The seven deadly sins of Hollywood (1957)

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Chapter 5 THE EXPATRIATES I wanted to see Marlon Brando, but he was in Tokyo. I wanted to see Bette Davis, but she was in Connecticut. I wanted to see Clark Gable, but he was in Mexico. I wanted to see Ava Gardner, but she was in Spain. I wanted to see Bob Hope, but he was in London. There were at least a dozen other Hollywood stars who could be found anywhere except in Hollywood. Most of them were in Europe. This was not just an accident. During the past eight years or so there has been a great exodus from Hollywood. The stars have left their Promised Land, with their Cadillacs on their backs, so to speak. They have flowed into Europe in search of culture, spaghetti, tradition, fried octopus and also, in some cases, in search of themselves. Some, like Richard Basehart and Ingrid Bergman, did not return. It is not possible to dismiss this wanderlust as part of the normal tourist instinct of the rich American. These stars were not tourists in the normal sense of the word : they were looking for something more than a picturepostcard view or a change of air. Some of them found what they were looking for. Marilyn Monroe declares that she found herself when she left Hollywood and spent a year in New York — where, in addition to herself, she also found Dostoievsky, Actors' Studio, and Arthur Miller. Ava Gardner went to Spain and discovered flamenco dancing and bull 50