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SHOW TALK
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MILLIONS FOR MAKING
BRITISH FILMS THIS YEAR
For Gattiantss is un comedian, how counter
aver-charming actress,"
To me, auued, Hollywood's most accept- blo ambassadress. I shall call ner Madam.
QUO VADIS MR CHANG?
Some time next week, Mr Frank Chang, as Métro- Goklwyn-Meyer's Hongkong. Formosa and formerly China Manager, is visiting Rome for the first time.
The occasion: M-G-M's Colossal International "Quo Vadis" Conference, as the meeting is officially known to the film industry.
WITH MR WILDING Margaret Lockwood faces a studio camera at Sheppar- I the first conference on YOU REMEMBER bidding for stage techniques is in the ton-something she has not this seale in 25 years, and
to theatre,
done since leaving Denham Inj M-G-M manugers and execu a regretful farewell
To Mr Bank's group: Will you September 1950.
tives from some 37 countries, British films a year ago-in
Stamp Armly
This time Mr Rank's former making a total of 82, will gather on the prevalent response to the industry's nation that the main recipe for No. 1 star will be acting far in Rome, announcement that it Wassereen comedy is to photograph on opposition firm with
This elty has been chosen for Guinness looking funny? atiebael Wilding in the Herbert the meeting because the film dead, or dying?
excellen
production of Trent's "Quo Vadis was shot there, Wilcox Well, would you
he but
studio to event worth
commemorating. to do all the Last Case. In the
welcome Miss Lockwood: as the picture cost more than oblige again and get up to shala't have
work.
frisedly
rival date? Optimism will be the
i sny other that has ever been Aka to Mr Rank: Could chief, Anna Neagle-who is not. fashion in 1952, please e Clark be found some only Mia Wilcox but a director made. US$7,500,000 is the figure, Brd the cost of publicity and with British
hing else to do besides smiling of the firm. Miss Neagle is not prints has almady exceeded two thing a busier time appealmgly. She is getting quite aler in planning.
the picture. million dollars. It is ruaning will see than they have enjoyed for big girl now, you know,
"To
A new present both in London and New concerned:
Lockwood, minus the York. several years.
mean finding new stats close-cropped Peter Pan hair-
M-G-M will set the ball roll- some of the old dependables
style cha has worn for some have got themselves stage jobs. years.
DIA with a cocktail reception an New also in dramatic
March 23, and the conference
producers
More pic Maron
The stay
decade!".
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A volatile lot, these produces --though a triffe coafushi to keep up with. But it's always on the fresh batch of "dis- personality. Miss Lockwood re-i will continue from the follow- them to the alien wat betros stage life has given hering morning until the 20th. n
rag have turret. Don't an
nice_in_know they, are still with
5.
Tht extra £2,000,000 prospect from the Government's fdm Anance fund is helping, of course, So is the definite Jik British pletures which Lutient have been showing at the box- office.
boost
turn up, pleat don't turns to fins a much-improved
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the cameras
assurance,
added us about long-term con- sharp-edged comedy sense-and tracts.
Just put the girls in I don't mean Peter
Pan.
last longer that way.
that time the les polley-for- "Quo Vadi:" and the long range
company policies will be dir-
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chance.
work-and let the public decide It was that slogging course of cussed, this gathering providing if they are good. Discoveries of Coward and Shaw around the opportunity for a greater the country which did the trick. unity and co-operation betwees With tempered uninism on Now it is up to Mr Wilcox: I ine various offices and „These points, I wish British pic- hope he arrives at Shepperton to talk out and achieve a mutue
of All the major studios laive
problem: tuves a happy renaissance in with the right idea. Miss Lock- understanding bigger programmes in hand this. 1952.
wood, I am sure, is hoping so,
which would be tedio:is to Dei year, From Pinewood und
through the slow channels o Ealing alone we may expert 20
correspondence, first-teature productions--which
ing a box-office between 212 and 3 milion pounds.
oooooooooooooooooooo000000 means that Mr Rank is sponsor
"I never laughed so loud or long!"
Walter. Winchell
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Charlie
CHAPLIN CITY LIGHTS
IN
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by CHARLES CHAPLIN
Released the United Artists
HERE ARE
investment of
Five of will be in colour, Elstree and
WHITE BLOOD
One new Rank star is in no need of discovering: Claudette Colbert. She plays with Jack Hawkins in White Blood, a story about present-day
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THE MASON FILM
That JAMES MASON family.afair film, Lady Possessed, has opened in New York; and the critica there, I gather, are wondering why. This
was the work with himself as
these Rank pictures Malaya. Shepparton look like being This will be Miss Colbert's first equally busy-while some of the
the film in England. Her part: ទ producer and atar, his wife Hollywood
British planter's wife. companies plan greatly increased activity over
her. MGM, for instance, will be making six or seven pictures at their own big Elstree studios, as against two, last year.
I ASK KORDA—
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hear any objections that a Holly- author and actress-which was An Agatha Christie Triller wood star should be brought to show the world how pictures Produced by Nancy O'Connell count me out of the indignation
for stich over
a part? If so, should be made.
So Mr Mason must now be meeting this time.
doing some wondering, among Here is a picture designed to other things. He has also re- show
world what Britain is turned to MGM in Hollywood as doing fight terrorism in her an actor-employee-for the time On the threshold of this own Fter Eastern sphere. The being MGM are treating
him new era in British films, producers
the United handsomely, 100. may I make a few appeals-just States particularly when they They have
given MOIRA so tha; we don't hear the in- suy the world" but have SHEARER to him or him to dustry is dying ngala next illusions of what would happen Miss Shearera co-star in the Christmas?
to their design without a big dancing episode The Story of To Sir Alexander Korda: American name in the cast. Three Llucs, In lits own picture, Please; not too many of these
For American audiences, Miss Mason crooned three songs; but "quickies," made on stage lines Colbert will be the sugar conting Moira will attend to the dancing
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CLAUDETTE GOLBERT EXPLAINS HER SUCCESS PHILOSOPHY WHEN Claudette Colbert started out.
to become an actress, more than a quarter of a century ago, she de cided: "I'd rather be liked like Will Rogers than admired as a Sarah Bernhardt."
When Claudette Colbert arrived in London to make her first British film, she said: "You see, I've kept to that."
"You may not win an Oscar that way (al- though, thank goodness, I did), but you do stay. Actresses don't have to be witchy or temperamental. If I
I epitomise anything it is Is that true? common sense and that awful word 'dependability,"
The Colbert Code
for Staying
Is simple: Pick a story, not a
part. Act with sophistication, yes
Well, ask your wife....
STAR QUESTION
For a moment Miss Lockwood, 30 years old, looked at the younger woman. The look was cold, critteal-and complete. In Margaret Lockwood's eyes asked the question: "What quality has Elizabeth Taylor that make the
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Joanne CRAIN Madalena CARROLL Ccorgo SANDERS Richard GREEN
WENT to a film studio en seconds of fine analysis. "The
the other day. It was a de- The studio I visited was Den-
—but make sure people outside pressing journey.
the ciles ("There are more of
cameramen
them outside") will accept It ham, the langest in the country, mens so
too.
where four or five-pletures could
When she came into pictures empty.
"Anna Nik
to
be made at one time: Now it is the studio to wish good luck to The tight sound stages are her rival for the title of leading It was the eth of Garbo, and dent, and the restaurant where lady of the screen, sald: "Mar- asses milk baths, and all the Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, or I ahore one, quality in rest of the Hollywood hullabaloo and all the others lostled for common-hard work. It is either Now she says:---
"For a pure glamour girl with tables is deserted. On the wall that or personality that makes 9 per cent oomph and one per a large picture of Leelle Howard you a 'stor," cent talent the career span is looks down.
ten years at the most."
Margaret Lockwood, though,
One quality has kept Claudette was there back in a film studio Colbert ahead of her rivals of after nearly two years back to
Question annuered?
IN NINE WORDS
in
FAN
TO-MORROW
"Bird Of Paradiso”
17 Mon, THAT'S MY MAN
THE LAST WORD (1, Pr 18 TS, NOTORIOUS any eru.. She not only gets the lights, and the fuss and the mise) on THAT celebrated film
her: the women accept photographs; with the skilful wedding In Now York for 19 WEL, HONG OF MY HEART
hand of Herbert Wilcox, the showmen more concerned with.
her,
NAME
> ECO to too. How it done?
master showman to guide het. cash at the box-ofice than ob4 THS, BIONDIEUR BEAUCAME "Women don't sea me
At that moment into the vious film star glamour the 21 F DE STREET WITH NO rival. They would invito me studio walked 20-year-old show business Journal Variety hone to diner without worry liabej, Taylor her hair reported it, like this "Elizabet Ing that I was lunching with windblown, her face tanned by Taylor to Michael Widis, Both their husbands behind their the sun, fur coat curelessly clung Dro screen, playet.”
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