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THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS OF HOLLYWOOD
When Aly Khan came there, a town not normally on his itinerary, dined twice with Miss de Carlo and stayed in the same hotel as her, Munich gasped and gossiped. Munich has got its ceramics and its leather goods and its sinister place in history, but as a setting for international romance it had not made much headway until then.
When Aly Khan left after a couple of days Miss de Carlo explained to me, "We're old friends. I met him — before Gene Tierney — at a party in the South of France. Whenever he's passing through Paris or Hollywood and I happen to be there, we have dinner together. That's all there is to it."
The day after Aly Khan had left, Miss de Carlo had another visitor: a French scriptwriter friend who sat all day on the film set watching Miss de Carlo ageing and weakening as Wagner's neglected wife. Again Munich began to wonder and speculate. But the Frenchman was the script-writer of Miss de Carlo's last film. And that, apparently, was all there was to that.
Playing the role of Liszt in the film was the handsome South American actor and author Carlos Thompson whom Miss de Carlo discovered in Argentina and brought to Hollywood.
At first Thompson was also staying at the same hotel as Miss de Carlo. Then he moved out — into a furnished flat.
Miss de Carlo wanted him to appear with her in another film, a German musical. Thompson told me he had declined the invitation because "I am not a singer".
No sooner had the script-writer left, presumably to continue writing scripts, than Miss de Carlo said she was expecting a third visitor: Baron von Thuena, a former Panzer commander in the German Army. £\ Miss de Carlo's main rivals in the cast of Magic Fire were Valentina Cortese and Rita Gam.
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