STAR TALK
"POOM AT THE TOP," the film version of
"Rohn Braine's best-selling nevel, is all set to
be one of the big film hits of the year.
Although it does not open in Landoa yel, it has own SEVEN nominations for this year's Dritish im awards "Oscars."
for
best foreign actress Included: Best fim from any source; nemination for Simone Signoret: other aeling nominallons Donald Waffle and Itermione Baddeley,
But the real surprise in the nomination of Laurence Harvey for the best actor award. I could mean an unexpected climax to Harvey's 10-year career as the most criticised tar in Britain.
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HARRY BELAFONTE and Dorothy Dandridge are star in the film version of the recent London stage suc- cess, "Moon on a Rainbow Shawl." It requires on nil- Negro cast-and it is likely to be filmed in Britain.
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HOLLYWOOD INSIDERS ate enthusiastic
About Janette
Scott's talent in The Devil's Disciple." Considering her co-stars are Burt Lahenster, Kirk Douglas, and Sir Laurence Olivier, this inn big boon for Janette..
Yet she has to admit: "There is no definite assignment lined up for the at the manent in British studios."
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JAMES STEWART, one of our saner Hollywood visitors, says: "I'm not mixed up. I mean I might seem mixed ... and that's up to a psychiatrist, but I don't to me all that matters,"
YUL BRYNNER will spend at least six months of this year In British studios. He is to play a temperamental symphony conductor lu "Once More. With Feeling" for Stanley Donen, who made "Indiscreet." Then le moves into "The Mad King" In which he plays Poul the First of Russia.
Miss Jon Plowright. that very avante parde young actress late of the Royal Court Theatre, is now enjoying the sensation of West End star in the commercial theatre.
"When I was at the Royal Court," she said, "people used to write and invite me to lunch to discus Ionesco. Now they Just write to say we think you're smashing.""
After being avante parde for so long Miss Flowright thinks it rather nice being smashing.
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WISEMA N
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUA”Y 24, 1959.
Timelight
Mr. Bresslaw and her ladyship...
THE STORY BEHIND AN UNUSUAL'
CABARET ACT IN MAYFAIR
HE other morning, audience's
superior.
THE
able to arc
feel
stupidity has proved
films, he is appearing in
at one of Mayfair's His tres snob night clubs, the highly profitable; he has made
the
patrons were startled Palladium pantomime, Sleeping by an unusual, unadver- Beauty, and he is beginning to
nove in cerebrity circles,
to be on the
VIVIEN LEICH ond BERNARD
BRESSLAW-
an unutuol
and impromptu
cabaret
hear very
tised and impromptu Of course he is not as slupic.
he pretends DR cabaret. It was a sight stuge or sercen, and can "talk for blood-shot eyes pash" when he wants to.
much about Sir Laurence is very pleased Lot Thero was Vivien Leigh, the
House of with his success, for it was he Harold S, Prince, the 30-year- pin-up girl of the
in who started him off five years old Broadway prodigy who is Lonls, Loing a little duct
one of the show's producers, Mr ago by giving him a role in a front of the band with
The reason is that Mr Prince Bernard Bresslaw, the televi play, The MacRoary Whirl, pre- sion coule with the fashionable scaled by his company.
The play ran for three days, felt he had Mr but Sir Laurence Med found a star,
Neanderthal look.
They
Sarg
--Bressiaw's-hit-song
together
fal- and Get To
Pashernato Love, lowed it with You've Have Feet.
I can report that her ladyship
was tres hep: Lew and Leslie
Orade should keep their eye
is that rare phenomenon: an impresario without an ego,
Kettl Mackenzi
the sald, "who are much older than me. But I don't want to grow up too quicitly."
INSIDE
SHOW BUSINESS
Rank calls off giant musical
GENE KELLY'S £500,000 musical for the Rank Organisation, "Gentle men's Gentleman," is OFF. The simple reason is that the Rank people have got cold feet about the cash needed for the film though it will cost them a lot of money to cancel it.
ever
That was not the reason given in a bleak little statement from the Rank Organisation the other night...
HAS ASTAIRE FOUND A NEW GINGER ROGERS? -
new girl dancing with Fred Astaire these THE
days is a pert and pony-tailed red-head called Barrie Chase (they're together on the left). And the prestige of being picked to partner Astaire is working the same magic it once did for Ginger Rogers, Rita Hayworth, and Leslic Caron,"
After partnering him in Saya he: "She is one of my . his frat American tele- oldest and dearest friends, vision show, the new Chase but I have never seen the
a quick
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"Gentlemen's Gentleman" URE
'It indicated, diplomatically, that agreement had been renched planned as Britain's most lavish with Gene Kelly to cancel the ottempt at making a popular Alm because of changes in this musical, And with Kbily it had a dancing star ith a string of year's Pinewood programme.
big-money hite,
NO GAMBLES
Then why cancel it? Because producers need a guarantee, not
"Gigi" the
But the fact is that Pinewood a gamble, with a musical these Studios are not prepared to risk days. Established musical stora hig money on the gamble of like Kelly or Garland or Lanza making a musical show. And are not enough. the statement was issued only
musical which, will open a new cinema in Lon after we had faced the studio
don's West End next month, is chiefs with there facts.
Producer Benny Fish did not a case in point. It has Leslie Chevalier, and know that the film was elf, Caron, Maurice
Louis Jourdan as its store.
It is the first musical written Said he, ndly: "If they want to back out now it will involve by Lerner and Loewe since 'My them in a lot of money—I would Fair Lady," a similarly style like to make the film for another score, and costumes and decos
designed by Ceell Beaton. company."
until we told him.
girl is being sought for flim point of living in the past. MOIRA SHEARER MAKES
ways,
DOUBLE COMEBACK
OIRA
'Ation-
"We got lucky
and stardom. It was
Since then We coin flip in the career of a clicked. girl whose list Hollywood have gone our own job was conching Kay Ken- We are not the same people were then. It would
SHEARER, Baker, and Richard dell for the dance routines - we
borough. in "Les Girls,"
prove nothing if we were to
There is talk, too, of Paul for from the limelight, is mak- Sconele joining. Astaire is not nostalgic appear together now
perhaps ing a big comeback. about the old days. He will old time's sake -- never make another pic- we may when we both reach ture with Ginger, Rogers. 80.”
JACOBY on
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THAT do you bid with club?. Two spades is cert partner responds one the North hand after your spade to your opening oneainly an underbid; no fancy bid seems indicated. You will probably do just what this North. did and give a jump raise to three spades,
Now look at the South hand. Twelve points, a good five-card suit and two aces', 'You might try a lot of scientific fol-de-rol or you might simply bid game and end the rubber. This South jumped right to six spades.
If West had opened a diamond, South would have been down two tricks, but that queen-jack-ten-combina- tion looked too solid. West opened the queen of clubs. -
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Matter two years away
She is returning to the screen In a dramatic role without a dance. And she will be back on the London stage.next month in two demanding roles for the Old Vic.
Moira Shearer has her choles of two of the best zole in tho picture. She has not chosen yet.
Her state return is also suro to be talked about. Despite her cool beauty she has to be gas- Strind- slonately emotional In berg's "Miss Julie."
Both facets of her comeback Her subtlety as an actress will sensitive role will test the star status of Miss be tested by her Shearer. It is now four years in "Sganarelle." But, perhaps since she last faced the cameras more than anything, her stamina for "The Man Who Loved Red- will be insked. beatis."
The other night she was coŋ-
And her Old Vie stint chal- fined to bed with the afterw
"But sho lenges the disaster of her last effects of bronchitis. West End appearance, in 1957, will be all right," said husband in "Man of, Distinction." The Ludovic Kennedy. play survived only three weeks.
Miss Shearer, at the start of silently comeback, was leaving the judgments to others.
London Express Service).
But she has shrewdly judged her the way back. She is joining the biggest star cast of the year in British films with "Jet Stream."
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He and his partner have pro- teristics of film stars' daughters, club. West's jack was allow- duced four of the most success- She has no ambition to have ed to hold the trick and now Brando or it did not matter what the "Now he tells Mr-Bressiawful musicals of the last ten dates with Marlon
am glad that in some small way years: Pyjama Game Damn Paul Newman Sho prefers-defence did from then on I helped to start you off." Mr Yankees, New Girl in Town and company of local boys her own Bresslaw is duly grateful and West Side Story, which together age.
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South simply finestest against ot i think Mummy has brought west's ten of clubs; discarded prolis so far
says. 5,500,000 dollars.
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nod It is a piquant altuation. For But Mr Prince, until recently, "The fact that she was a famous the jack of diamonds and a low When made any heart on the long clubs living in
star hasn't 1 une-room film
look the heart finesse, on ber.
can now was
had brought This little midnight matinee the Olivier protege
Olivier's attract more viewers by playing bachelor apartment (now he has difference to me.
"Mind you, I think she was that worked he occurred
Lady nt instigation. She sent a message the, idiot than Sir Laurence can two rooms), and the caviar was
strictly rationed,
Jolly good. I mean, it was jolly home his lum. Mr by playing Ibsen.. with the head walter to
"Most of the money the shows clover of her playing all those he sexy Wicked Lady roles when Bresslaw, who happened to be
cath goes to the backeTE,"
not really sexy at all. said. "I'm not rich, but I have she's Kevin McClory is a
want.
An impresario Sometimes we see her films on it's a marvellous young producer who has can't afford to live like
an TV, and learned
giggle." the art of Mike impresario."
in the same club, asking him to
join her. And then her
ship let Her hair down.
Matey
lady-
Both the Oliviers have been
taking an interest in the extra- ordinary career of Mr Bressiaw, the son of a tailor's presser from the East End. They are on very matey teratai with him.
Toddmanship.
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At a party recently he met Still young
*wo members of the Russian
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Margaret Lockwood's daugh- Hongkong: In Hongkong he is
East and West were a little bitter about South's Juok. While and South have, the slam. they have my sympathy, North
miere his film, The Boy and ter Juls also known as Tools not slacking. He is planning a the Bridge, in MORCOW. -- appearing this year in his production of the Mer-
All he wanted
WAS 10 Feler Pan without her mother
chant of Venice,set_in Soviet airplanes to fy his to watch over her. guests out for the premiere This colly on hat part which he will siege in can scarcely be con- eighteenth century Venice, and back.
This is Mike Toddmanship. Toote Lockwood la 173anage London next spring. He is f he gets the airplanes. -
when other young ladies-in editing his film Don Quixote. show busindes bavo aut around He writing articles" for a to more adult things then plays akasimo, and has11) making
Andy Olivier asked him to her party for Lauren Bacall, and he has returned the compliment by inviding her and air Laurence to hindat-warming in Meant Streets will As He has been abla, to arord. No: eno
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