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KING'S

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20 GUNS ARE BETTING THEY'LL NEVER

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Fred

MacMURRAY

Trust "Deible Redanmity" gy

Claire

TREVOR

· Fiat "Key Largo” deme

CROSS THE BORDER TONIGHT!

Borderline

A MILTON H. BREN and WILLIAM A. SEITER production

Story and Screenplay by DEYERY FREEMUN « Directed by WILLIAM A, SEITER, Produced by WALTON H. BREN • A UKIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL KELEASI ALSO Latest Universal-International Newsreel

TO-MORROW MORNING AT 11.30 A.M. ONLY "A SELECTED COLUMBIA VARIETY PROGRAMME”

with Three Stooges, Billy Gilbert Billio Burke COMEDIES and COLOUR CARTOONS

• AT REDUCED PRICES ·

QUEENS ALHAMBRA

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The Bride gets the Thrills! FATHER gets the Bills!

16-01-34 playfully DANCES SPENCER TRACY JOAN BENNETT ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Father of the Bride

ASTRO-GOLINKYN-MARTER PICTURE

5 SHOWS. TO-MORROW

Extra Performanco 'FATHER OF THE BRIDE'

QUEEN'S

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ALHAMBRA

AT 12 NOON

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FUNNIER THAN IN

MARTIN AND LEWIS

Paramount prisente

My Friend Ima Goes West

JOHN

CORINNE ....... DIANA

LUND CALVET-LYNN

DEAN MARTIN and JERRY LEWIS D WALK WILSON 43 Betin

AHAL WALLIS PRODUCTION

„Directed by HAA WALKER

ADDED AT THE LE E.

Gaumont-Britisk Or Paramount Newsp

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UNITED NATIONS CE ROYAL PRINCES CHRISTEN

MORNING SHOW

International BIRTHDAY

BELATED HONEYMOON

Actor James Stewart and his wife, accompanied by Mrs Stewart's two sons by a previous marriage, look out over the port of Southampton upon their arrival by ship in England. The Stewarts had no honeymoon after their marriage last year, but they're having it now that Jimmy is making a picture over there.

KEN SMITH'S SHOW NEWS

The Oliviers are coming

back to

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a deal now being dis cussed in America is settled we may not see Sir Laurence Olivier and his wife, Vivien Leigh, on the British stage again for several years.

the screen

MORE WORK IN BRITISH STUDIOS

Although film production in Britain is at rather, a low ebb the Just now, employment in studios for the last quarter showed slight increato. But the..Improvement is compara-

tire. The figure of 4,373 cm- ployees is impressive if com- pared with the previous quar- ter's 4,109, but it can only be ceen in perspective when lated to the Agure of 5,382. for the year before and 7,730 for the end of 1948...

Still, the plctures, in produc→ tion look, in, the main, pro- mising. There is, for example, Anthony

Woman In

squith

tensely filmic subject

the

"Tha

which (Jean

shows one woman Kent) as she L- reen through different of ive the eyeg

Asquith bas Just hed this and gone straight on to make a film version of Terence Rattigan's distinguish- ed play, "The Browning Ver sion" in which. Miss Kent has again a bighly dramatic part and is partnered by Michael

·Rødgrave:

BEHIND THE CURTAIN

Roy Baker, the young direc- tor who made the admirable submarine film-Morning Do

"Highly parture," has made Dangerous," an Eric story

which,

ROXY

Pyšnituru Khon, & CUBER'n'Bon

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MONTGOMERY

CLIFT

PAUL

DOUGLAS

Ambler

•

like

"State

Secret," deals with adventures

behind the Iron Curtain.

THE BIG STORY OF THOSE WONDER

FUL G.L. GUYS WHO GAVE A CITY AND THE WORLD "THE BIG LIFT!"

THE

BIG

LIFT

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GEORGE SEATON - WILLIAM PERLBERG

ROXY: TO-MORROW

MORNING SHOW

AT 11.30 A.M. He 20th Century-Fox Presents

has for his stars Margaret Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy

Lockwood and

a Hollywood

Importation, Dang Clark.

The clover, producer "Whisky

of

In

Galore" (called "THE BIG NOISE”

AT REDUCED PRICES

Tight Little. Inland" overseas) Monja Danischewsky, and the director of the successful Passport, to Pimlico," Honry

I HAD HOPED to report Shall we meet this week, after Cornelius, have teamed up to:

to you this week on my all? interview with Elimbeth.

Bergner; but Miss Bergner will not see me, nor any of my Prese colleagues.

1

from us?

make "The Galloping Major,"

chanco starring Basil Radford, a STEWART GRANGER.

remark of whose, during the worried about his name making of "Whisky Gatore," He has changed it once gave rice to the idea for the from James Stewart to avoid present picture. confusion with the American star; now wants to change it again in case American film goers mix him up with Farley Granger.

Why she hiding The reason, I think, is that last April she was attacked by a 'The proposed dent, re-

section of the British Press be ported from. America, is cause in 1940 she left the east between Sir

But M.-G.-M. say "No." Laurence of the British film 49th Parallel, Olivier Productions and a and went to America. leading Hollywood filma company. It would tie Sir Laurence and Vivien to star in possibly two films a

year.

In addition Sir Laurence would produce or direct other films.

How much time for the theatre will these commit. ments leave Sir Laurence? Perhaps one play a year- sa a producer.

If this deal lo scaled, what will be the effect on the British theatre? I agree that the flims will benefit-and more people go to the films than to the West End theatre-but I suggest that the loss to the legitimate slage of tho greatest actor in the world, and one of the greatest actresses, even for a few years, would be irreparable.

Please, Sir Laurence, go on making Alms--but do not let the close on doors of the theatre you as an actor.

0

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CHARLIE CHAPLIN'S new Alm Footlights-now retlited Limelight-may be made in England....if Charlle can be sure of a re-entry viso to the US,

Personally, I couldn't care less about the visa. We could do with, him here, permanently,

Crzok of the weck. Florence Desmond, during her impression of Bette Davis at the Cafe de Paris: "It I win another Oscar they will have to renarao it the Davis Cup."

A SECRET Ray Milland has kept for 27 years will be revealed to milliona when White Heather is shown: a tattoo mark on hla right arm, done in 1923.

No, It's not a battleship or in blonde, but a multi-coloured serpent creeping up the arm from the cyo of a skull,

The all change - here depScanette Nolan rejected for a part

In Walk Softly, Stranger to- causo sho was too much lik

Spring Byington.

Spring lost a role in Worde

And Muric because a "differmi type was wanted

ke)

Bo Jeanette, is in Words AndE

THE AMERICAN critic I think the attack was

who described ballet. called for, but I want to offer dancer Alicia Markova as some advice before her opening an inhabitant of the air was than ho khow, more accurate performance at the Opera House, Manchester, on November 0.

Several times she has been stranded between floors in the lift at her London home.

To combat these attacks, you should not give an unfortunate Impression of huffiness by retiring into colitude, but ice them openly and with firmness

That way you will, win public admiration-and the re- spect of your crities,

What about It, Miss Bergner

So

Reason: she is so light that her weight on the lift floor is not enough to make it work. now two candbags are kept outside her flat door for use as ballast

A WAVE TO

A STAR

Actress Gloria Swanson paid a visit to the Naval, Air Station at Band Polat, near Seattle, Washington, and shook hands with Wave Sibyl Braziel. Gloria has

The biggest scale production now in hand is "No Highway," which Twentieth Century Fox are making in Britain with the

from English

their proceeds alms which they cannot turn into dollars, and for which they have brought James Ste-

Mariene and

Dietrich wart from Hollywood to co-star with Glynis Johns, an actress whose status rises with every film she

makes.

Nothing But

The Truth

Margaret Lockwood has been through the "third degree" and injected with a "truth" drug. for her part In HIGHLY

nt | DANGEROUS

Pinewood. Playing a British entomologist who is arrested by the security police of an Eastern European country, she has been "grilled" for three days by secret polico chief Marius Goring.................

When it was over Margaret commented:-

"The lights which shine on the prisoner's face for third de- gree are only about, as bad on the normal lights used for Aiming."

Hollywood Wants

Mr. Knowall

Hollywood 18 after Mr Knowall otherwise. Nigel. Patrick, because of his fine për- formance in TRIO. Nigel's pur- trayal of

the shipboard boro

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MORNING SHOW. VAT 12.00 NOON

TECHNICOLORED

A Selected Programme of

CARTOONS"

From Two Leading. Studios: 20th Century Fox & Universal

100 Minutes of Laughtërf BRING. THE CHILDREN!

AT

NEXT CHANGE THE KING'S

Gabriel Pascal presents GEORGE BERNARD'SHAW'S

Major Barbara

WENDY HILLER REX HARRISON ROBERT MORLEY Emlyn Williams Robert Newton

Deborah Kerr Produced and directed by Gabriel Pascal

Exclare

Engagement

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SPECIAL MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT 12:30-

who knows everything, bas Bud & Lou in "HERE COMES THE CO-EDS"

recelyed "ravo" notices froin

New York critiım. ́ ́At -present

he is playing in THE BROWN- ING VERSION, with Jean Kant and Michael Redgrave, at Pinewood.

CIVIL SERVANT SPECIALIST

Because of the number of "official", parts, 'ho has playçi Wiltrid Hedo-White, who la now appearing as a British Charge d'Affaires in IIGHLY DANGEROUS“ at Pinewood, has been nicknamed "the man from the Ministry. Marker In Somerset Maugham's TRIO

he plays a British official on hia

way to a post overseas: and in

his previous seven plotros ho

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THE SCREEN'S GREAT ADVENTURE SMASH OF 1950 IS HERE!

DVENTURES OF

P.M.

ERROL

FLYNN

ON JUAN LINDFORS

han played three Englishmen L NEXT CHANGE: "GIRLS FRIEND An USSR. Picture.

Music, and Spring is in Walk" been touring the United States in connection with her, foreign countries and four "civil |

servants. first film in many years, "Sunset Boulevard.”

Softly, Stranger,

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