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THE ACADEMY AWARD WINNER, 1948, FOR HER DEST PERFORMANCE AS "BELINDA"
JANE
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Her performanté li
(one of the'greatest
The screen hauwent
LEW
AYRES
As the doclor:
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WARNER BROS, now dramatic achievement
SHAME CAME OUT OF THE SHADOWS
AND
CHANGED
A YOUNG GIRL'S LIFE!
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1949.
LA SEAT IN THE STALLS
Two Faces That Tell Oscar' Film
Two Stories
By DAVID LEWIN
TORY 1: The arrival of tho screen's newest "married couplo"-a new partnership which takos up where the most famous one-Mr and Mrs Nick Charles of "The Thin Man" films--let Together they have off.
the nnel of walking
mad
you
A toast then to Mr and right out of the screen Mrs Jim Blandings, who and saying: "Of course, that is
beside sitting make their first appearance really you up there." in "Mr Blandings Bullds His They are the best bot in the Dream-house"-second film world for making you almost to be shown at Hongkong's believe that Life Begins at Forty.
now Roxy.
Well, Tyrone Power has hil own theory. The youngstern," he says-It seemed an odd word. to be coming from Tyrane
Power, but it's 13 years nincs
Which leads straight to:- he made "Lloyd's of London" STORY No. 2---subtitled "The "the youngsters don't seem to be We have been waiting too Middle-Aged 'Uns Have All able to stand the 'pace. They long for these two to get the Fun,"
Inpt n year maybe two together. Myrna Loy emerges For Cary Grant is 44, Myrna three-and out they go.” Vattractive as ever from her 13- Loy 13.
year-six-film career as William Many other established artists Thin Man") Powell's wife," still hold their places at the top
Cary Grant develops that of the popularity poll. Every- pollshed ensuniness with every body acknowledgos füm ho makes.
WIIX.
thot-but
Wallace Beery strikes a new nóle în the MGM film "A Date With Judy" at the Queere. He puts away his six- shooters and becomes the gental head of a family. Ilo even dauces a thumba with Carmen Miraids. Also in the film are Jane Powell and Scotty Beckett (shown above with Beery); Elizabeth Taylor and Xavier Cugat's orchestra,
Johnny Belinda" Notes From British Studios:
AGNES MOOREHEAD STEPHEN MOZAKLEY
•CHARLES BICKFORD JEAN NEGULESCO JERRY WALD
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ACCORDING to handsome pisite pleture, Train of Events
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POWER talks to you slowly-
but convincingly.
or
"Pace," he says, "that's the word with the answer. Things were more leisurely when I was frowing up in films. Not so much fight, and rush and an- xiety. Nowadays-unless you have been around a long time and can take it—well, it seeCINS the pace can beat you."
And that's the polite way of saying what everyone secretly knows that since the war the so-called up-and-comers pretty easily thred.
are
Ask the old showmen if the englets honestly try as hard to entertain as they did ten years ago.
Put the same question to the people with experience round The film studios.
You'll get the same answer: "No." thus largely explain- ing why it so difficult to dis- lodge the couple at the head of this column-London' Express Service.
*Exception-Montgomery Clift, He's here for a long time, sAYS Power.
In Hongkong
JANE
In Johnny Belinda,
HONGKONG is fortun-
ate in being able to soo Johnny Belinda (now at the King's and Loo) so soon after the announce- marit of the Academy Award to its lead star, Jano Wyman (above).
Johnny Belinda is that rarity from Hollywood- an adult film. It deals with a thomo calculated to scare off the most daring producer--the rapo of a deaf mute girl, her terror and shame.
Miss Wyman has a difficult rola. Unable to spoak, she has only har gestures and her eyes to convey the doop emotions by which she is torn,
Hor Oscar is testimony to her success,
It is an award well won. Johnny Bolinda is a film well worth sccing,
The British Are
Villains In US
Palestine Story
T
From FREDERICK COOK
NEW YORK.
with the Jews. This converis him. He helps them to win. As the fade-out comes, he is Ilsten- ing, with a lump in his throat, to the distant bells of Bethle hem. It is Christmas Eve.
Liam
HE year's most contro- Reed De Rouen, a young Wolverton, Bucks,
versal film, Sword in American ex-pilot playing n
The sequence was directed by the Desert, has now gone small part in Carol Reed's East Dearden and hundreds of into production in Holly- production of "The Third local people appeared in the
wood. Subject, Palestine. crowd scenes. Man" at Shepperton, no
Redmond, from ti10 Herbes, the Jews. Villains, Abbey Theatre, Dublin, makes young man with acting am-
the British. Cast, almost his Hollywood debut 03 1 bitions should dream of WING, symphony, chornt and wholly British.
character named McCarthy (no leaving England for Holly-ballad arrangements
relation to the man who owns wood or New York... Included in the musical score The desert is McCarthy's Apple Valley Ranch), one of the
of Two Cities* Adam
volunteers And Apple Valley Ranch near Victor-
ghling for the Evelyne, co-starring Stewart. ville, California. The Palestine
Jews. Granger and Jean Simmons. coast, the rocky shoreline of Muir Mathieson, one of Britain's Monterey, California. "In America there is no re- best-known classical conductors, Sword, the British tommygun, pertory," he says, and there are has been directing a group of very few touring companies. In musicians from Geraldo's England the repertory
thentre orchestra in the swing sequen-
England, according to him, is the place for the ambitious young player.
and the numerous touring com- ees, panies give the young
actor
every chance 10 gain CX- perience and it is
are
The
Here are some of the high- lights of the story (which Robert Montgomery once planned to film with himselt as stur, unt!! he had second
thoughts about A hardboiled American VIERON Moore, star
of it):
Dillon-tough on named "Man About The House, outside but, of course, De Rouen came to England "Mine Own Executioner", "Anna heart of gold-is busy running in 1940 to play with John Mills Karenina", and "Saints And the British blockade of Pales-
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I REMEMBER
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BARBARA BEL GEDDES
£2,500 a trip.
the
with a
In "Of Mice and Men". When Sinners". has become the fine with illegal immigrants, at the show closed he joined the proud father of an 8 lbs 31⁄2 ozs RAF, alterwards transferring baby daughter, to be called to the American Air Force, Theresa Mary. Kieron's wife-
flm star Barbara Wilte.
IN
the
☆
South o! France during the grape-picking group of dancers
season a
national
assemble in may costumes to perform the old traditional dance of the far- andol.
The forandol comes to Den- ham Studios, for a scene in the Two Citles romantic drama Madness Of The Heart, starr- ing Margaret Lockwood, with the French-Canadien actor Paul Dupuis as her leading man.
The dance was performed for the Alm by dancers from cur- rent London musteal shows and krranged by ballet mistress Daphne Kiernander. # whs ilmed by three cameras simul- taneously,
The As-
NOEL Coward's Ntonished Heart is to go into production at Pinewood Studios on May 30, starring Michnel Johnson And
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He is trapped by the British and spends a couple of days
The Guests Weren't There
At the Italian Embassy.. tow neck-meels the Duchess Vivien Leigh-grey silk crinolins Swlih predni roses lacked into tho
Callarail-Scotti.
He prides himself on "bein* afther blowin' up a British con voy with me own ands, and a Tuvly job it was.”
British actors include: Philip Friend, lately with Phyllis Cal- vert in Mine Own True Love as a lieutenant; Lowell Gilmore, us 1 major
the who captures glamorous Sabra, "Voice of Israel" over the air, Campbell Copeland. West End player in The Unafraid, making his firs! appearance for Hollywood; and Hugh French, who plays an Irgun spy.
'Haggis' taunt
There is not a Jewish actor in the cast. Amerlen's Dan An- drews, still ruffled by London's reception of Britannia Mews, is Dillon.
Ireland's Stephen McNally (of Johnny Belinda) is Vogel, leader of the illegal immigrants.
Oddest casting of all is that of Marta Toren-Norwegian Laccent and all-as Sabra. She makes the sensational revelation that through it all the Jews had agents in the British War Offer, In one scené she refers to the
British commander as "that
overstufted haggis soaked in gin."
Producer is Robert Buckner, who spent three years at Edin burgh University.
Film fare is thin
Broadway im fare is thin just now chiefly rottine Westerns, with names like E Pato and The Man From Colorado.
Revivals and re-makes far outnumber the new films. They are giving another run to Robert Donat's rapidly ngoing Young Mr Pitt: Rex Harrison's Side- walks of London; James Muson's Man of Evil, John Muln's Octo ber Man, and even Forever Amber, but are still waiting for Scott of the Antarctc and Miranda,
QUESTS of honour at are Jean Simmons, who was to re- The Astonished Heart is one
ception given by the Italian celve the "best actress" prize, of Noel Coward's "Tonight at
The now British import Ambassador in London recently wOB
Liverpool, in
Graham Corridor of Mirrors, with Erle 8.30" plays. It is a triangle were
"best story" six people who were not Greene,
prizo- story
Portman about psychiatrist, there.
and Edana Romney, winner, was in Italy. None of Michael Redgrave, his
and that is not getting much of wife,
Ambassador Gallarat!-Scotti the others was present elther. Colla Johnson, and the other
a reosplion. and his wife stood for almost woman, Margaret Leighton.
Vivien Leigh, strikingly beau- The New York Times zent an hour
receiving 390 guests ful in a grey silk crinoline, critic all the way up-town for the presentation to Sir Lau- stepped forward to receive her Ninety-Fifth Street to see it, rence Olivier and other British husband's prize a large silver and he came back in glum mood! rolling artists of prizes they won at the cup for the producer of the best The fim had pictorial elegance, used to were
re-1948 Venico International Film foreign lm preserited at the he thought, but the rest was crash for the Festival,
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