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MILLIONS FOR MAKING

BRITISH FILMS THIS YEAR

For Gattiantss is un comedian, how counter

aver-charming actress,"

To me, auued, Hollywood's most accept- blo ambassadress. I shall call ner Madam.

QUO VADIS MR CHANG?

Some time next week, Mr Frank Chang, as Métro- Goklwyn-Meyer's Hongkong. Formosa and formerly China Manager, is visiting Rome for the first time.

The occasion: M-G-M's Colossal International "Quo Vadis" Conference, as the meeting is officially known to the film industry.

WITH MR WILDING Margaret Lockwood faces a studio camera at Sheppar- I the first conference on YOU REMEMBER bidding for stage techniques is in the ton-something she has not this seale in 25 years, and

to theatre,

done since leaving Denham Inj M-G-M manugers and execu a regretful farewell

To Mr Bank's group: Will you September 1950.

tives from some 37 countries, British films a year ago-in

Stamp Armly

This time Mr Rank's former making a total of 82, will gather on the prevalent response to the industry's nation that the main recipe for No. 1 star will be acting far in Rome, announcement that it Wassereen comedy is to photograph on opposition firm with

This elty has been chosen for Guinness looking funny? atiebael Wilding in the Herbert the meeting because the film dead, or dying?

excellen

production of Trent's "Quo Vadis was shot there, Wilcox Well, would you

he but

studio to event worth

commemorating. to do all the Last Case. In the

welcome Miss Lockwood: as the picture cost more than oblige again and get up to shala't have

work.

frisedly

rival date? Optimism will be the

i sny other that has ever been Aka to Mr Rank: Could chief, Anna Neagle-who is not. fashion in 1952, please e Clark be found some only Mia Wilcox but a director made. US$7,500,000 is the figure, Brd the cost of publicity and with British

hing else to do besides smiling of the firm. Miss Neagle is not prints has almady exceeded two thing a busier time appealmgly. She is getting quite aler in planning.

the picture. million dollars. It is ruaning will see than they have enjoyed for big girl now, you know,

"To

A new present both in London and New concerned:

Lockwood, minus the York. several years.

mean finding new stats close-cropped Peter Pan hair-

M-G-M will set the ball roll- some of the old dependables

style cha has worn for some have got themselves stage jobs. years.

DIA with a cocktail reception an New also in dramatic

March 23, and the conference

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A volatile lot, these produces --though a triffe coafushi to keep up with. But it's always on the fresh batch of "dis- personality. Miss Lockwood re-i will continue from the follow- them to the alien wat betros stage life has given hering morning until the 20th. n

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Tht extra £2,000,000 prospect from the Government's fdm Anance fund is helping, of course, So is the definite Jik British pletures which Lutient have been showing at the box- office.

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assurance,

added us about long-term con- sharp-edged comedy sense-and tracts.

Just put the girls in I don't mean Peter

Pan.

last longer that way.

that time the les polley-for- "Quo Vadi:" and the long range

company policies will be dir-

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work-and let the public decide It was that slogging course of cussed, this gathering providing if they are good. Discoveries of Coward and Shaw around the opportunity for a greater the country which did the trick. unity and co-operation betwees With tempered uninism on Now it is up to Mr Wilcox: I ine various offices and „These points, I wish British pic- hope he arrives at Shepperton to talk out and achieve a mutue

of All the major studios laive

problem: tuves a happy renaissance in with the right idea. Miss Lock- understanding bigger programmes in hand this. 1952.

wood, I am sure, is hoping so,

which would be tedio:is to Dei year, From Pinewood und

through the slow channels o Ealing alone we may expert 20

correspondence, first-teature productions--which

ing a box-office between 212 and 3 milion pounds.

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One new Rank star is in no need of discovering: Claudette Colbert. She plays with Jack Hawkins in White Blood, a story about present-day

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THE MASON FILM

That JAMES MASON family.afair film, Lady Possessed, has opened in New York; and the critica there, I gather, are wondering why. This

was the work with himself as

these Rank pictures Malaya. Shepparton look like being This will be Miss Colbert's first equally busy-while some of the

the film in England. Her part: ទ producer and atar, his wife Hollywood

British planter's wife. companies plan greatly increased activity over

her. MGM, for instance, will be making six or seven pictures at their own big Elstree studios, as against two, last year.

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a part? If so, should be made.

So Mr Mason must now be meeting this time.

doing some wondering, among Here is a picture designed to other things. He has also re- show

world what Britain is turned to MGM in Hollywood as doing fight terrorism in her an actor-employee-for the time On the threshold of this own Fter Eastern sphere. The being MGM are treating

him new era in British films, producers

the United handsomely, 100. may I make a few appeals-just States particularly when they They have

given MOIRA so tha; we don't hear the in- suy the world" but have SHEARER to him or him to dustry is dying ngala next illusions of what would happen Miss Shearera co-star in the Christmas?

to their design without a big dancing episode The Story of To Sir Alexander Korda: American name in the cast. Three Llucs, In lits own picture, Please; not too many of these

For American audiences, Miss Mason crooned three songs; but "quickies," made on stage lines Colbert will be the sugar conting Moira will attend to the dancing

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CLAUDETTE GOLBERT EXPLAINS HER SUCCESS PHILOSOPHY WHEN Claudette Colbert started out.

to become an actress, more than a quarter of a century ago, she de cided: "I'd rather be liked like Will Rogers than admired as a Sarah Bernhardt."

When Claudette Colbert arrived in London to make her first British film, she said: "You see, I've kept to that."

"You may not win an Oscar that way (al- though, thank goodness, I did), but you do stay. Actresses don't have to be witchy or temperamental. If I

I epitomise anything it is Is that true? common sense and that awful word 'dependability,"

The Colbert Code

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part. Act with sophistication, yes

Well, ask your wife....

STAR QUESTION

For a moment Miss Lockwood, 30 years old, looked at the younger woman. The look was cold, critteal-and complete. In Margaret Lockwood's eyes asked the question: "What quality has Elizabeth Taylor that make the

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the ciles ("There are more of

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them outside") will accept It ham, the langest in the country, mens so

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When she came into pictures empty.

"Anna Nik

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be made at one time: Now it is the studio to wish good luck to The tight sound stages are her rival for the title of leading It was the eth of Garbo, and dent, and the restaurant where lady of the screen, sald: "Mar- asses milk baths, and all the Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, or I ahore one, quality in rest of the Hollywood hullabaloo and all the others lostled for common-hard work. It is either Now she says:---

"For a pure glamour girl with tables is deserted. On the wall that or personality that makes 9 per cent oomph and one per a large picture of Leelle Howard you a 'stor," cent talent the career span is looks down.

ten years at the most."

Margaret Lockwood, though,

One quality has kept Claudette was there back in a film studio Colbert ahead of her rivals of after nearly two years back to

Question annuered?

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