My blonde blunder
by DIANA DORS
DIANA DORS curled up on a settee in a white dress with string-narrow shoulder straps that somehow belled her new status as a business tycoon. Nevertheless, she said: "I'm selling half a million shampoos a week now. It is bringing me more money than selling my dignity to be a film star ever did."
She pursed her lips into her celebrated pout. But few instead of blowing camera kisses she blew away a myths about her career.
"I have elled ♫ hall to frowny character actress when making me," she said, "because the time comes,"
I have enough self-respect nut
She looked at her new hus-
to want to be in any more band, comedian Dickte DawROD. stinkera."
"I think I realised these things
Sh nudged three rejected when I got to know Dickie," she seripts, "They stink tos," Tho sak.
guid. "In fact, I made
three
ms that were any good. They Ylel to the Night,"
ere
Kh
'A
for Two Farthings," and "Oilver Twist. The rest were trush.
A STILLNESS
"There has been a lot of talk about my retiring in two years'
"I think I know now where time. In a way I was to blame
for, although I didn't menn
I went wrong with my career what I said quite so literally. It was by always being the blonde with the mink bikini, "The fact etemeru.
that I could
retire in two years' time, ur "After I made Field to the tomorrow come to that, and shed Night, in which I did act,
should have stopped and Bold:
no tears." She smiled with spark of the old Dors. "I love
I won't play another brassy being a business woman when it
comes to counting the cheques.
blonde, even if I starve fur 10 "But it is true that I may
years.*
"And in way I knew that,
I objected I was tuld: 'Don't
be stupid, that's all they want
of you. The blonde with
appeal, that's all.""
A PUPPET
never make another film, uniess
it gives me the chance to more than a blonde."
There was
be
11 strange, new ACX stillness to Diana Dors. "I have
been around this business since
I was a kid of 14," she said.
"I missed a lot of things like having a real home, having family. I don't mean to became half a fuddy-duddy, but I do
Her eyes crinkled
many sour gropes," she went on.
humorously. "Don't think
I've to get and keep
now."
"Nobody can go on being a
#
mcon
those things
Mr Dawson started to polish night club
bright puppet once their brain his shoes for a Hels
where rogagement. "I prefer to earn
bigger.
That's
Marilyn Monroe was smart. She my bread and butter made publicity by the bionde he explained. routine, then she node à new
myself,"
Miss Dors got roudy to
slip
repulation by disappearing and into a mink. "But this is strict-
becoming an actress.
ly a labour of love, the glamour
"In a way, although it sounds bit," she explained.
conceited, I suppose I under-
estimated myself." I can survive,
as a person, anyway, although I'
never saw it that way.
"Now I think the worst thing in the world to be would be an ageing glamour queen... with and clips to hold my face up
false curls to cover the clips. I would rather become a fat,
(London Azpreas Berolca).
THE · CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 30, ̄ ̄ ̄ 1959.
Roderick Mann
IN AMERICA
Life begins at 60 for the new Fred Astaire...
A GIRL WITH HER KYES ON THE SUN Bername: Mamie Van Doren, After years in tow-budget pictures she is at
but being talked of ips Hollywood as a girl with a sunshine future,
INSIDE SHOW BUSINESS
BY JOHN LAMBERT AND PETER EVANS.
FRANK LOOK
AT 2 KIMS
PADDY CHAYEFSKY, the chunky bearded American who wrote "Marty," which was a success, and "The Goddess," which was not, is an outspoken man. Especially when it comes
to comparing the two Kims-Novak and Stanley--he has KIM STANLEY MOST GIFTED
coped with recently.
UST before you come to Pickfair-the white-walled JUST
idyll in Beverly Hills built by Douglas Fairbanks sen. and Mary Pickford in years gone by-you pass a long, un- pretentious house on the left-hand side.
It belongs to Fred Astaire, who wan 60 years old last week, and it was there in his shady drawing room-that the shy Astaire, who rarely gives interviews, talked to mo,
I
The starved, high-domed face looks just the same. The smile is just as wry. Only the eyes look tired. They are dull eyes--for although life is beginning all over again for Fred Astaire, the part of him that died five years Dgo with his wife Phyills took all the sparkle from them.
But three things have happened to this lean parilally, his interest in living.
After 45 years in show
mun to renew, at least
business about is all the people I'm suTD
he has just played his test straight an atomic scientist in par-that of Nevil Shuto's gruesome film of the world's end On the Beach.
He has scored an unequalled success in a TV spectacular Au Evening With Fred Astaire, which collected nine TV "Oscar" and over erlileal hurrahı all won America
FOOTNOTE: Latest news of
Want
to have missed out of the book. the British showing of
"Some people told me
I
to Live is that it has been given, ་་་ certificate. by
ought to stud is with Famous sames from the very begin- or subject to certain ts ping--people like my friend being made. It should be seen the Duke of Windsor, you in London around the middle of
July. know-but I wouldn't. You
see, I only wrote II to please myself, really."
HIS FIRST
And, lastly, his autobiography He saw me to the door, the Steps bi Time is set for publication man who went shyly to his first Richard Burton looked in for next month.
dancing school in Nebraska a drink at my hotel.
He talked shyly, difdently about fifty-five years ago. the alm.
"Life is beginning all
"The chance to do On the Beach came at just the right time," he said, again for me," he said.
"I had decided not to do any more dancing pictures. I've done them all, you see. Over 30 pictures-and that just about exhausts the possibilitler,
"I was determined not to become a dancing freak at 60. And I knew the time had come to quit when one eritie said of Funny Fate-the film I dia with Audrey Hepburn-that I had 'something old, something new." I was the "something old.""
NOT NOSTALGIC
SO ABSURD
over first
He had just been signed for his Broadway musical-play- ing the part of King Arthur în the Lerner and Loewe adapta- tion of The Knights of the Round Table and was in the mood to celebrale.
.
Susan Hayward. I report, · Is "It's odd how I got offered on the side of the British Film the rote." he said. "Lerner and Censor in his refusal to pass the Loewe came round one day and cas-chamber scene in her Oscar- they know my voice was all winning film I Want to Live,
right.
party
couldn't remember
thing about it, but there was
When polat in arguing.
HG
I next saw Lorry I asked him
I talked to her in her rented, I said they couldn't have rose-bedecked bungalow at the heard me sing and they-mid back of the Beverly Hills Hotel. Yes, they had at some
She said. "As far as I'm con- where Larry Olivier and I had cemed that death scene can sung a drunken duct. I asked him if he looked back on come right out. I never liked the old Rogers-Astar musicals with it anyway, and I don't consider nostalgia.
it vital to the film. I seems "No," he said. "Not at all. I absurd to have held up the film never understand people sighing in Britain on account of it.” about the good old days in show business. The truth is low buf- Bess is better today than ever it was when I was starting out." He smiled faintly. "Anyone who doubts that should look at some of my old Alma on television," he said.
We talked about Als Auto- biography.
STILL GOT A LOT TO LEARN
Miss Novak the
has never picture. We argued and fought performance. been noted for a speak at all. particular talent other than
KIM NOVAK
A BEAL DIG
NATURAL
an infallible talent for
TALENT.
COWARD TURNS
DOWN ‘LOLITA’
Like I say, and's",
About acting *1
Miss Novak is a cosy person. try comparison. According to "Oh, sure, I still think she's a Mr Chayefsky, that is. must gifted woman. I mean
getting herself noticed. really a most gifted woman. All of which is diametrically
gol
Until she met Mr Chayefsky But she's a lot to learn opposed to what Alfred Hitch. acting. She would take cock had to say after directing in his film "The Middle of about
one aspect of the character that Novak in "Verigo." the Night" that is.
she's playing and focus on that Dspect almost entirely.
Said he: "That girl tought me a big fat lesson... never to go around saying 'People ain't got talent. Belleve me this kid is im- mensely talented. A real
NOEL COWARD has been room at the top. First he will ƒ big natural talent. offered the role of the play the Paul Seefeld role in notorious "hero" in the film the alm version of "Expresso
Banga." Then ho
will
"It's
undisciplined be talent. A talent without- version of "Lolita," the Audrey Hepburn'a co-star in much control or direction at banned-in-Britain book. Alfred Hitchcock's "No Ball for the moment, but when she' But despite the fact that the set to star In Broadway learns that she's gonna be a Stanley Kubrick fim version musicni by Lerner und Louw.great notresa.” will be toned down, Coward the "My Fair Lady" team. Ha has still refused the role,
His
the Judge." After that he is
co-stars: Julle Andrews and
"At my Elçhard Burten. neat reason:
time of life the story would be
LAURENCE BIR wants Jean Simmons to
OLIVIER play
'
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noted as
superb actress,
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But his charity ran drier than LANA TURNER, who was his daughter in the screen, vera martini, when it came to Miss broke last year, has become a ation of "The Entertainer." Stanley. She has always been dallur mitionaļrund from her She probably will, because despite her noticeable temper. rote n "Imitation of Life" Reason: she has a half sitare of she wants to come back to all so starred in the ill-fated win for a visit but the Ranks: "Grodden"; for Mr. Chayefsky, -the profits. -`
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--{London Expreza Service).
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If he remembered anything
about it and he'said No.
"He said
i anked Mim, Bayward How she felt about the film-which I found a fairly harrowing
further that he'd experience.
kuid: "I never sung a duet with me, found it quite an ordeal to drunk or sober, and it must watch. I don't think I'd want have been two other people they saw. But I didn't tell Lerner to see it again.” Miss Hayward, who has just and Loewe that. I wanted the Arished
making Woman Ob part" acssed with Britain's Stephen asked Burton about his new He Bakh. "At first I planned Boyd, holds surprisingly. Aim, Look Back n Anger, to have it all 'ghosted' for me irreverent attitude toward Aim which is soon to be released. by a friend-bul when he turned making-considering the Oscar. In the first draft we
He said: "I have high hopes both, on her mantelpiece.
for li. It's the first aim of agreed it simply wasn't me.
She said: "I never take my mine in years that I haven't So I sat down and wrote it films very seriously, you know, walked out on while it all myself-i longhand. Now After all, they're just a product being abdwn. the only thing I've got to worry rather Ilko tea,"
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