The Curse of Vilma Valentine

Adored by some abhorred by others actress Vilma Valentine is presumed deadafter a fiery automobile collision in Mexico her body never recovered. In theintervening years the fabled star is sighted more often than Bigfoot. Is it her ghostthat crashes a party for Ronald Reagan in Juarez appears at the deathbed of herestranged father in Rome flees from Marion Davies and William Randolph Hearstat the Parthenon?</p><P>In 1969 Virginia Dofstader wins the Valentine lookalike contest publicizing <I>TheCurse of Vilma Valentine</I> by literary heavyweight Gerald Carstairs. In the course ofthe book's promotion it is discovered that Virginia's mother looks even more likeVilma than Miss Dofstader does.</p><P>As notorious in death as in life Vilma haunts the imagination of aficionados of1940s movies. Did she really kill all those husbands? Was she a Nazi spy? Was shetruly responsible for the bombing of Pearl Harbor?</p><P>Her story a suspenseful stew of WWII saboteurs stolen European artworksmurders and massacres is told in the words of major Hollywood figures-loversfriends enemies and Vilma herself. It's all seasoned with a knowing dose ofromantic comedy.</p>