I
NOELLE ADAM
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1959.
AN ACTOR REVEALS THE SECRET OF HIS TREMENDOUS VITALITY-HE STANDS ON HIS HEAD
It's rock roll, coffee bars and bop for her be the. Aim "Beat Girl" (Sea & SQUARE...) KNOW at least six top Hollywood stars who would do anything rather than make a film with Anthony Quinn. Sell their Thunderbirds, appear without their toupies, fill in their swimming pools, sneer at Hedda Hopper, take their wives out
anything rather than act opposite Mr. Quinn.
Now why should this be? What is it about the lowering Mr Quinn which is so odins? Don he eat oranges on the self Ix be sometimes seen reading a book tother, that is, thon the ont of the film)?
No. The answer is able Anthony Quinn is a feature actor of rentadors power who docs, act can, and very often the establhed tas not only off the vereen, but right out of the exli doors as well.
As Mr Quinn is timing at Pinewood at the moment in The Savage Innocents, I drove down to lunch with him. And wille the rain teemed down outside on the lush Buckinghamshire countryside Mr Quinn-who puleutes ice a pressure-cooker even when sitting still-ate and Aalked.
never
first. Ela Kazon the director once said: The curious ring, nhout Tony Quinn is that although he's been acting for 20 years, he's always arriving." And it's true. I'm always just about to make 1"
'I'VE BEEN ASHAMED'
“But you've made some fine file, said,
"Only two I really cared about. Lust for Life — la which played the palnier Gauguin and Lo Strada, Two Isn't enough, Not nearly enough. And some films I've bera ashamed of. Usual the one, I made simply for monty, I could hardly bear to look at those films at all. All I kept keting ол the screen жете dollar signs,"
He looked out at the clouds in my in carcer," he said, reveding neroes the grey sky, "I've always been number two." his hinds moving restlessly I've always come in second; abom the table.
Yugoslav actros Nadja Rogin--who was Involved with tho, Partisans during the war-studied for two years to perfect har: English. But at leading lady in her first. British film, Don't Panic Chop sho speaks no English at all-just a few words of Yugoslar. The producers believe that. Miks / Rögin speaks volunias “without opening her mouth.
Roderick Mann Mr. Quinn finds
finds life better upside-down-
"There aren't enough hours to the day," he said. There are ze many things I want to do. Like painting, for instance. The rouble Is 1 keep wanting to Improve other people's stuff.
"My wife and I were in the Tate Gallery the other day and
"Sure. Every morning I wake up convinced It's going to be a great day. And I have a button by my bed which foods the room" with murle na soon as I wake. 1 niwaya wake up to music. That's very important,"
He rose to his feet with the
I suddenly trad a crazy desire same looming majesty of #
walked
was the only good thing in, that dreary Francoise Sagan ballet The Broken Date-is filming in London,
talk to her and she said: 1 could have gone on doing that ballet until 1 was 80. Every country wanted it, but I wasn't interested. It wasn't an awfully good ballet, after all."
The back to the set
to touch up one of Turner's missile leaving Its launching pad patufinus. Can you imagine? We Fortunately my wife was there
to restrain me. Every time I yee a painting I think could be better I want to reach for brush."
together.
" tell you." he said, "There's just one thing. That's what keeps Čriving me, I suppose, Just once want to come in first, instead
fle walked on corridor.
"You admire talent above all of pecond." other things?"
"No," he said, "No. ( don't admire talent at all. What does 18 mean? Having talent is like having blue eyes. You don'l admire a man for the colour of lats eyes. I admire a mon for what he does with his talent.
ROVING EYES
"Take acting. I'm not a scene- stealer. If people look at my rather than the man with me on the screen-that's his foult, not mine, Acting is like a small boy playing witli his trains on the floor. It's fascinating to watch him until he knows he's being watched. Then he puts on nu net.
"It's the same thing in this business. If an actor is conscious that the audience is looking at lum rather than' what he is doing, he's lost.”
Quinn's eyes roved the restaurant. The energy, he was
at the exerting
Lable alone
would have lit the entire studio
for a week.
"I've never lost any of my enthusiasm," he said. "II # producer.comes to me with u good part I always say 'Yes' even if I'm not free to play It. The result is I get in a hopeless angle. But I love
working.
"Kirk Douglas is «nother one. We both have the same sort of vitality. That's why making Lust for Life was so exciting, He played Van Gogh to my Gauguin. We sparked each other. Can you imagine what the real Van Gogh and Gauguina must have been like together? What men! They'd have driven you crazy."
"DO
ON HIS HEAD
you do anything to preserve your encrou?”
"I practise Youa. I do exercises is the morning and I stand' on my head. On the airplane coming to London I was feeling a little ill, so I stood on my bend for a moment or two and instantly I felt ne. I've practised it over since I hurt my back years ago. It's wonderful,"
"You even woke up feeling this good?"
Norman tries
a new line
NORMAN WISDOM has tired of being a utility
comic. He is now making his seventh comedy, Follow A Star, for the Rank Organisation and, though his films steadily make money, they often do not make much of an impact.
He told me: "A fim 1 would like to have made was Ilans Christian Andersen,
"And I would like to do film of The Hunchback of Notre Dame,
"I would try to show the
the sense of comedy
bunch-
back had. He liked to swing
around on the bells. I would
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FILM PREVIEW
edited by THOMAS WISEMAN
Jave all the make-up and arbitration committee
at his fun.
hor
everything, but I would show boon set up to sort out the how, the people liked to laugh, claims, I hope all contending "Mind you, they would still producers will basfrisked for pelt him with fruit, but he guns on the way in, Wouldn't maid."
Mr Wisdom agroed that it would have to be a big, specta- cular mm. "Why not?" he said. "I suggested it to the Rank Organization but they didn't want to know. They're dead commercial."
Postponed
IRK BOGARDE— currently playing List on location. In Germany-will be tied to the But Mr Wisdom is no longer keyboard for so long, that pro- under long-term contract to the ducer Betty Box hus had Hank Organisation and is plan- postpone a film she planned to In Italy next ning to link up with Itonald make with him
month.
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- Neame and John Blyan
Mr Neame and Mr Bryan, The Liszl fim-bas had a saya Mr Wisdom, are interested somewhat tempestuous passage, In his projects.. And Mr Neame as stormy as a Liszt symphonie and Mr Bryan are not entirely poem.
dead. commercial;
Dark Bogarde nelther liked his part nor the way tho film was being made. So many Hollywood Sing the original director
Charles Vidor died and
George Cukor
producers are putting director
now
100%
up tition for film ver over, the aim is being virtually alona of the careers of the started all over again. notorious» Murder: Ing-to "The filin: háá bem set In... # cash in on the new brom in number of thestres-but not a gangster picture that van
comic opera house.
down the
A SQUARE...
film she is making in London is called Beat Girl- and concerns bop, rock 'n' roll, coffee bars and the ilke,
Sald Miss Adam: "In the m 1 play somebody's stepmother. I don't know much about rock 'n' roll, really. I'm rather Equare stepmother."
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DIAL X X X? ONE OF THE DANCERS In detectable French dateer who a New York show is blessed with
MISS NOELLE AHAM-the
the extraordinary name of Dee
To250.
I wonder how_one_gets in touch with her? Throught Alcoholics Anonymous?
An off-beat
actress
LIMELIGHT by Thomas Wiseman
WA Marie Saint is a truly off-buat actress. She
doesn't care about money.
"My agent," she told me, she said, "I have no idea and £
is always saying I ought to couldn't care less." make certain ima to rals0 Charlton Heston, on why he my 'box-office potential and usually appears In costume- he is very miserable that I epler:
refuse. He just can't under- "When I was at school stand that I don't want to broke my nose ina, rugby It gave my face a sort be the greatest star in the game.
of period look. world.
That
nose...
4
"Ceel B. de Mille picked me for the part of Moses because with my broken nose 1. looked Just like the Michaelangelo, painting of Motes.
and
"In Hollywood, every producer has a list of stars with their
"There are some actors that box-office potenílal is brackets have contemporary (reca after their names. And they some actors have period thees. cast their films on that. basis. If they are going to make a flim "You could. never haye costing 3,000,000 dollars. they imagined Humphrey Bogart In pick a star whose box-office a tegn, could you? Or Robert (potential de 6,000,000 dollars. Mitchum. Or Alan Ladd. Well, That way they think they are with me li's the opposite. Some- ensuring success. Of course it how I don't look right in doesn't always work,"
lounge suit. I suppose. I owe my
I asked Miss Saint what her career to that broken nose." Landon Express Service; own box-office potential was.
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