ARGENTINA: Cinderella's Double

As current history's most spectacular Cinderella story, the life of Eva PerÓn is a logical subject for cinema treatment. Last week a winsome Parisian actress, her blonde hair combed back and tied in a bun as Evita used to wear hers, was in Buenos Aires seeking the leading role.

Andrée Debar* first heard that she looked like Evita a year ago, when she appeared at a film festival in Uruguay (as a brunette). After Evita's death last July, Andrée wangled a promise from France's Elysée studios to star her if she could get Argentina to approve the filming of the life...

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