Scaramouche (1952 film) Scaramouche (1952 film) Scaramouche is a 1952 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Technicolor romantic adventure film based on the 1921 novel "Scaramouche" by Rafael Sabatini as well as the 1923 film version starring Ramón Novarro. The film stars Stewart Granger, Eleanor Parker, Janet Leigh, and Mel Ferrer. It was directed by George Sidney and produced by Carey Wilson from a screenplay by Ronald Millar and George Froeschel. The original music score was composed by Victor Young and the cinematography by Charles Rosher. In France just prior to the French Revolution, Queen Marie Antoinette (Nina Foch) asks her cousin Noel, the Marquis de Maynes (Mel
Who Paid the Piper? based on the contents of the book, the CIA had a "surprisingly benign" impact, in contradiction with what they believed Saunders would conclude, and that the book "suggests that [the CIA's] role in the arts was considerably less damaging than might reasonably have been feared." Paul Buhle of Brown University described "Who Paid the Piper?" as being the "most spectacular" book recently released about the involvement of CIA and intellectuals; Buhle stated that compared to "Freiheit in der Offensive?" by Michael Hochgeschwender, "Who Paid the Piper?" has fewer footnotes but more "charisma" and "verve". Gow wrote that even though the