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[OST interesting film project I havo
heard this wook: Anne Baxter- the Hollywood star who looks and acts. like the Claudette Colbert of 20 years ago may come to London for a new screen version of Trilby.
British producer George Minter is to makro the picture with a fresh script by Noel Langley. He is now negotiating with Miss Baxter to piny the girl who becomes a world-famous singer → under hypnosis.
I hope Mirs Baxter accepts; she seems to me easily the most intelligent of Hollywood's
she actresses;
even held. her younger
"AU Davis in against Belto
About Eve.
Who will be the Svengali? Well, Gregory Peck is reading the script, in
now
Rome.
Does that ides sound provoca- tive? "Not at all,"
Mr Minter "One of Peck's biggest
says
successes was n
Was as a villain, in "Duel In The Sun." And think what beard would do,
hat a
As an alternativa
Orson Welles,
I sugrest was ho
who
first directed, if not hypnotised
Anne Baxter into stardom.
The last flm Trilby was made in Hollywood 21 years with Marlan Marsh and Barrymore. Miss Marsh was 17: Miss Baxter is now 20.
ago,
Jobp
BATH.CHAI GIL
Daphne du
EROINE
Maurier's Civil War novel, "King's General," wha B young woman crippled for life. Would any attractive film star like to play a part from a bath.
chair!
best-known Yes: the two Margarets of the British screen Lockwood and Leighton. The choice la due any time
now. Str
Korda Alexander
paid about £30,000 for the film rights six ago. So far, he has done
It. Korda now
decides to
heroine ahead, the bath-chale will be Miss Leighton, If, in stead, the ploture is made by
years about his investment. to go
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SHOW TALK
by Harold
Conway
ANNE BAXTER
.... the Colbert look. But the producers
wood's Warner Brothers-have
By ROBERT OTTAWAY London.
There was a heap of fake pennies in the ashtray at
NO SHEEP, NO Yolande Danlan's West End
RABBITS!
By SUE DAWSON
flat
"Sorry," trilled Yolando, "i empty them out. They're just for publicity."
For Yolando, a brave girl, has put her own money into "Penny Princess."
She's backing hemelf and Dirk Starred by cattle, kan
Dogarde as Д new romantic garoos, wallables, koala term to make movie box-offices bears, platypusses, bull ants, happy.
"It's a gamble," she said, goanna lizards and abori
all my future "and
plans de- who. are gine tribesmen among the most primitive pend on it. If I get my money
back I'll carry on." people in existence," "Kan- garoo" is bound to be in Australian story, even though there are no sheep or rabbits....
And how these stars shino-
Yolande has made sure sho's giving her fans what they want. She showed me, a neat little ohart, fabulating tsults of a questionaire she sent out to all her admirers.
"Before the Rim was planned," almost eclipsing these others, of tell me what sort of a story it "I asked them to she told mc, whom one sees so much mure should be. Dramatic or romantic. It is often the way in such with music or without Plain or quadru-biped screen combina-
We based coloured. tlons. Unlike "The Overlanders", that last film-story of Australia, on the replies." this one is in technicolour, and, being the first full length coloured pleture to be made in Australia, it is ✡ milestone in that country's film history. (No pun mcant here, even though Director Lewis Milestone does happen to be responsible for this one!). T
the film
So if all you Danlan fans take umbrage al "Penny Princess,"
well, they asked for it.
has an answer pat:
Yolande
they got it."
And
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Producer Raymond Stross tells me he's importing Joel McCrea and Evelyn Keyes to star in Although поле of them "Rough Shoot," to be scripted- scintillate it would be too by Eric Ambler. The story is dazzling if all the living creatures English, the people are English- scintillated, and we have already so I asked Stross how come the
cmit said that the quadrupeds
cm Americans,
the highest candle-power-the bipeds are not without their little
"Look," he said. "You try to
Holly-glow. Peter Lawford is the bad make a film with a British hero boy with the conscience and and get American audiences to Rohord Boone is just plain bado. Then you'll know why I'm bringing over Joel McCrea. The but very charming,
part is for a tall rangy character
·
most consistent box-omer
not thought it worth while to mention the source of the plot, the characters and all the best He is known as "Kangaroo."--and McCrea has been one of joker; an English an American company here in called "Charley's ca-classic | To put it bluntly, they bail out the
of the city with a fortune in draws for the last 20 years, Mr Spettigue, Donna Lucia their pockets after shooting up and the rest might well be the boss of a gambling joint, and My money is on Lockwood Broadway creations, for all you attach themselves to "Mac"
will learn from the ledgments I suggest they change the title to: "Where's Brandon Thomas?”
partnership with Herbert WI- cox, the part goes to Miss Lock- wood,
who will then be handed
the biggest job of real acting which has yet come her way.
COMPETITION
WHEN
Saville
West End play to have a dum-
acknow-
McGuire.
"And tell me," said Mr Stross, "which English artist would you put in McCrea's place?" I did. Stross laughed. "Not with my money you don't."
SWINGTIME
last Thursday, it was the first Pacific" to become top star in return with the old man to his part... my as the star. The first play. Come Back, Little Inherit and sell for a fortune
to admit it oficially, anyway. back ueba" has now come when the raina come.
"Albert" was the life-size
at roll-
aftor
weeks on the
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That venerable septuagenarian, Finlay Currie, plays the drunken father drowning his remorse for THE MAN WHO LEFT
A group of people prepared to Denis, a lost son,
whom be"" MERICAN notor Hartley
Errol Flynn
recently. THEN "Albert, RN' — basco
Power-ho has long made abandoned 30 years before.. Down at Elstree they raised o on a celebrated noval
Peter Lawford rather unwil-mighty, scaffold, 20 feet high, so prison-camp escape from Ger- England his home resigned a
the ster could "Southlingly fills the gap, part in supporting
swing and they that many-opened at the
for his "Master of importation from cattle station which they plan to
Commented director Bu Keighley: "I guess there are quite a lot of people who'd like put into
The parched land renders to see you hang, Errol." Added model--made of papier-mache road, and has been
with some terribly impressive scenes Flynn: "I guess there are, too. steel frame and German news cold storage. Power is
news out п stage job. "South Pack-
with cattle dying on their long But you can't keep a good man papers-which stood in
fle" rolls on, probably for trek to water, the Under bush' up." call for the officers attempting another year; his successor rolls breaking into terrifying flames a getaway. A replica had been along with it.
and the resulting wild stampede. made for
production. the stage
There may be compensation Laldman Browie and Hugh
for Mr Power in the autumn,
But the bad boys meet obstacles Burden have the principal hu- He hopes to be in a film with at the Station. Firstly, 'Denis's' man roles, in an all-male cast.
Producers look at a pretty Appro-"sister" in the form of Maureen I am a little sorry for
them. Actors face enough competition priate title: "Roman Hollday." O'Hora, and secondly her cop face and think: 'She must have fance, Trooper Leonard. Chips got this far on her looks. Then from child prodigies, nowadays A MATTER OF INTEREST Rafferty is Australia's best-along comes girl with a plain face in the fight for applause and
ASHION-FLASH from Holly-known star; his six foot six and they think: She must be a praise; a dummy at the head AS
concerning wood.
and gehuine "Down Under" acgreat actress, she isn't pretty." So Rita Hayworth's wardrobe in her cent give staunch support to the they give her glamour treatment Australian law and the Aus-and the pretty girl gets lett Ray Bolger next flim:
behind." came over to England, to a split bodice. This is
"Many of the costumes have tralian background, 'make:–“"Where's Charley?"-
than ast provocative
a low ΟΥ arrived in the West End jast
for it.Cr- Introduced week. It
plunging neckline, by cites
Interest dozens of screen credits, rather than actual revealment." by Enference cluding the fact that it
Elementary, my dear Rita? adapted from a successful
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THE TRIUMPH Perhaps the triumph of this Acres and acres of dry, cracked, picture is the awful drought.
unable to sandy earth; cattle stagger any
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recumbent mothers watching their
going with helpless, baleful, bovine cye.
The omnivorous vultures, A black circling shadow, confident, waiting. Decaying corpses. The kangaroos with their funny, half-human gait, escaping from the relentless Bomes.
The suffocating "Willie-willie-dust- storm, tornado.
Here photographed for the Arst time isho Cor ruborco, the rain dance of the aborigines accompanied by the weird walling, didjeridee" a long, tube-lite lastrument, paint-
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hard
"ping of a rain drop striking ital.
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