Return
of a star
Hollywood.
THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1961.
INSIDE SHOW BUSINESS
The in-between girl...
by VICTOR
DAVIS
HIRLEY EATON, of
SHIL
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the wide smile and glowing exterior, hasn't progressed through sereen romps without developing 11 defence mechanism against the carpings of others.
So when I asked her over hacht "Do you consider your- zelf a one-dim uzionat nothing on the rereen" she wasn't en upret.
LOST IN THE JUNGLE
OF THE TYPE-CAST,
LIFE CAN GET DIFFICULT FOR A
GIRL LIKE
SHIRLEY EATON
It may ποι με the highest Miss Eaton is not a girl who This is all in keeping with Ihastened to add that the form theatrical endeavour, can remain gloomy for long. Miss Eaton's other life is Mrs phrase
and struck for Miss but WAS
iver hank
Lenton-Howe, wife manager. She'd like to try Hollywood, but Culin Eaton's bonellt by another accountant, and the Inland won't worry too much if the call mather from the money-belt of
witnessing actress after
She likes to be Hertfordshire. one Revenue regard her as a very doesn't come.
three-dimensional asset.
home evenings with her 31-year- She spent six days in America oid husband, director of a small two- boosting "Carry On Nurse and building Arm, and their was not over-impressed. "They year-old son Grant, over whom wouldn't allow me to be natural. they draw a no-publicity screen, like I would They expected me to drape my- of course,
longue on a chaise self
and meaty, fery
paris, the Anna make Tallulah Bankhead Magnani parts that one has to witticisms."
mature into," she told "But I can wait for them."
Meanwhile she has her mind "Do you in her lares! know,"
"I've she said,
just
of her performances,
"A one-dimensional mathing.“ she mused, "Yes. I suppose I ask for that sort of thing. I'm In a lovely little rut, aren2 17"
Misa Eston's rut makes her tin buslent
film young
At actress in British pictures.
he churns out a performance every seven weeks, and In the past eight months has made for comedy films
She admits: " can't last for ever, of course, Producers call an me for a limited range of paris. I'm not the girl-next- door, and I'm not in the DI Dors bold-as-brass category.
'Nice', sex
"Somewhere In between is me-supplying the glamour and
Fiery parts
.
п
The scene
When shooting schedules over- lap as they did recently for
in fael, she rarely attends Anished a Alm in which I have three weeks at Shepperton-she
But premieres any more and refuses to go into hysterics, Naughty, but nice kes it all in her legure stride,
is so horrific that it has to be Her lms have titles like "A more nice than naughty if you all off-the-set pin-up posing.
rungs edited." Week-End With Lulu "Nearly follow me.
Sux.
<a Nasty Accident," and "Further "They are all typical British Up The Creek." Her knock-cu-nastirits, Ret-where roles.
about co-stars are a permuta- tion list that begins: Sid James, Kenneth Connor, Leslie Philips, Graham Stark....
There hasn't been IL decent wonan's part in British pictures since Woman in a Dressing Gown.''
Magnani goes blonde !
US is Anna Magnani, the eruptive, disquiet- Ing star of the raven forks and uncertain femper as a fighty blonde,
This is Magnani, devoter of Tennesser Williams's tates of death in the Deep South, In her first comedy,
And it took her native Rome to bring about
transformation,
Director Mario Monter was told that he could choose any screenplay when Maguan!
IN the studio, beyond returned to tals after making all: Furisico
the bright lamps, Rind" in Hollywool. Monicelli said: "America
where the shadows grew
darkest, Barbara Stan- wyck sat in a canvas chair. She was alone.
Now, white-haired and nut roring-"That's th WHE il comes out of my head. imey" heemed like woman storing into her own thoughts.
"Missy" they' once called kier with affectny, and sometimes "The Queen" withad it.
naud
With Jag Crate fork Bette Davis, she was one of the bi lancur sins of the thirties and early Torties. Ther Pare the Monroe Reynalds- Taylor trio of their times.
CRUEL
Life was sweet and fl headlines. But it 1 lamp
TO than fentir years since The made a movie and tw, at
51, some have aid cruelly that
her in future is madly a one- way trip into the past.
Certainly four years on the
So this
has teamed her with disaster. I will team her with comedy," So he chose as a vehicle for her "The Fassionate Thief" and sent Magnani ta the hairdresser for a bleach.
Admirers of Mas Magnani's alarining talents need not fear that her flerceness has been lessened.
She loses her femper explosively Chrer times in the picture and ends up in prison. It's promised as a comedy with all the elemental realism associated with Anna Magnani... even to the bitter ending.
this is what life after winning the
by RICHARD LISTER
THE MAN WHO WON THE POOLS. By J. 1. M. Stewart.
Gollancz, 155.
far side of a is a long whie TN novels people who win the pools nearly always
I wait for a role.
5
she has writed for is no kit
get corrupted by all that money and end
deal with time for she plays the up unhappy, I don't see why. L'wouldn't. Would frankly ageing New Orleans
you? madanse In A Walk on the Wild Side."
Mr Stewart doesn't fall into Mr Stewart's pleasant, easy, She stars with Laurence that error any how. His win- ironical style handles Phi Harvey and two netresses -per is a bright young artisan at story in an plways enjoyable Capucine and Jane Fonda--who en electrical weaks near Oxford, way, But whereas most novels were burn when she was Best Phit is in his early twenties, un ar 1 lang by half, this one is high-kiezing her way to fame in jattached, texrepi vaguely to a just the opposite. the Ziegfeld Falleg an Broadway local one) and endowed in 1022,
Was
21
So 1 miked to the star who Pas returned to a Hollywood. ill set for the first time in ton Jong,
When she
Stoke, her voice muted husky like trumpet played in a far-away room Four years, I was just thinking four years is a long time to be away but then four years in a lifetime is nothing." WEALTHIER
She lives quietly In her Hollywood home, mambered the wealthier Mars
Jenom
in her generation
Bij Barbara Stanwyck seems
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with a natural intelligence and vitality.
GOOD PLACE
As the knowledge of what has happened to him slowly seeps in, he takes a slow look rotuid. is no one's food and wants make something of himmelf And his quarter of a million pemus.
to
Oxford is n good place tuo in
I would have taken another two hundred pages to do real justlee to the theme, and tackled from this interesting and unex- pected angle, it would well have Tewarded the effort.
TEACHER'S
PROBLEM
which to fall in with 2000 A SERIOUS WOMAN. By advice.
A friendly undergraduate of (his own class and a dolly young peer, with ideas about bow to are our coal resources properly,
help hlm with a very rupid self- celtication.
Stanley Middleton. Hutchinson. 165.
is like pools
a small man who puffs himself up bigger with solonels of culture culed from a wide dabbling in public libraries.
DISAPPROVAL
He makes a show of encourag- ing his children lead their own lives and make their own decisions, but never fals to point
out where they are wrong and to voice his disapproval,
who
He maddens Dorotheu Fees him
45 a pompous sham hiding behind the facade of old- Instioned parental concern, But her struggle to break away from bun is not a great success.
It is in the logic of the pattern he has set that the two men the is attracted to are both schoolmasters, the men who nave helped her brother to win brilliant rcholarship at Cam- bridge.
كملة
The elder, Langley, is a rather mother-bound dllet- well-on,
tuite.
Her father likes him as 0 sulter just for his being of a superior social class. But Durolliga rejects him in favour of his younger colleague, Mul- colin, handsome, nearer her age, and a little wild.
the
They get enorcal but engagement hands fre, And ung feels that it is Anally broken not so much by the bad motor accident which drives Malcolm temporarily out of his mind as dull by
soinu Inadequacy.
PO make dull lives in-
triguing and
A trip to London is rather less people interesting is one Dorethen. He goes to see what of the more difficult
successful.
The fallure of these two affairs throws Dorothea
back
મ
to be a woman who has never alte outlived the tragedy of her chlidkood-er fnther, a sailor,
the pool promoter's free advice branches of the novelist's upon her family and died at sen, her mother was pushed off a tram by a drunken stranger who was never found-reat attraction in the pool boss's art.
und never quile
discovered
happiness in her success.
One director I know, who has
service can do for him. But the
wants
into show-down with her father.
Now at last he comen cut from behind the facade and reveals himself as the
and weak uncertain character he really is, and she is able to pity and to nccept. She is released.
pretty secretary. He gets more education from her, but no help Mr Middleton, one of the most promising of the young writers with his problem. been around Hollywood for more is abroad soon gels around, and Authors series, Erts himself this The news that a potential mug discovered by Hutchinson's New than 30 years dealing wil beautiful women and their un-le gets waylaid by a very suave problem in his new novel. beautiful temperaments, said: stripjoint promoter who
to Invest his money in Dorothea in the daughter of a
The mubtlety of this novel is "Perhaps it is the inherent sed-im
undoubted and the relation- schoolmaster: ter ness of all glamour girts whole girin. He etes through that provincial
brilliant young ships are dramatised in a series much casily enough, but gives himself brother is a grow old, thinking it ta
the pleasure of stringing them mathematician
Krammar of admirably written dialogues, too soon to happen to them.
in a very "31. you Эслом,
Sinante along, and gets beaten up for school, and she, besides keeping But it is conducted
rather skiing bis pains.
house for them, has just begun constricted and in a damn fine actress And a
But wonderful woman.
Chalking that, up to experi- a career as a teacher in a local world.
Mr Middleton in fact ting Hollywood, age, for most people,ence, he goes back to Oxford infania school.
and his self-education, and is
If the hasn't yet found her solved only halt his problem. Ho becomes a personal tragedy,"
Com feet in the world, that her makes his duil poopla interest- Barbara Stanwyck could show Anally ateered towards that it can also be a challenge, bridge ond an engineering des
London Express Service
in
grto.
father's fault or anyhow that'e ing, but he doem't make their where she puts the blame. He is dull fiven very intriguing.
"It would put me. Ave
back down the ladder."
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(London Expren Service),
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