1957-02-02 — Page 8

THE CHINA MAIL, "SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1957.

The New St Joan

FIRST DAY'S FILMING FOR THE SMALL TOWN GIRL:

By John Lambert

ILM-DIRECTOR Otto "Forget who you are and Preminger aprend his what you were," he com- hands in front of the manded. "You must be small, delicate fuce of Joan of Arc." Jean Seberg as she stood beneath the blazing lamps at Shepperton fith studios.

That was the climax to the day that

Jeni may change

Seberg, a Hille girl from low U.S.A., into a film stur,

GIRL IN 18,000.

JEAN SEBERG ON THE SET

Pre- Stocktaking

COMMENCES FEBRUARY 4TH

Sho was facing the cameras for the first time in the film "Salut Joan.”

old

Star cast

Miss Seber Is the 10-year- college girl chosen tron 18,000 other girls to play Saint Joan,

Just four moutha 41:0 she was the daughter of the local chemist in Marshalltown, Iowa. Now, without any him experi ence, she is the most important member of a illm vast joat includes Richura Wiumok, Su John Gielsuu, and Hehad. Tood

This is the diary of that strat day:

0.45 A.ME: Jtun is awakened in her £70-a-werk Fattig in i West End hotel,

B.20 AM: She Shopperton Studios.

artives al

8.15 A.M.: The transforma- 110 frum American college gi to French salat tukes 15 minutes.

Churning

9 A.M: On the set itchard Widmark puts hip aro wrong ner shuulute aurd says: "Don't worry." Jom replies: "ly stomach is chuming Bike cut-

Crese mixer, For our hours she sits very still and walchtti the activity around her.

1 P.M.: Lunch but she can ent only two bites of a chicken sandwich, with a glass of milk, and half an orange,

? P.AL: She jaet's up unsh down walling for her call.

it

does not come until 45 minutes Jaler. Then more delay whilo lighting is arranged.

3 P.M. Preminger Баук: "We'll shoot now"

Jean stridges up to the throne in the courtroom. Actress Mar- Rot Grahame, playing a duchess, laughs at her shorn hair. Jean speaks: "I wear my hair this woy because I am a soldier. Could you tight with your hair rolled up in big horns?”

Her Arst line before a camera. And after five attempts she gets it right. She is a film actress.

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LIMELIGHT

ZANIES

**That's my country seat

focuses on the man

who dislikes the...

LIMELIGHT

Mr. Bogarde

(THE TEENAGE IDOL)

plays hard to get...

IRK BOGARDE'S fans

D'amor fikely to make

him swoon than vice-versa. Mr Bogarde has a lot of 'fans and crowds, even of the worshipping kind are apt to give him claustro- phobia,

AND IT PAYS OFF-AT THE

RATE OF £1000 A WEEK...

by THOMAS WISEMAN:

This, presumably, is why he avoided the 30 female fans who awaited him when he arrived in New York re- cently for the first time. It also partially explains why he is never to be scen He has a Rolls-Royce and around those crowded places only five suits and a keen frequented by film stars mind). who only get claustrophobia when they are alone and unrecognised.

THEIR DELIGHT

However, ho did meet Judy Garland at a party and was promptly asked to make a film with her (with music by Cole Porter), in He which he would sing. was also asked to make an- other musical in Hollywood. Both these projects he will put up for approval to his boss and friend, John Davis, who not long ago (and He denies his public the voluntarily) tore up his old excruciating pleasure of see contract and gave him a new ing him in the flesh and better one. except on

rare occasions. "Familiarity," he assures

get

me, "breeds contempt. If Despite every prognosis you give the public boo to the contrary, Mr Bogarde much of yourself, they has become the teenagers sick of you.” delight; to a large propor-

ISOLATED

THE LESSON

I suppose

bed.

E

THE IDOL AT HOME SURROUNDED by books rather than fans—this is Dirk Bogaidu, the teen- agers idol, at home in the country, where he spends most of his time away from the limelight, His public has to be content with seeing him on the screen. They will be able to see him this month in I Met By Moonlight, his latest film. Other films lined up for him includet Compbell's Kingdom, an outdoor frame obout Canedo, and A Tale of Two Cities,

they prefer to put don't want children and I've me to bea than to take me to got enough of the other two,”

There are people who suggest He has now been offered

that his present atillude is tho RIGHT INSTINCT outcome of a broken heart, Ho even more money by Holly-

was at one time sald to be very wood than for The Egyptian, "As long as you can uppeat much in love with Jean which he turned down, prov: all right: It's stronger than the Granger came on the see loo

to the maternal Instinct you're Simmons, before

Stewart ing that when a producer is other instincts and It lasts asked him about this. He looked spurned he reaches for his longer. Anyway, most English wistful. "I was too late," be cheque book,

women hate sex. American said Eadly, "I'd rather not talic Having cold shouldered women, on the other hand, think about it

about nothing else, think' Hollywood for so long he being the operative word," has never made a film there

HIS APPEAL he is now more in demand In his private life, too, one than ever. Playing hard to tends to bring out the mother of a broken heart, which, I am

sometimes

thinks Mr Bogarde Perhaps it is this suggestion get is paying off for Mr in women. He can count among told, can sometimes be read in If I say I share his amaze- On his first visit to Bogarde.

his closest "chums" some of the his eyes, that appeals so much ment, it is no reflection on America "to ..see my

the to tho

maternal instinct of his abilities

What exactly is it that he most beautiful women in actor, chuma", he avoided the has got? us an

le says:

country, but, at 35 ho has so British womanhood.. "Z often far, resisted the temptation to which are considerable; I am Press, T.V., the public and, wonder myself, I must appen marry any of them.

It is better to have loved and amazed because Mr Bogarde wherever possible the so- to the maternal instinct in

loat. Much better-from u box women because I'm no possesses nono of the attri- ciety of actors not his hulk of physique."

cat Ke explains: "The only offles point of view. Little girls reason to got married is to have butes of a teenagers' idol. "chums."

always like to play with dolls. ehlidren, securlly and love.

tion of the female popula

of Britain Bogarde

in bliss. A state of affairs In his house at Little for which he is duly grate Chalfont he is effectively ful (since it gives him an isolated: he loathes Lon income of close on £1,000 "a dön and has no love for his week) but which he finds fellow human beings cu puzzling.

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