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...wardrobe cost alone for 20th Century-Fox's Prince of Foxes hit $275,000 -or about nine times what it took to pro duce both Open City and Shoeshine...
Donna Rachele Mussolini, 59-year-old widow of the Duce, was temporarily unhappy in Forio, near Naples, where she was living in a cold-water flat with her two youngest, Anna Maria and Romano. According to Luigi Criscuolo, who publishes a monthly newsletter in Manhattan, she was considering a job-hunting trip to the U.S. (the daughter of a peasant, she worked in the fields and did a brief turn as housemaid before she married Benito). Criscuolo said she was broke; her $40-a-month government pension had been cut off, but once she got to the U.S. things would...
...summer of 1943, after Mussolini had become the prisoner of Italy's Badoglio Government, it was Skorzeny whom Hitler personally assigned to rescue the Duce. After weeks of dime-thriller spy work he located Mussolini in an inaccessible hotel on the 9,560-ft. peak of the Gran Sasso in the Abruzzo Mountains northeast of Rome. He led an assault which reached the hotel by crash-landing gliders against the mountainside. Skorzeny reported: "Duce, the Führer has sent me as a token of his loyal friendship." They flew out together in a tiny plane which...
...pinned medals on heroes and put wreaths on graves. An American visitor was told in 1927: "The most wonderful thing about Mussolini is his loyalty to his King." The words were spoken by King Victor Emmanuel III; by that time a lot of Italians would have disagreed. When Il Duce declared war against Ethiopia, il piccolo swiftly calculated: "If we win I shall be King of Abyssinia; if we lose, I shall be King of Italy...
...crowd chanted "Perón! Perón! Perón!" Then some, apparently intoxicated by the familiar two-syllable rhythm, began to shout "Duce! Duce! Duce!" That brought counter-shouts of "Down with Franco! Down with Perón! Down with Fascism!" The abashed figure on the balcony heard it all; she was, Argentine officials said later, upset...