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It is a long time now—a
very long time since I last By JENNIFER JOHNS
gripped the arms of my cinenia sent in cold terror, tried vainly to convince my self that it was all just make-believe and felt the goose pimples creeping, up my neck. It is a long time, in fact, since I saw a really good thriller, -
the
Danny
nothing at all. Except plenty
of tower, of course.
BEING PUSHED OUT
I
It looks as though those little British sports cars wrote about recently are being pushed out of Hollywood after all Tho car one notices most these parts nowadays is the new three- litre sporta modei produced by may or may not remember around £2,000 but this doesn't Mercedes Benz. The price is
thins
has
book
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd
Laughton
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So warm...so lovely...so EVIL!
Her love was a trap for murder!
prevents
with 20th Century Fox (the Ho was flown back to the started with them In 1936 in a nearest dentist by helicopter.
In Las Vegas for a divorce musicale "Pigskin Parade''), the dynamic star who has been from einger Dick Haymes carning close on £100,000 pretty Nora Haymes who, you year, told me: "I'm really glad
Errol Flynn's second wife. Just to be free and I certainly don't want to work again before how complicated October. It something good gett In the '80's there was a
When the finished directing fashionably. *]kt]
Cooper like to
Gary successfully terrifying film comes along after that Til do it.
Lupino play
Ida the "The Blgamist",
cars and called "The Speckled Band" Palladium, the Glasgow Empire along with Howard Duff, will three of the little
Errol Flynn trutled over and I looked under my Thomas and Danny Kare and end
and
provinces.
per- schooner and any charter a small-
of sonally to the Stuttgart factory week fishing bed for poisonous snakes many others have told me about Catalina "A recrud
collect one of the 120 m.ph. honey- to
П special for days afterwards. Since the wonderful audiences in moon", Ida explains, our first models fitted with
coachwork. Bing then, with the exception Britain. I'd certainly like to one lasted just one day. After wine-red
meet a British audience and that we both had to return to Crosby too, has placed an order perhaps of the "Phantom of
'for a Merceries." All-in-all I've never been to
work... the Opera" and an occa-
From "French Liniz”..
looks as though the currently (in sional "Frankenstein", there For the record,
Betty's last which she plays the richest girl popular MG is driving straight Into some tough competition has been nothing at all film was "How To Marry A in Texas) Jane Russell comes
(Marilyn Monroc down
around the studios. worth getting frightened Millionaire"
earth again and Lauren Bacall and now "The Silver Hoarde", which is about.
she going on holiday. She'll salmon-fishing story and packs This isn't because Hollywood also go to the racas (the horses solarne as the two-fisted has given up trying. Take the and Harry James own are look at this year's litles so far top winners) and she will look ("Invaders from Mars" "It Came From Outer Space after her two daughters.
HOWARD INJGHES can things terrify a top-line star. It just
his
ordered ROBERT MITCHUM
TheE
Beast From 20,000
Fathoms")
and you will see that Hollywood is trying just
The new
18
film before.
ever had in
a
Just gone into production at
Danny
Kaye as hard as ever. But something Paramount is a
On is lacking.
pleture Knock
The films Just don't Wood") which looks like giving terrify. Not even in 3-D with you all you have ever wanted 3-dimensional sound. Perhaps from Mr Kaye. Certainly more
Ls because, with memories of than you have Hiroshima and Belsen to haunt he reason is simple, Us, we are beyond
bring terrified.
picture now being turned out at Paramount is his own produc
The Dena Pic- tures, an Independent com Pay is the major four of which Kaye give up trying. If the
slock-holder and "Dena" horror Alms 1 raw separate
"after his 8-year "old daughter of the being made recently
are any indication, Hollywood would be who can think that far back will same name. ("Those of you
Of one thing we can be cer. traniers however, the terror
of bits
business if it did. remember that "Dena" has an
out Customers may
not"
Ket goose
the
pimples these days but they even older history. EG.:
Song
he made famous in the late still queue and hope.,.
Chatting with Betty Grable '30's.) about the end of her contract
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The idea for "Knock On The Wood" popped up at a party in 1947, As for the story, the description
about is that mongue-in-the-cheelt Hitchcock". It concerns the at- tempts of an international
heró,
to
In
on
NEXT STOP FOR FERNER
Next stop for Jose Ferrer. after his recent marriage to singer Rosemary Clooney ("Come on-a my house"), will be a Las Vegas nightclub.
Next
Ara Gardner's scheduto is "Operation Market Garden" with Kirk Douglas,
Quote from magazine article. It's hard to. Jane Russell: get to know Marilyn Modroo is suspicious of Not
Jane.
by
Veronica Hurst, the first Bri- tish star to appear here in 3-D, plays a part in a horror thriller ("The Maze") which is all about some repulsive goings-on betwech dusk and dawn in an ancient Scottish castle.
Marilyn Monroe looks like Reiting some
er uile na America's lost for
Best Un- Just competitors. dressed. In
"The Glass Web" I hear that the German ver blonde Hathtect Hughes wears sion of "The Moon Is Bluo" Is enly a bath towel and, for a much bluer than anything seen tower balh scene In "The on the screens over here. Which Bait", Cleo Moore wears Just is saying something.
she
people,-
A GHOST TO HAUNT NORMAN WISDOM
By KEN SMITH
Pint-sized Norman Wis- At least, Trouble in Store hos
to smuggle the plans of a secret dom, a "flattered, frightened been specially written for Wisdom weapon out of France into man," last week took the by Jill Craigie, wife of Left- Switzerland. Mr Kaye plays Arst step along the road that of the highly
wing M.P. Michael Foot, director ventriloquist with a split per-leads to film fame,
successful films sonality. Need I my more?
or The Way We Live and The Blue ANGLO-SAXON HAIR-DO failure, when he began Scar, and author of the Gregory
Peck at Pinewood-The Milton Pound Recovering from his Rommel "Trouble in Store" at Pine Peck him now also on the floor crop, James Mason now boasts wood.
Note. a luxurious head of hale. Sags. he's raling Anglo-Saxon · FLATTERED because it directed by that master of screen hair-do for his villain role in gives him the chance of comedy, John Paddy Carstalia. "Prince Vallant".
THE RUMOUR: Once upon a Just to prove that, it really living up to the big drum does get tough sometimes, I re- banging of the Rank Or- time it was rumoured that Nor- mon's co-star"in his Arst flm port that Joel McCrea had ganisation which, when would be Betty Hution. Later, It three teeth knocked loose in a Wisdom's contract was was contract artist Kay location fight in "Border River
an
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And Trouble in Store will be
signed 14 months ago, said: who would team up. "We've got a great find. THE FACT: I will be 28-year- 4121 ex-Rank Wisdom is the most excit- old Lane Morris,
Organisation star who was re- ing screen comedian since leased trom her-seven-year- Chaplin."
contract two year ago, has since FRIGHTENED because had two dramatic roles in pic- light entertain- across the path of all British tures, married TV
ment chief Ronnie Waldman, and Screen comedians these 'Is now recalled by her ex-bosses days lies the shadow of to provide the glamour and love- the late great Sid Field. interest for Wisdom.
Norman followed Sid into the
He
BACK TO BIBLE
No. 1 dressing room of the THIS craze for wide, curved Prince of Wales Theatre.
screens is leading to a de- signed his film contract-It called mand for expansive stories. And for him to make three films in so Hollywood is diving once more. two years at £3,000 a min into the Bible.
the
same room. Sid Field also The six major Hollywood com- signed his contract with Rank panies are already concerned there.
with 16 Alms taken directly or And dear, lovable Sid falled Indirectly from stories, incidents the
screen, He was forced to and chapters in the Bible. They take his delightful revuo sketches are:
on
Into the barren wastes of tho Salome, The Robe, The Story cinema screen in his two films, of Demetriur, Jezebel, Queen of London Town and the Carddard Sheba, Slaves of Babulon, Mary Cavaller.
Magdalene The Gallicane, The
As a result Sid was only a Holy Graft, Pilate's Wife, Sina shadow of his glorious stage sell of Jezebel, The Prodigal, The LESSON LEARNED? Ten Commandments, Jotepli DERHAPS the Rimk Organisa- and His Brethren, The Eduptian,
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