FRANCE: MARIA CALLAS ATTENDS PARIS FILM PREMIERE -- REFUSES TO COMMENT ON PLANNED ONASSIS-KENNEDY MARRIAGE

Record ID: 190453

  • Title: FRANCE: MARIA CALLAS ATTENDS PARIS FILM PREMIERE -- REFUSES TO COMMENT ON PLANNED ONASSIS-KENNEDY MARRIAGE
  • Date: 19th October 1968
  • Summary: PEOPLE ENTERING THEATRE; REX HARRISON; PEOPLE CHATTING IN FOYER; MARIA CALLAS ENTERING; RICHARD BURTON AND HIS WIFE, ELIZABETH TAYLOR, ARRIVING; MARIA CALLAS SEATED IN THEATRE. 1. GV THEATRE 0.03 2. SV PEOPLE ENTERING THEATRE 0.11 3. SV REX HARRISON TALKING TO MAN 0.17 4. SV PEOPLE ENTERING 0.20 5. LV GROUP CHATTING 0.25 6. LV GROUP IN FOYER 0.30 7. CU MARIA CALLAS ENTERING, TALKING TO PEOPLE (2 SHOTS) 0.44 8. CU TWO WOMEN LOOKING ON 0.48 9. CU MARIA CALLAS INTO THEATRE 0.56 10. SV RICHARD BURTON AND ELIZABETH TAYLOR ARRIVING 1.00 11. CU MARIA CALLAS SEATED IN THEATRE 1.12 Initials RM/V/JH/ES Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 3rd November 1968 13:00
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  • Location: PARIS, FRANCE
  • Country: France
  • Reuters ID: LVAEMMJKSB3FWOE9VKU08GOZPGEW
  • Story Text: OPERA SINGER MARIA CALLAS, THE LONG-TIME FRIEND OF THE GREEK SHIPPING MAGNATE, MR. ARISTOTLE ONASSIS, REFUSED TO COMMENT ON THE PROPOSED MARRIAGE OF MR. ONASSIS WHEN SHE ATTENDED A FILM PREMIERE IN PARIS LAST NIGHT (FRIDAY). MR. ONASSIS PROPOSES TO TAKE AS HIS WIFE MRS. JACQUELINE KENNEDY, WIDOW OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY OF THE UNITED STATES.

    MARIA CALLAS, THE WIFE OF ITALIAN BUSINESSMAN GIAN BATTISTA MENEGHINI, WAS ATTENDING THE PREMIERE OF THE FILM "FLEA IN HER EAR", BASED ON GEORGES FEYDEAU'S FARCE STARRING REX HARRISON. MISS CALLAS SEPARATED BY MUTUAL CONSENT FROM HER HUSBAND IN 1959 AND NOW LIVES IN PARIS, BUT SIGNOR MENEGHINI SAID THAT HE WANTED HIS WIFE BACK AND WAS DELIGHTED THAT MR. ONASSIS WAS GETTING MARRIED. HE TOLD REPORTERS: "I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT FOR YEARS."
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