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YES-NO SOPHIA
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1957.
✰ SHOW BUSINESS)★ ☆
puts Bergman in a whirl
TELL an odd, behind-the-scenes story about Ingrid Bergman and Sophia Loren,
Pity, in my opinion;
No opinion is expressed by producer-and diplomat-Fore- man,
time they were too old to make the effort to come and sco ma They're all in bathehairs.
"And ones in pool.”
Miss Loren, the most successful of Italy's current statistical sirens, signed a contract recently to appear in Stella. These old, friends- I'm told.
which will be made in the U.K. in the autumn.
It should be one of the top lliny of the year. The director will be Sir Carol Reed;
producer and writer, Cart Foreman; the other rtaes, Willum Hviden and Trevor Howard.
But in the meantime Miss Loren has one to Hollywood, lined Desire Under the Elms and agreed to start another him in August,
She is so by that when producer Fore- man inquired when she would be arriving for Stella as contracted, he 374 given oviciye
Answer,
So he took his script to Paris) and asked Ingrid Bergman If she would like to play the part. She read the seṛhat and promptly said Yes.
Salary was agreed at around £90,000, which is what Mix Loren was to get.
Hut when Miss Jaren heard that she might lose the part she immediately announced she would be arriving here at the beginning of October. As contracted.
by Tallulah
ALLULAH! BANKHEAD files barct engagement in London.
six week
CIT after
She aves a dent legend be. hind her,
Talith, who is herself a not- able pade-caller and truth
ispenser, would probably pre- ler if I came right out with it,
The fact is Tallulah has been a flop compared with her COR- buporaries like Marlene Diel
reh at Nort Coward.
I'm sad to say, it. But Talintah the toast of the twenties, is no
more",
What does the herself kay about it all? These were some of are printable words
"Way hack when I was the
Só Mirs Bergman has to drop out of, the loast of the town all my friends picture. Grazinusily.
were 15 years older, This
P.5.; Zsa Zsa Gabor, who was due to follow Tallulah down the celebrated Cafe de Paris stofna in September, now wants to call it of, She has decided on the advice of friends who saw her act in Las Vegar that it wouldn't be 'auktable for London. One of her props a large fancy bed,
It would have been dificult, i suppose, get it down those plushy, spiralling stairs.
to
Miss Lee has an aim
DELINDA LEE said with one of her smiles, which are toothy and whallshly, but win- ningly, wide
"I want to make love stories for the serien. Loss of love stories. I want to be fiery. And passionate. I'm sure I can."
fler husband, photographer Cornel Lugas, surveyed her affectionately, secure in the knowledge that Miss Lee to the (rare) kind of actress whose off-screen love scenes are never extra-marital.
She is pursuing her professional umorous campaign energetically in her latest Dangerous Exlie,
film
Is an attempt, I gathered, to restart the eyele ut pneumatic, sexy British period niclodramas.
Miss Log sakk: "At first I was supposed to be seduced in the film. But thats all changed now. I seduce the man.. Sort of."
She seemed pleased about the change.
Her tiger, Dirk
She patted her toy stuffed Uger which occupies a chair in her Kensington Bat and which is called Dirks after Dirk Bogarde, who presented it to her recently on her 22nd birth- | day.
Dirk, the tiger, has a cuddly, unpassionate, non-man-eating look. So, I would have said, has its mistress. But of course she may look different in Dangerous Exile.
Remembering what its prototype The Wicked Lady did for Margaret Lockwood, the Rank Organisation have high hopes for Dangerous Exile und Miss Loc.
She passed round a box of bon-bons, offering one to Dirk the tiger, and malů: "I've always wanted to be a big film star. "I give myself about another live years. If I don't make it by the time I'm 20 I night as well give up.”
I asked her why she wanted to be a star. Was she attracted by the money, or the fame?"
"No. I just want to be a star."
She said it with the unswerving conviction
of a youngster who wants to be an
river or a tiger hunter.
The day is named
engine
Po those who care to know, I can announce
that Laurenco Harvey and Margaret Leigh-
Lo have xod a dato às last for their long-| awaited wedding. Or almost
Mr Harvey, just back from America, tells me: "It will be on August B in Gibraltar. But if Margaret dislikes the flock of Gibraltar as the selling we'll do it whenever we get back to London"
Why who Rock of Gibraltar? Mr Hurvey will be on location there for his new Alm, Tho Silent Enemy, in which he plays the under- water hero Commander Crabb.
But no frog-suits will wedding.
worn
at
the
1 don't want to interfere with Misg Leighton's choice, which she will probably make known when sho arrives by boat from! America, But I would have thought that the Rock of Gibraltar would appeal to a women as a catting for a wedding.
How could be ever crumble in divorce?
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THE IMP IN SIZE 10 BOOTS
By JOHN
THE zit in size 10 boots is a mischievous eight-year-old called Danis Wilson, who became a flim xtar by being smuggled into Ertial.
She was brought, from Austraila to make a picture, "The Shiralee," in secret at Elstree.
She is now back, home in crowded, working clam suburb of Sydney-back to the normal life of an eight- year-old. And she is jikely to stay that way.
For this impish-eyed Utile sirl was too much of a handful for the film makers.
Under Home Odion regulations no child under 19 is But the work supposed 30
in British film studios.
LIMELIGHT. ☆ ☆
YOU might sum up John Gregson's progress in with the phrase, "From dust to dust, from rags to rags and bones."
In Miracle in Soho, he plays an amorous road-mender, a great lad with a pneumatic drill.
And in the next film he is to make for the Rank Organisation he will play....a dustshan: Oh a more plutocratle level, he has also been Tag and bono merchant on tho screen,
Mr Gregson is well qualified jto play these roles which are so down-to-earth that they are
practically subterranean,
At the age of 18 he actually
was a duKUTION,
"I worked in the cleansing
department of Liverpool
| Council," he says, “I was pald
LAMBERT ·
authorities turn a blind eye -- if there is no fum or publielly. Dann nearly witcked that facil agreement as soon as she landed in London.
A film teœufive took her hand as she came off the plane. "I know we are going to get on well, Dana,”- ha --Bald. Bhe glared: 'I don't know you,” she said -- and
kicked him on the shins,
She exasperated the studio man by her pranks. But, by being ruthlessly herself and nothing else, the provided the picture with remarkable study of a child.
Asked if she wanted to be a film star, she shook her head with a toothlem erin.
☆☆by THOMAS WISEMAN
ANTH
JOHN GREGSON
and BELINDA LEE
* * *
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offices. Trying to Mr Gregson, so lo the road and hardly over work-n decant That Counts, have to leave the subolago me,"
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