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WHAT IS THE THING?
HOWARD HAWKS' production
THE THING
ITALK
SHOW by Harold Conway TA DISNEY FINDS HIS STAR CHEAP AT THE PRICE
WALT DISNEY went to about a quarter of the suni
is
of
Burnham Beerlies the other her co-star, Richard Todd, receiving; about one-tenth day, watched 21-year-old what a Hollywood star. would Joan Rice being chased have been paid for the part. Miss Rice, of course, is very content; a year or
back, the was
regarding a Corner House job as a big step-up
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former London gin-l waitress who, his advance urged by cable, would be the ideal Maid Marian for Robin Hood.
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With 2500,000 at stake in the picture, Disney took 3 long distance chance those reports--but felt he would be happier for a look at Miss Rice himself. Pitch- ing new "discoveries" into}
sudden stardom can be chaney business, as other
learned to their cost,' Now Miss Rice-"I
cun
Co
from domestic service.
Mr Disney, watching this tomboyish
Mald Marlan about frolicking
Denham's Merrie Enginnd, is equally con- tent--as well he may be. He has obtained a new star less than the price of his London hotel sulte.
•
CONTINUED
The Mother Of The Groom Moves In
A superlative comedy steals into the show world almost unnoticed, for "The Mating Season" is hilarious sophistication at its best.
He spent £2,000 in dying her from Loadon for a New in himself keeps silent, I hear York test. Now, though Chap
from Hollywood that he is in-
It concerns the develop- terested In another young ac-ments of a small home tress for the role.
when the mother of the Who is the new candidate? 18-year-old twin sister of groom moves into the bridul Fier Angell, Italy's latest-and nest. Complications abound, to but are unravelled in the
most
attractive actress tread the Hollywood path.
Pier seems to have been end by a very ingenious given Stewart Granger as her twist. permanent leading man.
for
fer
IT LOOKS 5 though Claire Bloom has lost that Charlie Chaplin leading lady part.
Sis-
Maria Louka, who left home only to keep Pier com- pany, may do even better for herself-in Chaplin's interest Jasts.
(World Copyright Reserved- London Express Service).
Gene Tierney and John Lund share star bulldup, but it is really to Thelma Ritter that honours must go This was her first important
picture, but there will be others in the train for her characterisation is wonder- ful.
JACK DAVIES Talks About Show Business develops like an allcy-cat, in all
YOU CANT EVEN
SAVE A DIME
Sid Field would
There is little to be said for the plausibilty of the plot. It
directions, but the restraint 13 so subtle, the dialogue so suave, that no one's fur is ruined.
COY PERFECTION Gene Tierney's portrayal is a dream of coy perfection. She abandons the garb of heartless- ness with relish, and Invades the field of modern sophistica- tion with a gusto that makes one wonder why no one thought of her in this gulse before.
The Hollywood drawing-room comedy is only remotely associated with the conversation pieces
the of
latter-day only Victorians, for Hollywood has On the have liked to explain how just got around to you and depended hopelessly
you slap-bang. pay, In The Mating: Season", however, an effort is made to refine the atrocious, and the re-
And I think he
You owe
nore than
can you
look have down either. It might tell you was a bit squirmy been pleased with the show bad.
Then, as it must to all wage- his friends put on, at the carners, comes an income tax Palladium to raise money demand. You've been a star for quite a while, but the in- for his children.
would and revenue boys have awe far it was that he didn't leave thought. Well, enough money to provide but you can't save.
The rich stars in Britain to- for them adequately.
day are almost all old-timers- Unless Sid was vastly if they'll pardon the use of the sult is a quality of nonsense that appeals in a quaint way. Uke different from the majority expression of actors, he knew no busi- their money long before In-fairy tales which even adults It is also interesting because come tax reached such alarm-love to read. show-business. ness but
ing proportions.
it hints, slyly, that love begins Show-people can make
only after marriage which is money, and
spend can
unusual in an age when people that
JOAN RICE
at being chased under such inspection" -feel happier
100.
Disney took one look her. Then, though his heart did not stand still, he sent
and they madu
BIG BUSINESS
ed thele money
in marriage is only the first stage
in divorce proceedings.-CAD
money but rarely can keep★ THE richest have invest-re beginning to suspect it. The astrakhan profes show-business. sion has never had a good Jack Hylton made his money head for figures
- except as a band-leader, then
-an-impresario.. female ones.
became
sidered the most overpaid
Film stars,
Into
It's Not Quite
The Thing
a11-
Jack Buchanan put his When you have been stru- film studios and television. But gling along for years, playing a bod are extremely shrewd and different town every week, liv- ating a "digs-to-digs existence, astute businessmen who would but still keeping a permanent probably be leaders in any in- went. dustry into which, they home going, dt is hard to save.
Successful actor dramatist- Then, suddenly, comes suc-
Noct for the Rice contract, in-cess. Overnight you jump from
composers like
Coward and the late Ivor Novello have
Saya SUE DAWSON serted with her enthusiastic | £20 to £100 a week. At last
worries. Their consent, a
new clause. you can put your hand in your few Rnancial
Certainly when The End pocket and pull out a full wal- Income, from royalties, is not stipulates that she
of "The Thing" was Recom- let. You can buy the things only large but long-lasting. panies the completed pic you have always wamed. You
connounced in the final flush, generally
of fure on a six.weeks launch-are rich-temporarily.
one had to rise on jellied all humans, aren't all that well off these days. Not in this knees and clutch the £100 you earn the inland re- United States.
nisters while manoeuvring venue want at least a third country Times Jann he decided, is just the maybe half.
the stairs down to 'street- sell gri to help
£500,000 Meanwhile, you
have been notor got £20,000 for starring worth of l to American
in 10
a British film. Anyone who level. percent of your audiences. And what i th
salary to the agent who Kot now gets more than £5,000 a this im cheapest part of
film can consider himself a top you the job. You have been to Disney's costliest yel? Joan
the best restaurario, clubs and star. And he'll probably make Rice's own salary,
hotels, because now you are a She is on loan from her
and Aral,
sean modest,
contract success you have, to be with Mr Rank; is getting the around. same inoney-well down in
ing tour through the You forget that out of each
raying
friends,
anyway.
Are Over when an
to
ban-
A surprising discovery; but whether this state of affairs was "The directly attributable to Thing" itself, or more to the winding up of tension Inside,
that this for one's personal con-
a lurid introduction,
only one a year.
How long can he hopo continue to
down pull
years? out of money? Five You have got new the two-figure scale. That is too. Some arc richer and May be ten at the most.
American nim stars are more fortunate. The most suc cemful can still ask and get fabulous rolarien.
LUNA PARK
lecture
after experiencing the conglomeration of shock music, shadows, low (often rather too low) voices and several stretches of the proverbial Bing electric silence.' inve
more successful than you are.
Others arc hangers on, teeches, spongers. exploiters, whose only interest in you is
ilke The smart ones, CINEMAM ow they can
much
Get out of
Crosby and Bob Hope,
Although the effect of shock you for themselves.
formed themselves into com- on the system was reat enough, But most show-people have
paries and invested their carnas a picture trying to weave a kind, warm, generous hearts.
The Ings in baseball teams and rent credible story around its sub- "Don't worry about
title "The Thing" was uncon- future estate. future," they say, "the
Both have the Midas touch vincing. In fact disappointing look after itself. Sure, I
with a difference. Every acre that all this shock treatmen can spare you a fiver, I'm do of land they touch turns into should be in aid of the appear- ing fine.'
an of well. And few people ance of what docks more can get near
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So you are a success.
Well,
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Must be the best, people
you're
shirts, socks, ties, and
too.
Suits, shoes. The
them.
than
4. Get yourself S to "touch theenough to either anything else like an oversize GI
wearing spky gloves. Other American stars lave The trouble, of course, lies in conjuring forth a vegetable, to fit the des a res-cription one is led to. believe will appear, Animal-and rather 'ordinary" one—is a poor
But does it?
makes
מ
been
to commercialise the impossibility of able their particular talents. mixing with
Esther Willars owns can tell a Savile-row suit mile off. Get yourself a car. Ataurant at which she big one. Then people will say: frequent and crowd-pulling ap-
stabstituto has a large pearances; sho
A CAULIFLOWER "He's doing well these days."
interest is a firm manufactur- Nothing succeeds like muccess. ing bathing-aults,
It was truly cold that the most retire effective medium, for this par say she could 7 are so en tormorrow and Howard Hawks has
is paper.
But from FATAL "TEST""
succeeded the bank would hardly notice in bringing out a fim as difin YOUR salary goes up. So Y da your
expenses. Very few, if any, post-war ferent from the ordinary run as Now you are a Alm star. You British stars could afford to re-cauliflower in a field of cab- bagen and about is remarkable. must have a, secretary to - Airo. Instead they must keep The basis of his story is one and hitherto unexploited by the m
the difference.
TRONO
wwer all that fan mail. And a one-ving 'to for industry, the territory sympathe- |
chauffeur.
Lown.
Moro
You must entertain the right get that the higher you go the Llc, and the characters who carry people. Better get anat in bigger the
multe inx damnd. it through well-chosen. And they try to put away In fact the end is achieved All of a sudden you have a sen
something -for n rainy day. though rather spoilt by the und speil, You're "resting" be "They'd do well continually means which are arteessarily tween shows and pictures. But to remind themselves that in imperfect. Bolled down the you've still got the same on show-busines there are an only part that topped was penses. You can't get them awful lot of rainy days.
Thing" itself,
".
ERROL FLYNN "DEAN STOCKWELL
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