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RICHARD ARLTH-GLADYS GEORGE-LAURA ELEIDY
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1952.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
By Lea Falk and Phil Davis
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THE DIAMONDS# "SHADOUR DO LIKE WHY ALL THIS
THE BOSS SAYS,
IMOR YOU,
LAKE« WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO?
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Cert X Simone
The girl they hardly noticed comas back to the West End with a flourish...
A
London.
POTENTIAL world- beater in screen personali ties established herself in London last week-Simone Signoret, who was an office girl in Paris at the start of the war. Her success brings a lesson for British film
makers.
Cinema
# hore
have seen this SHOW
actress before
of course -
notably in ono,TALK
episode of In
'Ronde. But
now
sho
figures as the
star of two
picture #
pening
simultaneous
by Harold
CONWAY
ly in the West End. I saw both the same day; and the cumula Live, hour-by-hour effect the Signoret personality formidable.
of
was
In both stories she plays a lough-bred, ill-treated courtesan the in both she emerges as screen's most provocative em- bodiment of sex-appeal to date,
of the "extra" class, and open
val
0 £500,000 Anglo-French
to encouragement. She might so attempt the most ambitious yet well have suppiled some of the to beat Walt Disney at his own feminine spice and excitement gamid. missing from oven our pictures.
best
cartoon
For the past four years Andre 'Barrut (Paris) and Dimitri do Instead, she went home, to Grunwald (Lendon) have been seize the acting chances denied her here. Now, inevitably the preparing, a 70-minute big Hollywood offers will come in colour called Mr Wonderbird rolling in. I hope Yves Allerret, based on Jacques Prevert's Simonda director-husband will story The Shepherdess And The
"Chimneysweep. help her to resist the offers.
This tawny-haired charmer should do her world-beating from the Paristan home-front. studios, on their past showings, Neither Hollywood nor British
deserve her.
TIME AND MISS SIDNEY
Do you remember Sylvia Sidney of the large, sadly expressive eyes-whom Holly wood was claiming, back in the nineteen-thirties, as the sub- cessor to Janri Gaynor?
Simone Signoret as the courtesan of the ostly 1900's in Golden Maria,
Work has been divided bu tween four studios in England.
being recorded in seven langu and France, the dialogue is
ages. Among those speaking the English version are Peler
ment would Ustinov as Wonderbird, Clairs
ho is one of the finest actors on Bloom as the Shepherdess (sho either side of the Atlantic. But has Anouk for her French he prefers the roles of impre counterpart, Denholm Elliott sario, and producer this time. "I havo, carned a rest from Beting.'
and Aleo Clunca,
The men behind this
venture
bo
gill-edged,
[World Copyright Reserved,-London
Sixteen years ago she came to have gained their cartoon ex- Express Service) England to make alim for Alfred Perience by making advertising
sk, callot Sabotage, her shorts. In Venice their half- co-star was John Loderand million pound production
he had for "stand-in" an un- competing known Michael Kennie.
young
is
against live-action main named films from all over the world.
If they win a prize, the Disney empire may suffer a much need-
the
having it entirely his own way cartoons-and with full-length has become a little too com-
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In the new Hollywood ver- ed elt. So far Mr D has been sion of Los Miserables Rennie Ast the star. he is on
for almost two hours screen non-stop. In the same film you can sco Sylvia Sidney too, her placent in the process Competi- in the Beef Rocher or chia, Child? namo is among the supporting tion is healthy even for a minor cast, the role-occupying three genius, bricf acces o haggard con sumptive mother.
Here is a star who threatens to make the Bla Hayworth Shelley Winters efforts at X-
Time, as I remarked last Mile Saturday, can allure look silly; for
be rather cruel: Simoret has an important addi- and it has passed too quickly for tional quality-she can act Miss Sidney. She never succeed
ed in displacing Janet Gaynor: But now for the lesson-and from her silent-screen poderiat the rub. Four years ago. Simone film Signoret came to make a
The in London, entitled Against Wind. Did the Ealing Studios producers spot a star of inter- national appeal in their midst? If so, they gave no sign. It was a good little flm, but the French guest's performance made scarcely a ripple on the surface.
. AND TALENT, TOO Notice pinned outside Holly wood producer Joe Faster nak's office; It is not enough to Hungarian, you must have
talent too.
Gabor-sister
PRISONERS AGAIN
British
camp
in
A good play about a
prisonera-of-war Germany-Albert, R.N. has fust petered out after a short rur. The all-male cast lacked the necessary box-office seine.
One man is not dismayed- American Alm-and-stage actor Jose Ferrer. For months Mr Ferrar has been walking and. acting painfully on his knees us. the diminutive painter Toulouse- Lautrec in a new British picture, Moulin Rouge. He intends in vesting part of his salary for this ordeal in a West End stage production of Stalag 17-a play д German camp for about American prisoners-of-war,
The vente che pare to Life......an the reuman who give it level
SOGUT, CALM I Voordat glemme
JANE WYMAN
VAL THE
LUE VEIL
窗紗紅浪
Quoted to me by Hungarian Magda
of the decorative and talkative Z-Zso Was any more percipient, at Shepperton Studies recent during a morning in her com- 1y. Magda in the non-aging pany at the studio? Not in the of the Gabor Sisters. She was lenat: the newcomer struck me content with marrying a million- as agreeable-but just a trifle sire. dull. So--with appropriate
"Perhaps that explains the chagrin. I must now accept meaning and sisterly grin she
gave Zsa-Zaa as she quoted.
23, T. Bugles in the Afternoon CHALLENGE TO DISNEY
26, F. Hunchback of Notre Dame If Mr Ferrer headed the cast, 8. Belles on Their. Toes Cockily competing for first prize at the Venice Festk- himself I should say his invest-
some blame too.
For what
opportunity British Alms and British columnists-missed here! Simone Signoret was then not long out
"I refuse to be frightened off," says Ferrer. "Our own play has been running successfully for long time in New York-and London audiences aro no intelligent than American oues."
27, M. People Will Talk, :21, 8. MY FAVOURITE – SPY.
3, T. Bright Victory
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and Jack Hawkins, the stern but human "Tiger" in command, is simply excellent.
It is one of the happy at- "Pimpernel" Squadron does is a do not so badly (to tributes of the British triumph, studios that they can, and should have done. Far from it. They are natural and realistic; often do, make a film both they make mistakes, exceptional and
Many of the past are ex-RAF. Michael Denison, Humphrey while quite omitting Both and one can feel the comradeship Lestocg, Dulcio Gray
and overstatement and senti- which apparantly grew in the Veronica Hurst (another new- mentality. "Angels One real manner of war-time crews, comer to watch) are only some was 'shooting of those who do so well. And Five" is probably the finest when this team
down at Kenley
old of course, there is the author. film to have been made Hurricane base in south-east Wing Commander A. J..C. about the war in the air, and England. They are happy-go- Pelham-Groom. this is said with both the lucky and serious in a way that
elaborate is exclusively the RAF's rather more "First of the Few" and "The Way to the Stars" in mind.
To make this picture of pilote, realistle ground crews, the 'ops. room masterpiece in
it was, a bit of a memorial to our nation's finest understatement, it is none the and so on, less moving for this and the lack problem to and the real "stars" hour should be made and shown of sentimental go. After all, the the Hurricane, aircraft them in this, her colony, in Battle of
Britain week. selves. England possenses only finest moments of the war were two which are airworthy, so some hot fught
with molodrama, re- had to be borrowed
from the dundant words and excesses of
Government and, a' emotion. They were glorious for Portuguese
not do few non-flying mock ones put their simplicity; one did
together! things with the idea of being. heroic, but because those things had to be done it an enemy of Infinitely superior forces was to be kept away from one's home.
That many people and their actions became heroic in the course of filling this necessity made them no less so for their being without fuss-In fact most often unknown. -
These are the sort of moments that the Associated British team theis ex-Air Forco officer produsers John · Gdango, and Derek Twist have put on the screen. Not that everything the
'A PROBLEM
Newcomer John Gregson, n young foot, builds a strong foundation to his film career as Pilot Officer Baird, a dour yet sensitive, over-loon, text-book recruit, who "puts up on awful black" right at the beginning. and has to live it down as well as the unfortunate sobriquet
Septle", which his inillats "T.B.) acquire for him. He makes an- ather good-intontioned blunder later on, and so by these ox-||| perlences learns wisdom,
front
Tom Gregson la a runker in the salary of young Brilish stars. VHis comrades too
The ending to this picture is not a happy one, but the only ono possible. It certainly shows, what "The Few" were really like, and it is fitting that such a
SUE DAWSON
Paula
HAD ONLY BEEN HALE WAY TO LOVE- UNTIL
YOUNG PAULA
ANA WAIS-KENT BAITH.
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