Domergue

Domergue, who wrote the introduction to André Maurois's "The Strange World of Henry Clews," recalls the first time he saw the sculptor from afar in Cannes, impressed by his elegant bohemian air and a Napoleon III goatee.

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Domergue took a keen interest in his eccentric neighbor, Henry Clews, who lived down the road in Mandelieu-la-Napoule, just west of Cannes.

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"Domergue was quite a bon vivant and a notorious womanizer," says Frédéric Ballester, curator of the Villa Domergue collection.

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Marsha is played by Faith Domergue, in whom Howard Hughes once put a lot of faith and cash to become a major star.

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Though Domergue was initially a landscape painter, the artist's greatest success and fortune came from fashionable portraits of svelte swan-necked young models or dancers, often the mistresses of his moneyed Parisian clientele, who came down to Cannes for the social season.

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"He should have been born in the Renaissance," Domergue wrote.

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Claiming to be the original inventor of the sexy pin-up model, Domergue also drew famous ads for the Côte d'Azur -- stylish sylphs in slinky gowns and oversize hats, flanked by towering palms -- which were reproduced as postcards and sold everywhere on the Riviera, contributing to the area's glamorous image.

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Faith Domergue is the woman who, you'll be shocked to hear, leads him astray.

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Faith Domergue is the woman who, you'll be shocked to hear, leads him astray.

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Ms. Bisset was equally easy to recast, starting perhaps with Esther Williams and running up through such ladies as Jeanne Crain, Donna Reed, Janet Leigh, Faith Domergue, Jean Simmons, Elaine Stewart, Françoise Dorléac, and a host of others.

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