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From
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MADE my first contribution to comedy before I had oven opened
my eyes," said Sid Field. "I was
ONE PICTURE
BRIDGES 33 YEARS.
born on April 1. It happened in Birming FROM BACK STREET BOY ham, and it's caused mo trouble all my life,"
He was that rare thing-a clown with a heart, a comedian of the class that happens but once or twice in a generation.
Sid Field took by his starting point come- thing bis father had told him. "Love those people, love them all and maybe they'll like you." He never forgot that, and it pained him when other stora sometimes falked to letters or refused to sign autographs.
Sid
answer
a
Brew up from A 75. Ed. juvenile in touring troups to
to a West End stage and film stor.
He was lauded in
West America, and End head wailers smiled upon him. But his greatest pleasure was when people stopped saying "Wotcher Slasher," and asked instead "How's Harvey?"
That shows they're accepting me As An actor as well," he said.
HE
Five Routines
TIE was first a clown who became famous on five malo routines, Sinsher Green—a sply with a barrow, his mooker and golf lessons; his cinema organist and his photographer.
He brought some of them from the pro- vinces where a contract he couldn't break until 1042 tied him. His top salary before he came to London was £70 week. Then those sketches and new ones he added rocketed him. Field said that if he lacked anything it wasn't common sense. Ha knew he had to have something else. So ho took a straight part as Elwood P. Dowd, the man with a six-foot rabbit, in the American play "Harvey."
What was the best film of 1949?
"THE THIRD MAN"
MAY GET TOP VOTE
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Young Guards
PART 1:
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PART II: 12.30, 5.30 AND 9.30
Liberty
Brilliantly
directed
BY PETER LOVEGROVE
"Whisky Galore" erossed the Border with Basil Radford, as
He started-a.
now career. Looking back- wards it had cone Ilke this. A eight
was Imitaling Charlie Chaplin
STL
the streets
at Birmingham and being chas- ed by police- then.
At 11 he WRA JEL ✡ troupe carning 75, od,
a week.
At
Wood
12 he Was under- an inspector of HM Customs and
studying Wee Excice trying to uncover come) Georgle illicit
whisky-distilling. The Ingenuity with which the Scots for a ume. householders hid the precious At 17 he was golden liquid from prying eyes broke and out and hands provided one of the most amusing scenes of the year.
of
With Money" London
"A
We
to
of a job. Then
a
TO A WEST END STAR
AGED 12
"...A sult
I hated'
He liked a comfortable life. worked hard, enjoyed his golf (handicap 6), and his
HAT was the best British film of 19497 thnt I undestand Third Man," that most exciting picture of
Vienna, postwar
is of Britain's creative film-makers licarls and Coronels,"
"Pass "A Hun favourite
Booker for the British themselves the producers, port to Pimlico,"
set for cancrame
Your Money," whisky
ho got a part
(best break 92), and loved it Film Academy Award which directors,
script writers and Galore," The Small Back
in a show call-
when his two daughters, Diane "The
Queen is to be announced early in
ed "Wobble" at composers who Room" and
Run for
14, and Tottle 12, suggested he Your £2 109.. founded the Academy just over Spades."
went back
put on a show for then in the week three years ago, with the aim of
The first four are all high- and
but
garden. They said: "Wo'llait developing
once more. encouraging
and wall
be the the by their art.
AL spirited and witty comedies
21 he eclebrated his on Screen actors are not watch were made with modest features admitted to
eager and birthday
three with Carol Reed, it
penny patients." membership with
coma to worth of ciale Trevor Howard
buns in a as an In- the exception
of those who, financial means by the bright of thou
de vociferous Welshmen
Celtic victory at theatrical boarding house Olivier and young men of Ealing Studlo cheer telligence Corps officer on like Sir Laurence
hnd earlier been re Twickenham. Perhaps the high-tour. Mills. oro also dic-
sible for "Hue and Cry" : the Allied Commission and John Joseph Cotten us an Ameri- can author who get involved in one of the most intrigu- ing mysteries ever depicted on the screen. Orson Welles, the sinister third man of the title, and the glamorous Italian star Valli, as one of
directors.
London reeling under the impact
thousands of
provi
and get involved
rugby
Kept Touring
on
Big Moncy
TTE made big money-at one 1 time he
was being paid Alen £1,000 a week because a lle ran over schedule-but he came.
he
tinguished film producers and "It light of this delightful nim was provided by Donald Huston, as a and they are
out to show the young Welsh miner, and an old world that the British still Celtle reprobate he has found. possess a sense of humour and plus a huge harp, when they try AND he kept on touring. that our alms can escapo from to reach tho famous
went to Australia; teamed into the super-tax paying scale too late to enable him to save
much. At one time ground
in up with Jerry Desmonde; start- very countryside to London's transport system. ed the golf sketch. He met his said he was living on the six- T five categories of screen the studio set and ream about
productions which receive the streets and
the Best Picture portray characters of fish and
other partner, Alle Dean, who penees the income tax left him. awards are: from any source. British or blood,
died Inst year, and shared digs
American The
headline otherwise. to be shown in the "Hue and Cry" showed us
with him for years. "We lived cornies saw him in London and the flotsam of the postwar United Kingdom during the
Covent Garden market, a de- world, mako up n very year; the Best British film; the partment store in Oxford Street. ND Hearts and Coronets" on haddocks for breakfast, and loved him. In Holywood they
Best Documentary; a
11 does not fit in with this not much else the rest of the toasted him-Danny Kaye, Bob Special and ended up with a wild gailes strong .east.
Award for work lying outside across Blackfriars Bridge
suga of the ordinary people; like
Hope, Crosby and the rest
the feature
"Arsenic and Old Lnce, if items time," he said. urchins street
Field was touched. Out of London he was a name, "Atomic
with mis murder with a smile, Beld (such
London, and the rounding of
up In 1040); and a United
albeit a bitterly sardonic one at in 1943 he was put into "Sirike never understand why, But he of crooks on ព
bomb times. It had beautiful settings MOST of the film was shot in Award, for the best Alm of any site. With "It Always Rains. Mo
the Austrian capital, and type illustrating one of the basic e spent an eventful Sunday in and was notable for the tour de a New Note" at the Prince of York without checking audience the atmosphere of dininess, principies of the United Nations the back streets of Whitechapel, force of Alec Guinness, insecurity and disillusionment Charter. The prizes are bronze relived only by a brisk glance played no less than nine parts. has been faithfully reesented; it statuettes designed by Henry at Petticoat Lane. is accompanied by come haunt- Moore,
distinguished Ing zliher music which makes sculptor.
immediate appeal. Too 100
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the
half the
a cang
in
M
of
New
Ito could
wouldn't do his act in
Soon he was a head- reactions there Arst.
2
who } Wales.
liner. He brought something And he sent back home warm and sincere to the West cable: "Roughing it in America. Sir Alexander Korda was End. His eyes awam in a red Please send food parcels."
Ho Iis neck bulged. responsible for the production | face.
Films Failed of "The Small Back Room," was a fellow trying to cope A panel of judges, presided ty
very competent adaptation O with an extraordinarily com- TIS only real failures were the immediate, many people today John Grierson, the ploncer T AST year, Ealing Studios
Brigadier Nigel Balchin's
world-and falling aims he starred in. In all would may, since we seem to get director of documentary mms in took us to another London psy
psychological drama of a war-plicated the "Harry Lime Theme" from
This time it was time "backroom boy" with:
a bad masterfully. He had the clown's he made three: "That's the Tic- chaving time to bedtime on the which Britain has always ex- Euburb.
the Con- Pimlico. celled, and the present
where
citizens lee and a
discuss. Icg
not to wireless, and dance orchestras traller of the Films Division of suddenly found theniselves David Faraving for whisky. affinity to tragedy, On the stage ket" before bo was
was the star, and there was always that dignity. Then "London Town." He didn't
flm he tried have already mauled into the Central Office of Informa- transformed inte Burgundians It contained
either. a very dramatic fighting to save itself from go- talk much about that, anything from a quick-step to a
the discovery tion, prepares ກ short list of through
in scene of the dismantling of a beguine.
films for
papers cacti
long-lost category, and come
bomb
crater. How they magnetic bomb. The great stage members then
vote by postal a
abolished rationing and were actress Edith Evans was the star The Queen of Spades," blockaded by
which
adapted irom WAS
very em-
known,. It
Then "Cardboard Cavalier”..... to seed. He found straight acting less and that wasn't quite right.
The trouble was flm men The Academy Awardo-there ballot.
trenuous than revue--but it didn't realise that Sid Field had: nre five in all every year-are
put pounds on him in weight. to bring out the comedy him- not a publicly ramp or a news-
"The Third Man" is the only barrassed in Naunton, Wayne re- Tschaikowsky's opera. promotion British production circulation
And be (with paper
quickly summed up self-not have it thrust on him. the judges stunt;
He made big money from film- there la
heatre audiences. no commercial
happy. have placed in the short list for presenting the Foreign Office), then wat u counter-measures Interest behind them, nor
If "The Third Man" gets the
ing, but he was never third It will be the desire to link them with a "aim the rst uward-est, Picture and insisted on visas for Under- verdiet,
He told me: "Playgoers scat- about them. from any source--which the
that Director
ler their laughter, are tesilval" to boost some waterma
quicker
The future was to have bera
new revue-with previous year went to Olivier's ground passengers, is teid with successivo year
now place or seaside resort, as 12 "Hamlet" and in 1947 to the infinite gusto, a true feeling for Carol Reed has scored. He wan
"Odd Man Out" off the small points, wait for a happening much too frequently Best Years of
material, Nothing of the old the comle situation, and much in 1947 with Our Lives," 186
Revac Sasher. None of the snooker on the Continent.
and (with James Mason in the main he pay-off situations, People technical skill. the excellent Hollywood
organisations are apt to take part), and "The Fallen Idol"
goers who came to see me laugh sketches, "They do not necessarily reflect on the probleins of Servicemen themselves too seriously these (with Sir Ralph Richardson louder at the obvious Jokes;
returning from the war.
with the box-office
dam: this lot.
its deft Michele Morgan, Sonia Dresdel or the critics' views. But
young Bobby Henrey) hate wading through a lot of they re-
touch, applied toma and In the second category, the satirical
earned him the 1948 award. plot." present the considered opinion other British flims are "Kind much needed debunking..
NANCY
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