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TO KEEP PACE WITH SUCCESS
If you think it easy to follow success with success in films study Carol Reed. It has taken him 18 months and several false starts to find something which would not seem a let-down after the world triumph of "The Third Man."
He considered a story about gipsies in Spain. No good. He toyed with a film on the international zone of Tangier. No good for the present. He went to,
HOLLYWOOD LOWDOWN
By "Sid"
Lots of humorous oddities on the Cinemaland scene: A 20-foot,
Berlin to think about an other Graham Greene idea. Too similar to "The Third Man."
оп
Finally he settled for Joseph Conrad's melodrama with
• Eastern setting, "Outcast of the Islands." It had only one link the picture it followed: with there were three men and a girl in the story.
-
After two months alming backgrounds in Ceylon Reed has
come back to London to start
shooting in a London studio.
Only for a moment was he willing to discuss "The Third Man" "When I watch it now I see only my mistakes."
What did it bring him-apart trom nice proft, that Worry The worry of anding
That something might match it
Said Carol Reed: "For this
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new film T concentrating on faces, feeling and acting. Shots of mountains and lagoons by themselves do not make sus- cessful
Torosit
him
the out with he has Robert Morley. Richardson (with bushy
acting,
uniamed python arrived in eyobrows and a white beard) China to do a scene with Allan Nixon for "Prehistoric Women" and Trevor Howard. Plus, cf ...Boss of the casting depart-course, something, pew. Not a
at ment Warners is scratching zither this time, but à French- his greying
this speaking Arab girl called Beri- thatch over talent request for the World mo.
drama "Breakthrough" "One young French actress (about 21) who is thinnish from hunger, but who yet has beauty and a childlike sim- and charm
War
that
A. I.
*
GARBO went to a party, and
Kerimo at zz has dongo acting, but she doesn't Have y dialogue, and she acts but zer love scenes with Trevor Howard, plicity unspoiled by
by the rigours
with her eyes. She has very of war and enemy occupation" wide eyes. "And says Reed An excited local physiognomist announced that Mary Rogers, "a strong personality?"
DISGUISE now Columbia pactee, looks just like Rita Hayworth, and
sely resembles IN THE PHILIPPINES | Lois Andrews closely
this is how it worked cut. Esther Williams.. Bezzerides wrote the for The act started with the lonely
script RKO's "Mad With Much Heart" one arriving with the usual and darkglasses. he included one brief line of floppy hat
for a bit part barten dialogue der. Then, by request, he essay- ed the part himself---and fluffen the line!...Famous fashion de- o Anderson
derson discovered signer Milo the difference between yester year's girls and those of today.
The AT 2.30, 5.20,} **Th old-fashioned girl,"
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leavens-People,
made and
in the film world that Helen Traubel, a plump opera her exit.
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medlúm, TV-and plu Garbo complained that rival since she was 19 years old she that animals come next.
In America
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There is a serious purpose be- hind all this. Actors of the Garbo calibre, who used to the theatres on their own, are dummy yearly growing harder to find. something to shut out any noise called Mortimer Snerd is a supply of puppets and animals— Whereas, there is an endless What she wanted to know
what brand of car-plugs national figure. In Britain, and you haven't lost a villainish Tole in Warners' was Technicolour meledrama, "Dal- other people recommended as viewers who differ to the money if they fall to fill the las," has "die" by violence in the best.
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SWITCH
25 Indians now working on the the rules by wearing her they see Muffin the Mule or Warner lot. They report to make-up every morning to be wedding ring 18th century
French, which is really three Mr Turnip or Archie An. rings welded together to make drews.
SARAH CHURCHILL breaks all drool with delight when
with brown philat. Civilisation has faded them!
UNIQUE, INDEED!
a pattern on the third finger
As for animals, why,
much
"(London Express Service)'
“REBECCA” RETURNS
de-
of her RIGHT hand. Her din- In an effort to teach her four mond cluster engagement ring when TV cameras in both kiddies the wisdom and the
Britain and the United stays on the left hand. pleasure of
money, Joan Enving
MLss
David O. Selznicks' mystery Churchill made Chu
the States visit the zoo, Crawford, of
The
Damned
seemed
which cd switch because "it
melodrama, "Rebecca," Don't Cry," has installed one of pity to
mothers elbow their off-is being brought back to the cover up such a nice
by popular those stick-at-a-time gum ven-wedding ring by the pear-shap-spring out of the way to local screen ding machines (fully loaded ated engagement stone.
get a closer view.
mand and will play today and her expense) In their play room,
trom! When she gets back
tomorrow at the Star Theatre, Shrewd Hollywood producers Kowloon, should win some sort her with several rolls of America together
she hopes to pennies for them to spend, or into the house in Ebury-street and thinking that what TV can
move are learning a lesson from 11, of for gathering together save, at will. I they
put the which her mother gave her as do maybe they can do, too.
in one production the greatest pennies into the machine, they a wedding present. Some people
number of prize winners eventually get them back, lc., say politely that the house is in pense of finding, grooming and
Why go to the enormous ex-pictures. These are: by division and deposit in their Chelsea. Mics Churchill corrects creating new human stars who for best picture of the year,
"Rebecca" Academy Award respective bank accounts. They them: "It's the Pimlico end." also get the gum.
Laurence Olivier, Academy Award for best performance ('Hamlet').
SURPRISE
may turn out to be flops-when you can achieve better results pets, or a live ball of, animal
More Maugham FOR cynical types there was with wood-cloth-and-glue pup
Stories To Be Screened
By Jack Davies
I have been talking to Somerset Maugham about the forthcoming sequel to *"Trio." So far, the three stories which will comprise the film have not been de- cided upon.
But Mr. Maugham and pro- ducer Antony Darnborough have made a short list of five stories. I can take some credit
prize
ini
Joan Fontaine, Academy
a shock recently, A 20- year-old girl who used to ba a tur? waitress and won 1 beauty
It is no coincidence that the Award for best performanc
('Suspicion'). the competition international film hit of showed that moment is a production cated Robert E. Sherwood, who she could set "King Solomon's Mine which wrote the screenplay for "Re
and set well has broken box office records becca", with Joan Harrison from enough to
Maurier's London and New York. Daphne du to in
novel, make
And though "Solomon" has boasts Binong
several other Rank change human stars the men who maac prizes, the Academy Award for mind the film have no doubt why 30 best Screenplay ("Best Years of and the recent many people are seeing it for Our Lives") not giving new the large number of amazingly Pulitzer Prize for biography contracts and good sequences featuring ("Roosevelt and Hopkins"). 'sign her up.
animais.
JOAN BICE
Ta
about
The gri
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Joan Rice, Her Now Hollywood is embarking
first film, on more films in which TV-type "Black ma toppers will be the stars of the ed," wishow. Of course, it doesn't In- shown the tend to copy Muffin or Mortimer other day. Snerd exactly. Its
When
"puppets"
VERY WARM
The principal love scene be- she will be adapted to its own me-tween Gregory Peck and Vir- thedium.
ginia Mayo in Warner Bros.' picture with-
It is, for example, planning Technicolour melodrama, "Cup-
for one of them, "The Out Beauty winner. I started station," being on the list. For
I
had telephoned Darnborough out
A
Dry
of tain Horatio Hornblower," training all she to combine the attractions
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LAURENCE OLIVIER JOAN FONTAINE
and urged him to consider, this
this had to do
bus. She did this - under duminy and animal by making recently described by a British] story.
movie celumnist as follows: result he spoke
"XXX It was Almed on the tò fully they rowrote the script Francis a mule, you will per- Maugham about it the following to give hel some stones with haps remember, who turned up deck of a ship at sea on one of day. The author Immediately Dirt Bogarde. The bus-falling] 'In a alm lost year and talked, the coldest days of the year, gave it his blessing.
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