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They think boogie-woogie is shameful...
WISH Hollywood weren't always so sheepish, shame faced, and apologetic every time they make a serious film nhout swing music and boogie- Woogie.
abstracted, brooding loufe of his and being to tell his life story to his
companion.
Shortly before the story is con- cluded his companion has also died; but that must in justice be attributed to the rigourn of the days aboard the drifting flying-bont.
The Bash-backs relate the detalls
devoted childhood sweetheart and a grufly sentimental
cle
ably played by
The rhythm and sounds that mast folk lump under the of Van Johnson's boyhood in a small general name of jazz make up town, with g America's major contribution to the arts; and a stimulating, enjoyable, and important contri- bution It is, too.
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BALLETOMANIA
ITTLE Margaret O'Brien'a latest, THE UNFINISHED DANCE, gives satisfy her love of dancing-and she the young netress in opportunity to doesn't do so badly.
Former Bullet Rusze ballering Cyd fl. Charisse, as her teacher, is duight-
ballet seriences,
There are splendid
eye-allior
Yet to some Hollywood hacks inevitable rift between the childhood with a certainty of touch and a pre- ;
an intelligent grown-up who pro- fesses enthusiasm for it is rather like a temperance leader found out as a secret gin-fend.
You will get a good example of this attitude from "NEW ORLEANS" (Lee Theatre) which purports to be n history of jazz from its births in the rum-palaces and frowstry joints along Basin-street some thirty-odd years ago. According to the gentle men who thought this one up, it was snelal and professional death to be caught humming a "blues" song In thos fimes.
A conductor
ان
symphony
a seafarer Thomas Mitchell,
When grown up, there Is the
sweethearts. The girl (June Ally- sun, whose acting abilities well match those of Mr Johnson) In Uisillusioned by his pursuit of wealth away as a navy nurse. and the boss's daughter, and sails
ACLE SILAS, a handsomely JEAN SHINES Nastonishing feat is performed in mounted version of the Victorian melodrama opening next Tuesday at the Queen's.
An 18-year-oki girl, Jean Sim- mons, trips through. the heavy story
cise control of her neting which defy contamination by the over-acting going on all around her.
This
sensitive lovely, creature see
seems to be
be making a thin It takes the war to put things right all on her own. It is her first star- gain, with a providential meeting ring part and here is no doubt that at "1igh Barbarce" the mythical given the right things to do she is Pacifle island to which, as children, going to be sensational. they had both dreamed of journey uncle's sinister designs on his young For the rest, the tale of a wicked The central situation of this film. the plight of the two airmen adrift ward to get her money succeeds in on the Pacific, is, of course, poignant its creepy intentions at times., but in the extreme: but the treatment goes on too long and is played in a of it inflexibly avoids reailty. How manner which borders ever, the story progresses amiably grotesque.
.
young
orchestra adopts a disguise and an HER FIRST PICTURE AS A STAR
assumed name in order to listen to i1. aid is forced to resign hits position when he plays a jazz song on the concert platform. What nonsenset Around
tižne mosi serious students of music, most compoжCFN, had many disverning concert-goers were unashamedly listening to Jazz.
Ak well, Hollywood's snobbishness about jazz at least allows them to Tak une of their ready-made plots on to this fim.
Artura de Cordova fan lover of dance music, art therefore a musty, faw-minderi _type_naturally, he is not it to marry Dorothy Patrick, because she sings songs from opera. andle Italians, and is therefore nice upper-class, and respectable.
an irate
is true tast Miss Patricks, ready to make muy sacrifice for true love, does hum a torch song occasionally but when she tries to put a little swing into a concert recital anilence shrieks protests. She decides that her essay into the music of the lower orders hos proved too harassing even for love, and departs for Paris determined to be true only to Verdi and Puccini in future.
Fortunately, some years later, ons of Mr de Cordova's bands plays in a hall usually devoted to long-haired music, and this, of course, at lust makes him respectable enough to marry the girl.
But don't let this keep you away from the film. There are compensa- tions for the raneld plot-in the form of Louis Armstrong and his Band, a Negress named Bille Holli day, and Woodie Herman and his Orchestra, telling the story of jazz in their own exciting way whenever they can get rid of the plot.
VAN TELLS ALL
"Uncle Silas," which will be seen in Hongkong next week,
is charming Jean Simmons' first starring film. Here she
is with Derek Bond in a scene from the film.
Talk Of Film People
our
1
the
HE writing bug has bitten money for paints is taking a crack Everyone with the time and the THE
film personalitics at It. again.
Greer Carson is the latest to try Actor Keenan Wynn, and his her hand. VAN JOHNSON has several of the famed stage comedlun father. Ed
-essential—requirements of-an Wynn.-ure-collaborating on a book CONG-WRITER_Hoagy Carmielinet American mate film stor. He has an to be called "I Took After My Father and Maurice Chevalier will both impressive physique, a pleasant And My Father Took After Me." star in their own life stories'soon, smile, an agreeable voice, and B Another humorous autobiography Mary Fickford and Buddy Rogers range of Incial expressions which, is coming from Hollywood's Red are planning to make the Hoapy although restricted, is generally able Skelton.
Oli.
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titled "Nibbles and "Me"-has nearly greatest hit. These assets have served to win finished a sequel. hio the enthusiastic acclaim of it great many admirers and they Bre otice again displayed in HIGH BARBAREE (Queen's and Alhambra).
"High Barbaree," we are told, High Adventure and High Romance: it is also, I must add. very near to High Boloney.
Greer Garson is writing a biogra- phy of her mother,
On the more creative side:
Judy Garland is editing a 'volume of her own poems. Hume Cronyn is half-way through a novel
DEB
EBORAH! KERR (Mrs Tony Bartley) I calling her 'kew baby daughter Melanie Jane.
the
When Deborah Kerr returns to Metro, she will en-star with Lanu Turner in Esther, Forbes" "Running Or The Tide, a story about 19th)
Salem, NDWARD G. ROBINSON has taken century
which won tostudio's latest novel contest. Van Johnson is the skipper of ali leave from his work to fly Catalina flying-boat forced down in New York for the opening of his The Pacific, with only one other wife's exhibition of paintings.
E'
member of the crew alive; where- Talking of palating, it's the latest THE Ivory satin gown Janis Paige
upon Mr Johnson puts on that craze in lmland.
'Lost Week-end' Wilder
defines a good film
London
By DAVID LEWIN
Just the same his latest him, "Em- I recently was Bull peror Waltz, which set in stain
can director, who cleaned up four awards for "The Lost Week-end."
before the 75 percent tax, Lost
1,000,000.
wore at her wedding to Frank
| Martinelli, Jun., was the gift of her
studia boss, Jack Warner.
The ceremony, held at the Little Brown Church of the Valley, Was followed by a reception at the Mart!- nellis fashionable town house.
!B'
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DING CROSBY will definitely go
to London in May to stor In that į musical for J. Arthur Rank.
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In
of
four men
are detailed to nothing but pick up knights armour, who fall down!
The scene calls for hundreds
battlement on foot "Merely to make a change," he them to charge suys. "just couldn't go on making hid flying arrows.
pictures these psychological
with
Wilder is short and sturdy. He
At least half a dozen of them foll thinks fast and talks faster. He is sure in his own mind of what makes bottles of Scotch hidden in lamp-over during each take, and because best of their heavy armour, can't get up
without assistance.
good picture.
shades, (But they are the fun).
"Atmosphere and speed are every- "This new one is a musical with Bing Crosby, Joan Fontalne, and your own Roland Culver, who brilliant.
lo
thing." he says. "Get people to be lleve in what you are telling them and then get through the story fast,
"No use pointing the camera at "But again there in speed. Sure I the clouds and holding it there. No get unusual camera angles, but one cures about clouds. Get on with don't shoot a room looking at it the story and the dialogue. People through the fireplace. No one looks
out front want
I
to hear what the at a room that way, so it is out of actors are saying and understand the keeping in a film. menning of the plot-nothing else
matters so much.
"I cannot spend time doing_fity (47A ND it's no use
"A"
belog clever takes on one shot. I'm not clever
about buildings, either. When enough to think out that many dif- you picture a hospital, what is the ferent ways for the actors to play use of filming large syringe in the piece. So I do it in three takes front of the building? To get at- --but see it is good."
mosphere? I do not think that people who pay to see movies look at it that way at all.
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THAT, saya Wilder, was how he
got the best performance out of
Realism is life. I have ju spent Ray Milland in "Lost Week-end" three weeks in Berlin getting back- and won the tour Academy awards, grounds for my latest pleture with The picture took him 51 days to Marlene Dietrich-'Foreign Affairs” shoot, cost £250,000,
"Now that I have got the feel of Wilder goes on: "Money doesn't the place--it is just organised hell- matter. You don't have to spend a 1 can write the script will my part-
when I sail for America,"
Rex Beach's "MICHIGAN KID" In Technicolor lot to get a good picture. The real ner, Charles Brackett, in the
atories don't cost big money."
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