European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 20, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Yves Montand Back in Hollywood by Bob Thomas associated Pressy ves Montand was Back at he Beverly Hills Holer where it All happened his legendary Romance Wilh Marilyn Monroe. The French stat resumed to do publicity Lor his new film. Jean do Florette. Already a huge Hil in France. In a wide ranging interview he talked of Many things including the 1965 death of his Wile actress Simone Signore and co starring with Monroe in the 1960 Lei s make Cove his first Hollywood dim. To spoke of the Monroe affair wifi reluctance explaining that it was a secret and a Beautiful thing " Bui in became Public knowledge when Signoret wrote about in in her memoirs. The Montanda arrived in Hollywood in 1959 during his concert Lour of the United states. Alter his triumphant appearance at the Huntington Hartford theater 201h asked him to appear opposite its hottest new Star. Marilyn Monroe. He was enthusiastic by his agents insisted on holding out unlit he was paid $100.000, big Money then or an unknown foreign actor. Tha moment i say yes i think but How Are you going to do if you Don t speak a word of english1 i had to learn All of my tines by heart. I had no connection to my own language Montand said they gave me a coach. By i Don t rust him completely 100 percent. I think Why did this actor become a coach something someplace did t work " montana1 insecurity coincided with Monroe a and they found themselves working closely Lor self Protection. She was so afraid of shooting every moment the actor recalled. This is surprising. She was More a real big personality than a real comedian. The real suffering Lor her was that she wanted to be a dramatic actress. She knew that people in Hollywood Are very Nasty and cruel. They did not want to consider her an actress. We helped each other. 1 knew she was afraid. I told hoi once in my very poor English it is not the director not the camera Man that Don t do their work Well you Are afraid she realized that i had discovered one part of her real secret. Not Arthur Miller or even Joe Dimaggio could find trial because to hem she was a wonderful when they first studied together nothing romantic happened i swear on he said. However the studios went on strike for three months and Signoret and Monroe 3 love interest the writer Arthur Miller both left town. I could t speak a word of English so i stay in my Rich Bungalow which looks like a Gold jail and i Don t go outside because i Lee likes an imbecile Mon land said. And she was Here and we worked together Etc., Etc., Etc. But i Don t want to talk about in Jean de Floreffe Montand presents a different personality from the dashing figure of his american films my Geisha 1962 with Shirley Maclaine. And on a Clear Day you can see tomorrow 1970 Wilh barbra Streisand. He plays the aging patriarch of a once powerful family in Claude Bern s new version of Marcel Spagnol s modern classic. The sequel. Manon of the Spring was filmed at the same time and will be released in the United slates later this year. Simone talked me into it admitted the 65-year-old Montand who was reluctant to play an elderly person. She said 10 years before i would have been too Young to play the role. 10 years later i would be too old because f would t have the Bern tracked him into testing m the role of Cesa Soubeyrand to help an actor in another role after Mon land saw himself As an old Man in the lest he agreed to undertake the role Mon and was born Avo l i to italian parents in d Village near Florence. His political lather lied Nlaly to escape fascist Rule when Mon land was 2 years old and he grew up in the Tough working class District of Marseilles. A left school at i to wot m a Spaghetti factory in waterfront bars and on the docks Belore becoming a Hairdresser in his sister s Beauty shop enamoured with american movies he began singing m cabarets adapting his stage name from his Mother s Call Foi him to come upstairs Yvo Monta during the German occupation he Sang in pans nightclubs becoming the partner onstage and of with Edith Piaf. After the War he branched into movies and became a Star m Henri Georges clo zot s the wages Elfear. In 1951 Mon land married Signore. And they became leading figures in the Pott Lical and Arl Islic ferment of postwar France. Their radicalism caused them to be barred from the untied states during the Mccarthy Era. In 1959 they were granted visas and he made the concert tour thai led to Hollywood. Mon land s second american movie was Sanctuary. Based on William Faulkner s Sleazy novel. Hollywood was still in the grip of soil censorship and he recalled that during his crucial love scene with Lee Remick he wore a shirt and pants she was in a slip and they stayed in separate Beds. Weary of being cast As the Lover he returned to european films notably with Costa Gavras � Stele of siege. To the Middle of the Nina month filming of Jean Ete Florette Simone Signore died of cancer. After a Brief absence Montand returned to the location near cues Les pins and completed his role. He is still recovering from his loss. When you lose someone you love like you love your wife even though your life together was t always so Pink and roses you get two solutions either you kill yourself and you die or you continue to swim until the end. You n a to photo the French actor a Alltha affair with Marilyn Monroe a a Ballet of violence studio tour adds Miami vice United press International he Universal studio Tours third largest Man made Tounsel Mecca in the nation has added a now attraction this month a $5 million Miami vice thrill show. The new 15-minute be action show combines 50 stunts and special effects in a prolonged Chase sequence that is far More astonishing than anything seen on the to series or in most movies. The Miami vice action actually a tarnish till for such flashy frenzied entertainment joins the 30-loot King Kong encounter the Flash flood. The Western stun show jaws the parting of the red sea Bailie of galactic the adventures of Conan and scores of other attractions in the sprawling studio theme Park. It is hoped the additon of Miami vice will help the Lour which often draws More than 30,000 tourists a Day during the summer season break last year s a million visitor record highest in the tour s 23-year history. As a tourist attraction the studio sour about a 5 i hour Outing is third in National attendance behind Only Walt Disney world in Orlando Fla and the original Disneyland in Anaheim Calif. In the beginning the studio bused in a handful of people who were curious about How novies were made. Only a Lew Ever glimpsed movie stars at work and then found most performers surly about being scrutinized in truth few things Are As Dull reef dive and stultifying As a my in Progress considering Long delays Lor lighting. Retakes set ups and rehearsals sound stages Are boing. Dark draft places where extras play cards 01 work crossword puzzles while Avail my the next take. Teamsters loiter most of the Day with a doughnut in one hand and a cup of Coffee in another. Actors snooze in their dressing rooms Between set ups while the stagehands Lay tracks for the camera Dolly and juggle the scenery around. The Universal tour which has played Hosl io50 million paying customers is a thousand times More exciting than the combined to and film activities in All the studio s sound stages. Mca. Parent company of Universal pictures. Monday july 20, 1987 Universal among other corporate entities has found the tour so profitable that is is building a Slid to near Orlando to provide a Lour Lor East coast visitors. It is scheduled to open in 19b9. A spokesman for the company said the new studio and its sound stages will be used by Universal for shooting feature films and to but mostly it will be simply a setting for another tourist Money making machine. A Case of the Tail wagging the dog. The Miami vice action spectacular can do nothing but add to the popularity of the Lour. It is an enormous outdoor sol mostly fire proof Metal Wilh the tropical look of the West indies it might be a smugglers Cove on an Island in the Florida keys. The spectacular set faces three sections of bleachers sealing a wide eyed 3,000. There is a Bright Blue 750,000-gallon Lagoon in the foreground with a decaying mansion sitting above it. Prominent is a colourful ramshackle old mine with Ore car tracks loading from it and a mysterious smelting shed. A Grimy water lower dominates one flank. A heavy feeling of menace pervades. It would make the perfect backdrop for any motion picture or to episode. This deserted Backwater suddenly erupts into violent action As stunt doubles playing the roles of the to series stars. Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas burst in on the bad Guys. Bodies hurtle through the air As weapons and explosives Roar a 55-loot trawler on the Lagoon catches fire an Ore car careens Down its tracks and crashes hinging ils occupants into the Lagoon. The water Tower is hit by explosives and Gallons of water spill toward the audience. A helicopter looms Over me action spraying bullets and missiles until it explodes m a Ball of lire. Speed boats Jei skis and Hove Crall Are involved in the fast paced action providing More and louder excitement than any combination of episodes from the to series. Ii s As if the audience were privy to a vicious drug bust with the cops finally subduing the dope smugglers in a Flash of stunning action the show is rigged
