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"IF IT CAN BE SAID HE HAS A
The inclusion of Herbert Wilcox, one of Britain's leading film directors, in the recent Honours List he can now write the digni-
FORMULA.
By STEPHEN
WATTS
among
His standing film-makers is unique.
99 began with
British
a struggle and he has never relaxed.
With characterisile precision of detail he will tell you that he began with exactly £117, his gratuity on leaving the Royal after World War I. Flying Corps In what was little more than a fied letters CBE (Comman- gold for him and all con-
Rarely flower conservatory or "glass der of the Order of the cerned with his pictures. British Empire) after his If there was an immediate is he mentioned in any list of the house at Kew; he began with .top directory, and his fims alma whase Utica aptly ssion"," name was a royal recogni- reason for bis being hon- seldom rate serious artistic,des the period Flames of tion of 30 industrious years oured it was his latest pic- cussion, yet they are very far spent in British films.
the
cause of ture Odette, but right from being mere tawdry Way".
"Decameron
ten years he was build- studio at Elstree cynleal moneymakers, They are simply Wilcox-and he believes ing his own with intense sincerity in what near London, and bringing the fabulously successful stage fances ever he does.
Although his flair for show- put on at the Aldwych Theatre, manship is proverbial (his name starring Tom Walls and Ralph and that of his wife, the film Lynn, to the screen. star, Anna Neagle, are rarely out
Enter Anna Neagle of the news) he is in himself of the reverse of flamboyant. Short, for quietly dressed, quiet voiced, his only interest in "selling himself"
from the days of his first world success "Victoria the # It also directed the spot- Great", Wilcox has been light on to one of the most steadily bufiding a reputa remarkable tion as Britain's leading film popular and figures in film-making. Wil- ambassador abroad as well cox is above all an indepen- as the most consistently
purveyor dent; he goes his own way successful
entertainment determinedly, and it has screen proved a way paved with home consumption.
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is in order to sell his wares. He Comedy actress barely out of her. The Best Time You Ever Had At a Movie!
Herbert Wilcox gives his wife, Anna Neagle, a hand in her dressing room defere
I
DAVID
a premiere.
LEWIN'S
Spotlight
HAVE been star-checking with a
man who classifies women, not by their wit, the elegance of their dress, or their persona- lity, but by the "time" at which you would place a light to get the best out
of
faces.
their HOW MR.
Jackt Car-. diff, a top- film camera- Who man won an Oscar for "The Red Shoes," looks
at a star and decides where
on the clock
face
the
light should
come from.
Twelve
o'clock - that
CARDIFF
FILES
HIS WOMEN BY THE
'CAMERA CLOCK’...
is right overhead-if the girl rs the later time more suitable. young and her skin uncreased.
the
threo
Three o'clock-and the
it was
try
Reading
down
wards... Bergman,
Gardner, Shearer.
and Crawford.
some real acting now.
If
But it was with his discovery of a golden-haired shy musical teens that the real rise of Wilcox Was began. The girl's name Marjorie Robertson, but that Was changed to Anna Neagle, and it is no exaggeration to say that Wilcox has dedicated hi
ingenuity ever energles and since to building her into and maintaining her as one of Bri- tain's most popular and success-
ul screen stars.
*
If Wilcox can be said to have formula it is to alternate the
Дола Nengle nums between serious studies of famous women Nurse Cavell, Nell Gwynn, Queen Victoria, Odette Churchill
frothy
escapist, romantic
Park Park "Spring in
medies Lane", "Maylime in Mayfair
indefatigably
He has travelled
around Britain, Europe and the United States with his films and the results are there to be read in the box office returns.
It seems likely that "Odette"!
been tho will prove to have
success of all, the Wit- -Neagle films, but already it
is a piece of past history to the pair, now pressing on
with
full and ambitious programme for 1951.
The principal Anna Neagle picture
will be right in line with the pattern which has served so
well a
film biography DI
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Florence Nightingale called 'The Lady with the Lamp", Neagle, continuing her highly successful acting partnership with Michael Wilding, will in a modern also appear drama
ramn "Caesar's Wife" and in a
Biar production "Derby! the stars of which will also include Sir Ralph Richardson, one of Britain's leading stage actors.
History of the Old Vic
60
As he approaches the age of
ba Wilcox seems to doubling rather than reducing the scope of his activities for this year.
He also plans a history
of the Old Vic, Britain's most famous theatre, with Dame Edith Evans
in the character of Lilian Baylis who virtually created the Old Vic out of nothing by her Own
har
efforts. There' is also in preparation a life story of the painter. Van Gogh in which Trefor Howard, Miss Neagle's partner in "Odette", will play the tifle role.
The British studios could still not be called busy, but at least there is something going on in ench of the big ones. Most in-
focuses naturally
where the industry' Elstree joint effort for the Festival of Britain la in progress.
terest
D
on
the
the
tenborough and Kay Walsh, and the day rapidly approaching when short scene between
Greene, and a characte described in the script as "Second Policeman" will be played by
Friese
The title of this life story of William Friese-Greene, the Bri- tish Ahn ploneer, has now beer decided 0.3 "The Magic Box" and while Robert Donat, Margaret Johnston, and the Swiss actress. people accept me in character Marin Schell, play the three parts I'll have a new curder principal characters, cach day The new Boyer will come asees a new celebrity reporting
one of brief
duty as for a shock. In "The 13th Letter"
with which he is a bent, old man bald and
and "guest stars" with a beard. The love scenes aim will be thickly decorated.
So far these include Eric Port- with Linda Darnell he leaves to Michael Reanie whose pre-man, Glynis Johns, Richard Al- sun- vious experience in this
milder or Phyllis slowly set brigade. The lamp is full was confined to the Then the lamp moves
dial as she in the face for Bette Davis, Margaret Lockwood down round
Calvert.
not gets older and the light has to Gloria Swanson, Myrna Loy.
But the Boyer style is Joan Crawford is with then
13th be slap in the face-t o'clock-to mop up the age at three. Her time history entirely missing in "The
When Rennie went in Demat and Sir Laurence Olivier. shows the
Letter." Way it all goca,
with Linda
Pinewood a semi-docu- lincs.
At at for his first klas Cardio "times" his lights to Fifteen years ago
the ex-lover All Darnell,
mentary films of hospital life ("Forsaking in one o'clock eyes alluring, lips
the there to give toclinical advice: "White Gorridors with Google and check-bones Others"). Ten years ago
eyeg shut... Withers is well under way, and "Keep your for latrp
for oothly curving.
which Cana with don't hold too tight....make a "Hotel Sphara" Canzo" Today At 12 o'clock he puta Jean "Strange
and then
bodian-born Yvonne de Carlo has Simmons and Ingrid Bergman. "Harlot Craig" she is at three, rush approach
At six o'clock everyone
La. Kontinendit. "Why," said over from Hollywood has begun. At the Denham studir They can take the lump over- head to bring out that perfect equal. Then the lamp toss up
from below the chin to startle Boyer "you could shoot a love Twentieth-Century Fox continue cupid's bow under the nose,
ta In the One okler woman
customers in mystery pe sotilooking at a man's hands their policy of making films ir alone: They can get over Britain with the money they cluded: Mariche Dietrich at-48 tures
cannot export by starring Tyrone but
to much, parsióntips the face." The Cardiff light check
GONG-MAN should be three o'clock,
Power in
which the the part are merciless on those runaway
BOMBARDIER BILLY late Leslie Howard
made famour night fine enough to move her ear lines which tell of late
WELLS who used to strike in Berkeley Square". parties. Nothing makes llor of the clock face,
Alec Guinas, another lead- Kerr woman so three o'clock in the gong for Mr Rank's ima One o'clock is Deborah
The close-up as slaying, up
after until old age made him retire ing star, who visitors to the and Ava Gardner tiano.
(he's 63 now), founda now Festival of Britain will see as a
"Hamlet" make midnight the night before.
ban moved He plays stage lower Light comes
THE LOVER...
job this week.
"The Lavender- hospital film straight from # their eyes mysterious." Oly
FOR two years Charles patient in
in ris Johns la at one o'clock, too
White Corridors." The Mday's
Hill Mob" (with scenes taken because the end of her poso Boyer has been, battling
with himself: Should ho go on work: lying in bed from Paris) to a comedy The Man ir White Sult"—both - fllms turns up,
playing the lover: or wie 49 pan. to 0.p.m, reading books the
made at that home' of recant Sho could be at 12, but thom the time to quil? He cabled me and sipping tea.
comedy hlis, Faling Studios, moke his docision -"Im going to |="apples. In her cheeks"
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