He learned to pilot an aircraft in the French Air Force in Salon-de-Provence and in Avord Air Base, near Bourges.
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Gary would later claim that his actual father was the celebrated actor and film star Ivan Mozzhukhin, to whom he bore a striking resemblance (and whom he would eventually play in a film of his memoir Promise at Dawn).
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Ajar, Émile (Romain Gary), Hocus Bogus, Yale University Press, 2010, 224p, ISBN 978-0-300-14976-0 (translation of Pseudo by David Bellos, includes The Life and Death of Émile Ajar)
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Barnavi was friends with Jean Frydman, a member of the French Resistance, and successfully persuaded Frydman to write an autobiography after Régis Debray and Romain Gary both tried and failed.
His first Hebrew poem-book "The Hart Paces" came out in 1998, and in 2003, he published two more books "Forbidden Songs" and a prose book, "Jews Against their Will", that dealt with the relationship between famous figures and their Jewish identity, among them: French singer, Barbara, the actress, Simone Signoret, the psychiatrist Bruno Bettelheim and Romain Gary.
The Man Who Understood Women is a 1959 American drama film written and directed by Nunnally Johnson from a novel by Romain Gary, and starring Henry Fonda, Leslie Caron, Renate Hoy and Cesare Danova.
At the retreat she encounters a man claiming to be the French novelist Romain Gary, with whom she falls in love, and the descendents of other iconoclastic geniuses including Joan of Arc, Anaïs Nin, Jawaharlal Nehru and Edvard Grieg.