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CHRISTINE CARERE continued
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in love, and it is not easy to be lonely and separated."
If she did not know that Philippe is constantly thinking of her, as she is of him, her life in Hollywood — despite many kindnesses — would he bleak indeed. "On Academy Award night," Christine said, "I went to the theatre with some friends. Just before I left my apartment, I received a cable from Philippe. 'Good evening,' he said. 'This is from your own Oscar.' And on Philippe's opening night of his new play, since I could not be there to wish him well in person, I cabled two dozen red roses. It was probably the first time in his life a woman had sent him flowers — he is, of course, a very charming and attractive man — but I thought it would be a good idea and very appropriate for, how do you say?, the man who has everything.''
Theirs has been a marriage of many interruptions. After the wedding ceremony at Notre Dame Auteiul, Christine and Philippe had only five days together before she had to leave for Hollywood and "A Certain Smile," her first American picture. Even then, Philippe had to rush back to the theatre on his wedding night. Nor was it possible for him to see his bride off at the airport when she left Paris. "He tried to telephone me from the theatre," says Christine, "but they would not hold the plane."
There was a honeymoon in Venice, finally, once Christine
had finished her picture; but, after a month or so, she was back again in Hollywood for "Mardi Gras." After that, Paris once more, in the new apartment she and Philippe were furnishing in Montparnasse: happy weeks together, knowing that she was to bear Philippe's child; and then the tragedy of losing her baby, and Hollywood again, for her third picture for 20th Century-Fox.
"All we have had, really, are a few brief months together," Christine said. "I was the loneliest bride in Hollywood. My first Christmas, I tried to reach Philippe on the phone, but the lines were all busy and I never did talk to him. I felt so lonely and so bad. I was with friends, and I wanted to go to Midnight Mass. But they told me the church did not have Midnight Mass, so we didn't go."
For a French girl who, up until a year or so ago. did not know a word of English, Christine has made astonishing strides in her second language. She has had studio assistance, of course, but she could have had a different kind of help — if she liked. Tiny, with a sexy body and huge dark eyes, Christine is only about 5 feet 2, or, as she says, "I stand one metre and 58 centimetres tall." She gives the appearance of being a teenager, an utter innocent.
"But," one of her co-stars. Brad Dillman, commented, "underneath the innocent, there is Christine the voluptuary."
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PORTRAIT of her husband, stage star Philippe Nicaud, is held aloft by Christine. They've had only a few brief months together.