Why people get me
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-by Dorothy Dandridge DOROTHY DAN-
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DRIDGE poured tea with # delicacy keeping with her soft, print dress and three- strand rope of pearls.
In a gentle, cultured voice she said: "I know I'm a terrible disappointment to meet, People come expecting to pee me in alit skirts and sequins. They usually leave thinking I'm cold and prim."
Miss Dandridge had a point. As a sereen personality she is a Anmboyant fire and ice gri. But as person the incliner more to the fireside and intro- spection type,
The quiet man
Which makes her teaming with Trevpr Howard in the new British film "The Takers" the most contrasted combination In the studios now,
Mr Howard has a hard-earned CL hell-raiser. reputation
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"1 huve been shocked, and not faltered, quite a lot since to and that people think I am really like that.
"When I say I would rather not sit on a suitcase showing ost of my legs, which I'm not very good at away from a film
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1959.
Roderick Mann
SHOW BUSINESS
Will Kay ever film again?
-THE TRAGIC ANSWER, SAY
HER FRIENDS, IS NEVER'
WILL Kay Kendall ever make another
film? I am told by show-business insiders that the answer is almost cer- tainly No. The long-stemmed beauty with the greyhound look has made her last picture.
The other week immediately she com- pleted work on Once Mare, With Feeling in Paris, Kay and husband Rex Harrison "sped to their Italian Riviera retreat at Portofino. There they plan to stay, inaccessible oven by telophone, until the autumn- when Harrison is due to leave for a Broadway play.
Before she left Paris, Miss Kendall tald friends: "I do not think I will make another film for a long time. I am much too tired."
Which was saying what close friends have feared for a long time; that Kay's health, which
But not, it would scem, besid et, they thought I was aloof" has given her so much trouble
the melting, reforming influence
of Miss Dandridge.
"I am puzzled at his reputa- tion," she said. "I have seen no sign of wild-living from him. He seems to me to be a les, quiet man who reads rather a Iot."
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We asked Miss Dandridge why her reputation did not tally with her real solf. "I guess 'Carmen Jones is the cause of it," she answered,
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Miss Dandridge called in her secretory
"Don't Testify. to you worry," said the secretary consolingly, "the trouble is they expect a trollop and meet lady."
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KAY KENDALL at 17. The film was . "London Town." She was terrible.
loss to the film industry. For rying about it was far away she is one of our very few resting in a quiet villa high international Women stars, above the rocky Italian coast, and even in Hollywood there
Pondering, perhaps, on Aus low notreɛRES who can
cruel fact that at 82 she can rival her when it comes to name her
own price for any sparkle and high comedy.
picture, but that the only thing she really wants-good health no amount of money can buy.
over the past
210 year, will no longer stand up to the rigours of in making.
Sensational
Ironically, advance reports say that her performance in the million-pound Once More, With
Feeling is the best thing the Delightful!
has ever done.
On top of that is the added problem of negotiating insur-
An hour of the film was run once for any future Kendall picture. Her breakdown during through privately in Paris re-
More, Miss Dandridge blushed o Orice
With Feeling cently, and the word went back
Kendall Sensa little, but allowed that the which cost the Insurance com- to Hollywood: analysla was accurate. "Having panies come HK$320,000-auto- tional. grown up in a professional matically classified her as a bod family," she said, "I just can't risk, get. any satisfaction from a showy display of what
reckoned to be glamour."
But the girl who started her film
17 in the enrcer at
with
If Hay Kendall never films dienstrous London Town is
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AUDREY HEPBURN ON: THE LESSONS I LEARNED WHEN I LOST MY BABY
AUDREY HEPBURN
AN INSIDE
INTERVIEW...
by
said the other day, SHOW BUSINESS that she was coming to Britain this month for the first time in more than two years. She is to attend the premiere of her latest film, "The Nun's Story."
She also talked for the rst time about her feelings on los- ing the baby she was expecting
in May.
The woman whose spirelling cureer has given her everything an actress could ever want or even dream about-sudden oue- cess, wealth, and even a happy
thut marriage discussed sadness that has strongly touch- ed her 28-year-old life.
ane
On the telephone from her
villa in Switzerland she
paki-
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Peter Evans
"I am stil very weak and 1 doubt whether I shall work be- fore the end of the year.
"I'm only sad that the news of my miscar- rlage got out. I didn't want people to know. Somehow it seemed no very personal and unim. portant to anyone cept Mel (husband Met Ferrer) and me,"
ex-
'to a great many women all over There was # small silence. the world. I lost any baby, it is true. But I am only grotehus I Then Miss Hepburn said: can have others.
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Here is a problem by
"But people learn to accept unhappi- ness, I think. It's a painful Lesson of living.
"I learned a lot about living when I made The Nun's Story I spent a whole year on the pic- ture. A year of extreme con- centration.
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I felt looked odd. I never liked my look. So you can Googine my surprise when I beodme a maccess. Every morning I'm surprised at my succUBS, LO tell you the truth.
"People who know me well know how I feel about this.”
Insecure
as terrified with each picture I start.
"It frightens me to think that so much is expected of me. With Roman Holiday it wasn't so bad. People didn't know me then, RO what could they
· expect?”! ¦
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of inner peacefulisem.). A. calm Then the actress who can Autrey Hepbuni har neyor jess. "Things that drce warned, pommand. MX$1,200,000 for one stopped trying to and the so important "Weren't important sickyld surprisingly; # spawer; .... any louger *.....
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KAY KENDALL at 32-opposite Yul Brynner in “Once More, With Feeling.”
It is, according to advance reports, her best yet.
It's An Idea
The other day he received a
Noel Coward has revolted of. against those pompous Amarl- Replied. Noel: con, nolepaper gimanicks.
AM delighted to see that Mr note headed: "From the desk T the Night of 100 Stars par desk A Palladium on
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