Miss Hills.
* THOMAS
WISEMAN'S
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14
10, 1959.
Bisquit
16, joins the beatniks
London.
THE unhappy hedonists, known in America as beatniks, are the subject of a film now being made in England. Determined, somewhat belatedly, to get in the groove, to get with it, man (whatever it is one gets with), I went to Elstree studios in Boreham Wood the other day where they are making a film, called Beat Girl, which purports to show Britain's wild teenagers in action. Living for kicks.
Strip-tease
the
She said she was thrilled to bits about being an actrees (big pout) and wasn't E fun (post
and wriggle) and yes sho had been disappointed about not get ting the role m'the Vadim film, but upon mataro consideration (pout, wriggle and sexy smile) she had come to the conclusion that she was too young for the pari,
"Didn't you read the story?" I asked.
"Oh I don't remember bit of it," she said,
that
GILLIAN HILLS: Thrilled
Mrs Hills, who with dedicated mother love fusses, over her daughter and sees to it that she
is photographed from the right ungles, also didn't know any- thing about her ile ilian being expected to strip.
She hadn't read that bit of the script either.
So nice
"I don't know. I haven't dis- cured that scene yet with the director," she said. "I can't say I would stop her doing it be- cause, as I say, I haven't read that part of the script yet. But I'm sure if they do it, they'll do it in a very nice way-they always do these things nicely in England, don't they?1
I found myself among a lot of soft-drink-modden young men in denim jeans and black leather jerkins and strange haircuts and young girls in black jeans and black polo-necked swenters, all trying to be hep as hell before the cameras.
If
For the mood they created
was two hours pouting into good measure, he on the set was suggestive noi so going to have some scenes in a cameras. much of juvenile Bacchanalia os strip-tease club which ho of a rather disorderly nursery, thought everyone would under- this must be because Engilsh stend, even the squares. heatniks tend to be somewhat
Pinying the title role of the half-hearted about being beat. Beat Cir is a well-built child, entled Gillon Hills, the doughter Murcover, there is a Cersor to of an economies lecturer. conlend with.
Mies Hills Whs discovered earlier this
year by Roger Vadim, who proposed to put fier in a boilta-type Alm he was Apparently she reminded him of his former wife and discovery Brigitte Bardol.
Public outcry forced him to drop her and it seemed as it Ms is in carcer was over before it had begun. Now, alx months later, Miss Hills (contact He did not really understand with the tim businew having what these kids were all het up apparently aged her dramatic about or hepped-up about, but ally) is making her debut la
The director of Beat Girl is a Oh is man called If they wanted a fim about beat Beat Girl, offelally aged 10.
Edmund Greville, Oh 1 whose latest film Templation nika, whoever or whatever they I talked 10 this rupidly didn't know that! Oh! (Pout, Island opened in London the were, he would give them 16, ngelny child after she had spent giggle, wriggle and sexy smile). other week.
Mr George Minter, the proguing to make. ducer of the film, sald he was making a story for the kids." He did not quite know why it was called Beat Girl, but did that have something to do with the dal that they liked muste with a fast beat?
Didn't she think she was too young for her current part, con- sidering that the script called for her to do an amateur strip tease at the climax of the film? and wriggled some more a
Mise Hills pouted some more looked towards Mummy wutch- ing from several yards away.
"I don't know about that she suld. "I haven't got to that part in the script yet. that what I have to do?
to bits about being an actress...
Perplexed
It tells the story of "what current life. The besiniks were happens when three women, one a serious sociological problem of them wrecked on a lonely island with to illuminate the entire subject. a nymphomaniac, are these days and it was his desire orfe man.
He olso, of course, hoped to Mr Greville said that Gillan's make a lot of money out of the strip sceno had been provi- ilm, but that was not the clonally approved by the Censor, paramount consideration. He had silpulated that she must do the strip-toned in such a way that it will suggest an act of childish rebellion rather than "Oh I'm sure she wouldn't precocious sexuality: have to take much off," added
The final comment on beat Mr Greville wasn't, he said, girls and Mammy sweetly and reassur- Interested in
beatniks was pro- ingly. Her daughter wasn't a billms like some directors were: (who is one of them in the m). making titillating vided by Miss Shirley Ann Field
bright and passed all her exams relationhsipu. beat in real life. She was very he was concerned with human She was perplexed. She could and one day she'd continue, her
Tot understand the younger generation at all. schooling when the had the time,
But he wasn't in favour of the Censor who had once cut a scene in one of his Alms showing a man taking off a girl's stock ings-e very important scene in establishing human relation- ships, In this present film he was trying to show an aspect of
Caught In A Killing!
THE
Venice.
PHERE has never been a film quite like it before. It is brutally frank. It is shockingly honest. It goes to work on its characters with a surgical knife, cutting them open so that you can see the way their hearts beat and their minds work,
If this Alm does not win the first prize at the Venice Film Festival, where it is about to be shown, then the jury does not know its job. I am talking about a film called ANATOMY OF A MURDER,
Its stars are James Stewart, Lee Remitk, and Ben Gazzara.
It was made by a fat, snur- faced, irascible motion-picture producer named Otto Preminger, who has a reputation, wherever flim stars meet and talk aboul their trade, as the most terrify ing man in the film business.
He builles, drives, harasses, and badgers his actors and actresses until the men get the shakes and the women burst into tears.
Sincerity
Stars like Deborali Kerr and David Niven, two of Holly wood's most balanced star characters. go away to con- valesc after they have inade a Aim for Preminger.
They admlt, however, that under his iron hand they give performances of depth and feel ing and sincerity such as they never knew they were capable of giving.
"Anatomy" is the story, of a mean and sordid killing,
By LEONARD MOSLEY
On the surface, it looks like an "honour killing, in which the husband can plead that he was invoking the principle of the "unwritten law."
Appeal
any man in sight.
strips away the superficialities behind which they hide their true selves.
The effect is extraordinarily lense and exclling. It is many
The other day one of the boys on the film asked her how old she was, She said she was 23. Gallantly he said that was all right because he preferred older women anyway,
(Landon Express Service).
ANATOMY FEET OF A MURDER
a long year eince I have found the half-wanton, baif-child who myself so emotionally involved is the crux of the situation. " in a film.
The jury
Ben Gazzara is the enigmatic killer.
A lawyer
be-
"Anatomy of a Murder" is a wonderfully encouraging flim As you watch it, and become But is the motivation og
involved in its story, you realise Fimple as that?
La irat here
the probing, When Stewart
piercing, perceptive answer la questions the wife, he finds her
Irv. She dresses a curiously mixed-p character. In the murder trial, which There is one other memorable slut. She obviously revels in the "Anatomy of
like a high-priced takes up the major part of performance from an amateur, human enigma that only
This is one study of the the effect her skin-tight clothes and ak of the director is such that by a professional lawyer named
a Murder," the The judge in the case is played cinema cum expose, lice potent sex-appeal has on you feel yourself no longer a Joseph N. Welch,
It finches at nothing. Its language is sometimes no dras- member of the audience but Did she really fight for her one of the men and women on He was the
Do you remember Mr Weteh? lically outspoken that one virtue? Or did she just put on the jury.
counsel for the comes astonished at the liberality A girl staggers back to her a show to deceive her husband?
United Statca Army who of the censor in passing it. caravan home with her dress And the husband himself, Did James Stewart gives the appeared before a Congressional, Then you acallso that he had turn und her face bruleed and he kill as an act of justice and performance of his life as the coinmlitee In Washington
no choice. This is not just a bleeding. She tells her Anny revenge? Or did he do it in a passionately effective defending years ago and langled with the film It is life-raw, rich, and officer husband that she has mud and jealous rage-furious counsel, who is not quite sure of anti-Communist witch-hunter, unforgettable been beaten up and criminally that his wife has given herself the genuineness of hi ellent, the late Senator McCarthy. essaulted by d man who runs to another man?
---(London Express Service); but is determined to save him. His appearances .on the local bar where she has
Otto Preminger examines He is matched against a prose- during those hearings won him been drinking.
this emotional situation with guling counsel (acted by Georgo widespread fame. He was the The husband goes out and a cold, clinical eye.
C. Scott) whose cold, ruthless first man to challenge MoCarthy shoots the man who has violated He plays no favourites. There probing of the murderer and at his demagogic" game and his wife. He is arrested and are no heroes or heroines in his wife will put goose-pimples win. charge with murder, and this film.
on your skin.
This film shows that he is not James Stewart is called in to With a dead-pan camera ho Lee Remick achleves an only A good lawyer but A defend him,
looks ot his characters and astonishingly rounded picture of splendid actor too.
Roderick
London.
ONCE asked a small
I apolitan buy what
he wanted to be when he grew up and without hesitation he replied: "Gina Lollobrigida's law- He knew a thing or two, this youth. For It was fast becoming apparent throughout Italy that në
yer."
the shapely Lollo rose to fame she was going to make quite a thriving, side- line out of litigation.
ways.
And it worked both When she wasn't suing, she was being sued. On a good day you
couldn't get through her apart-
'ment door tor welts.
Mann
This is why they
all feud with me, says La Lollo
film called The Law her. What happened?
knocked.
And
TV
TOP COLUMN OF
SHOW BUSINESS
ISS JO MORKOW-who is now to plețumes
MSD
that
hardly anyone has heard of her repently completed Our Man
in Havana with Alec Guinness,
and
ما
now working Ori
Gulliver's Travels,
But she has the right ap- proach, I suggest.
The other day; at the studio,
abe heard Guinness's name mentioned.
Sir
"Are you talking about Alec Guinness?”. The queried. "He played my father in my last.film."
the things now planning to make overal-MR' TENNESSEE WILLIAMS they say! When I came back pictures 'there.
Me
distinguished play-.
As the luscious Lollo is cur- made a rently decorating the London with
the wights successful enough, spenc, I went along the other In no time at all she was at- from Hollywood. this summer "I have high hopes for day to find out how the side tacking me. She said I was after making Never So Few with one I just, Anished with Frank and rich enough, to do exactly
as he pleases. line was going.
Frank Sinatra i read all over Sinatra," she said. “Thougde I The other woelt.in New York Italy that I was divorcing my should explain it is not a paril. husband and marrying Sinatra. cularly big part for me. But I Such rubbish!"
The reason
some
"Well," she said, "I suppose I do mo rather a lot but it is
not a hobby with me, es people have suggested. I me be cause I don't see why, people should be allowed to get away with things.
"My lawyer and I began our careers together, you know. He was quitó unimportant when we fit met.. Nogy hè in one of
bald I had to wear a wig. She said everything about me was falso-except my hips, and they were so enormous they couldn't be false."
She sat back on the seller, looking very good. Indeed if she'd been poured into her creamy-white Chanel sult, and say "When" at exactly the right moment.
The publicity
he turned up at the studio to see
did not mind: taking a nall the tushes of his latest nim role. In Hollywod today there The Fugitive Kind carrying his are very low really big parts for lunch in a anali basket. women. And very tow
4
The exception
wiw
She got up to close the win-
dow...
women
can carry a picture by wich, cheese, and a roll. themselves.
In fact, there's only one
O
Marilyn Monroe, Even Eltzo OM simple things a foud Is "It's funny," she said. "But I beth Taylor Exed other are born. "Miss Betty Grable got publicly whatever I do in a film. But not Marilynli amma Mia Doris Day aro Not long ago Darryl Zanuck is an interceling thing, when longer talking, hoply, because begged me to tell him who my you think of it. In Italy at a recent Interview, Miss Day publicity agent was You've France, câ the big star nam said: “I remember seeing. Betty "My worst crilles," she said, hail the most fantastic publicity women. But in 'Amwien, nud" in pictures when I was a very the biggest Jawyers ki Italy.'t "aro the Italian newspapers. Of build-up. I've ever econ to Britain they pro nil malo, ¿'24's little girl..
"I'm not surprised," I said. course, they have never been said 'I want to hire the "man" bechiire of the writers, "T si»
wonder the fallen Law kind to their own celebrities. He just wouldn't believe, il porn. None of your milers, cao TRA Society humn't · erected a status They bulk them up then when I told him I'd never", had"poptot pileta fire wrongin”. to you."
knock them down. Look at a publicist-Ever.!! Peoplu uliacie me?" vald Musolini. • Marconi), Ivan fhe lovely Lollo-whom law-- hayen't got your", kdosh of Lollo, because it is good pal», cunâni. UpitiendKEWKI.. lity' for them. Look at Adelina "It's too come, with their, Howard · Bongond kept hạc out, "Oh, really?" wald Lollo, give Mercouri, the Grunk vetanna. I actress.. We're always being set. Hallywood) for nie poww-da, jog nye a long, long-wolin,
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