1948-01-03

QUEENS & ALHAMBRA

HONG KONG

KOWLOON

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A STORY OF VIOLENCE AND VIOLENT LOVE!

GARY

COOPER

as White Hat, the gambler,

INGRID

BERGMAN

as his Clio of New Orleans EDNA FERBERS

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TRUNK

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Down to Earth

MARC PLATT ROLAND CULVER JAMES GLEASON EDWARD EVERETT HORTON ADELE JERGENS: GEORGE MACREADY WILLIAM FRAWLEY

Directed by ALEXANDER HALL

A DON HARIMAN PRODUCTION

Jegura) menenatis by taom Blum, Don Hartman

Songs By Aber and Dor's Fisher

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1948.

NEW FUMS

AM unfortunate in having

a lot of smart friends who are always trying to shatter my illusions about film stars by taking me along to meet them in the flesh.

Now, no one but a fool would expect Ingrid Bergman or Michael Redgrave to glow as 'hot off the screen as they do on It-but I am still filled with windy sighs when I find one of my favourite film heroines has damp handshake or the anifles.

I am quite prepared to be lieve that Jean Simmons hasn't any of these things. Yet I re- fused to meet her the other morning, and I am aure } was right.

It was after the showing of "UNCLE SILAS" in which Jean plays her first star part; Fand she was there, dutifully walling to meet the critics, im- mediately after the final fade

out.

I watched her from a dls tanice, a

trim, self-contained little thing, chatting away to a group of people about every thing but the film we had just seen. (First lesson for an ac- tress: never ask a critle what

I now believe Miss Simmons will become one of our greatest screen actresses

LEONARD MOSLEY

Jean beats the old-timers

of our

Idealist Qint I am, I just couldn't terous melodrama. With only a few bring myself to go any nearer, just exceptions, its lending players pos- in case the girl who, I believe, Is ture, shrick. grirnace and dance

trentest about so going to be one

much that they should screen actresses was saying some now be classified as over-actors and

over-befressen. thar frite and silly.

But it is a film, none the lush, that what I had just seen For, after her do on the screen, it would have establishes Jean Simmons as a star been a let down almost impossible in her own right. For 103 minutes to bear,

she has to mix herself up in a, far- of funtastic mumbo-jumbo, rago surrounded 0:1 every side by veteran players exaggerating like

❝INCLE SILAS"

he thinks about your latest pic- "Ut pouchsical films I have near

is one of the mud every time the camera comes

ture).

them. She never loses sven for years. Its story is propos- head, nor her artistry, once.

TANTRUMS ARE OUT

HOLLYWOOD.

her

JEAN is supposed to be a rich ur- phan girl whose rascally uncle ¡Derrick de Murney) plots to mur- der her for her money. The setting is a gloomy old manor.

A drunken old governess beats and tortures her. Katina Puxinott plays this part with such facial con- tortions and such Incredibly raddled

that I

expected Her

broomstick. There is u profligate son (Man- ning Whiley) who starts by trying

make-up -and so are some make all her exits on

THE days are gone when a star's importance was measured by his or her "tem- perament."

With the world market as it is, producers here are in no mood to put up with whims and, tantrums from actors,

Claudette Colbert was dropped from the cast of "State of the Union" because she refused to work after five in the evening,

These days, work goes on at the studios till six or even later.

At a salary of £50,000, Claudette Colbert might have put in an hour's overtime but no.

Katharine Hepburn has taken over the part.

Then Gene Tierney was dropped by Twentieth Century-Pox for re- fusing a role.

Sterling Hayden, too, is unpopu- lar with his studio for the same ferson.

On the other hand, Cornel Wilde. who refused a role in "Walls of

leading stars

kiss the little urphan, and ends by trying to polish her off with ment-hook. There is a mad game. ment-h

keeper.

You

cannot think of a stuntlon out of old-time inclodrama that the director has not dragged in. The cast plunge into them with eries of Joy. Only Jean спе unstalneci.

wild

emerges

If you were one of those people wiig

vho liked her in "Great Expecln- tions" and "Black Narcissus go see her in this.

"Uncle Silas" will soon be shown in Hougkong.

STAR WELCOMES NEW FASHIONS IN NEW FILM

R Claudette Colbert

Jericho." has seen the light and ac-While the set was re-arranged for cepted the part after all.

➜

Perfect Joan

It was a privilege to see

raine,"

OSALINE RUSSELL thinks it's a wonderful feeling to be young and dressed up gain, as indeed she is in her the next take, I had a talk with in- new picture. "Mourning Becomes griti.

Electra," the RKO Radio film She told me that Selznick version of Eugene O'Neill's promised her the role of "Joan"

most famous play. long ago.

That was Ingrid

why she returned

Bergman at work on "Ioan of for. Hollywood fram Sweden after her

The scene showed Joan of Arc exhurting the Dauphin to nurch on Paris with her and drive out the English.

The scent involved four minutes banner, Ste me the only

scenes

Two years and more ngo Miss Russell tell the screen briefly be- cause of illness.

She came back to play "Sister Kenny," a nurse with

cause. She grew old with make- up and padding-no wardrobe. Then she made

of "The Guilt

Janet Ames" story of psychiatric case In 50-50 In

clothes-again no ward-

first American Blm "Intermezzo."

Selznick didn't make the lim, so stage as on the after 11 months Joan. Ingrid will make the picture with Walter Wanger, under her own

Films. of dialogue-most movie tokes are

Ingrid not longer than a minute and the bothering her are the riding ones. players went through it without "But I'm practising riding Per-robe. one slip.

cherons whenever I can," she said. had "I'm

gradually adding more weight three takes made before he was to my armour, until I can finally

ride with full equipment."

Ingrid did not look well, but was told this was due to the thick She was backed up by a strong Technicolour make-up 'she has cast, including Broadway actor Jose wear. Ferrer as the Dauphin.

Even so, director

Fleming

quite satisiled with the scene.

Ingrid herself was, as usual, mag- nificent.

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DEAL

She blushes very easily when she geta worked up in a scene.

It shows vividly ever on the stage, and a special make-up had to be devised to conceal it from the

cameras.

Dancing Dan

But today the lovely Rosalind Is young woman of fashion, even it period fashion, with 79 changes in the picture and complete en-

the sembles atid

"'best dressed woman" of the screen, picked re- seatedly by pollsters as one of "ten

best dressed women of America," is enjoying the experience.

Allure and Charm

wears in Every costume she "Mourning Becomes Electra" is just Ds smart Laviala Mannon, that Young woman of fashion and un- limited wealth whom Miss Russell portrays.

to would be expected wear.

These costumes are, naturally, of in the fashion of

since yesterday. "Mourning Becomes Electra" is laid in the year 1865.

Dan Dalley has been bombarded with offers since his overnight. hit

Grable's us Betty

co-stor

contract

he "But," says Miss Russell, there

tois boli allure and charm in. the

Paramount Pictures, Inc.. has 7.20 & 9.20 p.m. acquired Rainbow Productions, "Mother Wore Tights."

by which Paramount again has He would make a cool £300,000 the services of Leo McCarey, if he could take the offers, but who directed "Ruggles of Red can't as he's under

fashions of the hoop-skirt era. And Gap," "Make Way For To Twentieth Century-Fox.

However, when he finishes This undoubtedly there will be adapta morrow" and "Going My Way." Flaming Age," with Jeanne Crain, tons from that period to current One of the screen's outstanding he will get a fortnight on Broadway fashions. Already the poke bonnet,

such as I wear In this pleture. writers, producers and direcat £3,000 a week. tors, McCarey has won

He, used to work for MGM, but appearing all over the country," they let him go, as they couldn't see Academy Awards.

anything in him:

GUY K. AUSTIN

~Picture of

sthe MontliTM”

Parsons

Bha played a dangerous gamet

Henry

three

Ginsberg, Vice-presklent in charge of production and studio operation for Paramount, cald: "The nicauisition of Rainbow Productions withi Its Important assets and the Paramount return of McCarey to Studios. will greatly augment and stimulate our present excellent staff

ta and will continue our policy producing Important motion plc- tures of the highest quality with the widest possible value and peal. I welcome my old friend, Leo McCarey, and his associates."

Among the assets acquired Paramount is an exclusive contract

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