YES! This is John Mills!
AND HIS HOTTEST SCENE YET HITS CENSOR TROUBLE
by JOHN LAMBERT
JOHN MILLS, usually the most un- swervingly upright of British screen heroes, has come up against censor trouble. His love scenes with SYLVIA SYMS in "Ice Cold in Alex," a suspense story set in the desert sands, are said to be too scorching.
Mills is unrepentant. Says he: "It's a sherr relief to nei as if I'm in love with the girl for a change, after s
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1968.
INSIDE SHOW-BUSINESS
WHY WE WANT STÅRDOM AND HOW WE'RE GOING AFTER IT-BY TWO BLONDES
Interviewed by Patricia Lewis ★☆★ ✰✰✰★ ✰✰✰ KIRK DOUGLAS DOES
DEAL WITH RUSSIA
KIR
their second
nre two young British
Mam together at Eastree
blondes Sylvia Syms and
Carole Lesley.
Sylvin, 23, married, o dedi- cated actress, has worked hard for her success through years of
IRK DOUGLAS is the first Hollywood actor- slog and study in rep., on four producer to be approved by the Kremlin. He and in the West End. is to star, with a Russian actress, in "Michael covered Strogoff," to be made entirely in Russia next year. netlug experience or tuition, and
an
Carole, 22, single, was dit
dancing in a cabaret club, signed up without any
It is an adventure story about a Czar's messenger on hamediately pushed into small
the first Russian m paris. urgent miasion. It will be
How do these two girls with American co-production, al- Sun" transferred this week to such diverse backgrounds react
Prince's Theatre, London, tu future stardom? though others, like the late th
1 put the same set of ques- MIKE TODD, tried before. with MICHAEL GWYNN, now
Redgrave's role as tens to them both when I CORAL BROWNE, the British in Michael
the impoverished schoolmaster visited the set of "No Trees In though I inter- actress renowned for regal suddenly swept off with his the Street." dramatic roles, like Queen Ger- family to luxury in the South of viewed each girl separately. trude in "Hamlet," will make France. Redgrave in Jur Hollywood debut playing a Stakespeare a Stretford, sealty, catly actress.
She will be ROSALIND RUSSELL'S best friend in the
screen
Mame "
HIGHLIGHT of the
Here are the questions and their answers:—
WHY DO YOU WANT TO BE A FILM STAR? CAROLE: I don't know really.
version of "Auntic new PETER MYERSALEC GRAHAME revue 'For Adults Only" (successor I unjoy it when I'm doing 11.
• RITA HAYWORTH
to their hit "For Amuse. It's creative work, isn't it? And and BURT LANCASTER ment Only"); a satirical don't think I could create any-
thing else. JOHN MILLS IN CENSORED SCENE WITH SYLVIA SYMS will star in the Hollywood ballet burlesquing MOIRA
"Summer of SHEARER'S political ac the Seventeenth Doll," the tivities, Title: "Scenes de play which Was a hit in Ballót." London last year.
many years of giving a The censer's scissors not clipping hour smooching polite peck between buttles." too quickly."
But he la riled at the censor- ship.
"Love scenes in British often condemned, as flm are cold," he says, "but most often It is because the actors are not given a chance
to warm up.
dialogue
IN THE SUN
Sessions with
"A really rough, lusty rogue," As soon as a British he says, "It will probably get uctor takes a girl in his orms the me cashlered from those Service
roles." scene has to fade nut,"
his Even if
elinckres
bre
Tight-o lung as they are in front, John Kits wee cold Problem for
the Why? Because
crusor thinks that lave scenes are ali
the Mills In wight Lunit
A dissolate. posted.
americans get away with. Some Alex." He plays
a two- hard-drinking adventurer. of their current eples
Stewart Granger.
decides: we
stake
all on the range
from DAVID LEWIN THE sign by the desert road out of Nogales, the Mexican frontier town, reads: "Yerba Buena Ranch. Owners J. and S. Granger." On the hoard there is a picture of a healthy white bull and the sign of the ranch itself→Y on a lazy B.
boys and the cat skinner, wittch! is the western name for a man who drives a caterpillar tractor with a sunshade fixed on it be-
cause of the heat,
house, a eight large,
Slowly the ranch shiglo siney with wide rooms, is being furnished. There is a trophy room for Kopard, elephant, falo, and other big game which Granger NUMBER TWO.-He wil se alot on film fentions in Africa
2.4.3 and Indiu. other 60,000-acre rench in New Mexico to concell-
This is the new home of Jean Simmons and Stewart Bir Granger.... home on the rate on the Y Lazy B.
range with 10,000 acres, 350
head of cattle, a team of cowboys, and a ranch house- complete with swimming
Tracy pats the stuffed heads of some ardinals before she goes tá bed. "Goodnight, pussy- leopard, goodnight pussy tiger," she says, and her mother nais; "We can never Lake her to TRANGER, big, brized, zoo pow-she would put
Mortgage
pool. It is in the big country Gearing western-style call- cad right in a tiger's mouth.”
of Arizona where the scrub
under Urols Jengih leather
!
her
world of
On the ranch the ITOUBOJS, cavalry and desert, and rocky hills, sim-cut roll down to the Mexican drove me round the land in an and Hollywood is years Granger likes to cook border and
where the truck. "Every penny Jean and away.
possess is investees here," he and Simmons looks after the Granger family will live for old. "And the mortgage is so baby, and when there is a fin most of the year except for big I lie awake thinking about they like, they Occasional film-making trips. it for four hours every night. Hollywood,
I am spending two days on. the ranch-the first guest from London-watching the Lew Grunger way of life.
NUMBER ONE.
Every time I make a film now wherever.
I put the money the ranch--I want
straight into
to build up
will work In
London,
ΟΙ
"But the drive to be an seiress,
stay
slar, A
being 12 my hard until it is abot. 800 cr to
replaced." said Jin Simmons, 1,000 head, And Jean feels the "I don't want for anything now way I do,
I am very lucky.
The talk is of pedigree cattle
"I always wanted sonic he
I've been in films, 15 years called Charolais, which are pure like this....I used to go 10 white, and hay at 10 a lon
farms a lol when I was a boy and I have travelled a lot and one night tued a lot of lovely money This week Grauger has taken in England. Then,
a lot of wonderful tiva and met or In Hollywood a year certain key decisions.
"buck, I got to thinking. We had people and ut une time I had le He has had three houses in Hollywood, Bmbition to go on and on,
one cost £75,000 "But now I have found some- Brcked his manager and taken and the last
thing else that 1 more VET direct running of the ranch and £10,000 a year to run. himself with his foreman
said to Jean; 'We are plant and it is right here. I'd But aide.
we are quit numing tomorTOW crazy. All this money spending sounds as though we're my says we need money to gone Hollywood, We are just build up the ranch, so I'll keep
at it. working to keep up this house. Why don't wę vei something thai can work for us?
Į POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
"Marquee mes mäti, brothers aöuri-kə 30 gd our general--tmö ins Elyize, he'll develop gartils trouble and take up 151/)*
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"i gold Jean the idea of a Tranch and Went out looking New right
Through away. Mexico And Arizona and! through West. I bought a big
Low-
"Just so long as the old boy is happy....that thing."
the main
Problems
now life of the the one-time
rench near Sliver City out in THIS is the New Mexico arst. But there Grangera: he was no place for us to sleep rendent Kensington and she except in the bunk house with the girl.bom In Cricklewood!. cowboys and it was no home Even their numes, are different หยง born James for a mother and baby. Sa I now. He came on out to Arizona and noi: Stewart, which he had to alter too far from Tucson, where we in films because there was a got married. I found this Stewart around already. runch.”
Trophies
Legally, from now, his full proper name is Jamies Stewurt Granger and che is Jean Stewart Gianger-no hyphen,
JEAN, SIMMONS came out. Of the phone Jimmy Grariger
to look it overned the big is talking pove was made. The new ifto crus-breeding began.
· dibagore eattle: Stand
technically about
his Charolais entils and Jean is saying: "The boly trouble out here I've Was gone right; off beef." -Do'.you
registered and house, puua mind in Jimmy malus dilekon
for the familien of movers cu* mew for dinner, mais tonight?"
Miss Mills
J
MEANWHILE Mills's 16-year- old daughter JULIET has
Leen facing an awkward dilem mu She had just won a place at the loyal Academy f Dromatie Aft-hard to get these dayn it you are a gif,
Then "just for fun" she went
version of
CAROLE LESLEY AMBITION YOU LEARN
SYLVIA "No basically. I SYLVIA: "I'm not a star ---
music, the I'm an actress,
But if the two still like the same
TV. I've always lived a quiet happen to be synonymous-then me books, and NOT watching all right, I'll be a star. But the life and I'm still not swept up main thing for me is to be
Into a social whirl," good actress."
BOGARDE is reading
HOW IMPORTANT IS DIRK
the script of JOYH LOGAN'S
WHAT DOES A GIRL
BUCCESS TO YOU? WEST SIDE STORY," the
NEED FOR STARDOMT Broadway musical which next Broadway production, "The
CAROLE: "I never was an every West End management World of Suzie. Wong." If he
adaptation of the CAROLE: "Oh! A lot more ambitious girl, but now so many wanted to present here, will be agrees, this
RICHARD MASON patience than I have, and an other people are ambitious for coming to London, but only for current
of will be Bogarde's understanding best-seller
people. me that, what with the publicity a limited season
He has five Strength too because you have and everything, it would be # Reason: I would be impos. Broadway debut.
pity not to care now I've got sible
re-cast the show and weeks in which to make up his to give up a heck of a lot."
SYLVIA: "Primarily talent, so for." retain the originai Puerto-Rican miod...
though I'm confounded by many flavour SU necessary to
EVER WONDERED prople who are stars in spite of SYLVIA: "It's not sucCCES FO So the show will go on Success
Good-wil European Tour, what BERNARD SHAW'S that. similar to that of "Porgy aiul estate in making out of sonality, Bess" a few years ago.
a
115
Let's say, then, a per- much as ambition-and those that registers on the are the same. I don't think they'll change either. I just simply want to be recognised as
HAVE YOU CHANGED
"My Fair Lady," based on screen play "Pygmalion?" PETER USTINOV has his 'written a film script based The Society of Authors, administers tho on, STEPHEN POTTER'S which
A
SINCE YOU STARTED WORKING IN FILMS?
CAROLE: "Yes, a great deal.
I have moroi confidence than
to an audition called by 81 "Lifemanship." the de estate, refuses to say. JOHN GIELGUD in search of a licate art of always being reliable estimate to date: I had, but I'm still inclined to
ORD
very young girl for the new play The Retreats," by RETER SHAVER.
Embarrassing resul: she got Her problema: the part. should ske act, or should she learn to act?
She plumped for the part,
TRE SAINTE V90,
Wanted
a very good actress:"
WHAT WOULD
YOU
DO IF YOU FAILEDT
CAROLE: "I can't imagine,
and I don't like to think of that, be too much of a worrier other. £160,000, up on the
that's bad when it affects your Anyway, I never do like to think I think the trouble is too far ahead. I suppose some- as stars: IAN
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ROGERS and that so niany people tell you thing would come to take its CARMICHAEL and duncer RIIODA
others, one of the variety halls what to do and what not to do place. After all, lots of top stars TERRY-THOMAS.
listed In "The Stage," The that you get terribly self-con- aren't very happy, are they?"
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