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"RIO RITA
SHOW HOLLYWOOD
By JYMPSON HARMAN
RITISH films, once the with the artists who make the films. proposed subjects. After that the
formulas.
One of Hollywood's best and most
by considerations of sincerity and
common sense.
B Cinderellas of the cine-In Hollywood, particularly, they individual ,producers and directors mas, are gaining hun- nve been hemmed in by box-offieo go about their business moved only dreds of thousands of new friends all over the world be cause they are different.
They defy all the conventions which have been accepted in the film industry
for more than 30 years, In alming for realism, they ignore the time-honoured dietim that the pubile goes to the cinema to get away from it all in letting story, value take precedence over star value, they reverse the ap proved method of salesmanship. They do all this and people like them
experienced directors, Lloyd Bacon, has recently given it as his opinion that the American Alm industry is "going overboard in making inst. minute changes and in editing new releases, based solely on the re- netlong found in public opinion polls, in sneak previews and pre- miere audiences. Mr Bacon thinks the idea began well "but has wound up as a fetish and a cult."
AUDIENCES VARY PRODUCERS of the new British flms accept the fact that audiences vary bath ps to taste and intelli- gence and that you get nowhere by trying to find any lowest common denominator for film success.
Sincerity and common sense are the qualities that are carryng the now. British films to victory. Sam Coldwyn, who got into trouble last year for telling, Holly wood that It needs "to stir itself out of its fat-. cat, complacency" because of the
the now success of
British Alms, also says that Hollywood has "run short of ideas. because it has lost touch with the common man."
That, I take it, means the same thing as losing sincerity and com- inch sense. Certainly these twò factors are very prominent in "The Best Years of Our Lives" and com- bine to make Mr Goldwyn's picture
the
If this proves anything, it proves tint An execuilves have, In the past, under-estimated the Intelli- genee of the average filmgoer.
Anest to leave a Hollywood Attempts to please everyone at tho British lin-makers think Inde-
studio last year.
You will find these qualities pre- same thine, by never trying any pendently, Even in such a large sent in many of the excellent Bri- thing that a few might dislike, re- and induential organisation ns J. tish films that
·sult usually in banality. The Arthur tank's, the various produc- world travels.
are now on their escapist themes, the falsification of tion unlis
Again warn you arc allowed to make that these films are different. They dramatic values, the diluting down pictures according to their own should to the lowest mental equipment lights, unimpeded
not be approached In the by head office mood In which one just "goes to have produced more boredom than pre-conceptions. A kind of council a movie," in the hope that it will pleasure. Not that the fault lay of combined producers considers not be any worse than usual.
WINNER EMBRACES
LOSER
Loretto Young (left), surprise Academy Award winner as best motion picture actress of 1947 for her work in "The Farmer's - Daughter," embraces Rosalind Russell, who had been expected to win.
STUDIO COOKS SAID
TO BE THE BEST
BY PATRICIA CLARY-
The chefs are just ordinary prop taking cooks are found not men, but their job is to provide
HOLLYWOOD'S most mainst
dishes
in its world famous restaurants, players can cat for a whole
so tasty that a group of
day
EACH AN EXPERIENCE THESE are not filma that pass through your consciousness Ilke a magazine page turned and forgot- ten. Each of the best new British pictures is an experience and its effect Ingers in the memory.
"The Overlanders,” made In Australian cattle country, is super- lelally another Western; but it brings ก change of scene and a de
the
liberate sense of realism that makea Its drama" unforgettable.
"Hue and
in
Cry" is an amusing thriller
set in the bomb ruins of London and shows a gang of typical young Cockney sparrows whose street games become involved in real crime. Here again is realism. With its novel background, good humour and its refreshingly natural actors this film does not look as though it was produced in a studio: it just seems to have happened.
"Odd Man Out'
Mason, and made by one of Dri- nut, starring James Alm craftsmen, Carol since that
tuinte
finest
Reed, is ke
nothing
brilliant Alm, "The
nobic, poetic
Informer."
tragedy set in the
slums of Belfast, ils le of a fugi-
tive
gunman is at times painfully Intense, relieved by wit in character acting and a lovely spiritual quality. CHARMING ROMANCE
GREAT Expectations," starring John Mills, is a rendering of the book that pleases even the Dickens dolaters and at the same time is a charming romance of old London.
And no one might go
with on
the tale of the feast of British pictures- the human domestic drama, "Brief Encounter:"
Jolly thrills of
"Green for
and the more tense ones of
My Life: the Yorkshire tale, "Master of Bank- dam:" The artistle beauty of the ballet, Almed for the first time in "The Red Shoes:" the sight of old- Sussex in Michael Redgrave's smuggling adventure. "The Man Within:" the ironie wit of "School for Secrets," a tribute to the back- room scientists who gave us Radar
but in' makeshift kitchens on or even a week and still look as and its magic. movio sets.
LOVELIES' LEGS ARE LONGER
lovely, long legs ellpped out from under the
ELEANOR! Parker's
bed clothes and then
disappeared
though they're enjoying it.
Theprop_men__forced...to..bg
| cooks because food is a prop, also have to enter to a temperamental star's Individual preferences.
"Nothing will agitate an actor more and throw him off stride than having to eat something he docsn't like," Harry Grundstrom, prop man, sald, "The wrong dish could do an actor out of an Academy Award." "All
For instance, in the production, Grundstrom was My Sons."
as she climbed into a filmy negligee supposed to fix up a lobster dinner fort a scene in her forthcoming film, for Edward G. Robinson, Burt Lan- caster, Mady Christians and Louisa Horton.
"The Voice
fof the Turtle,"
For some reason or another, the
Was
Nelther Robinson nor Miss Horton event Inspirational to Sol Pollto, liked lobster.
Grundstrom stuffed the aco cinematographer who had
shells with chicken.
their lobster
photographed Miss Parker's attrac-it locked just the same.
tive arising.
pointed to her and said: "See Another problem with screen food Ho
I mean
what i
"Most of our newer stars have
legs like that long, lean and shape-
's to make it so tender a player can speak distinctly while chewing.
CAN'T WAIT
ly as a colts. I don't know whother "We can't slow up the scenes by
Ji's
ம் Hollywood trend or n general waiting for an actor to finish n trend towards a girls,
a.foon of talier bite," Grundstrom explained.
That's one reason steak is rarely lustrate his point, the veteran served fri movie scene dinnera. wizard of photography recalled the It takes too much chewing. Chicken, days when Mary, Pickford and the lamb, mashed potatoes and puddings short, cuddly type were. theore are favourites.
tically anyway, representative of "We use lots of tomatoes," Grund- the American girl. Even through strom added. "Any actor can speak Janet Gaynor's time, short legs were distinctly through a bite of tomate." predominant on the screen--at least Eating scenes were so numerous on the distaff side of the acting in "All My Sons" that Robinson craft.
gained four pounds and Lancaster Tho Advantage
five. The biggest eating scene, a "But now look at them!" he said. dinner at Robinson's home, took a "Lauren Bacall, Áva, Gardner,
week to shoot.
or talked Evelyn Keyes, Linda Darnell, Alexis
over with the players Smith-they all have those collch what they'd like to eat for a week gams."
Polthe
COURTING
The two lovers above are Joan Fontaine and Arturo de Cordova In "Frenchman's Creek," now playing at the King's Theatre.
THEATRE and whipped up a roast with hot advantage of long legs, biscuits and tomatoes," Grundstrom
Directory explained, is the visual plea said. "Everybody lied it, even on they provide the onlooker, the sixth day of eating it, and all "Long legs give a girl better lines, the dialogue got through." and she's easier to dress because clothes look better and hang bet-.
surc
ter on
The Ilsadvantages
arise when
leading men, don't 'measure up to their leading Indies-in height, that
Jimmy Durante Steals Show
The "Bathing Beauty"
formulù
is. "Then the girls must kick off has fast about been exhausted by their shines for the close-cussion MOM in providing film stories for
on
Having completed his
the
mermaid Esther Williams. This
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stars legs and the length Time For Keeps," now showing at thereof, the cameraman turned back the Queen's and Alhambra, follows to his star, who by this time had the conventional
and pallern, flung herself on the bed, her lovely manages to be fairly entertaining. long limbs lopping over the edges. This one was saved by Jimmy "See what I mean?". Polito - Durante, who is almost the whold peated. Then Miss Eve Arden, who show. is another, member of "The Volco cast, and who is the Turtle" blonde and also long-legged,' rived.
ot
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