THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1967.
I DON'T MIND BEING WICKED --says Belinda Lee
THAT notable campo,
of blonde still life. Firs Belinda Lee, was sitting (with n
proper sense of awe) on the divan on which Marilyn Monroe had slept.
The No. female sta b
old
of the Rank Organisation h 3 been allocated Monto suite at Pinewood S (sitting room, diess
LIMELIGHT by Thomas Wiseman
involved in on these usly h'sterlent dirblas
on the sercell;
was obviously in Miss Lee of the kinni that brought fame to Margaret Ecnie doubt about the virtue of Lockwood. Was she then to being virtuous become our new Wicked Lady, these doubts are shared by the Rank Organisation, who are at bathroom) for a perfeel of it all venom and bosom?
present confronted with a tick- month,
ilsh problem,
WHY NOT?
can't do these things in half- measures,"
Tho subject of Miss Ler's honour (whether it should be lost or saved) has been avidly
to
in
4
helf
work eight hours a the
theatre Iwo kourn
#1
cabaret half
on hour.
"I intend to
go round the world with this oct of mine. You know, Lis Vegas And that sort of
thing. Or if they
have
"wors
tho
day, has
Fenc inlo theairical created by Balmain, for models and management,
to wear posing akainit ancient dny-In "What about
record monuments. In Australia women bualnera?" I asked, "What are actually wear those things. I you planning to do about that?" couldn't take it, and I sala #D."
"No," he said, "that I intend
Kaders Mar{ag
mo there, I am available for Rotarian functies and Majol: dinners."
OPIC
to avoid. The danger, you #oc, However, Finch has no other
In my case is that one would criticism to malce of Australian became a collector' piece, women,
People would tell each other, 'I "Hats," he said, "can be taken say, d'you know what I've gott off-fortunately,"
I've got a Robert Morley record.
Got it in the Fulham Road for threepence."
Mr Morley is not yet ready to become a collector's piece,
SENSATION
PETER FINCH has been caut
WI
MY SIN
WHEN Columbia Pletures re- alerts the title My Sin with the Title Registration Bureau in America a protest was received from Lanvin Per-
fumes of Paris,
They claimed they had been
under the
Coming down those frighten- ing stairs ("Why don't they install a lift?" poks Mr Morley
ol his scriga) the otrains of Land of Hope and Glory, will Mr Morky suller tho normal nervous anxioly that his predecessors on those stairs (Coward, Dietrich, Eartha Kitt) are repulsed lo have suffered? "No," says Mr Morley blandly. London, where the hals worn by 2 "the only thing that can happen women are less offensive to his ed Olm And Woman was Created,
ing a sensation in Australia where he has been liming Robbery Under Armsby eri marketing perfume Helsing the huts worn by Aus-name of My Sin since 1907, and tralian women. Though he was the Columbia film would be un- not actually threatened with ful: competition, deportation, Mr Finch's strictures caused grave consternation to the female population.
παν Sald Finch,
back
A SUCCESS
in FRENCH producer Raoul Levy,
who made the mucli-c¶nsur-
BUT I DON'T WANT TO MAKE A CAREER OF IT
that I shall discover I cannot nesthetle sensibility: There has been explaining why plc-
do cabaret at the Cafe de Paris, Millions of people cannot do rabaret at the Cafe de Paris, 1 is nothing 10 be ashamed at. It is not something for which I
in will he pointer t
the
streets"
In the original version of the discussed for the past two weeks certment of innocent bystanders, During this time he will he
who have not always realised
hasn't been such a fuss about lures of this kind are a success working on her most importan!
Lee pouted prettily lm, the script said that Miss in hotel lobbies and restau-
lose her honour rents, sometimes to the discon- that the subject under discus
hals since Nina. I was the abroad but not so successful in nim. Dangerous Exile, will be (something she does very well) Lew to
sion was fictional,
subject of cartoons, newspaper France. before the final reel. But there intel slipping in
out of 14 and demurred.
and
netletes and pubile protests. 1 Sald M. Levy: "To the French have been second, third
FOOTNOTE-It expensive and low-cut dresses
may have TRIAL RUN
was stopped in the streets by publle sex is part of life. It and innumerabl
frilly
had something to do with the "aon't particularly want to fourth thoughts on this subject.
rate women, who demanded, becomes sensational BT соп- petticoats--and in and out "of - De "wieked," she said.
Mr Louis Jourdan, who inflammatory nature of her new
What's the matter with the hat troversial only in countries like the arms of Louis Jourdan d
marries her in the end, was rote that Mis
Lee caught M ROBERT MORLEY was
I'm wearing? All because the United States where the Keith Michell. All this is part
(sec. Homeride recently
made an innocent opposed to the den! he thought gre
remark that publie on the one hand is con- of a scheme to turn Misa Le
Australian women wore the stantly stimulated and tensed from a hope into a fulßhnent.
it would be better if her honour Pictorial). However, the flames Cafe de Paris after a trial run- was threatened but not irrevoc- have now been extinguished, through of the cabaret net,
w.un fort of hals."
about sex ani on the other is "I have ably lost. Miss Lee on the other and Miss Lee was back at work "Yes," he declared,
intention a switch a piece of every
going
was wrong told firmly that it is evil," hand, was all in favour of going wearing
the mosteal Fanny at Drury What, precisely How else
with them? can Lane; he is the author of lale hair curled and dyed to with cabaret, the whole hog.
50 much for a play, Six Months Grace, Bow
"Well," sald Finch, match the bit which she lost in you earn
"you Hitle work? In films you have on a pre-London tour. And he know the flames,
"Why not?"
don't
"Well," she said, "I mind being wicked if I have to be, but I don't want to make a Misa Lee has long been career of it-necessarily."
own brand purveying her antiseptic ex C commodity "You would rather be good, that is made in Britain but does though?'*
"Well, not necessarily," not export well: now she was
<
It is so much more dramatic that way," she explained. "You
seated on the stairs of the
O!
on
With his debut as a cubaret entertainer, Mr Moricy now bas a finger in every show-business plc.
Ile is also appearing in
î
those
phantasmagoria
The French, it seems, do not ke craitz coffee or ersatz sex.
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THIS PILL-CRAZY LIFE
TERENCE from
"French Without Tears" to "The Sleeping Prince"-RATTIGAN, Britain's supurtax play. wright, has refused ¡600,000 dollar Hollywood
VIVIEN LEIGH
contract (nearly £215,000) to write four scenarios over soven years picking his own stories.
"It is a fantastic bribe," said bo In Paris "bút It La absolutely meaninglese. IL would not be it I was starving or liked heated swimming-pools.
"But I am not and I, don't, And I am not going to do hack work-even at that price." -
Rattigan has come back after six weeks In Hollywood, hir Brst trip there, working on the film script of his play "Separate Tabies."
SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER Lind VIVIEN LEIGH deelded bot to make the film after dis- ogromments on casting.
;
Hysteria ..
IS NOT FOR ME says TERENCE RATTIGAN
YOU can either take Hollywood or leave it. Playwright Rattigan took a six-week look -and left.
By Sydney Smith
But his
ON A PARIS BOULEVARD YESTERDAY... RATTIGAN.
last keep you working and keep Larry went out,
your temper. Filed with them all colours, sizes, shapes, The consump- tion is fantastic.
first and his -brush with Hollywood
DATTIGAN, duzed by what shaken him.
RA
.he
calls "wimming-pool
and star-value-protocol general hysteria," is on his way to Eng-
LAURENCE OLIVIER
Tranquillisers
KTEOLLYWOOD
"He
has
The
deeks are too.
picked
went out to Hollywood
for two weeks and It took she
to do this"he leafed through protocol," 48 pages of type-script, "which
says with a sigh. Is only the framework of the "The leo, shape, depth of your story." swimming-pool and whether it
in heated or not; the siza, ol your contract, star value, whether you're coming up or cping down,
The casting
out of his Alm?
was
Vivien went
"RITA HAYWORTH
RITA HAYWORTH
talked for some time with Rita. I believe we can get the desired qualities from her."
Sald Rattigan: "So that looks all right,”
In Hollywood Rattigan shared a house with REK HARRISON, He telts this story of Hollywood prices:
"Rex hired a temporary cook, a coloured girl. Before she arrived she phoned to say the had just bought a Cadillac and did not like to drive it up the hill, and would we send our chauffeurs to drive it up for her.
"Rex drove it up himself. He had not got A chauffeur, She left the next day."
So they found two moro coloured servants, Hester, cook, and Patsy, a house-miaid, "Both dears, but highly ex- ponsive. Their total woges were £51 a week and we were told that was not considered expensive," says Rattigan,
Rattigan ls not one of the super-tax men prepared to stek a little no-tax "sunshine.
He says:
"All my friends live in England, all the things I like best are English. It may be expensive, but I don't want to leave it."
Ratiigner has Q new play in ninci, He says: "I have been wanting to write it for nix months now, but it looks as though my commitmenta with Hollywood on 'Separate Tables' will prevent me frum ading it before next year."
'Never again'
WAS RATTIGAN
for her part--the part
REX HARRISON,
carf:
Hollywood "It looks like a
But fo tranquil little sulnarby. side it is all one big pent-up emotion: Not always so pent up. In the next office to mino was a very great writer doing one piece
more than - 100,000 dollars.
"One day there was a quite Lysterical cry from his office, followed by the words: It is not about sex. It la about two. disturbed people,'
"It was a my of real anguish.
Tach
someone The poor
slammed the door. MLE, WAS. rewriting the thing for the 21st time.
"When rombone gives, WHY did the Oliviers drop party, and there new parties all the time, that is the basis *Well, A disagreement on List the gunst list--not the the casting, mainly. But Larry people you really wont to has already had to direct his meet, but the people they own bos ance Marilyn think you ought to meet. Monroe," (That from of a girl who finds il difeult.
"Noel Coward Loid me I OWD story The to-shall we say-have land to finish his work in the Parties are always umed for Rattigan's
was mad to go to Hollywood. relation- He said it was much better to prace of his Berkshire home 7.30. But there is not a sign Sicoping Prince"'-now" retitled successful emotional
and Die Show', ship with anyone. Pnear the sixth green at Sun- of food before 10 and lots of The Prince
let them buy the rights and highdi. So everyone gets Girl")? That ninsdalo,"
worked out beautifully. In this dim be "I feared I'd have to rewrite wreak their own wrong. absolutely fried,
But I've bad "Woll," sald Hattigan, "İman A dit elestarik, handsome,
would have to direct Burt Lan- the port for her. "Interminable story con-
a telegram from composed 45, Rattigan looks
Del Minn, not grudging it. I think one coster, who owns the fim. thing
the directur." 110 losed the should do it once in a libet.Live. exactly iken successful play- ferences,
".. think that was a con- telegram over to me. of a successful they always do is to hand out
It mild: Butomwhen this wright's idea playwright,
Mataragiaka@ry willšie plile that alderation, Of course, when "Had dinner last night and never again.""
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