THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL
Roderick Mann
1961.
Why Miss Collins plays the Dictionaries
JOAN COLLINS... "Psychiatry has helped me tremendously as an actress."
waiting game
I'M TIRED OF MAKING JUNK FILMS THERE has never been a fiancee like Miss Joan Collins. To be with the mon she loves she is prepared to miss meals, cross oceans, spend thousands, and forgo 'roles.
This lautable loyalty has, in the past, been enjoyed by such diverse characters as Sidney Chaplin, hotel heir Nicky Hilton and Arthur Loew jun., son of the man who controls MGM.
The present recipient is, of course, Mr helped me to live down the Warren Beally the remarkably Handsome complex 1 htd bbout my work. young Ector who has just anühed atming
"Remember. I'd been tolu fer here with Vivien Leigh,
I took them bath to dinner and was years how dreadful I was. The surprised to find how well they got on. 1 result was that I was despre cancot possibly cavisage marriage for them ally st-conscicits and plagued
with doubt. while they are thus enchanted.
Miss Collins was in fine form (she is. contrary to what you may have zappo:ed from her pictures, a remarkably willy young, woman); Mr Beatty, who is only 23, was worried about. his spots.
"If I eat anything tried in buiter or with grease or fat I break out," he cald, looking accusingly at Misa - Collins.
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'I will do nothing.
While he busled himself ordering simple, fare, Miss Collins brought me up to date with Her career which is, as they say, on
Regret
"So I went to a psychiatrist, and he was wonderful. I went to him five times a week. He charged me only 30 dollary hour-and less when I was on
⚫ suspension from my studio, ... which was most of the that..
"Without his help. I'd never have turned in that light-heart- personne ne menu Round the Flag, Boys."
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was her best fins," "I've finally left 20th Century-Fox," she
"She's Mr Bealty. said, "and I intend to do nothing now until natural comedienne." I'm offered a worthwhile Bi
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"I don't see how long I walt. There'll'imy 'énly regret," said Misa be no more junk, may wind up selling. Collins, " turning down Sons stockings ch a street corner, of course, but and Lovers lest year it will be better than making rubbish."
"I did that because i didn't "You can bet on that," said Mr Bratty. want to leave Warren: But "You see," said Miss Collins, "I haven't nobody could have guessed how got Warren's drive. Look what he did-flew well that film would turn out." all the way to Puerto Rico to talk Tennesse Williams Imo feiting him star opposite "Joan's underrated;"
Vivien in The Roman Spring of Mr Beatty. "But so are many Mr Stone. I'd never have done other, Hollywood people. Look divat.**
at John Wayne, Gary Cooper, said Mr. and Jimmy Stewart. All un- "It's a godd Bently, suspiciously for traces of grenseTM "Fortunately," said Ml39 Collins, "I'm financially secure. In fact, I'm quite rtch. I've been earning good money since I was 17 and if I didn't work for another five years I could live quite well.
The Last Gangster has a day off
THE
HE Last Gangster walked out of the lift at Grosvenor House with that quaint mechanical strut of the 1930 tough guy-body slightly tilted forward, head mov- ing rhythmically from side to side. He looked unnatural without a gun in his hand. For 10 years, as he stroked Lloyd Nolun was back In London, the man who followed away the dollars, Nolan cadured Tracy and Cigney, the rearguard what he now describes as of the old school of toughies, a heiluva lite. Half of it was man who made crims pay. spent hanging on to prison bars
Now look what's happened to Shirley
THE seisha girl in the picture below left in Shirley MacLaine,
This is how she appears in her latest fim, "My Gelala,' now being made.
She plays the part of an American actress who so con- vincingly turns herself blo, a geisha that she even fools her own husbanı
To do it the smothers her raucous red hair under a black wiz and dims her vivid blue eyes with brown contact lenses.
For weeks before she started filming she took lessons on how a geisha glɛl walks, talks, thinks, Sho learned to-hobble pigeon-toed by having a handkerchief placed between her knees and holding it there as 'she tried to gilde-around.
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claiming violently that he had been framed. The rest of the time he leaped round the studio under his trilby hat, a G-man trafned by the FBI. itself.
The legendary tough guy is 68 now and be sat placidly the settee, direct from a Holly- the wood 10 hours away over Pole, und said: "They laid on ter me to see some of sights, but I took the day off instead, I can't rush around ke that. I'm not made that way. I have to do things slow and deliberate,
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"I'm part-owner of a New York apartment house and I own a lot of shores, so there's no panic.
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"Just had an omelette in room. Should have gone lo party, but I preferred the rest.
"I've been Jurky. I've kept working. cn and on. But right through the gangster era I have had a very qúlet private life. I have been married for 27 years to the same girl."
Nolen is respectable" now.j Ile uses all of his mouth when he talks. His
sleek hair is steel-gry, his thick-rimmed spectacles are
executive suite class. He is deeply religious, attends church every Sunday, and is on his way-via the Holy Land-to fim in Formosa with Robert Taylor.
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WE have acquired no fewer than 20,000 new words over the past quarter-century or 80. This raters our English Vocabulary to something near the half-million-words mark.