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A SEAT IN TRI STALLS
David Lewin's
Spotlight
Two great lovers--- second time round
In Leicester-square the s not the romantic lead.. name in lights over "High he never klates her once. Lonesome" looked familiar:
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No family name
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In-
John Barrymore-but not Valentino? the Barrymore you see just to continue an above, This time John stend. an unknown, 30-year-old Barrymore fun,
actor, Anthony Dexter (who at one time worked As
T
the
No fusa about 18-year-old cemetery caretaker) takes Barrymore's Arst star part, No Part which Hollywood thought campaign to boog his rst Am
would go to Tyrone Power. appearanco in the West End,
But the producer decided that But the customers whose mem the illusion
known name would break ories stretched back
to the thirties came out saying: "Yes,
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Dexter was trained rigorous-
the does look Uko his father. ly on a soll diet of Valentino
Those
...the
mouth Alms. In that Valentino story the sudden glance...
EX
1
they have included roshot pas- sages of "The Shelk." Said the censor: "You can make the kisses longer than we normally allow, since it is supposed to be Valentino up there."
FLASHBACK
It was London's first of two Boks in a week with the great remantle cinema rumes of the past. The recond came when John Barrymore: Married
English director.
Lewis four times; died, aged 60, In Allen, flew in from Hollywood. 1942.
Pictures Include "Don
where he hind Jttst finished Juan," "Rasputin and the Em-
that press." of lover ---
making
the alory other rent screett Rudolph Valentino,
Valentino
and
Barrymore.
"Romeo and Jullet." Rudolph Valentino: Married twice, died, aged 31, in 1920. Pictures include: "Four Horse- men of the Apocalypse," "The
low will the echo sound today Eagle," "Blood and Sand," when flm hetues 110 longer
make love with gulsize gesturea
and a grand mir!
Barrymore Jun. is slight and wiry.
He is dark-haired with a strained expression, and he be- ¡eatne an actor although his
RIP'. THERE
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her tapping feet to West End But, of course, Barrymore cabaret.
High pressure work at Jean Kent, Dirk Bogarde, John She showed that the British Jun. went into pletures. The best part of her act was
film studios McCallum and Susan Shaw. A decision Was Inevitable after immaculate
piano playing throughout the summer will murder mystery with he saw his father in "The Great which
Krence, it uses
entirely in America. until she result in a series of impor new method of story presenta- I'roftie." His greatest worry, invented chee-chee, he said, was to "vold making her little fame and no money, during
brought tant films being released tion. Jean Kent has the ļa fool of myself in the Barry- Three
the next few strongest dramatic role of her English girls from more name, ... M
Clopton, the
film career as a fortune-teller Included Beverley Sisters, months.
among on the South Coast of England, back
from America and the films from Pinewood who appears in different guise shawed at a West End res will be a story of South to ell her friends and acquain- 24 taurant what the Andrew Sisters had taught them about
Africa in the early years of tanres. close-harmony. They have this century, a spy plot set learned their lessons well-in a "behind the Iron Cur from the best conches in the tain country" and a "mur- Maybe his Producers sensed business....
with mystery that, too. They have put his profile in "High Lonesome," but the girl' he gels in the end
In "High Lonesome" --- a Western-he luesn't make
fool of himself.
Neither docs the win a great reputation, Wo- men will find him interesting, not compelling.
Valentino7. No. it's Mr.
Anthony Dertes.
come
WITH LOVE
der
difference,"
The Woman in Question" is produced by Edward Baird and directed by Anthony Asquith.
Producer Harold Huth him- a cell plays an important part in
his production The Black- mailer," which More Allegret Hollywood producer David Starring Dennis Price, Jack is now directing at Pinewood. 0. Selznick lays claim to Hawkins and Siobhan McKen Starring Fay Compton, Mai group of film titles which other ns, "South African Story" is a Robert Flemyng, it is the story Zelterling, Dirk Bogarde and companies own. Among Mayflower production. Pro- athers which M:
Selznick duced by Aubrey Baring and of blackmail victims, anys he wants for his own use directed by David Macdonald. Films from Ealing to be re- are: The Loved," "The Un-more than half the film was loved," and "The Loved and made on location in South at the Unloved."
Africa. The present title will Just making sure?
be changed before the film 1s shown publicly.
HE SAID IT
a
Paul Dougles who is in position to know--makes the reply of the week.
Asked
leated shortly include "Cage Gold," co-starring Jean Sim- pornid and directed by Basil David Farrar ang James
Dearden, and The Magnet," The spy story to Two Cilles' Walsh,
starring Stephen Murray, Kay William ΕΥΧ and Highly Dangerous," co-star Meredith-Edwards, wilch Char- ting Margaret Lockwood ander Frend has directed. Dane Clark with Marius Gor-
what he liked least Margaret plays an entomo
whom logist" about women he answered In
A
a word: "Alimony." Mr Dou-R gian has been married Ave times.
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the British
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secret biological warfare pro- ject In Po unnamed Eastern European country.
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takes a rest
duced by Antony Damborough from homicide
and directed by Roy Baker."
Nancy Gors То Rio dear mummy, Ann Sothern (QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA)
Surprise-Joan Crawford is She gets the leading role in a
..... AND SIMMONS another of Pasternak's musical South
doesn't kill anybody in her American playwright's masterpieces from MGM and the newest drama and, to add to the ward, Jean
Co-starring with Trevor lo- latest film. trade mark is sufficient guaran- confusion, a bit of the Corliss girl on the run from the police
Simmons plays
'Although it is called tee of entertainment. This time Archer "Kiss and Tell" plot is in Betty Box's The Clouded "The Damned Don't Cry." fans thrown in. Remember the ex-Yellow." Jean is suspected of she herself is the girl who
| MGM decided that the
would
be quite saltstled with sellent comedy with Shirley Jane Powell, Carmen Miranda, Temple?
Ann Sothern and Barry Sullivan.
It was a good guess, but seeing
That it is all about Latin America, where are the Iturbis? Jane Powell, 17, falls in love with someone who prefers her
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One of the most unusual other westerns in that the Red the forthcoming Aims will be western, sightly different from
man is neither noble (by recent] Antliony Asquith's trend) or ignoble (following the Women in Question," starring old trend).
"Tho
The villiens are the Mexican A tough row
cra of
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Her first encounter with death was when she put 3 bullet through Zachary Scott in That was
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Next, in "Possessed," sle afford to smile today. film, "Odette," which no one Juarez, and the heroes (John
drew a gun again and put out would back when he first susmen who "battled the greed and dark-eyed daughter of
Payne, Deals O'Keefe, etc.) Faith Domergue, dark-haired, the lights for Van Hedin. gested 17,
the is beating
Last year the tangled with an weather and yloing as well as
Intrigue on which hung the fate Orleans, hoed a tough row. even bigger and rougher adver- elther "Spring" or "Maytime" at
of a nation" Beautous Rhonda Seven years ago, when she was Bary, name of Sydney Green- the box office,
Fleming plays the wife of an Ignoble French agent who is cody to start her acting career, street, but she managed to get she was almost killed in an the muzzle in the right spot and Yet for months the dim men noble enough to become friendly auto accident. A year of pain pull the trigger at the right turned the idea down, refused with John Payne just at the and suspense followed, a year in time, and that was that for Mir money for a picture they were
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time when her ignoble which the faith of Falth was a Greenstreet. certain would flop. "When they French husband is plotting the mighty factor toward recovery. In "Humoresque," Miss Craw wald that we knew we were conquest
ford didn't Then Howard Hughes placed
kill anybody but right." said Herberi. "So wh International.
her under contract, and ordered herself, which is the same thing Burlesque carried on."
only. It's exiled suicide, (KING'S) is an effort to prove three years of dramatle study,
"Killing people, especially Now Herbert and ANNA that the stage can capture much Faith Domergue had a sp. men, is hard on, woman's NEAGLE go off to Margate for that is missed in a screen pro- Her dialogue coach, Bob Paris, nerves," Miss Crawford sníd, a month's holiday, Do they duction. The camera
takes us made her place a toothpick be "even if it is make-belleve,” atay in a luxury hotel? Not around the musical
extrava-hind her eye teeth and read- That's why she was so hop- they, They go into digs. And gonzas that are or were the read-read. When she pro-py to be gun-free in "The that, I would say, is one of the rage of Turkey, Paris. New nounced the letter
TO-DAY the Damned Don't Cry." She gets reasons why the Neagle-Wilcox Orleans and New York
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team is so 'successful,
Texas.
stago characters who play their brief roles and then retire, is an unusual picture and well worth seeing,
teeth The lisp at long fast for is by indirection. She stands disappeared, and stardom came by wringing her hands walle to Faith Domergue-a girl who one of her lovers kills one of wouldn't quit when the odds her other lovers. were dead against her,
was
at
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"Heaven knows, that was bad for the
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nnnigh," said Joan, "but sturs Jack Carson, and it he isn't
She
starred in Eliot'a
her least I wasn't on the guilty end play, *Tho Cocktall the best comedian on the screen first picture, the Howard Hughes of the gun." Party." Manager Henry Sherek, today, who is?
production of "Vendetta" which passed
on the offer to Ellot.
will be distributed by RKO who has just turned it down- Every Girl Should Be Mar | Radle presently, And at thle because he is "not interested in led '(NHOADWAY) stars Cary writing, regarded one of the Zachary Scott, the deep-eyed, (flms,”
Grant, Franchot Tóne and that finest young dramatic die- two-gun and very' vicious vil- charming Grant discovery, coveries of recent years, she's ¦ lain of Warner Bros. Techni Mr Ellot did not even inquire Betsy Drake (DOW Betsy co-starring with
Robert colour western eple "Colt 45," JD & LOU in "PARDON MY SARONG" UNIVERSAL, how much Hollywood Bad Grant). It's not new but It's Mitchum and Claude Rains in was once a feather of English in
loffered. It WLO £10,000 fan excellent comedy.
“A: White-Ross: for- Julle." a Tencas school—for girial :-
I made Peter
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