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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1939
Roderick Mann
Sophia grumbles: Why do I work? The boss is my husband
VIENNA.
IT was after 10 o'clock. The city lay cocooned in the warmth of the Austrian evening. A perfect night to be drinking iced hock at one of those lamp-bedecked restaurants down by the Danube.
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But instead I was holed up in some small, sweltering back room -watching Sophia Loren being made up for a scene in her film Olympia,
The Sophia Loren of today is very different woman from
Slimmed down on a steak-only
the one I Amt mot years ago, det to a svelte slinkiness, che finifan. To further this she has
is far more International than been working hard to lose her Neapolitan accent. "My aim," she said. " to have hardly any accent."
"It's a mistake," I said. "I your accent becomes any more English you'll soon be playing Wren offloor. opposite Richard Tochi.",
It was a terrible way to spend an evening, I thought. She thought so too. "Ten o'clock," she hissed. "Ten o'clock. And still I am working. "Do you
know I've been filming since eight this morning. I ought to have my widening her eyes. head examined."
"You're in the right city "I would," she said. "Except for that," I said. "This is that the produce is my hus
band, Carlo Porti." where that head-shrinking stuff all started."
Rock 'n' roll
"Perhaps it's not my head that needs examining."" said Sophia "It's my heart. I'm
Sho vazod with her great cal's eyes out of the window. Somewhere, not far away, music 1vas playing. Not Schubert. Rock 'n' roll. This was Vienna, 1050.
vi's pleasant here," said. "But I miss Italy.
she
And
too nice, That's the trouble. my birthplace, Naples. I shalt They take advantage of me, If be there for my next picture I were a bitch it would be with Clark Gable, He's already different. They would never in Europe somewhere getting a make me work this late. I think suntan,"
1' be a bitch from now on. How shall I start?"
"You could sue your producer
for making you work a 14-hour day.'
I
"What part does he play? Your suntanned father?"
"No," she said. "My sur- tanned lover. Oh, he is not so
,
But the tan young. I know. will help. And 1 am better with older men, you know.
Steak only
-
.
"When they cast me op- posite young men the relation- ship fa wrong because
them. always
dominale Whereas with men old enough to
my father-like my husband Carlo Ponti. for example tho relationship fa Just right. I think it is because, although I am only 24, I do not seem to have any real uge. You, for instance, you could be my, father."
"Thanks a lot," I said. "Not at all," she said.
"I might like that," she said,
"I seem to remember," sald, we talked you "that last time
when you went back to Italy said you expected to be arrested
first. because your husband's marriage is still valid there.".
"That's right." The sald. "But now everything will be all right. I am told I shall not be imprisoned after all."
Deliberate
Outside, in the cobbled street, great យ lighta suddenly stabbed the dusk. A boy called her name. The next scene was ready. She took a long, last drink and got up.
Me? I've no friends says Mr. Mitchum
I'M NOT THE SOCIAL TYPE
I JUST LIKE TO SIT
DUBLIN.
FLEW to Ireland to catch up with that
colourful character Mr Robert Mit- chum, who has just arrived from Hollywood to make a Gim over here.
Mr Mitchum, who boasts the build of a beer truck and the best collection of expletives west of Billingsgate, was in talkative mood.
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Martie
SHOW BUSINESS
at first meeting he hotel, and he opened up a new Although Invariably appears
to be on bottle of Scotch and relaxed on inarticulate slob, he is, in fact, the setice.
a rather articulate slob.
He can talk about anything- from Georgia chain gongs Kor
which he had
and Hemingway.
Arst-hand ex~
Greer Garson, and she took. 125 takes to say "No,'"
Juert crawled out swimming pool and
of
he
all ahruniten up like a washer's hand.
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IN VIENNA
SHOW
BUSINESS
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svelte, sexy,
This is the 'new Loren ambitious but without any false notions of her awn capabilities.
Then, loudly and deliberately, sho saló a rude word in Italian.
"Fortunately," she said from the door, you do not under- stand much Italian so you will not think badly of me."
MY
ON
"For Jour Information," said, "that was just about the first Italian word "I learned.”
She walked out Into the warm Viemese evening. Svelte, Slinky. Stall owcaring,
(London Express Service).
PAST
by John Wayne
N the eve of a new career as a film director --- he is to direct and star in the million-pound Western, “The Alamo” — we talked to John Wayne in Hollywood recently about the past, the present, and the future of a 52-year-old Hollywood hero, Hero Wayne himself.
Even at HK$16 a minute he John Lambert
was in gent, hurry to speak
his his lines. Mr Wayne is a very Avas rich man, For his last film,
dilsh-
"You know what a Uttle guy he is. Well, when he got out of the pool he was so small they could hardly see him, and they decided he wouldn't do for the big or correspondent:
"So what happened? idiot said: 'Ask Mitchum play it. That bum will anything it ho's gol minutes free! Well, I five minutes free. So, I did
Home
"The Gorse Soldiers," he was paid a cool HK$4,000,000 plus 10 per cent of the prosts.
'I'd crumble'
"You know,"
ho drawled, ["overy time I switch on the late night television show these nights I seen to look in on the past tofor sure enough, there I am, 20 do years younger, shooting and five slugging my heart out. It makes had|you" think-seeing your own it," youth coming outta the past
#ike that.
SO HACKNEYED
"Has success brought you any of the things you hoped JOT?
"But old nge doesn't worry ma. I've always tried to let my I know parta grow up with me.
how I stand today.
"Still the idea retirement has never seriously occurred to any-me.
- I'd just crumble and die the it I stopped work, I guess, No. Wo I reckon when you get to #
For never hoped thing. You don't know kind of childhood I had. "Despite this you've were terribly poor. My brother certain point you start searching managed to make one of ture good pictures?”
"Have
THE ANSWERS
I asked him
what was new had met, and,he awful lot
down and broken came Not as falien
and I had to share one suit, so for a new impetus. If you don't we were never able to go out and that, I rocton old age must 12 I've mode
en together. By the time I was 18 be pretty embearable.
"For me I'm gonna direct. I had no illusions left. I was n of stinkers too,
perience when he was arrested since last we on a vagrancy charge) to the fold me he had made three Oh, Heaven Knows, Mr All ferret-faced kid who'd done ashall carry on acting as well,
wad pretty good, and spell in a chain-gang, wrote naturally. comparative merits of Steinbeck uns; his wife Dorothy had so11
A soft chuckle spreads 6,000 a Stranger was all poetry, und hoped for nothing."
miles. He said: "I never guessed riba; his son Jim had grown right. Though wasn't a
"What about the reviews I'd be pleased about being the three inchen; end, cast we had in that was of your films? another
Some of those other side of 50. In fact, I think the ex-convict
was a browery: Sinatra. Brok must have disappointed. I'm on the right side after all.” gaoled on a narcotics charge Crawford, and myself."
You?" some years ago), he now had to sign out every time he left America.
We drove in the rain from the studio, where he is Alm- ing A Terrible Beauty, to his
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lawyer my sign tho Jorm Otherwise actors who've ever been come Boon might put tho my house art, Jack Palance finger en me and I'd have to
and Robert Taylor. Tm, not spend the rest of my days on Bills Leland or wherever it is a social type: I'm a bum. I they dump you now..
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nowadayla". So whụ đòn't you against that windows with, tho words JADE UPropse, simes. "You don't take that sort get better actipta?".
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