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Tue 12 Dec 2009John Huston's Galway girls
ALLEGRA HUSTON stands in the gracious hall of St Clerans gesturing to where a 20ft Christmas tree once stood on Christmas Eve, recalling the excitement and how the door would blow open with a ho-ho-ho, as her “Dad” John Huston arrived, writes KATE HOLMQUIST
What makes this moment in Anne Roper’s documentary, John Huston: An American in Galway, so touching is that for Allegra, childhood was very short, ending when she was seven years old and sent from St Clerans to boarding school.
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