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SHOW BUSINESS
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1959.
Roderick Mann
Why Kay Kendall said No
SO SVELTE...BUT SPAGHETTI IS OUT!
Since she went to Hollywood, that buxom Kattan beauty Sophia Loren has slimmed down many pounds and it 18 a New Look Loren too shall see when her latest picturo, "That Kind of Woman." is shown here. One thing to certain-to uchteze her present svelte figure she cut out her favouříte dish... spaghetti.
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by reports of what goes on in running commentary of, jest and
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SAID I WON'T STAY IN LONDON'
WHAT lies behind the extraordinary,
last-minute decision to switch the filming of the new Yul Brynner picture Once More, With Feeling from London to Paris?
It is a move which has surprised show business for producer-director Stanley Donen bad already announced that thin £1,000,000 picture was to be made in British studios.
one day after the fax year began. He leavea si ita close. Mics Kendall, the ever-loving
under- to be
The Alm-revolving around a Why does Miss Kendall not celebrated but temperamental want to film in Britain? orchestra conductor and his 1 think 1 know the answer, harpist wile and set originally On March 28 her husband, in Chléngo—was specially re- nex Harrison, leaves the cast wc, sees no future in playing written by author Harry Kurnitz of My Fair Lady. And, unless in Britain to make a film after and given a British locale so he wants to run
gone. Nor, over into the Rex has that Donen could make it is next tax year, he must
out standably, is the keen Britain.
of the country before April 0. caught for a lot of tax herself.
My Information is that ho So she has delivered 311 meain to leave by April 1. ultimatum to Donen: "If you Harrison has no intention of trant me in your picture-make Now, at fantastic expense, being made un April fool by it in Paris." the entire picture is being staying n day longer than moved to Paris, Which means necessary. that all the British
headache
trappings
Donen, And Mr
And remembering that ho smile on will have to be taken over has probably been paying has agreed. 100-taxis, cars, phones, clothes, furniture.
And, of course, actors, Dones, the brilliant, 34-year- old director of such successes as Seven Brides of Seven Brothers, On the Town and Indiscreet, said the other day:
"The decision to move 10 Paris has given ine a real head- ache. It has put production costs up by at least £100,000-io tay nothing of the enormous prob- Iems Involved in making a m about England in Paris."
Why has it been done? Why is the m
longer to be made in Britain?
no
the reason we To find must look to Mr Brynner's
co-star-ilte long-stemmed girl with the racking-horse face. Miss Kay Kendall.
It's fantastic
She is getting, I am informed £50,000 for this picture--a far ery from the peanuts she col- lected from her first big suc cose, Genevieve.
quite firmly, And she has, rofused to make the pleture in Britain.
It is a fantastic situation, one without precedent so far as an English actress is concerned.
WEEKEND Friell
10.
"Of course this isn't quito the Macmillan Plan but it's very promising."
"How about springing an election while the PM's away? Absence makes the heart grow fonder and all that,"
** jankita! * Jenkins! Remember what the committee said about the therapeutic value of toys.”
around £600 a week tax on his Drury Lane earnings, who shall blame him?
He Ulmed It nicely. He ar- rived in Britain, last April 7,
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Worth it
He tald ma: "it's glven me а paclect
trouble, of but I think she's worth it. In fact, I can't visualise another actress in the parl. To me the combination of Brynner and Kendall is exciting casting. My main concern is to make a good pleture."
What of Miss Kendall, who has shot up to the top rank of women stars after only two major pictures-Les Gifts and The Reluctant Debutante?
The other day, on the tele- phone, she was her usual, sweet- tempered self.
"If I want to make a film in the middle of Clapham Com- mon for 48 hours-il's nobody's business but mine," she said.
And hung up.
The sensitive
censor...
In The Inn of the Sixth
happiness there is a line where
Curt Jurgens asks' Ingrid Berg- man: "Could you love a man of mixed blood?"
Replies Bergman: "I would constler an honour."
An
innocuous enough line,
you might think. But not to raco-conscious South Africa.
There the censor has scissored the zone completely.
(London Express Servica).
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