While we were doing our belly dance she gave us a very unamused look as if we were being a nuisance. “One day Elizabeth Taylor was there, sitting on the couch wearing a too-tight dress. “We’d returned from three months in Turkey and my brother Igor and I used to be made to dress up in Turkish costumes – with pointy shoes, baggy trousers and bare bellies – and dance when guests came round. He was a lovely man.”Īnother time, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor visited the Ustinovs’ Paris home. Before I went back, he gave me some stripy red toothpaste and said I should put some on my finger and hold it near my eyes and it would look as if I’d been crying. “David called the headmistress and said I was distraught. Peter Ustinov’s marked-up copy of the screenplay for Quo Vadis (estimate €400-€600). Pavla, like her father an actor, writer and director, who went on to appear with Ustinov on stage, television and in film, recalls the arrival of La Liseuse in the family’s French apartment in 1965. Most were collected between 19 when the family lived at Neuilly-sur-Seine, on the outskirts of Paris. In a pre-sale interview from her home in California, Pavla Ustinov, the second of his four children, whose mother was the Canadian actor Suzanne Cloutier, said she had mixed feelings about the objects from her childhood. Paintings by his mother, Nadia Benois, including portraits of Ustinov as a boy, and models of sets designed by his great uncle the Russian artist Alexandre Benois, commissioned by the Ballets Russes and the Royal Ballet in Covent Garden are up for auction along with paintings by the Swiss-French artist Félix Vallotton. The actor, who would say he was conceived in Leningrad and born in London, was from an artistic Russian family that emigrated to the UK after the revolution. Ustinov’s Golden Globe for his portrayal of the Roman emperor Nero in the 1951 film Quo Vadis – for which he was also nominated for an Oscar – drawings by Pablo Picasso and Toulouse-Lautrec as well as film scripts for Spartacus directed by Stanley Kubrick complete with Ustinov’s annotations and sketches are also being sold. La Liseuse by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, c 1890.
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