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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1948,
STEPHEN WATTS picks his
Ten Best Films Of 1947
. as well as the ten worst!
1
HAPPY Now Year to all the mirror up to nature in these genuine, consistent amusement. men of good will in the unhappy times makes for this is no stricture on the other excellent film producing business, result, then for goodness' sake too low. Please let me laugh more films to say that this proportion is but with the accent on the word let us fantasticate. "happy."
a
Let it be, I pray, at least happier year on the screen than the last.
to amuse,
in 1840,
Fine art is a tonic, a refreshment Now here, to dispute, attack and or the spirit, but where we are not fall out with me and your family going to get gri let us have enter- over, is my list:--- tainment. And to entertain menny (1) Open City; (2) Odd Man Out; (3) Mine Own Executioner; The Best Years of Our Lives; (1)
Boomerang To Feace; (7) Monsieur Verdoza (1) Bachelor Knight: (0) The October Man; (10) The Yearling.
There has been far too much gloom and
In Aguring out the ten best films misery, torture, I saw in 1947 I am struck by the fact mental and physical. If holding that only
11lm constituted
one
Fred Astaire and Lucille Bremer, who scored so sensationally together in "Ziegfeld Follies," are teamed again in M-G-M's delightful new Technicolour film with music, "Yolanda and the Thief," which is now at the King's Theatro. Frank Morgan heads the supporting cast.
What have they got that you haven't?
By FRANK CAPRA The Famous Film Director hearing
whether
Wingly failing an increase you wish to follow neting arou think
days which goes something like he got that I
a profession, regardless of whether this: "What's
you are stage struck or screen struck or not, training in the haven't got?"
bnete fundamentals of acting will stand Used glibly, much after the you in good stead. Whether you live manner of a wisecrack, and in tunities are at hand-today-to enjoy
In a big city or a small town oppor situations where the answer is the poise, presence and self-con- so obvious none is necessary, it idence
that come invariably
from acting brings a hearty training and which can be of in- laugh.
calculable value in both business and social life.
The answer, of course, is "plenty," regardless of whether the questioner One famous screen star, who has thinks so or not. But rephrase the appeared in several of my produs- question, and it becomes a subject training as an actress stood her in tions, once told me how much her for serious discussion. Let's, put it another way.
good stead in her social life apart "What did they have at the be- from the screen. ginning," ask yourself, "that I didn't have?"
Indomitablo Will
told
"I hated to meet new people," she me one time. "But I noticed as I improved as an actress, I im proved 09 nhostess, too.. The
BEYOND an indomitable will to thought of presiding at a dinner
cornest
party of eight or ten or more, which learn, once would have terrified me, no equip longer makter. I took it in my
their stride."
succeed, an eager and desire to work, study and that probably had no more ment at the threshold of careers than any yonug man or girl. Having talked with hundreds who
The First Step
THE first step in acting training
The sources are British 3, Ameri- can 5, Italian 2. And the solidly funny one is Bachelor Knight.
Much easier to sift out from the year's total are the worst pictures
I saw. Here they are, in no par ticular order of demerit.
Duct in the Sun. Root of All Evil, High
Barbarce. The Man Within, Slave Girl, While I Live, and When the Bough Breaks.
At a time when the good British Alms. are very good it is imperativo to deal firmly with those that fall below par. Four of the above seven unhappy memories were British- made.
Brain and boauty
RANDOM
pleasant:-
recollections, mainly
In the department of sheer beauty and intelligent performance, Michele Morgan (La Symphonie Pastorale). Lareita Young (The Farmer's
Deborah Kerr (Black
Daughter) Diana Wynyard
Ideal Husband).
(An
Players who seemed to me to have big futures. Eleanor Parker (O Human Bondage), Barbara Bel Geddes (The Long Night), Glynis Johns (An Ideal Husband), Dulcie Gray Mine Own Executioner).
Definite star arrivals, Aldo Fabrizi Italian flims), Kieron Moore About the House),
when I predicted box- office reaction with confident ac- curacy, The Courtney's of Curzon Street (Anna Neagle).
Revivals which provided three of my most enjoyable experiences of 1947: Gone With the Wind, Cabin in the Sky, Blithe Spirit.
Star most likely to go further in 1940: Jean Simmons, dilto: Jane Russell.
Star least
Rooney! 'I know
it all'
By DAVID LEWIN
LONDON.
MICKEY ROONEY, five foot
one of American ahowman-
seck careers on the screen, and to is elocution, publle speaking, ship, bounced into London on
118 many more veteran actors and actresses
who have achieved their dabatinig, So many of the young the first day of the year, stuck Foals and are established as stara people I talk with today sidestep out his jaw and said: "Get in their profession, 1 am continually these courses. astounded of the opportunities all of It makes them nervous, they say, them have overlooked in their carller to get up and speak before a large years to acquire acting training. group of people.
they give the
however,
thee behind me, Andy "Hardy. That kid stuff is over."
Rooney is here for four weeks
Invariably,
I wonder if it ever occurs to them in variety because: "I munt some answer. It usually adds up that even the most seasoned per-keep my name and my face be- to, #1d planned to be something else former has a gripping twingo of before J decided to take up acting" nervousness deep within him at the fore the English public. I have This stock reply, of course, has moment just before he steps out grown up, and I want everyone always puzzled me, since know- behind the footlights to face an to know.
auice a ledge of aeling can stand any person
his
cm-
in good stend regardless of what line audience, no matter how many times
"I am 27 now and I need long done it. hn
before. Once there, of endeavour
or whatever profesalon, howeve the nervousness stage pants. want to leave those he decides to take up as his life work.
to him-drops away and, corny family films a long way Lank
around at any two in- absorbed in what he is doing and behind.". dividuals you may know. Each cari saying, he forgets everything else have the same capabilities, yet one. around him. has a faculty, a knack, for presenting It's Just the same with elocution wares in a more appealing and debating. Once you're out there, manner than the other, and he gets taken up with what you have to the job.
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Those 14 family Ams made £7,000,000 for M.G.M., · his ployers, a belter return than on any other film series. Rooney forced up his shore from £187 week to more than £2,500.
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