexander Salkind. "Before we agreed...