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It's all under Mr Kelly's cloth cap
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THAT
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WAS the notice outside stages 4 and 5 at Elstree's Metro studios. It was the first day of shooting on Gene Kelly's film without words, "Invitation to the Dance."
Kelly, in on open-neck khaki
“WORLD OF KIDS" shirt worn outside his trousers,
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is directing and dancing in a picture he has long wanted to make. A Alm in which music, ballet, and an occasiopal zong replace dialogue.
watched him behind the camera as the long arm of its crane edged between the dan- cers.
Kelly pushed back his сар and said: "This film is for the dance what your Somerset Maugham pictures were for trama, There are four separate stories and I'll be dancing in three of them."
THE GAMBLE
He understands the gamble that is being taken on his film with no dialogue. "I'm going. out on limbI know, but I believe people will like film." So do I.
this
He walked-with those casy gliding steps-to his latest dis- covery who will be his new dancing star, Нег name 13 Claire Bombert, an 18-year-old 8 ft. 2 in. ballet dancer from Paris with blond
(dyed for the film), large wide eyes, and a 19-inch waist.
bair
Claire will follow in the tradition of Leslie Caron, whe was chosen by Kelly for "An American in Paris."
The two
the girls were in same ballet, class together. I asked if there were further similarities. Gene Kelly shook his head. "Claire has a sadness inside. It shows on her face. She is not a gamine like Lesile Caron,
Kelly's three assistants -- all young, attractive girls gathered round him to discuss another
CLOTH-CAPPED Gene Kelly-directing instead of dancing-ponders the next sequence while his
"discovery Claire Sombert, dances before a fishing-net background.
Rennie has a chest made to measure
shot. There is no script — and It sounded as though he were without Kelly there would bo trying to convince himself,
no film. "It is all up here," he
sald, tapping his forehead.
MICHAEL RENNIE - has a
new chest. The loan 0 ft.-
"Finding new steps for dancing plus British star of "Trio," who is not difficult. Producing new went to Hollywood to be given been ideas and ways. of presenting a world name, has also
presented with a new physique. them is the problen..
On
He has
made the Alm set Kelly will laugh, rog, tell stories. On set he has the "Les Miserables"
there. For strip cool, eyes of a tactician. He certain scenes he had to checkn costumes, colours, to the waist. Then what hap- camera-angles, even the make- pened? Poor Rennie. He is so #lim that his chest wasn't broad enough for Hollywood.
up.
TIRING
Then he dances himself, and made of rubber. It fits anug- So they built him a new one there are power and elegance just across the shoulders in his steps.
It is tough and tiring work, and down to his waist,
To
At night he tries to relax in cover the join round his neck a kottel handker- his Mayfair house. Even relax- he wears
ing is difficult. "You know," he said to me, "I don't have to work this hard.”
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Sept. 1, M. Beptember Affair
sald
the
-WELL, is it a THREAT ?:
TV worries
Lady Film- but not Mr. K.
T
"The
1
HAT young upstart TV will go on to long as they are has old lady Holly exciting, progressive, different, That is what chier,
wood looking under I want in
and have one."" The new chest, with all
SIX A YEAR obvious signs of strength, given the bed to see if there is a
TANLEY KRAMER started Ronnie the chance of develop burglar. In London a young, E
in a mall way_with_ple ing as an outdoor action man if energetic Hollywood pro
tures like
Champion," he wants to. "Broadens his ducer, Stanley Kramer, had which made Kirk Douglas
cool, unhysterical words to star..
with Now he signed up of the worries say about
Columbia to make six. Blms o TV.
year. Spectacle and Westerną He did not seem particularly advice the showmen.
Says Kramer: "There's no anxious about the new enter- tainment that was closing down formula. I'm asking "The Cafue American cinemas by the score Mutiny for a million and axing top Hollywood pro- ducers salaries by as much as
horizona considerably," colleague on the alm.
GAG-TIMER
I HAVE BEEN timing the speed of a wisecrack. Con- sider first 25% Zsa Gaber, who currently has the reputation for the smartest retorts,
Corinne Calvet, a French actress in Hollywood, was half. ported to be suing Miss Gabor for 1,000,000 dollars for alleged slander. In London Miss Gabor
Kramer, aged 30. said: "If the film at the cinema does not stack up to the big fight or the
was told about it. Sho said: Lucille Ball show or Danny
"How many diamonds would
the
TV on the Thomas on
samo
1,000,000 dollars buy? Is that night, then the film is wrong. witty? It isn't? Ah well."
Now take the case of Miss It is just a question of enter- tainment value. If the show is Calvet. When she was asked wett
better than the dira, the cus-. in London recently about the tomers will stay at home. If success of French films,. said: "People like them because the film is better than the offer at home, then they can't understand a word."ing on the set For speed of production-with-customers will go out to see it
at the cinema. There out a scriptwrlier compare other way of looking at it." the two women with Bob Hope. A refreshing approach after When he arrived in England
and facci powerful arc-lights,
he said: "Go cosy with the
the recent, crisis moves.
is no
MOTHER METRO in Holly-. wood is cutting her top men's
lights, Kellowthey're fading calories by anything from a
my suit."
quarter to a half. And dimis
pounds
KRAMER'S THE NAME Competition's the motto
The first ume I recorded in como of her directors. All and It should have ihat gag was five years ago. It because of TV.
spectacia
and store. But I'll not make it
was American vartoty stor JACK WARNER, chief of just for spectacle but because I
Jack Durant's line then.
AT LAST
aro
At last. Mr. Rank will make
Father Brothers, says:
plotures in Canada and Malta. FOX décides to concentrato on were not equipped
and big-subject right a certain number of limes
The believe the story will enter- of double features). are tain. FILM MEN
getting over. The top films, must be
"I make a story because i like it. If the publie likes it Commonwealth - conscious more colourful to beat TV."
TWENTIETH CENTURY too then I'm in business. If I
to
RUMO any musicals And for another company Hollywood director Lewis ("All dramas. All because of TV..
But young Kramer, with the publle Is never wrong. If I Quiet on the Western Front")
tough, make a mistake and the Milestone arrives in London to striking eyes and the the
says: losca money-and wome of my Bl the story of Australian bard-speaking manner.
"I may end by making films for pictures have then it's. Soprano Dame Nellis Melba....
japonzors Just Like TV: ~Films fault. I don't blame TV,"
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