—signed, Vincente Minnelli


—signed, Vincente Minnelli

Mark Rappaport, September 2013

No, I wasn’t in the Resistance and, yes, I suffered, as did everyone else I knew, during the war—in my business especially, since everything was rationed and there were severe flour shortages, I couldn’t make bread. And, of course, if I didn’t bake bread, I couldn’t sell it.

Mark Rappaport
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