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    This is an rare item. Original Studio Photograph of costume sketch for the Twentieth Century Fox epic film"The Egyptian". This is an actual document image for the film. Not a recent copy. This is vintage from 1954. The three punched holes tell me it was for a key book. Please know that my e-Bay name will only appear on this scan, not the actual photograph. Buyer pays Postage and S&H. Inside USA $6.00 International $15.00. I will ship up to five photographs in one envelope for one shipping charge. I accept PayPal *Your bid is a contract - Place a bid only if you're serious about buying the item. If you are the winning bidder, you will enter into a legally binding contract to purchase the item. This is a private auction your name is not shown to other bidders. A private auction prevents others from seeing what you purchase on e-Bay.* Be sure to check out my other auctions by clicking on view sellers other items. Thanks for bidding! Biography Darvi was born Bayla Wegier to Chaym Wegier, a baker, and his wife, Chaya (née Zygelbaum). She had three brothers, Robert, Jacques Wegier, Jean-Isidore, and a sister, Sura. Robert died in a concentration camp. Jailed by the Nazis during World War II, she was released in 1943. She married a businessman, Alban Cavalcade, on October 7, 1950 and traveled with him to Monaco. Discovered in Paris by the wife of mogul Darryl Zanuck. In 1952, she divorced Cavalcade, and moved into the Zanuck home. In August 1953, she signed a contract with Zanuck, who changed her name to Bella Darvi, Darvi a combination of the first names of Zanuck and his wife, Virginia. Eventually, she became Zanuck's mistress, although she reportedly dated other men including Robert Stack and Brad Dexter. She was Richard Widmark's love interest in Sam Fuller's 1954 film Hell and High Water, but is probably best known for the role of Nefer, the seductive Babylonian courtesan, in The Egyptian. Greta Garbo screen tested for this part, as well. Zanuck left his wife for Darvi, but left her when he discovered that she was a lesbian or at least bisexual, unthinkable at the time. (She later very publicly dated women, as well as men.) Despite liaisons with extremely wealthy men, she was unable to establish a permanent relationship or to curb her gambling habit. Zanuck was still paying off her debts as late as 1970. On November 13, 1960, Darvi married Claude Rouas, a restaurant waiter, in Las Vegas; the marriage was annulled less than a year later. Death Darvi committed suicide on Sept 11,1971, after several failed attempts, in Monte Carlo by gas. Her body remained undiscovered for more than a week On Nov-04-09 at 15:06:45 PST, seller added the following information: 
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