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THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS OF HOLLYWOOD
was a mere novice, and Don Juan was just small-time. The maestro — in these matters — is Signor Rossano Brazzi.
If his conversation is somewhat Rabelaisian and his opinions of himself seem conceited, you must excuse him on the grounds that he is an Italian.
According to Brazzi, no woman has ever been able to resist him if he set out to charm her. "If ever that happen," says the maestro, "then I retire and I ask the Italian Government for a pension." He adds that he can see no prospect of a State pension for a long time to come.
Signor Brazzi is an uninhibited, roisterous character who might be described as a male Diana Dors. With his blue eyes and made-to-measure nose, he would be a bit of a pretty boy were he not saved by the grey hair and the lines of maturity on his face.
On the screen he has become the matrons' delight with his performance in the film Summer Madness. But off the screen, he intimates, he is the delight of womankind at large. He shrugs this off with unconvincing modesty. "Well, I am not a hunchback," he says. "What do women see in me? I have never thought about it."
Hollywood has fallen completely for the Brazzi line. They see in him a Boyer and a Valentino rolled into one. "They pay me £100,000 plus a percentage of the profits to play in South Pacific. But I am not interested really in cash. Or I could ask for any amount. I could ask for the MGM studios. They are saying about me that I am the strongest for charm-personality on the
screen."
He continues, "There is a new trend in movies now. The public is getting sick of the tough-guy leading men. They are going back to the romantic hero. But this time he must be romantic and masculine. Women, let me tell
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