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‘"But other than that, the trip was wonderful. We were gone three months — one month in Argentina, two in Brazil. To Tony and me, seeing any new country is always exciting, but having a chance to live there . . . well, it was marvelous.
“We had a little house in Salta, which is deep in the interior of Argentina. That’s where they were filming ‘Taras Bulba,’ you see. It was an average house, not extravagant, and it became a bit of a problem.
“On the first floor there was this one big room, a living room and dining room combined. And then upstairs there were three little, tiny bedrooms. That was the trouble. They came out over the living room, so that you’d be sitting downstairs and look up and see the windows of the bedrooms. As a result, whenever the children were napping or after they went to bed, Tony and I would have to tiptoe around and whisper. Otherwise we’d wake the babies, because they could hear everything that went on downstairs. Naturally, we couldn’t have anybody over. But that wasn’t so bad. By the end of the day we were so tired we didn’t want any company.
“Two maids caine with the house and they were very sweet. Sometimes we’d say to them, ‘Give us something typical of your country,’ and they’d come up with these fantastic dishes. They made a canaloni, that’s sort of a meat ball with soft dough around it in a sauce, that was really too much. Sometimes they’d make a kind of goulash, with everything from ground meat to peppers to raisins in it with a hard dough around it. That was impinadas. It was marvelous.
“But even more than the food, I liked the Argentinian people. Their warmth impressed me more than anything. But I must admit I was almost added to the casualty list because of their warmth.
“There was an army general there who was very sweet. He knew how I love to go horseback riding, so he and his wife offered to take me. And they wanted to make sure that I had a good horse, you see, so they gave me their best polo pony
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Guests gone, a tired mama just collapses. Week later, Curtises were back home in Hollywood at last!
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