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THE CHINA MAIL,' SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, `1957.
How's your Starometer INSIDE
A SHOW BUSINESS ANALYSIS
MARILYN AUDREY CARROLL DIANA MONROE 1 HEPBURN BAKER DORS
900
By JOHN LAMBERT
GRACE, SUSAN DEBORAH KELLY HAYWARD KERR
Sex Appeal
Personahty | Acting Ability Determination 1: Poise
Experience
Intelligence
N
rating..
A
NNE HEYWOOD is a logical sort of brunette with one illogical thought in her head, She is convinced that she can succeed as A film star.
SHOW
2 BUSINESS
test prizes, Including В Miss Film Festival this year and
kept Britain title. But, as yet, she she looks more pert than provoca six polits. Liye. Score: six points.
her dignity. Scure;
EXPERIENCE: Susan Hay-
PERSONALITY: Hepburn's ward took 10 years to climb air of Innocent daring attracts from Women as well as fascinating star
feature
player to top But some hard knocks her hold on to success
Her ambition is illogical en. No girl other girls diallice made
can stay n Alm star for long. when it came. Anne Heywood because it is shared by Anne Heywood has a frank, has had bit parts in three thousands of cager.
unsured manner which women, pictures and some hard knock#.
Score: Score: two points. knowing girls. Only 100 in but not all men, like. a thousand get into films. Ave points more. Only one in a thousand be comes a star. The others stay unknowing and known.
Litt
INTELLIGENCE:
own
to
Deborah ACTING ABILITY; Carroll Kerr shows it should not br Baker, u plumpish plain girl, under-cuted. Fler Hollywood! proved her acting ability as the career looked like taillog until sensuous, pitiable heroine of she shrewdly chose her "Baby Doll." Other stars like roles and succeeded. Anne
wiao enough So today Inside Show Busl- Belto Davis and Barbara Bian- Heywood was
wyck are proof that H gives walt until the film studios. ness sets the girl who Thinker
longer-lasting success than wanted to sign her, Score: six plamour. Anne Heywood is points more. almost untested as an actress. Score: two points.
the should be a starind all those iko her against the seven big signposts to stardom.
DETERMINATION: Diann
YOUR CHANCES Dors is a pinin girl who
THE star at the top of each
signpost is there because represents the strongest factor in her success. But to stay a big star she must develop the factors represented by the ather signposts.
What chonce has Anne Hey- wond? Or you? Let's see.
STAR MINIMUM
pushed herself 10 top-rank glamour status with peroxide, CUMMING UP: Anne Heywood herd work and a showman)=6120 has got 34 points out of 70. inlent for publicly. Anne To be a big star she-or any Heywood impresses here. She other girl-should have at least
think she has progressed from clacma usher 59. Bul I elle to beauty queen, to music better-than-average chance hall entertainer, to im starlet success. with undivided attention to her career, Score: seven points.
POISE; Grace Kelly per sonified the tolent for keeping calin despite big crowels and big headlines. She knew how
а
of
Her film chiefs are pleased with her work in blg roles in "Dangerous Exite" and "Violent Playground." She is all set for
a big build up.
There is one signport which
SEX APPEAL: As Monroc has proved it is not so much the way a girl looks to a man to make the right impression no churt can give. It is some- that matters. It is the way she al cocktail parties. Annie Hey- times the biggest, but always
than the looks at him. Anne Heywood has wood get more publicity
most unpredictable. It won more than 50 beauty con- any other actress at Cannes luck.
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WEEKEND
Friell
"In that ministerial re-shuffle you're making-who's going to be Prime Minister ?"
KING SAUD 20.
BADEN BADEN
"No one is sure why they are here. I hope they are
not selling surplus arms to the notios.“
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KHILES
000 METER
How Anne Heywood measures up to the Starometer: taking the maximum possible points of each factor as 10.
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Mr.
Chaplin's
sermons
are
so boring
AKING IN NEW YORK at the Leicester Square is serious evidence that Charles Chaplin's sense of proportion has not kept up with his sense of humour. He seems increasingly uncertain about where laughter ends and propaganda takes over.
even has his face lifted, which results in a hilarious sequence when he tries to keep himself from laughing for fear the scams will come aport.
dees.
Not even the mast rabid Americophile could complain about any of this. Hollywood This is a real plty, since the missions In
hos ribbed the same Institutions mind. First, to arguments about Chaplin's pick up the funds of his royal ver and over again, often far mctives are likely to
more viciously obscure treasury, and second, to sell the
than Chaplin the fact that this fim stlli con Americans an idea about the tains more moments of pure comle genius than all the films I have ever seen of Norman Wisdom, Max Bygraves, Frankie Howerd, or Martin and Lewis put together.
Of course, all
of
penectul use of atomic Energy,
The noise
DUT he soon learns that hi Chaplin's H recent Alms show that he feels with the money and that the Prime Minister has absconded that a comie without a message Americans have other ideas for
more naked than one with fallen baggy pants. But he re- the use of atomic power, What understand that they does a broke monarch
Manhattan?
fuses will not be
remembered for their significance but for their Elapstick.
Was
MODERN TIMES [commentary on mass-produc- tlon methods, but who will forget Charlie being fed steel nuld by on automatic feeding machine?
I remember.....
The Great Dictator attacked political megalomaniacs, but
the film's memorable Incident
do
in
at this stage introduces his
But it that Chaplin. strain of significance. He is cut to damn the un-American Activities Committee, gulit association,
the pressure upon individuals to name any- one whom they know to be a Communist.
and
by
And he does it embarrassing- ly badly. Through the use of nemall boy his own BOZI, Michael Chaplin-be tries to In no time the king is up show how to his greying locks in some with of the more genial absurdities of the American way of le
ALLIREJELZILERIFITTALLE
MILTON
SHULMAN
at the films
A young genius Individuai views crushed by the needs to can- form
informed The boy hos by revealing some Fiume of Red associales of his parents and in the process his soul is destroyed,
Dawn's charm
MAUDLIN, Halve and strident; pathecally obvious and ineffective. The boy, shrieking out worn-out political epithel
hysterical Bette Davis, merely reduces Chaplin's views to the lovel of Goobbol's'# blatant methods.
was Charlle shaving an elderly He cannot, for example, escape ko somo junior veralon of a man to the rhythmle strains of the noise, Brohins's "Hungarion Dance."
Walking along Broadway the Monsieur Verdoux had some air is full of a crooner's volce portentous reflections about singing: "When I think of a masa murder, but all I con re- million dollars, tears come into restaurant, the call of it was Chaplin trying my eyes." In
Yet, in lis odd way, the film Far not anti-American. less anti-American, lot us say, than flims llica The Great Man, Ends As a Man, or The Sweel Smell of Sucoció. “It's a pass- In a cinema D rock 'n' roll toy phase," says Chaplin, re- teenager bites his ankle. The gretfully, and there is sincerity trailer raucously announceu In the wish.
Killer
to drown Martha Raye in a walter cannot hear his order precarious rowboat. And for because of the blaring jazz his hilarious scene with Buster band accompanying the soup. Keaton in Limelight much of the film's philosophical guo căn be forgiven.
Fra
**A
A King in New York new film starring the juxtaposition of hate and with a Soul. He'll creep Into humour is more jarring
than your Hart"
ever. This may be because Chaplin la here lunging out nt things in which he WHE personally involved whille
In the whirl
his
Dawn Addams, pertly beauti ful and brightly sophisticated, handles the part of the TV adventuress with considerable case and chann. Oliver. John aton is gently arousing as the king's loyal follower. part nims dealt with more im- personal targets liko war, TOSTESSES plague him with And Chaplin's sure comic poverty, and big business. Ho invitations for dinner parties, timing is sill as adralt and has been about as subtle us a mud a shrewd talovision girl wondrous as over when he is bluni instrument the funds (Dawn Addams) advertently allowing himset to be Charile short-sighted hoodlum. gots him to reelta Hamlet on the great olown. If you
the seroon. Doing a realist, ho forgive the traces of old-
can
As the debonair, tolerint ex- agrees to supplement his income fashioner direction and tolerate king of Petrovic, Chaplin by advertsing whisky ade- the cruda sermonising you arrives in New York with two with gleeful consequences...and should enjoy yourself,
* Any reason why it all seems to go on my bill pa
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