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FILMS
Do you
remember
A
Current & Comin
BY JANE ROBERTS
throaty voiced girl This Week's Films
dark good looks in
with the
Ginger Rogers picture "The Black Widow"? She hadn't a very large part but she what there was of it made exciting and different. Her
Virginia Leith and she played the part of a neurotic artist.
Her stud stem to be bett runking us forget that shre ever exclling or different,
mare
Wa
.1
WI
12
Das her latest picture she has that routines
martine roles the wife on the sidelines
It's the kind of role that June Allyson has done cuntless times for nothing recently and
calls
The Hun standing on an ant steps registering terror and getting the her breakfast before she sent
him off to his dangerous experi- Then with it inave, encourage THE
startla
The piwigraphy
nd that kind is always
to pieties
tugh standard and 1 for on T not yet med et tie worsdva ful
grts
spretaci
track
with a m
NUŤ TOVAR
then why y as the sm
We Might
That adnak!
Ale varem adh t
The Tony thingh, can) Helps bang The mixture
...
shudher the experimente ame che with an-tuesiting in the art attempts at even greater height
words, up the resistance at
the taman Fuly to the wrong In ་་ pressure 100.000 feet up
I is research into the latter Timk formes the basis of “On ihr Threshold of Spaet", with side experiments with balloons
New Films
At A Glance
SHOWING
HOOVER
and
LIBERTY: "Goabbbon"; French and about AY PAICS. WRh Kerima, KING'S
and PRINCESS: "The Rost Tattoo": Earily drama with hum- Anna Magnani, Marima Pavan Buri
OUT.
Lancaster.
NEW YORK and GREAT
WORLD:
With the Gun": A western. Rubert Mitchum, Jan Sterling. Barbara Lau-
rence.
QUEEN'S and ALHAM- BRA: "Marty": A repeat of the Award winner. Ernest Borgnlur. nets y Blair.
أن
ROXY and BROADWAY:
the Threshold Space": U.S. Air Force
experiments with:
high
lying aircraft, Madison, Virginia Leith,
Guy
COMING
HOOVER
[ויזיי
and LIBERTY: Cry Tomorrow' Susan Hayward, Richard Conte,
way
KING'S and PRINCESS: For Whom the Bell Tolls: Excellent Fleming- reissac. Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "An Alligator Named Dai-y": A British comtils. Donald Sinden, Diana Dors, Jean Carson, QUEEN'H and ALHAM- BRA: "Battle Stations": About an American air- craft carrier. Witham Bendix, John Lund ROXY and BROADWAY: "Abdullaye Great""! recently deposed monarch's private life --- thinly disguised. Gregory Raton, Kay Kendaft,
A
In
In Pictures
far K
On the left. Anna Modnant as she appears in "The
William Bendtar Rose Tattoo
yentioman sitting in the wheel chair in the piefney un the right. He appear
"Battle Stations".
spare the hobby-hose others)
cutter
of a US Air Force
scientist attached
the Dean Jagger is
1711
this seientist and again, we've toire, 53-1 His type befor It
IS
Any mig
the authorities that his schemes att preettenbije,
whe
Guy Madison is a young flier i also a doctor and who has a small private wer going on inside himself, Does he go 1111 to these extreme belghts and launch himself out of the aircraft at 100.000 feet merely the Interests of scientific research or is ho guilty getting
thrill ม
dut of Virginia leithas his wife, is ako bothered by his approach
in every possible vast reper-
of her
What a virago she may be mut what an unconfortable postori with which to live, as hey seII- setivo daughter fods out It is only the
simple minded, bexist- ful clown, Bun Lancaster, who Ands ber vary in vape with.
Earthy only Williams production can be, it puts under the microscope
arra, excitable. Sicillan community living in an Ameri- can town n the Mexican Gulf
roast
Termesse
it
makes him swear to respect her daughter's virtus,
The structure of the
story
cannot illustrate the subtlety of the film or the splend per- formances by every one of the actors. Marisa Pavan
proves
youth and that in splie of her inexperience, she
In a natural netrea and
and 15 not over- shadowed by the ery Magnani la their
scents together. Couper and Marisa Pavan pro-
vide
sly
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
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SHOWING TO-DAY'
EXPLOSIVE STORY OF A FLAT-TOR!
BATTLE STATIONS!
A COLUMBIA PICTURE
flen
11 clever contrast, in their love
will,
the
and
scenes, porthiness of the mother Burt Lancaster,
Ae for Anna Magnani, she is exhausting
her intensity, yet
when she relaxes und laughs--for there is plenty uf **The Rose
humour namour
tou
Tattoo"-her honesty and in- Bke a beacon,
tegrity shine
sweeping away the shadows of her durker moods, Her every gesture is timed, every expres- sion calculated, yel the character she is playing is revealed as a perfectly natural. if eccentrie being, She is a great artist.
A Classic Returns
19. must have been the year in which all the ada- mantly long-haired beauties started Kiving serious thought to the cropping of their locks.
For it was the your in winch Ingrid Bergman, shyly patting her shotn hat-do, mude ne o think we'd lock better if propie were allowed to pay more at- tention to our fuces nád less t our hair. The year, in fnet, when "Barr Whom The Beli Tolls" burst apon the treen
IL was Ernest Hemingway's Crankly partisan tory about the Spanish Civil War, and return. got a time when Frame has become almost benign with age and la even minking pollte rounda about restoring the innaurchy in that country, perhaps I almost
en laetiess to revive it.
However, apart from its sym- pathies it was an exerting book
and the film was notable for lis Characters 15 well as Kor action.
T'haven't seen it again, but the impact of my first viewing is Anta Maghian, passionately still so strong that I rank it devoted to her husband, 1. among the milestones at my plunged into grief by the news einemn-going life.
of his death while driving his It will be interesting to com- KTICK
to his work-though I'm afraid noisy and inconsolable. Paxinou in
I s Lite Rrk of ร pare the performance of Katina this picture, with
I couldn't see what all the fuss the feeling she had for that of Arna Magnoni in "The
was abohat.
her husband
while he The lying, the experiments e
lived. Rose Tattoo". Although one is
on the ground
In what
mal people woul Greok and the other Italian. and the weird! She in feeling of being with the pliot
even when he consider eccentric,
there is a great similarly in their In the lonely reaches on the
Is alive. After his death sure complotely nafural style of acting and in their portrayal of unin- threshold of space were quite comes neurotic, sluttish und
her young hibited passion, kindness, humour enough for me without bother raonable with ing about
daughter--Marisa Pavon,
and human frailty. the young doctor's reasons for volunteering fur
such work.
on
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Once again I was struck by the leap ahead Join Hodluk had taken since his early days the screen and by the sadness of his recent death just as was beginning
become mature actor. Dean Jagger, on the other hand, scems to have remained still in spite of earlier promise and the routine rolex his getting lately do nothing to increase his position in the acting world
"On the Threshold of Space" is for those who like selener Bellon flims, for although the producers point out that it is based on experiments that are going on at this moment, it has all the earmarks of a selence fiction subject,
A Great Artist
Boy Friend's Promise
At this point Burt Lancaster comes into her life. Shu has heard whispers about the paragon of virtue, her husband, and has gone to the priest
tall ber try to persuade him to tell what secrets her husband had
divulged in the Confessional This is a very powerful scene, hough uncomfortable to watch. Lancaster is also a truck driver. strong and virile like the dead Rosario and he seems to be the answer to
Magnani's Je- mented cry for a sign from God that her husband was true
to
her. Each stepping warlly, they circle ench other like dancers testing every step in their re- lationship with each other be- fare proceeding.
growing
This behaviour is disillusion- ing to the daughter who hus been kept in almoet complete "The Rose Tattoo" is ft seclusion by her mother. Anna muspicion screeching, tearing, whip Magnani's
that her husband has been lash of a picture that falso to her has made her doubt parades the "Magnificent all men and her daughter's boy Magnani (a title she is friend is put through the most
all humllisting catechism 45 prefer above
she
said to
Mom-You're Ageless!
Miss Marion Nixon left the screen in 1938, but as her daughter said in a charming Mother's Day card from home in Los Angeles "Mom, you're ageless",
—
"Nixon" is a name that sounds coaxed to talk about the screen
strange in the ears of the lady in question, for in spite of a promising career in front of the cameras, abandoni
sbe "Nixon" for "Seller” when she
world and who have made a home In the best sense of the word in that eity we imagine to be one long whirl of social uctivity-Los Angeles,
Although im alors salaries
decided to devote her time permanently to her husband
theo children. Inikad to Mr and Mrs Seiter during the week-he is the official representative of the Motion Picture Producers Association of America to the Third Annual Flim Furtival of Southeast Asia, to be held here noon--and my preconceived idea of a successful film direc for and his ex-film star wite was pent sky higi Instead of two fast talidng people who poler Interests were movies, movio gossip and their participation on other- wiso in both, I founch two very. plepakat poople who had to be a taka head!
too
nzein so astronomical to us, I learned that the good old days of over-pald, under-worked spoiled darlings with much time to play is now thing of the past. Most stars realise their days on the screen last only as long as their louks (in MIN Seiter's case she would still be in demand, I'm suro) and take care of their enlaries. And there is much more hard work attached to the business of being in pictures then th apparent in the film magi- zines. So, young aspirante,
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