Deadly Queen

When parents tell their children about the birds and the bees, they leave out the information that the male bee always dies after making love. This is surely a touchstone metaphor for at least a part of mankind. Yet until now, it has not been put across with wide-angle clarity. It has remained for the

Italian cinema to do so in a new movie called Queen Beea title that loses a little something in translation from the Italian, Ape Regina.

As I Lay Dying. Her hiveness, the heroine of the film, is a blonde humdinger named Marina Vlady, whose performance won her a golden palm at this year's Cannes Festival even though her lines were dubbed in by someone else. Words were unimportant. As the young bride of a fellow twice her age, she spends most of the picture nude between the sheets. She has married him not for his honey but because her own family has no male heir. Her vigor and tenacity in attempting to conceive would be enough to debilitate the entire United States Marine Corps, let alone one poor drone.

Incessantly, Marina wrestles with her aging husband (played gamely by Ugo Tognazzi) until he looks like some sort of weakening Laocoon. He tries complaining to a priest, but the priest drive him back into action, saying: must fulfill your conjugal duties." He goes to his office and stays late, pre tending to have work to do; she goes after him. There is a divan in his office She takes off her clothes. "Aren't you cold?" he pleads. But it is only he who is shivering. When she finds that she is pregnant, she suddenly turns distant. After a time,' her desirous and bewildered mate approaches. The fellow may not be a Pantagruel, but neither is he a Gandhi. He begs and begs. Finally, she lets him crawl into bed. He leaves by stretcher -dying. Ay ant le Deluge. Queen Bee's mes sage is pretty discouraging: marriage is a plunge that women survive. But Ma rina Vlady conveys this without a smirk or the hint of a smile. At 25, she is experienced at such work. She has an other hit film (Les Bonnes Causes) now playing in Paris, in which she plays a young woman who murders her hus band, pins the crime on his mistress with the aid of her own lawyer-lover then gets rid of the lawyer. As early as 15, she won vibrant notices for a pic ture called Avant le Deluge, but she was unable to see it in a theater because the film was prohibited for exhibition to people under 16. Her father was a Russian exile named raised Vladimir his de four daughters in Poliakoff-Baidaroff, Paris! They who all became actresses. Marina took her stage surname from her father's first name and followed an older sister to Rome, hence becoming an Italian star nrst, a French one more recently. When she was 16, she became the "bebe-vamp" of Russian-born Actor-Director Robert Hossein, then 28. She married him and bore him two sons before divorcing him in 1959. Double Exposure. A couple of months ago, she married a handsome athletic-looking man named Jean-Claude Brouillet, who, like Hossein, is a dozen or so years her senior. But Brouillet is no actor. He has seen only one of her films and he doesn't care He's tough-straight out of a Marlboro ad He is the owner and No. 1 pilot of Trans Gabon Airways, flying the African bush, carrying supplies to Albert Schweitzer, winging into remote out posts, serving as an aerial ambulance, is first case was a woman who had been mauled by a gorilla. Their home is in Gabon, with an escape-clause villa in St. Tropez He ?ave her a Cessna for a wedding preset, and she has only eight hours to go Before she solos. She understands the Centripetal drives of the acting profession and appreciates her new marriage he more because of it. In St. Tropez where Bardot is resident queen and the tandard rear view is a double exposure Marina disappears into a long pullover 15 drab Skirt or slacks" A Passerby would have to stare hard to see the lossy film star she hides away.

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