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Actor-Director Gene Kelly left the U.S. 18 months ago to make movies in Germany and England. Claudette Colbert went off to England and Italy. Clark Gable and Ava Gardner made a movie in Africa, Gregory Peck in Rome. Gary Cooper's cinemactivities took him from Samoa to Mexico and Europe. Kirk Douglas completed a film in Israel, then went to Italy...
...actors who earn $200,000 a year, the loophole saves $160,716 in taxes. Expatriates Cooper, Douglas, Peck and Ladd, who make $150,000 to $200,000 per picture, stand to earn close to $500,000 taxfree. Gene Kelly, who has already put in full time abroad, will make closer to $600,000. Not every cinemactor has stayed the limit. Robert Taylor made two films in Europe, then forsook his tax break by coming home. Errol Flynn, on the other hand, has a better reason than most for overstaying his leave: he owes the U.S. $407,839.92 in back taxes...
...France's sixth annual Kermesse aux Etoiles (Carnival of Stars), President Vincent Auriol awarded French Oscars (bronze statuettes of Winged Victory) to a number of movie stars, including Gary Cooper and Gregory Peck. When his award was announced, Hollywood's Cooper applauded vigorously. After nudging him into silence, Cinemactress Gisele Pascal explained her tall friend's embarrassing antics to the astonished crowd: "He doesn't understand a word of French...
...biggest names in the business took off for Europe-Clark Gable, Errol Flynn, Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Gregory Peck -through a loophole in the tax law that forgives all if a taxpayer is out of the U.S. for 17 months out of 18. Van Johnson, Betty Hutton and Dorothy Lamour went back into vaudeville; Roz Russell and Bette Davis tried a retread on the legitimate stage; television sopped up Lucille Ball, Ann Sothern, Eve Arden and George Raft. Mike Romanoff, the royal restaurateur, made it final: "The motion picture community can no longer support...
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