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Murderous Out in a matter of seconds
Glamour Girls
By GUY K. AUSTIN
HOLLYWOOD.-Gone are the
days when the heroine of a film had to be aweeter than a choco- late sundae and more clinging than the Ivy.
Nowadays most of the Indies in films seem to take murder, insanity and physical violence.
in their stride.
Glamorous stars who used to play in films with tender love stories are now shown driving their men to suleide, the gallows, or the asylum.!
Just take a look at these:
"The Locket," Laraine Day, once known as a sweet and charm. ing heroine, plays a young woman with well-developed kleptomania.
Her strange actions have an un- holy effect on the men in her life.
Ilumilintec and embarrassed, Robert Mitchum kills himself,
Loraine's husband, Brian Aherne is divorced, then commities! to an insane asylum.
In The Woman on the Deuch," Itobert. Ryan stars off as a coast- guard lieutenant,
Then he runs foul of Joan Dennett, wife of biled painter (Charles
lickford).
II
Under her Influence, he is led to attempt to murder the paļnier.
2 Temptressco
As a stockbroker in "They Won't Believe Me," Robert Young gets in- volved with Surun Hayward and Jane Greer.
These two finally unhinge his mind to the point where he kills himself on account of a murder which he is led to belleve he has committed.
In "Out of the Past," Jane Greer again gets the likeable Robert Mit- chum enmeshed in a web of murder. Illa Hayworth evilly beguiles Orson Welles Into a melodramatic mess in The Lady from Shanghai." In "Duel in the Sun," Jennifer Jones, who once played St Berna- dette, drives Gregory Peck to klil a mild rancher, shoot his own brother in cold blood, and become a train robber.
There are plenty more like this coming.
Perhaps this is the reason why inspiring and uplifting Alms. Le "The Yearling." "The Best Years of Our Lives" and "Henry V" have been so popular here, and will find themselves among the Academy Award contenders this March.
Danny Kaye's
New Comedy
Thirteen years ago, Danny Kaye, then just starting out on his pro- fessional career, joined the Marcus Show and toured the Orient for a summer. The Marcus Show ployed in-the-Queen's Theatre-here-- and. one of the items must remembered was a fon dance burlesque done with folded newspapers in which Danny Kaye brought the house
down.
lat When
Danny Kaye, as a milkman turned pugilist, in a scene from his latest comedy. "The Kid From Brooklyn," which will be · scen in Hongkong next week. Supporting him in the ring are two of the gorgeous Goldwyn girls who appear in the film.
Dollars talked to a sterling industry
By Dick Kisch
ONDON. Film making has become the seventh most important industry in Britain a vital statistics bul- letin announced this week.
A few years ago, the film in- dustry held thirtieth place among British industries.
The industry now earns some £2,000,000 annually in the
United States.
Optimists predict that in 1947 this figure will soar to £5,000,000.
On the other side of the medal, the United States takes some £20,000,000 each year from the poc- kets of British qinemagoers.
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KING'S-Hers To Hold. QUEEN'S-Sentimental Journey. ALHAMBRA-Phocchio. CENTRAL-Pinnechlo
He has travelled a long way from those days. After his Far East lour and a spell of acting in London, hu Joined
the
Strow
NEXT CHANGE Revue"
On Broadway.
KING'S-Beware of Pily. the show closed down,
QUEEN'S-The Kid From Irooklyn, went to LAT Martinique night ALHAMBRA—WNd Beauty. club, where his number. "Anatol of Paris," attracted the notice of Mos Kort, who signed him on for "Lady In The Dark," In which Kaye's Tschaikovsky number, rattled off with the names of 50 Russian composers at breakneck speed, sent New York into roars of delight,
Danny
Danny Kaye next played in Cole) Porter's "Let's Face It." He was
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ARTENDERERENT BLANTENAIRES ALLIRAN TERRITORNEONATESIL.
CHAPLIN'S NEW
FILM IN MARCH
Charles Chaplin promised that then on the top rung of the ladder, the public
seo his "Monsieur and Samuel Goldwyn offered him a five-year contract
Verdous" in March. clown to pictures.
in
latest comedy, "The Kid From Brooklyn" comes to the Queen's next week. It is the story of a milkman who turns out to be a pugilist and wins the world's championship. There are plenty of laughs throughout.
Hollywood products still occupy 80 per cent. of screen time in British cimumas.
A new Anglo-American film pro- ject, ostensibly designed to get more British" pictures into the United · States (and more dollars into the British Treasury), was also signed in London at the end of January.
Warner Brothers became partners with Associated British Picture Cor- poration (rivals to the Rank set-up), investing £1,000,000 to reorganise and, extend Elstree and Teddington Studios.
The now setap will make six British pictures over two years, all of which will be counted by Warmers as part of their overall an- nual schedule.
The project has the blessing of Sir Stafford Cripps, as President of the Board of Trade.
He attended the slap-up Savoy Hotel bunfight at which Jack Wamer Sald Cripps: announced the deal.
This is a sort of tutorin! experi- ment under which Wamers will provide American stars, directors, and technicians to make pictures British back- with an essentially ground and stories."
Insisted Jack Warner: "References to the ABC being an American domi- nated company nre ridiculous. Warner Brothers' present and future interests lle solely in backing and of bringing to reality this type motion picture production in Eng- land,
Chaplin's own opinion of Monsieur | "Once this programme is in suc Verdoux: "It is the only one of my cessful operation Warner Brothers films that I would willingly sit will withdraw." through twice."
He bought the idea for this comedy of murders from Orson Welles, spent two years in writing his scenario, and twelve weeks in shooting the
In addition, there are a number of - film-with himself as star catchy tunes, dances by Vern-Ellen and items by the gorgeous Goldwyn | Girls.
AN ORIGINAL THEME
To the King's during the coming week comes: another, British film with an original theme. ."Beware
Monsieur Verdoux is a modern Bluebeard.
attraction
The deal's undoubted fer the Treasury is the fact that (ac- cording to Wamer) "the ABC share the return of these films will be payable in dollars."
To the people concerned with the continued development of a genpline- ty national British Industry calling Chaplin's defence of making mirth films prodiced under such an
rangement "British" Is an unfortu hate euphemism,
out of murder:
Von. Clausewitz said that war is the logical extension of diplomacy, and Monsieur Verdoux Jects that murder Is the logical extension of business.
Verdoux should express the feel- we İlve In-out of
of Pity" tells the story of a girling of the times
ar
DEANNA SINGS TWO HITS
strichten by partial paralysis who catastrophe come people like him. Half the songs. Deanna Durbin
In
"He is, however, never morbid, love with a handsome officer and builds all her hopes upon and the pleture is by no means morsings in her new Universal picture, "Hers To Hold," are popular num- bid." suposed cure which he mentions,
Lers.
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en when disappointed and realising that is attentions had been prompt.
Chaplin claims that the disaster
of a pioneer wagon-party, lost in the These numbers are Cole Porter's ed by mistaken pity, turns to Sierres, who took
to canibalism. "Begin The Beguine" and "Say a suleide in an emotional impasro.. inspired his comedy. "The Gold Pray'r For the Boys Over There," The film is based upon a novel tush" (in witch Chapin, in a clas-written by Jimmy McHugh and by Stefan Zweig, which was transint-sle scene, ate his boots).
ed Into English in 1938 and attained considerable success.
Adds the comedian:
Herb Magidson. They are the first popular tunes Denna has presented Lon the screen in several seasons,
"Monsterr Verdoux applies the The other two songs in the picture same technique, to the story of a are Tho, Kashmiri Song" and mass killer, because, under proper "Sequidilla" from the opera "Car- circumstances, murder can bomen."
Lili Falmer gives one of the best performances of her career in the part of the crippla. The wife of Rex Harrison, she has recently been | comic.” In Hollywood, and has juist complet-
"Hers To Hold” fs, showing at the
!Deanna's co-star.
ed "Cloak and Dagger," co-starring March will tell whether the publio | King's Theatre, Joseph Collen is with Gary Cooper.
agrees with Chaplin.
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