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*THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1957.
*AS ALWAYS—AN UNKNOWN AT THE FESTIVAL SPARKLES WITH THE PROMISE OF STARDOM
Here-the top-liner
A face that will soon be known to millions
-the face of Mila. Jacqueline Sassard.
of
1959
**
From LEONARD
I'
MOSLEY
CANNES.
was inevitable that a ΠΟΥ star talented, gay, and filled with am-
bition would be discovered at the Cannes Film Fes- tival.
Well, here she is,
This year you will not recog- nise her nante because she is unknown (from Paris), young (10), and not yet quite ready for the fame she is going to know.
This was such hard
work for Mr. Wayne
after weeks in the Sahara with Sopkla
Loren all he wants is monotony
ARRYL F. ZANUCK describes John Wayne as the biggest DARRYL 5. 4 in. tall, 50 years old, and usually co-stars with a horse. His salary is higher than any other nctor's-666,666 dollars and 65 conta per film. Which works out as a round figure of. 2,000,000 dollars for three films.
Today John Wayne, horseman, actor and shrimp-lycoon, han another distinction. He has made a film with Italy's most buxom beauty, Sophia |Loren-entitled Legend of the Lost. It was made on location in Uie Sahara
and, what with one thing and another, things were pretty torrid.
Back in the more muted ellmate of London (Miss Loren was not here) he explained why ho hag abandoned his horse in favour of Miss Loren.
Tixit giri," he said. "hus the most expressive pair of eyes in the business." Mr Wayne should know: he has been looking into them long and deep all those weeks they tussied in the
cand of the Saltara.
months WORK, WORK, WORK
But......in -24 JACQUELINE SASSARD will be as glamorous and as fumed as Audrey Hepburn. Hollywood, Pinewood Cinecitta, and Paris will be es familiar with her face, mannerisms, and shape as those of Ava Gardner.
Jacqueline stars in an Italian nim called "Guendalina,”
She plays the part of u veritable child-n-the-moment, not yet 20, who thinks she knows every- thing about life,
You Jacquelino's
will
be seeing 1101 wonderful
per formance in "Guendalina" for quite a few months, You must take my word for that she is go moving that she explodes sympathy Inalde you, You are stunned by the terrifying depth of feeling of the young,
Jacqueline is a product of our age the lives fast. she octa from the heart.
It is in character that she is Francoise
a friend of novelist
Sagan; that she thinks James Dean was a star-crossed boy who died before his time,
Show Business reporting from CANNES BUT CAN MISS TAYLOR
THE
Cannes.
HE setting was the high-ceilinged niin salon of the Casino at Cannes, The time was nbout one o'clock on
Saturday morning. The charactors were Elizabeth Taylor, her husband Michael Todd, and assorted types, including myself,
We were sitting at a table near the bar with two bottles of champagno on ice.
Michael Todd (chewing swizzle sick and looking at me): You have already written a lot of stuff about me. Why don't you talk to my beautiful wife for a change and tell the world about her?
Gourlay: I came with that intention. Among others.
M. T. flowering voice to a confidenitat whisper); Give her some of the scintillating conversation. I warinp s1p minute and sve
nway for
what's happening at the tables. Elizabeth Taylor: i heard you. You stay right here and don't even think about gamblin
"I hate it'
TAME TODD?
by LOGAN
GOURLAY.
Sonic
250,000 francs here. But here
ho comes....
the He rushed over from chemin de fer table, pecked his wife on
and the check, patted me on the back.
M. T.: I'm just watching the play Only kota gamble and I ion' profess to be an Intot. Chalk it up, boy, Scintillate. Keep the beautiful girl amused. This shows I'm an cgolistival so-and-so. I leave my wifc with younger man and I know she'll be waitin' with loving eyes when I get back..
He took another swizztę stick for chewing, told the waiter to bring another bottle of cham-
and Ta back to table,
ket Davie,
Bul there inurl be meuchts when FPtol can M. T. (risin I trave the way from it all. Let your hair rable): Gambling? You know home in your underwear if you εἰσινη. Walk about your own I don't do that any more, Just got to take a phone call, feel like it without living an From Moscow,
audience.
He walked smartly of in the I'm glad I've reared. Maybe direction of the chemin de fer they'll forget about me soon and table,
let me alone.
G. Have you retired for good?
E. TI hate gambling Go Why?
Perfect
the
E. T. (shouting): Mike, Mike, come back here.
The waiters and attendants angled indulgently. No one should shout in the casino. But tig was Madayne Todd,
M. T: I've had a bad expert- ET: Perhaps not. I might E. T. Let him go. I might ence with it. I was weaned oa do a port for Mike in his movie,
it as a young bride. My ft Don quisoie, But I am going husband, Nickle Hilton, was a
to be a mollier again and that's gambler, My list honeymoon the most important thing right was one long session at
I want some time oft tables. Five months around the being a wife and mother before casinos. Even the croupiers felt I get too old,
Borry for me.
the now.
G: In't it going to be dif}}- G. You're all very young, cult to reform Todd? His whole · And beautiful. career Has been something of a gamble.
Reformers
E. T.: Thanks, but I'm 25, That's the age when a giri sintis to worry about getting
on.
as well have married a roulette wheel,
G.: Why did you marry him? E. T.: Well seriously, I started off by admiring him. He's an amazing character, I respect him, love him. He's perfect I think. Except for the gambling. He strolled over from the chemin de fer table looking, da Je veldom dues, slightly creat- fallen
M. T.: I'm ready to go when I've been married three you are, honey. I've been ready timco, children. I should know what the on because you are enjoying I've got two and a half to go for hours, I've only stayed score is now. That reminds me, yourEON.
that
E. T: Well, I can try, any way.
Wives are supposed to reform husbands, Tell that walter to get some more cham- husband of nine's doing. I hale
E. T.: Listen to this con man. throwing money He could talk a way out of away at the tables, He'd be anything
pagne, I might as well have fun, But It's not easy down here.
I must find out what
to see him
must get your beauty sleep. Isn't she lovely? Look at Jbose Leuutiful violet øyes,
You know that villa we've got belter giving away in the I. T. Let's go, honey, if you
Cap Ferrat is
always streets. Or buying me mother are ready. It's late. And you surrounded by rubberneckers and photographer with telescople lenses. One of them tried to get a picture of me dressing. I was furious, Ther?'s no privacy.
tinra.
The notes
E. T: You met bloodsho!
They exited slowly through
She rote and walked slowly eyes, fowards the tables. She cube.
One of the penalties of back in a few minutes carrying the mains door, It was 1.30 am. being a film celebrity.
I'm
know that,
willing to put up with a certain amount of "staring and gawking,
a. burile of notes.
The attendanta - and, stof ET. I Just scooped up the bowed politely and said, "We chips he had beside him and are corry you are leaving," cashed them. There's about.
They meant th
よう
Arduous work? "Dellaitely, said Mr Wayne, a slow-motion
grin spreading over his face. And he added, to dispose of any pre-conceived ideas that might have had on the subject of buxom Italian beauties: "And she worked hard, too. Takes her work very seriously. No larking among the sand dune or any thing. Just work, work, woth,"
In London Wayne was super vising the editing of the film, since to cut a frustrating job out even an inch of Miss Lord's Pneumație contours would be considered an act of vandalism by any self-respecting male full possession of all his fecul- tles. But or the film was made for Mr Wayne's own company he stolenlly had to steel him self to removing all superfluous footage of Miss Loren,
in
LIMELIGHT
by THOMAS WISEMAN
C that girl, says john
Wayne, has the most expressive pair of eyes in the business.
or considerable backbone (and Alse Syma is a young wodian her shoulders are all right, too)
wecks and doing nothing, That's heaven after making a film,"
In search of this much-lenged for monotony, he has returned to his Holywood home, Life with the Waynes-he is now married to a Peruvian girl, Pilar-is usually anything "I don't use it for any sinister but nunotonous, as has been spylag purposes," he saiti. testined in the divorce court by fact I hadn't even thought one of his previous wives, that." Esperanze,
which enables him to sit in one watching rushes of her fibn The room and watch on a television Woman in the Dressing Gown, sereen what I going on in any and there partientar rustics were now other room,
was installed or all variations. (with embellish- inalty to enable him to watch his wife's progress when she was tions. Endices embellishments, the traz alm in which she made you like, indiscreet, to describe about to bear him a son.
In vast close-ups lips met and a big hit, My Teenage Daughter, parted, mes and paried. Again as "tripey." and again.
ments) on a kiss. Endless varia so is sunclently bold, or, it
"In
of
W
the
It was or attempt by a Dri- Ush director Lee J. Thompton, to deplet passion in a British film: the almost, รป might say,
pioneering venture.
FOOTNOTE.-While he in London Mr Way C. cowboy star, paid a visil ballet to see Margot Fonteyn.
It seemed an uncharacteristic to do and he
a
Her husband is a £12-a-week salesman at a Londen store who takes a negligible Interest in the lm world he wouldn't know
Do- who, Ava Gardner Wng." spile, or perhaps because of, Miss Syaris is devoted to
When the lights went up and this, Miss Syne had stopped fidget him and says that the fact that
On one occasion, the told the court, she "nearly shot" he husband when he came home at 4 um, from a purty. By mis- Lakte, of course,
According to her, life with admitted, "I'm not exactly the the explained that it was he is making considerably less Mr Wayne
not the kissing that had cm- money than her (selling shirts extremely ballet type, but that woman is barrassed her. She had found it behind a counter) deca't bother stormy.
Was
thing for hilm
so graceful I would go any embarrassing to see herself on her. Or him. But now after his stint in where to see her. She is a very the screen. Once she had burit "He's still the boss," she says, the Saharn-Mr Wayne was only great friend. When the talks into tears on seeing herself in "and if he wants to spend our "Now" he said, "all I want is looking for monotony and home about the ballet Illaten and
be money rushes, crying: "I hate to monotony. The monotony of comforts. The latter include staring at a wall for couple of domestic TV cireuit in his house
bad."
WEEKEND Friell
ROYAL ACADEMY
"I only said that face grows on you, doesn't it.
Sir Winston ?
This is rust o friendly visit, bud-so make sure
you stay friendly."
"If the Russians are going to come over hore taking aerial photographs you're going to clean up this backyard."
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keep quiet."
How did this curlour friend- ship prise?
"Her husband, Dr Arias, and I are in the Shrimp business togelher," he said.
SYLVIA GIGGLES
con-and
without eaking me."
she
0#- ber of
the class
I had been wrong, sured me, in thinking of
belonging to ever-so-refined young English Indy actresses. She was really, she said, a "gusy" girl, with no inhibitions about playing love
scenes,
SAT in o dark, private "It is true," she said. **I'm theatre, watching a girl on not the hip-swinging type off the screen, enditssly playing one screen. I don't have a 40-inch sceno over and over again. The bust; In fact, when round girl next to me kept giggling shoulders come into fashion, l'il with 'embarrassment and lidget- be a sensation. But, if ing in her seat. Largely because given a role like Baby Doll, I sho was also the girl on the wouldn't mind how few clothes screen. Sylvia Syme and I were I had to wear."
FILMS
wore
does
A BALD JOKE
RANK SINATRA'S offer a shave his skull to play Gandhi in a new film is just a joke,. I am told. I am relieved to hear it.
Diana
at Shep-
NEXPECTED reading matter
found by me in Dors's dressing room perton studios: ultra highbrow reeds him while listening poet E. E. Cummings. Miss Dors "pop" records.
London From Service.
by MILTON SHULMAN
to
Put sackcloth on this butterfly
ARED ASTAIRE'S indestructible quality may be the fact that he has a face that never seemed young.
+
The emacluted looks of a skull longing to bo mothered has remained practically static through- Dut the yoLIN
Even the suggestion of approaching baldness has been there ever sinoo we first saw him over 20 years ago. It was always rather incongruous that such relentlessly middle-aged features should be supported by such dazzilag, vivacious legs.
There is thus no suggestion of Astaire look- Inga noment different in his latest musicol,. Funny Face, at the Odeon, Leicester Square. Only his pariners change Ho has the gift of for ever,
Considering the fact that the began her carcer as a dancing chorus girl in London, it has taken Audrey Heptar a longish time to get round to a Hollywood musical,
In
Dressed like Miss Potato-Sack of 1057 Backcloth and black stockings, her piquant beauty still denes the make-up man. She is a FOTOUS bullafly from beginning to end,
When, therefore, Miss Hooburn is taken to Paris and draped in explosive fashions designed to turn her into something gaspable, we have our problems ooh-ing and ah-ing with the cast at the transforin- ation.
THE
Naturally, under the influence of Paris, Astaire and Hepburn
PROBLEM fell in love, but not before therm
OVER HEPBURN
are a bevy of misunderstandings due to her passion for culture and his all-American suspicion of intellectual Frenchman..
.. Even if
Accms
Astaire's dancing. slightly conscious of hardening arteries-po); more of how can those upstairs-downstairs: ex-
make hibitions of controlled, enoegy
they
an attrac-he remains his primi distillation tiva.girl into of effervescent charm, And Miss Hepburn, with those drownabic- Miss Potato- In eyes and that smile of in Sack of fatto, sad-wrent: bliss, converta 19572 "Prinny Face"into" a rare Joy of
Ta'muflon),