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SPECIAL SUNDAY MORNING SHOW AT 12.30 Humphrey Bogart in "PASSAGE TO MARSEILLES"
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Ray MILLAND
Bing CROSBY
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Bob HOPE
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COURAGE OF LASSIE
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Starring:
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
FRANK MORGAN & TOM DRAKE
AN M-G-M HIT
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1948.
Stars film bosses
accuse the
HERE are signs that rest.
lesancas among British film stars over "snusage- machine" production methods ia coming to a head. The drift from the studios to stage work iz öne significant portent.
The rather pompous AB- nouncement by the Rank or- ganisation, suspending Mar- garet Lockwood's contract for declining a role, is unimportant in itself. They have already chosen a new film for her, “dy Sister is Dead."
But the incident is the first public manifestation of an unhealthy ten- dency in Big Business flm methods
here.
Many stors and directors have complained to me of the bureau- cratic system.
Directors find they arc being "lrected" from a high executive
level in a way that stultifies imaging lion And enthusiasm. Stars ካሮሮ complaining of type-casting and the compulsion, under long-term con- tracts, of acting In unsuitable rules. This is why an increasing mumber
LINDA'S A "MASS OF BLISTERS"
Darucit
Hollywood, — Linda complalds that corsets she has
had to wear in histuele Glms keludlog "Forever Amber** may deprive her of mother- hour.
She says her body is "such a mass of blisters and weils it will take six months' remedial exercise to make it normal."
Add Linda; "Thuse corsets have reduced me 17 pounds."
From Landon comes stipport
land's
for Linda from two of Eng- famous beautles-thr Dowager Marelioness of Head- fort, formerly Rosie Boot the Galely Girl, and Mrs J. Evans, formerly Camille Clifford, the orlelual Gibson Girl.
Linda not cotusoled when
wasp-waisted Women of Victorian days had big famtites. Although Kome Victorlan women had 20 children both molbers and children often died young.
BOX-OFFICE
SCORES
FOR 1947
LONDON.-New York's Na-
names
tional-Board-of-Review -of- Motion Pictures
Celia Johnson and Michael Redgrave the best actress and actor 1947.
JOAN DOWLING
Bond-street incident
Arc
breaking
of our film-makers away to work independently of the big group system, It is natural artistic urge towards Freedom of the Screen.
A writer and producer. who left
FARR GETS TOUGH
NATOLE DE GRUNWALD, Alm
the Rank fold to form his own com- "Bond Street," pany, is to follow now nearing completion at Welwyn, with an adaptation of the Pushkin classic, "Queen of Spades."
Ethel Barrymore, pillar of the American
stage and
sereen, muz come over to London to play one of the principal parts,
By HAROLD CONWAY
Eighteen-year-old Joan Dowling (she was the eldest evacuee in the play "No Room at the Inn") had to saunter along the street as an over- dressed matcher-up from a fashion house.
When the "rushes" were shown on the studio screen, there appeared the visage of a man, turning and gazing with interest at Joan. It led the scene so well that the shot in being kept in.
The unwitting netor may be in for a shock nt his local cinema.
I
NOISES OFF
110 HAVE intention of mate- crashing the To Boo or Not To Boo' debate. But recent demonstra- fons at Covent Garden call for com- ment.
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is
Fricntily operatie rivalry healthy, But if this rivalry going to foster vocal factions among the followers of the theatres con- cerned, we can look for some dis- concerting developments.
Impartial observers have suspected that there might be inore than ap- peared on the surface behind some of the opera hooing lately. Curren pondence
received lends I have enlour to this view,
We have plenty of room in Lon- In "Bond Street"--which contains don for opera in English and Italian. four distinct stories, linked together There is no need for the partisans by a wedding-dress-Derek Farr gets to wage a miniature war. his fret ble acting chance, He will [be seen in a tough character-role,
BOND-STREET TENT
BE
EST story of this production con- eers the scenes Mmed in Bond- street Itself.
POET'S PALACE AINSBOROUGH'S Bilen of mak
ing a Byron fim, with Dennis Price in the lewd. is an interesting ape, though attempts to dramatise iterary genius do not always suc- coed, is a recent Shelley-Byron play again instanved.
in-
Director Gordon Parry and two cameramen sel up a "elephone- The Blm will picture some of the repairers" tent on the herb. They authentic Italian backgrounds, donned' workmen's overalls and, for cluding: the poet's old palace un the two days, squatted in the enclosure Venlee Grand Canal, Mr Prier med with miniature cameras,
The actors mingled quietly with the shoppers; no one bothered glauce into the "hole-in-the-rund" lent. The best shot of all was un- planned,
location until have recently been out there.
Tut am sorry they are calling the pleture "The Bad Lord Byron." This seems a cheap pandering to the wrong kind of box-often appeal. I
Studio Highlights And Sidelights
let,"
SIR Laurence Olivier's "Ham- was maintained to dress jungle sets
which will be shown in "Tarzan and thus Mermaids." for the first time in April, cost
| £500,000 to produce. Even with
Battey (Dulcie
11-
all the efforts at retrenchment M^!
JALAYAN-BORN Dulcie Savage-
Gray to it still costs about £200,000 to goers) has found an attractive jub make most major 'British pie- or herself. With husband Michael tures. An exception is "Shadow Dennison she will star in film called of Tomorrow" which deals "The Glass Mountain," which will ne- with Britain's employment of Dolomites. Michael will be a planist, [ex-Nazi concentration, camp Dulele a silly wife, as she is in the
scientists on research for a current "Mine Own Executioner." possible future war at £70,000.
arrival, she
found herself
cessitate
location 1
trip to the
OBJECTIONS of the present Lord
have been overcome. ald descendant of Lord George
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Do You Love Me
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WORD STAM
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Gary Cooper
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Dyron Gainsborough's film USTRALIAN-Ann Richards, -in-
Phone 58335% "The Bad Lord Byron" appear to New York on holiday from
The 06-year- 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m. Hollywood, finds the city amazing of On her
sharing colossal Broadway billboards Byron, the poet, recently entertained l his home Thrumpton IIAN, with Sylvia Silney and John Hodiak
Dennis Price, the in posters plugging "Love From title role in the film.
actor with the Said Ann: "I can scarcely Stranger.' and myself in that picture." She, distinctly remembers neling for Love From a Stranger" was belug months before the enmeras, while
In 1946 the critics of 10 New York daily papers picked Misa Johnson as that year's best actress for her part in "Brief Encounter."
The Board selected Miss Jolinson for her part in "This Happy Breed," Redgrove for his part in "Mourning Becomes Electra-
matie.
It considered Chaplin's “Monsieur Canu, for the Amerienn Gíbraltur Verdoux" the best film in 1947.
Poluctions, "Sont of India."
Spencer's The Man For
is tying to Ceylon for Jungle back- The Ladies
The Board included "Great Ex- pretations," "Odd Man Out" The Ground scenes. Overlanders" and two Italian pro- ductions in the year's 10 best ple- turc
By PATRICIA CLARY. THE Corridor of Mirror: Just The American Alin weekly, Show-m cinema history of two countries.
completed, writes a new chapter WHO'S the man who most strong- ly influences todny's woman, man's Trade Review, considers It is the Best British flm to be emotionally? Clark Gable, Van John- James Mason the most popular actor made entirely in France since the
theson, Frank Sinatra, her husband? coming of cound. Marle by an i No. fellows, it's Spencer Tracy. dependent company. Apollo Films, That's what the Indies said, when it stars Eric Portinan It has opened poll-takers from the Women's Re- the door to future co-operation_be- search Guild of America asked twoun Britain and France. More them. They said Tracy had
In Britain with Anna Neagle ariti Margaret Lockwood sharing the lead of actresses.
The Kinematograph Weekly snyn
Your Heane
will be writty
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CROSBY BERGMAN
CLA SECRETY
Belis of St Mary's
KENTE TERSTON
WALANJAN
COMMENCING TO-MORROW
the best box-office film of 1047 in thitish nims are likely to be made strong, dependable look about him "CONSTANT NYMPH"
Britain was "The Courtneys of Cur- zon Street,"
Runners-up were "Great Expecta- tions." "Ord Man Out, "Frieda,"
In Park.
"Holiday Camp" and Hollywood's A COMPLETE greenery, valued at
more thun U.S.$100,000 contain-
The _Julson Story" and "Duct in ing all kinds of tropical shrubbery The Sun."
This journal says. John Mills led James Mason-and Margaret Lock- wood as the most popular stor,
Gainsborough was the most suc- cessful stúdio of the year 1947.
·COMMOTION IN 7 LANGUAGES
Merle Oberon sneezed on the set of "Berlin Express" and caused a cammation in seven languages.
Chicago-born Robert Ryan said. "Clod bless you."
Charles Korvin gave the Hungarian word, "Egezzegeróľ"
Paul Lukas, who plays a German in the film, stayed in character with "Gesundheit."
Director Jacques
Tourneur, born
In Paris, said, "A vos souhaits."
Polish-born Roman Toporow came up with "Na zdrowie."
And Linguist Peter von Zerncek Alled in with the Italian "Salute"
and the Rumanian "Noroc,"
THEATRE Directory
QUEEN'S-Do You Love Me? (Maureen O'Hara, Dick Haymes)
CENTRAL-Cloak and Dagger
(Gary Cooper, Lilli Palmer)
LEE-The
that was very influencing.
in poor seconds.
Charles Boyer
the
They Gave
Gable, Johnson and the rest of The screen's romantic figures came:
In the
past, it was
1 foregone conclusion that any actor in cost was " romantic hero but Tracy. No matter how sympathetic Tracy's
character, the other fellow got the their
girl. Gable did for years.
The strength of Gable's romantic scenes Was measured in klases, Tracy's by slammed doors.
He was
the man who always walked out and Bald "goodbye."
Tracy Stops Out
But it "Chss Timberinne," M-G- M's
Lewis movie of the Sinclair
KING'S-Jassy (Margaret Lock: novel about a respectable Minnesota
wood)
Judge, Tracy brings the dependable, influential hero luto his own. He not, only marries Lana Turner but takes Mitchell her
away from Cameron and keeps Zachary Scott, the wolf, Yangise from the door. He does it
again "State of the Union," in which he la mar- Mac-ried to Katharine Hepburn, who ac
Tears of (Chinese Picture)
ORIENTAL-Smoky (Fred
Murray, Anne Baxter)
Lives.
Joan Fontaine
We, too, may give through the
HONGKONG WAR
in the Frank Capra picture, MEMORIAL
cording to the script is wildly in
CATHAY-Star-Spangled Rhythm love with him, and attractive
(Ray Milland,
Lanzour)
Dorothy
to
Angela Lansbury,
Tracy even holds his own, in Miss Lansbury's affections, against Van satisfaction,"
ALHAMBRA--Cloak and Dagger Johnson.
"And that is some STAR-Bells of St Mary (Bing Tracy said.
Crosby, Ingrid Bergniun)
It's almost as satisfying, he said, na being chosen, hands down, the MAJESTIC Courage of Lassie No. 1 influence on American
(Elizabeth Taylor)
men's emotions.
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