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"RETURN of the CORSICAN BROTHERS”
ussing
Richard GREENE-Paula RAYMOND
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1953.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
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BUT
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MANORAKA-
AROUND HOLLYWOOD Frankie Takes
By MICHAEL RUDDY
Rita Hayworth's lumbago and Bore back muscles cleared up during her first week in Honolulu for the South Sea island sequences in "Miss Sadio Thompson." But Jose Ferrer - caught, a cold in that tropical climate
Mae Murray, the kereen's first "Merry Widow", has written her autobiography; is trying to sell it to the movies.
managers didn't approve at the Lime.
Rosemary, reminds me, George Raft is trying to get his wife, separated from him for more than 20 years, to give him a Reason he wants to Rosemary
divorce. blonde marty
Colligan..
Just before Edgar Bergen left for his European tour, he asked bis
seven-year-old daughter Crady what she want- ed him to bring back for her.
Daddy, Queen "Please
Elizo- beth's Carnation dress,
thal's
ton,
not
A Plunge
By ROBERT OTTAWAY
I wish I'd had Terence de Marney with me the other evening when I met come- dian Frankie Howerd,
Mr de Marney threw lively fit of artistic tem- Perament when asked about the overnight withdrawal of
play his
"Dangerous Curves" from the Garrick Theatre.
The big question in Holly- wood""Two-D or two-D...." "Red Garters," the satire on Westerns at Para mount is being stretched again. Originally it was for Bob Hope and Jane Russell, Then It bow ran with Rosemary Clooney and Don Taylor, now it's on again with Jack Corson, Buddy Ebsen the and Reginald Owen, 83, British character actor, who has been away from Hollywood for two years....Also a change of directors,
Car- on "Rod ters"....
Betty Grable, under suspen- Curious after Van Johnson's slon for not reporting for "The
Ali Mine," at Pleasure's
ut singing-and-dancing success
her best Columbia, will be free of Las Vegas, he gels the dramatic role
movie Fox contract next August, 1954, and then announced to an awe struck world that he would career, Lieut. Maryic in "The unless Mr Zanuck takes up her Caine Mutiny" with H. Bogart option for two years at 300,000 ver o en the stage again, but and Jose Ferrer....My neigh dollars a year which is very big would concentrate on Bims and
money these days.... bour, Rory Calhoun,
Dlana Lynn filed for divorce John from architect-husband Lindsay and took the plane to
Immediately after Dritain wards....
of his
owns
Asked whether he still intends to do another television series based on the grown-up Andy Hardy,
Mickey Rooney said, "How can I play a grown-up Andy Hardy? I haven't grown an inch sinc I played Andy."
Rosemary Clooney and Guy Mitchell, singing together in ranch 70 miles from Hollywood Paramount's musical,
"Red and was told there was oll in Garters," which kits the pants them thar hills. He was off Westerns, recorded some ducts elted until he learned it would Records, cost him 300,000 dollars to drill their respective for it.
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IN
a
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DID YOU HEAR ABOUT....
the
Did you hear about movie tycoon who decided busi- ness was so bad that ho initi off two psychiatrists?.....
Although Mario Lanza didn't make a single record last year, he received 400,000 dollars in royalties. Ironically, he's disking | a "Student Prince" album,...
THE GOOD EARTH · Anthony Quinn, he too is a believer in the good earth. Out of "Viva Zapata," he bought a farm in New England Hollywood father said to me longer run wild,
Teen- JETY ·
2
A
A
He lashed out at the critics who hud (quite rightly) sald what they thought of his play,
TV.
FAR HARDER
Now listen to Frankie Howerd, just. embarking on a film career after some years of radio aud music hall success. Mr Howerd is in no doubt about the risk he is taking.
"When you're on top people Expect more of you than when you're climbing,' he told me. "It's far harder to stay there than to get there,"
Did you hear that, Mr de Marney? A wise head on young shoulders, with no doubts about what stardom entulis,
particularly like his unassuming honesty.
like Mr Howerd. I
SAME ACT ...
*Before anyone knew me played an eight minnie act al Bradford and died the death," he said, "Nobody laughed,
We hear that Ava and Fran- kie are jousting and spatting leven before "The Knights of the Round Table begin...... And Errol Flynn will face four legal sults when he returna. Wife No. 1 Lill Damita wand they, her alimony; wife No.
a sparking Nora Haymes wants her
Pictures, the busiest film factory Sup-
days of gloom. Us during these and port money,
the
Hutton as wants to slar Betty Government wont back taxes.
Marge and Gower Champion
the misterss of ceremonies in began their cabaret tour at the
All-Time Great Revue," Hotel Flamingo in Las Vegas in vignettes of the great players They dance superbly, look for- and entertainers Hiko Helen ward to the engagements at the Hayes, Groucho Marx, Bette Palladium and through the pro- Davis and Jimmy Durante as "Six months later I was known vinces. "We get many letters well ballet and symphony will and I went back to Bradford from Glasgow and other parts to presented... It will be a per- with exactly the same act. This of Scotland. Do they really mancat record of the finest time they loved it." love dancing as much as
The Alm boys have say?" Marge asked me. I con- Enthusiastic, Betty wants to nibbling for Frankle's services firmed...
...On dancing in movies, begin immediately her personal for some time, but he's been Gower sald, "It's always like appoarance tour ends...
world's afraid to fall for their sales talk. Despite being the We've
Just can't forget what always felt we should be open- most renowned blonde, Marilyn
to Sid Fleid, perhaps her happened Ing somewhere."
the greatest
music
hall comic Claudetto Thornton,
Robert birthday weekend, the boy
of his day, who was badly Stack's girl-friend, did the tele- friend, Joe Di Magglo,
an
endless rehearsal.
vision commercials for
Coronation....
HAREM EYES
they
achievements
Monroe
WAS
In
tho
alone over
arts.
away
been
the because of an accidentni death mattled when he got into the in his family.....Shape of things clutches of the movie makers.
to corne.
MAT and Jane Russell are a talented team in "Gentlemen Latest fad: Harem eyes, be Prater Blondies" and in Chama- gun by Mitzi Gaynor, (Result
scople, MM is very amusing recalls that doe-eyo tady. Mitzi with Misses Grable and Bacall outlines eyes with black pencil, in "How to Marry a Million- stants them, slants eyebrows, at aire."...Next week, Marilyn what she says is a seductive reports to summer school at angie. "Harem eyes make people the University of California for look at you twice," Mitzi a courze in Elizabethan litera- isaya....
ture. Her favourite reading:
conform For Elizabet, Edith Sitwell, with
the spent an afternoon during the Sitwell cojourn in Hollywood.
On marriage, Marilyn says, "Joe and will marry some
We love each
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INDIA... LAND OF MYSTERY!!
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FORBIDDEN LOVE!
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ROGUES
MARCH
PETER RICHARD
JANICE
LAWFORD GREENE · RULE
Directed by
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Now Howard has taken the plunge. He's plumped for "Scream In the Night" and be Insisted that it was a comedy Chriller.
SECOND PLACE "I people don't like my jokes or personality they can always makce do with the thrills," ho tells me.
Wisely he's decided abt to carry the first film by himself. Modestly,
namo comes second in the cast list. And his is Margaret sparring partner Rutherford, who asked for Frankie Howerd as her birth- day wish in the TV Kalcido-
day.roducer Walter Wan-{ scope Show a while back. Now
ecr, handy with a six-shooter she's stuck with him. when bonour is flaunted, at
And it's 11 self-sacrificing tended the Coronation banquet gesture on Mica Rutherford's at Television City with his wife, part. When she was approached Joan Bennett. Asked severní she agreed to play for less than times whether they had re- her usual fee. Anything, sho conciled, both said, "No com- cald, to help her favourite ment," brightly....
-funny man.
RITZ
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WONG BROS.
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EDDIE GUZMAN AND, HIS ORCHESTRA
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