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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1947.
An outstanding film of 1946
A
THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES'
By JOSEPHINE O'NEILL
MERICA'S National Board of Review voted Samuel Cold- wyn's "The BostYears of Our Lives" one of the ton Best Films of 1946. This is a swift honour for a film which had its first showing (in New York); only recently, And now the Hollywood columnists ‚havo declared the film certain of the 1946 Acadomy Award.
The Board of Review placed "The Best Years of Oûr Lives" in third place. Only Laurence Olivier's" "Henry V" and the Italian documentary "Open City" bent it.
Although "The Best Yents of Our Lives", has come suddenly into this! allowing news, its history dates back to August, 1944,
Time_Magazine, which takccess share of the credit for the film, has alreddy told the story.
Producer Samuel Goldwyn pleked up Its issue of Aug 7, read an ac count of soldiers turning home after oversens service.
More Shape To Modern Girls,
Says Expert
The 21-Inch feminine waist, once
Fired by the human interest be- the ersatz product of while-bone hind this return, Goldwyn sent a stays and faces,. is now a cominon-
three-page wire to novelist Mackin-place in Hollywood. iny Kantor, requesting han to write a film story of how ex-servicemen cope with their old civilian life.
MacKinlay Kantor, also carried awny, sent Goldwyn 434 pages blank verse.
nt
Here Again!
The much-publicised beauties the 'gay nineties" worked hard and suffered to attain the measurements
in" "Ziegfeld of whleh many girls of our "fascinating fortles" possess without artifice.
This unusuni gesture paid off. Kantor's verse, became a best-selling Literary Guild book, "Glory For Me."
OLDWYN bought the tim rights of "Glory For Me" and engaged Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright Robert E. Sherwood to prepare the script.
He then those for this production and team director William Wyler cameraman Gregg Toland, the men who had worked with him on dis- tinguished flms the "Wuthering
"These
Thre Heights,"
"Dead End," and "The Little
115
players
runged from five top Hollywood stars to a young who had never peted before.
Dros.
So declares Lewis Hippe, Warner has star-conditioner, who Ilved long enough to know them
both.
The waists of Anna Held and of Lillian Russell were the toasts of two of three continents, to Hippe. It was reliably reported according that
a man could reach around them with his two hands. But the ladies spread a good deal just above and below the
squeezed-in wolst, and were noforiously uncomfortable while being mensured.
1
hot
Esther Williams, Hongkong favourite since "Bathing. Beauty,' appcars Follies of 1946," Easter musical at the King's Theatre. She loads ballet sequence.
*
water
Aesop's Night
are
In Paradise
Turhan Bey Merle Oberon, and
Universal's the co-stars of Technicolour production. "Night in Paradise" coming to the Central and Alhambra Theatres.
Based on the novel. Feather" by George S.
Not so with Jane Wymon, for one,
Day." Who appears in "Night and the Cole Porter life story which be- gins not long after the mauve de- cade. She has a 21-inch waist, by Hippe's measurement (not done with a Persim hands) und ho whalebone, steel ment with use ve top stars were, Fredric stays or lacing is necessary to pro- originated fabire
duce it.
man
Daun Andrews, Myrna Loy. Virginia Mayo, and Teresa Wright.
The unknown
young man .wes Harold Russell, a malined veteran of World War II.
Russell lust both hands in a battle explosion. He learned 10 substitute hooks so expertly that the War Department featured him in an amputees' training film, "The Diary of Sergeants"
Goldwyn saw Russell in this Alm, hunted him down to his home town of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Induced him to come to Hollywood
and
"Peacock's Hollman,
the story deals with King Croesus ot ancient Greece, his love affair with and her elope- the man who
Miss Oberon appears as the. Prin- Into Hippe's care-he is charged cess. Bey has the role of Aesop and with the pleasant duty of keeping Thomas Gomez is seen as Croesus, the Warner Bros. feminine players richest monarch in all the world. In just the shape they're in-come other such slender actresses as Ide Lupino and Jane Harker, neither of whom measures more than 21 inches around the waist.
"The new generation is just better shaped," says Hippe.
to play one of the three masculine Cinema Guide
reles in "The Best Years of Our Lives."
A NEW
SHOWING TO-DAY
star of a different kind also shone in the film. She is ¦ KING'S~Ziegfeld Follies' of 1940. Goldwyn's talent discovery, Cathy QUEEN'S-Make Mine Masie,
O'Donnell,
A talent scout brought Cathy into ALHAMELLA-South of Tahiti. Goldwyn's office two years ago.
Goldwyn looked at the small de- | CENTRAL-South of Tahiti, termined. 21-year-old girl, with soft,
brown hair, piquant, high-check- boned face, and lustrous brown eyes,
NEXT CHANGE
He ired a barrage of questions KING'S-Going My Way. - which Cathy answered. with ex-
quisite, gentle poise. Cathy foft ALHAMBRA—Night in Paradise. Goldwyn's office with a screen con- CENTRAL_Night in Paradise. tract in her shaking hand.
Cathy bexon
Krooming course,
staggering in its length and expense. After the studio had conched her, Goldwyn shipped, the girl off to the American Academy of Dramatic Arls in New York.
the
Said he "Hollywood is no place for a young woman to learn trade of acting. The glamour of the place is too distracting."
On her
Hollywood, return to Goldwyn handed her the script
The Best Years of Our Lives." She was to play the sweetheart of Harold Russell.
Other notables in the large enst include Gale Sondergaard, Ray Col- lins. Ernest Truex, George Dolenz and Jerome Cowan,
NEW CARTOON FILMUSICAL
Walt Disney's "Make Mine Musie." latest full-length comedy musical Technicolour feature, offers a series of phantasies, in sequences like The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met, Joling Fedora and Alier Blue Bonnet, and After You're Gone, which, in order, are sung off-scene by Nelson
Sisters Eddy, the Andrews and Benny Goodman.
Story-telling with music, and song. Include All the Cats Join In, The Martins and the Cops, Casey at the Bat, and Peter and the Wolf. Lyrical episodes include Two Sit- houettes with Dinali Shore's singing. and Without You with Andy Russell in the star vocal part.
The film is on at the Queen's,""
WHAT IT FEELS LIKE
TO WIN AN OSCAR
By ALINE MOSBY
HOLLYWOOD-That golden Oscar that Olivia de Havilland snagged carried with it something dearer than gold an apartment in Hollywood...
Olivia's landlord is a gent store window, she said. Everybody named Mitch Leisen who also will sit back and say, well, lady, let's THE story of the filin centres
Around three returned men and happens to be the director who see what makes you so good.
boosted her to an Academy But she couldn't have been mure middle-Award in "To Each His Own." scared, she added, than on Oscar
their families.
Fredric March plays Et nged man who lonthes the lea of returning to his stuffy job in A bank. He is fortunate in his un- derstanding
So when she was nominated for day. She'd been a one of these glorified book-ends.
two-time loser. For Gone with the Wind" in 1030
wife (Myrna Loy). Leisen told her he'd let her stay and "Hold Back the Dawn" in 1941. although his daughter and Боп rent free in her apartment for 21 The first time was quite a bitter plll, (Teresa Wright and Michael Hall) find him dimeult.
Dana Andrews has the more dis- Illusioned role of a war pilot, who comes back to find that his war bride (Virginia Mayo) has taken а job in a night-club as tinselly 38
herself.
Harold Russell plays young sailor, whose sweetheart (Cathy O'Donnell) is inexpressibly shocked by the sight of his hooks.
worker.
fake
venr if she won. She did, but Olivia hasn't decided yet about that offer.
without paying anything," she said. "We wouldn't think of living here
but there was doubt in those golden tones. "Anyway, we'll demand super service, like Lelsen polishing my door-Imob. Can you imagine?"
Again And Again
every.
two
she said, but the second time it was worse because she lost the Oscar to her sister, Joan Fontaine.
As you may have read, the arà feuding.
"This time I got philosophical. You know, to heck with 11," she. grinned.
were
We bet he will. The minute
The afternoon of O'night the girl Throughout the Alm, Russell
who fixed Olivia's hair for "To Each proves that a maimed veteran can actress lugs home an Oscar take his place as a sidlled industrial director and producer in town is on
her front porch with scripts. Cash His Own" came around to fix it The
Best Years of our Livers" in while the gridie's hot, they figure. again. While the pin-curls
They also figure if she won the drying she told Olivia's fortune' in nearly three hours (it is Gold-Oscar in one role she can do it again wyn's longest movie) to toil the ex-
cards. periences of these three and their the same character. familles experiences
blend that
"I've read stacks of scripts with romance and humour with
warm roles just like the one I had in To Each His Own' or 'Dark Mirror," which also was considered for an nward. That's silly," who suld,
wil mixad up in
and Black Mugle § -
drama.
A-HAUNTING
WE WILL GO
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"HENRY V" by
IN TECHNICOLOR
William
EARE
In all the proffered manuscripts
Two Sovens
"Two saveny came up. She told me I'd win for sure," said movie- town's first lady,
The Orson Welleses Miss De Havilland alther ages, has. That hairdresser also curled "Anne
To Visit Europe
דיי
an illegitimate child or goes insane Baxter's topknot. Yet, she won the and shools some character. She can supporting actress award. There's an afford to be choosy now.
angle there someplace. want something. that ham strength and calls for a real seting #1 was last on the programme, job,” she told us.
was
HOLLYWOOD. — Rita Hayworth
It worse, It which made and Orson Welles, whose latest ple- ,ture,, "The Lady. From Shanghai," In three months, 20th-Century misery. And going upon that was filmed largely in Mexico, have Fox will start shooting "Snako, Pit," enormous stage-1 My mouth went applied for passports to visit Europe in which Misa De Havilland will dry and my hand, trembled," Miss lato in March. While Welles fulfils play the star role in the expose of De Havilland said,
a commitment with Sir Alexander an insane asylum.
Korda to film "Salome" in England. Mias Hayworth will travel in Spain, Italy, Fraiico, Austria and Germany. They plan to be abroad months Associated Press-
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• Two-Time Loser and people who wore nominated for, this and that, too. They had to sweep When she returns to work she'll out the finger nails from the aisles feel like a nude mannequin la during Intermission-United Press...
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