THE BIG CHANGE IN BABY DOLL"
The Doll-sucked her thumb, slept in a cot, goi
banned by a decency league,
TWO years in the life of
TWO
Baby Dolland this is
how Carroll
original Baby
Baker, the
the
Doll In Tennessee Williams film, looks today.
Remember her impact in pictures two years ago as the thumb-sucking child bride who liked sleeping in
a nursery cot
"Baby Doll"?
the Alm
Since .then she
bag become
mother and moved on to other things
a
in Hollywood. Today she is
in
no longer a
blonde but
She's lost
a
that china-doll
her
taking the
*The
actress two years
famous,
под 1 brunette,
inether and grown-up.
brunette. Her face is fuller.
look which made
famous.
Now she is
role for which Garbo
sought in "The Miracle."
She plays a girl who runs
convent away from a
10
travel with a gipsy hand
headed by a guitar-playing Walter Slezak.
ZANIES
♡abies
Hey, Eddiel it's moving i
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1958.!!
Roderick Mann
GRANT:
GABL
WAYNE
OPUBÍAS
LANDARTER
SINATRA
TOP COLUMNIST OF SHOW BUSINESS FINDS A HOLLYWOOD PHENOMENON
STEWARS
HOLDEM
Why the Wheelchair Men
The vivacious smile belongs to 18-year-old fullywood actress it St. John. And, though she may not be in the millionaire class with the others on this page, she's heading in the right direction. Her current escort is Lance Barontlow-son of millionairess Barbara Hatton. Jit will soon be seen in The Remarkable Mir Perinypacker.
New Team At Work...
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MY
get richer
Y call to Cary Grant in Hollywood came through at 3
o'clock in the morning. Just as I'd fallen asleep.
• Out there it was carly evening. The Cadillace were bolting home along Wilshire Boulevard. It was cocktail time in the Polo Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel. The first tuble reservations were being taken at Romanoff's,
And Cary Grant had just goi home from the studio.
I sald (sleepily): "I hear you will make a fortune out of your alm Indiscreet."
And he said (brightly): "Not a fortune old friend. But about a million dollars.”
I said (rather crossly-re- member this was three in the morning!): "Well, if that isn't f fortune it'll do to be getting on with "
And he said in that bland. off-hand manner of his): "I usually make that much, you know. Any of us in the Top Twelve can command up to a million dollars a picture today."
The new masters
Which started me looking into the fortunes of Hollywood's Golden Dozen.
These are
the men who rule Hollywood today: Marton Brando, Cary Grant, Gary Clark Cooper, Kirk Douglas, Gabio, William Holden, Burt Lancaster, GregoryTM Pock Frank Sinatra, James Stewart. John Wayne, and Tony Curtis.'
They have slepped into the vacuum created when the old studio tycoons died or stepped down. Today they are the new dictabore.
Why should this be?
Because with one of these names on a contract a producer has no trouble lining up all the money he needs bo malog picture.
'Crazy situation"
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Robert Goldstein - head of production for 23th Century-Fox in Britain, and the discovered Tony Curtis-says:
"If I walk into a bank dell them I've got Brando and Peek for my next film, they can't wait to fling the moneyțat me.
and
But if I tell them I've got Joe Soak they may! 'Sorry--can't you sce we're out to lunch?'
**It m otany situation. · 1 means no new stars are being built up. They'll still be using the Top Twelvo when they're In wheelchairs.' We'll soon have screen credits reading "Wheelchair by so-and-so,' ''
Consider the fortunes the Top Twelvo are demanding and getting for their services.
William, Holdon and John Wayne are getting £250,000 aplece plus 20 per cent of the 'profits for their performances in thele new Alm The Horac Soldiers.
· And — perhaps the most colossal del ever made--Marlon Brundo is to get ALL the profils from the new Western he is to make at Paramount. They will chargo him only the usual over- heads and a distribution fee.
£20,000 a year
Some producers say that the Industry stars are pricing the right out of business.
Stars like Holden disagree.
He says: "My 10 per cent of The Bridge on the Rider Kwai earned me nearly £1,000,000, I arranged with Columbia to be paid only £20,000 a year of this--to help my tax Bling=" Jon. That means Fil bo col- lecting most of my life. It also means that Columbia can in. vest the rest and make a pro- themselves. They're not at complaining."
Explains James Stewart, who has been taking 50 per cent of The profits of his pictures for
10 years-
оп "The film business exists
any supply and demand, like other. The demand today I for solid, proven performers who can drag people away from thelp TV sets. It takes people. te Cooper and Wayne to do that,"
·
STUPENDONS
ULOSSAL
TERRIFIC
GREAT
BRARRO
The Golden Domen -tha' meri, who make the bankera pari', with money.
Why are there only 12 staro in the Big League?
Because so few now stars have been built up since the war, Of the Top Twelve,-seven were in Alms before the War.
All that tax!
WIL the deals get bigger? Says Cary Grant: "There's no knowing. Remember big pic- tures are making, more толсу today than ever before. Brando could probably earn £1,000,000
year if he wanted to work furd--but there's no point as most of it would go in tax.
"Look at me. I make a mil- lien out of Indiscreet--but I have to pay-015,000 dollars in lax. I know these figures don't mean much to the general public, but they miran a lot to my."
To case their tax, problems, many of the 12 have formed themselves into companies.
Grant is Grandon Productions: Sinatra, Kent Productions; Brando, Pennebaker Productions.
Why are there no women in the Top Twelvo?
.
Because, though they make big money, they do not wield big power. Relatively few big pictures are about Women,
However, when a "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" does come along, they are not backward in the race for folding, money, Witness Elizabeth Taylor's salary for "Cat"--£250,000.
draw (tru},
For those who like to conclusions here is sobering thought. Of the Golden Dozen, five are over 50-Gable, Ebewart, Cooper, Wayne, ond Grant.
Between them, they have been making pictures for 135 yours.
FOOTNOTE: Any interested wheelchair manufacturer should
with get in touch
me imme- diately. I am thinking of start- ing up a sideline.
TAY KENDALL
KA
to
By DAVID LEWIN.
star in a new play, which "The Bright One."
will be directed by her hus- band, Rex Harrison. Re- hearsala started In the West End recently,
This will be the first stage appearance for Miss Kendall in four years. The play, by a new author, is a
to England.
I'm very scared," said Kay Kendall "But it will be wonderful to work with Gladys Cooper, who has such a fine comedy style. Appearing in a play means
shows what happens when Harrison will direct the that I shall not be sepa the teacher with a new play while he is appearing rated from Rex, because -style and manner returns in "My Fair Lady." He will we shall both be working
stay with hia wife in the same hours." Brighton for the week KAY KENDALL'S next GLADY'S COOPER,
Reluctant De. comedy about school Michael Gwynn, and Hugh there, coming up to London fim, "The
every night for his show at butante," will bo opening in will a McDermott cruise to Greece and be with Kay Kendall, and the Drury Lane, nd returning London at Christmas, when her play, should be running comes transformed by a play will open in Brighton every midnight..
"It is very exciting and at a nearby theatre. Greek goddess. The story in four weeks.
teacher
who
goes on
co-star
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