Sophia
Loren fights Alan Ladd
LADD be making all-
other film with Spohia Loren,
After one picture together "Boy
on a Dolphin," shot in Greece
they
have decided that perhaps. for
them
Hollywood and
Horne do not
mix.
There 2016 the first "ruts" from the flim to reach London, #d by the time location shooting WAS over neither
W
speaking more thau WA8 necessary to the other. Ex- cept for lines
in the script,
of course.
LADD AND LOREN
The trouble may have been just a short, matter of inches. Mr Ladd is a compact character, Miss Loren is an inch Or two taller than he, and so, for scenes together on the mainland, holes had to be dug in the ground for Miss Loren to stand in.
Mr Ladd also found that Miss Loren had ruther moro temperament than he was used to.
And people on the spot say that when Lodd said goodbye to Loren the parting dld not give either of them too much
sorrow.
Fly
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ALFRED HITCHCOCK, Mister Suspense of the Movies, recovering from an operation, now has gone down with an attack of jaundice. In Hollywood doctors think he may need another operation. Cost of the last one, a fortnight ago, was more than £1,000. "If they want to Upen me up again," says Hitch, "they'll have to wait unti: Eve made another picture. I'm due to start one next month."
REED'S NEXT DOUBLE
SIR CAROL REED,
Britain's That."
*
Second, to follow top director, after wardng immediately afterwards, will be a year to find new stories, has "Tell 14 on the Drums," about settled on two, First will be founding the diamond mines al Nigel Baichin's "Destruction Kimberley,
THE MILLION BOY
IT is a
£1,000,000 year for LAURENCE HARVEY— starting now. His success in the bawdy stage play "The Country Wife" has triggered off a demand for Harvey which has that £1,000,000 backing him. For his new film, "The Truth About Women," he is given six leading Indles including JULIE HARRIS, French actress EDWIGE FEUILLERE, EVA GABOR, and DIANE CILENTO. Then follows a frogman film, "The Silent Enemy." and immediately afterwards a Brando-style part in "Out the Back Door." On top of everything a hil Paris play, "The Exg," has been bought for Harvey to act in London-and New York,
BURTON-International Inc.
FIRST job of work for Richard Burton under his new plan of living in Switzerland for three years so saving British income tax - started the other any. It is a flim, "Bitter Victory," backed by Hollywood money to be shot on location in Libya and in South of France studios. Story is of a lost patrol in the war-time desert campaign with Burton playing u British Army officer. Under his now dea! Burton would be paid for the picture in dollars,
A GAMBLE PAYS OFF
THINKI
ahead
KING
and American Ray Walston playing gambling £100 has won for the part in the Broadway show, Kerr, the comic frum and then wait for auditions in Wagga Wagga, in Australla, the Lond The gamble paid off: key part of the Devil in new musical "Damn Yankees" in
role against stiff the West End, Kerr decided competition from British actors months ago he would fly to New who hadn't thought of going lo York at his own expense, watch New York first.
Ker got the
MR. RAFT ON
DOWN
THE
PLATFORM
EORGE RAFT sat upright in a chair in his Dorchester suite wearing only a bath towel round his middle-age spread. He looked like a well-fed, not-very- mystical, semi-Eastern mystic.
He said in his softish, carpet-lined voice: "Just been having a massage. Not sure why. Haven't been workin'. And it doesn't look as though I will be." He paused and added: "Got myself into a
bit of a mess over this movie."
He was referring, of course, to the movie which he intended to make in England -but turned down last week, shortly after he arrived.
He obviously needed no encouragement to talk about it." But he is polite, unake the charac.ers he plays on the screen, He ordered me a drink first, but nothing for himself.
He is also teetotal, unlike the characters he plays on the screen.
"Don't drink. Never have, though 1 know all the gangsters and bootleggers in ine old days.
"When I was younger I wanted to be a prize-tighter or a basebält pinyer, I tried to keep, in shape and I never got the drinkin'
habil.
"Anyway, let me about what happened.
tell you
over
"I guess you've heard all.. abou! the trouble
the script. I shouldn't have come without seeing it first.
No pay.
"WHEN I arrived I dia covered it wasn't even finished, though we were supposed to start in a few days. What there was of it, 1 didn't like,
"All round it's been a pretty bad deal for me,
LOGAN
GOURLAY
learns what a sensitive tough guy feels when he thinks that he is slipping
savo any.
GEORAN RAPT
goes up must come down.
"I don't blame anyone except the right investments. myself. And Lady Luck.
No divorce
And I didn't make 1 once had 20 racehorses but they didn't win chough "MAYBE I should've
races. I culti opened liquor stores and night vated the big producers more, clubs that flopped." Maybe I shouldn't have played opposite unknown coding ladies, I gave a lot of them their Aral chance. Ava Gardner, fr'instance,
HOWEVER, HE needn't fear in Whistle Some
Stop. a penurious old age. He has of the others nover amounted to anything,
one gilt-edged investment — a 95,000-dollar share of "But what the hell. They gambling hotel in Las Vegas, deserved a chance.
13
"If I hadn't got mine And expen- sive. Course I don't expect any Scarface I might still have been salary. But the producers sent a dancer. Ninoty other
guys me a bill for the plane fare could probably have played the
£480. And even a bill for £4 part as well-if not better, and a bit for bringing my case from the airport,
"I don't mind paying. But they sent it round by special messenger as though they thought I was going to beat it. "That hurt, That really hurt."
"Maybe Tu got just one more break. One more good part, then I'll give it all up and die happy.
Contrary to Hollywood custom, he hasn't spent money on a series of costly divorets. though 10 percent of all his income has gone to his estranged wife.
"We were married 30 years ago. We never really lived to- gether. But for religious reasons sho'd never give me a divorce,
"I went around with other women Betty Grablo and Norma Shearer, couldn't be any more even if we were in love.
.
No money "They've wrtlien my life story for a magazine. And I think it's He didn't, fortunately, try to gonna be filmed Tony Curtis dramause the point by placing wants to play mo. Add there's "You can't expect a dame to a histrionic hand over his heart, some talk about Binatra, being
"I hurt cary, you know. I'm interested. super-sensitive.
"I certainly won't appear in "This is a cruel business if it You're acnsitive. And Holly- 'I don't suppose anyone will wood's a cruel place, The lot me, but what I'd really like moment you slip nobody wants to play is a priest.". to know you."
There is no possibility of Raft.
אי.
walt around for over,
"I haven't seen my wife for 20 YCAN, You know. 1 'wouldn't know her if she
walked into, thily room, 2
"I've no grudge against her. But I've never known,happi- ness. Real happiness,”-
using
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He stood up and padded financing bl own Alm and He might have been noroes the room, looking fairly casting himself no a priest. - lines from dignified. Not easy, when you're **I had tried independent pro- an inferior one-but he sounded only wearing a bath towel and duction once. And lost dough, sincere. The closing ilno-iwas slippers. And when 'you're
I'm not 'rich enough to try "I'm not lookin' for gympathy.7 61-year-old slipped star philoso-again:
I didn't ofer' any. Hea hate phiding about the slip.
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