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THE CHINA MAI, SATURDAY, AUGUST 8~ 1950'

INSIDE SHOW BUSINESS

MARGARET LEIGHTON AND YUL BRYNNER

LAST NIGHT'S SURPRISE TEAMING FROM HOLLYWOOD

TTOLLYWOOD the other night Southern aristocrats, will be made, Desire"..seven Hopfang the most surprising cast in America in the butumn. It will ing news of the season: Margaret be Miss Leighton's first film in with Yul Hollywood. Co-star Leighton to Brynner in "The Sound and the Fury."

years age. The

picture, one of the most important on 20th Century-Fox's programme, will be directed by Marlin Ritt, who recently made the successful film "The Long Hot Summer."

Her part: a middle-aged woman "over-fond of the company of men. It is regarded as one of the best Miss Leighton's husband, The film, based on the William chances for an actress since Vivien Laurence Harvey, will be touring Faulkner novel dealing with a de- | Leigh won an Oscar for her per- [America with the Old Vic Company generale family of once-distinguished formance in. ""A Streetcar Named while she is working, in Hollywood.

the

SIMMERING TRIANGLE: A MAN, HIS CRUTCHES'...

epic

AND HIS WIFE

Look at the names he foliqws Becombe, Benny cock, Harry

In one Spartacus" for which as stooge to Archie: Tony Has-

picture

-all the

heat

on the

tor.

Wilding

James Robertson Juntios, goes gay

the

sought as star and direc. lift. Max Bygraves, Beryl Reid, Why doos a man coming up to £250-a-week class somersault Back like this?

(CREEN villain Leo J. Cobb, who usually ends as a bullet- riddled corpse, says he is bo- ginning to feel like the Russian actor who described his roles:

"I've just 4ompleted a great tragedy. In this one I died, Be- fore that I played another tragedy. In that one I died. Now 1 uppear in a comedy. In this one I also die. But I die happy."

THE

hot Reymond,

tin roof

film version

Wan

to

弹

Salt Bresslaw: "Just once went on one of the Lyons' midlo shows, I felt like a baby. They

a lough. I sat at home in despair,

}

once again

show me the gag. It didn't get M be making his come MICHAEL WILDING will

listening I realised there was back to films after a three- . year absence in a new Bri- tish thriller tentatively call-

a big hole in my experience."

'It's an honour*

PLAY, by hairs

At 24, the man who wanted dresser "Teasy Wensy" to join the Old Vic finds himself offers to tour "Adam, My deluged with

variety, to drool and gimble and Friend," which

sing hoarse, puny songs. But have been staged in radio will give him time-lime give festival of plays at to persuade TV chiefs Chester, has been post him a part in a straight play.

Bressław said: "People tire than THIS latest shot from poned. Replacement: "Dry of your face more quickly

Q they tire of your voice. It's of Rot."

real honour to follow the string Tennessee Williams's "Cat. TOLLYWOOD director Frank of comics who have worked ол a Hot Tin Roof" pulls. Capra: "Films firen't ple- with Archle. They can't all together in one pieture all tures that are to be hung on a wrong. This is the time to move Clear out of TV at your the elements of 淼 contro wall. They have to have

dimensions--two on the screen peak. Be grateful but realise versial story--the allure of and the third In the audience." ihat Popeye' and progress don't the girl, the weariness of

mix,"i the "man, the glass of whisky which fails to Boothe, and the crutch resting near the bed.

Elizabeth Taylor is the wife and Paul Newman her husband. Elizabeth Taylor has switched from her gamin hair-syle to sicek, foline loot which is more in keeping with her part as the "Cat."

វា

Miss Taylor was to have fol- lowed up "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" with a new fim, "Bus- man's Holiday," which she would have made for the com- pany of her late husband Michael Todd Now the picture: has been postponed because 10 suitable co-star can be found fər Miss Taylor.

BUDGET for "Ben Hur" now, being filmed in Italy

Stooge to

three

on.

be

ODD title follow-up to the success of Bardot's "And God Created Woman" and the horror films cycle is a chiller called:

new

"Frankenstein Woman."

Created

ed "Danger Within."

Hix role will also be a return for. Wilding to the debonair, tight comedy style that first made him a star..

D

-The story concerns a murder in an Hallan prisoner-of-war camp, with Wilding as оле

is nol prisoner who

cscape- Producer Colin Lesstle happy. has signed Richard Todd and Richard Attenborough as two of the other prisoners.

LIMELIGHT

GETS SOME ADVICE ON A GAMBLE

I Love Danger. He Says

IN

by THOMAS WISEMAN

TN the matter of making films, most of the top Hollywood stars now believe in the do-it- yourself principle. They have become the new tycoons, with a million dollars' collateral in their smile, their dimples or their bosom, as the case may be.

they didn't have enough mate to live really dangerously.

No longer can they claim to was one, which he doubted, he played around, and got drunk be rogues and vagabonds, stroll- had nssumed the role with ing players, madcaps and reluctance. eccentries: now they are cap- "If I had listened to the tairs of industry, solid as ICI, financial wizards," he said, “E and when you meet then the would never have made The Lalk is not of riolous nights Vikings. I was sticking my neck and hangovers. but of over- oul-if I had analysed it all in heads, budgets and grosses, cold blood and looked at it with the fadeler's eves I probably wouldn't have done it,

STAR-TYCOON

"They were st children. can get drunk too but I don't mako a carger of it. Now Fil tell you what is real adventure, Gambling $4,000,000 film having to take decisions involving millions, that's a real grown-up thi Not getting drunk,

RESPECT

ris

Paro 13

DOUG

BOYOILE

I am sure he deserves award for that—of some sort.

New title

has

an

Tommy Steele's songwriter, Lionel Bark,

Весп striking out lato fresh territory.

composing After writing and "I went into it with naivete-

The Tommy Steele Story and The Duke Wore Jeans, he has that's the only way to make

writted a musical adaptation The conquests they

boast pictures. Hell, I could have shot

of Ben Johnson's Volpone. about are those of the board it at Santa Monie, but ja my

He has given it a slightly boom rather than the boudoir. raivete I said I would shooti

unended title-in tune with in Norway in the flords. If the

contemporary Mr Kirk Douglas is one of film had been a flop 1 person-

idlom Wally the most successful. of these ally would have slood to lose

"Don't get this wrong- Fone-King of the Underworld. don't care that

seltlag bas been new stat-tyevons and when $1,000,000.

about And the much called on him the other day at

Soho--with its "You see, I'm not a

I've been a poor boy changed to very money.

rackélcers, gangsters and rock the house he has rented in business-like

businessman 1 most of my life s 1 bave

'n' roll cellars. Eaton Squate he wus deeply tell you, I hate to be thought of healthy respect for it, but I immersed in the box-office fe as a businessman, Listen, if I'd haven't allowed it to contami turns of his latest production. listened to the businessmen rate me. Anybody's an idiot The Vikings.

still be on the Bowery.

With reverence for he way

the quoting from

showman's. bible, Variety-ho began to read oul the strange ritualistic phrases which can mean boom or buat, doom or salvation to a ilim tycoon.

who thinks he can live without money; but he's also an idot tr. he thinka money is going to.

RESPONSIBILITY make him happy.

To the traditional tycoon, alt "I'll tell you something-show this must sound very much like how much of a busincaman i heresy, bui then as Mr Doug- am, the next film I'm going to las says, he is not one of them. make is Shaw's The Devil's Dis-

Vildings Wham 14 Grand ciple. I don't expect: I wil Minneapolis," he cried fervent make a nickel-would a bust- ky, and Continued his semi- nessman do that? I'm doing it religious chant: "Lusty 13 because I love the play." Grand St Louis; Virile Kansas City; Pierly Masculine ... Smash, Soko

Sockuroa."

RUGGED

You even

In

Mr Doughna's Boff being considered a tycoon

understandable, if you about tycoons Sin the business.

his With such

3

The musical will have a try- out at The Unity Theatre this month.

I am told that Tommy Steele will not be playing Volpone, allas Wally Pone.

Jap revue?

It is partly as a result of the bus strike that the Sadier's "To show you how much the Wells production of The Merry tinencial boys know," he said, Widow moves Into the West End. "they told me when I started It will take over the Coliseum out they'd have to Air in the

from Bells are Ringing. which dimple on my chin. That's what closes on July 26. The show wes to they said. Well, I didn't lision hard hit by nversion

the strike

with is to them. Now it's pracfeally my attchdances sometimes down by know. trade-mark. And It's Box-omce half. movie too."

Bells are Ringing was expected to last a year and occupy the

the theatre until

Christmas pantomime opened. Now efforts are being made to book enough shows to the gap left: when The Merry Widow ends its run in September.

a position

of

Sam strikes

Veteran Hollywood producer Sem: Goldwyn has hit out at the current trend in dlms to have crime and sex as the real hero

But even if he does not pospesa pil of theis characteris- Translated into English, this tica, Mr Douglas is a tyroon in means that Mr Douglas's Am the sense that he is in "tharge is making money,

could of multi-million dollar enter- If you prises. deduce as much didn't speak the language, from the snille which bisected

his power there comes, inevitably, and heroine. Saye Goldwyn: "I face and the lyricism in

be responsibility, and I wondered ever made a gangster picture voice and, if you want to vulgarly materialistic, from the if he did not regies the loss of pud never undressed a woman in

public." outside his his carefree Bentley standing

days

as 'mere aster. Tycoons, even by anothe front door.

In appearance, Mr Douglas name, cannot afford to be hell-

· typical raisers. does not resemble the TV

tycoon: he is rugged, as positive and as a punch on the nase

"I'm not one of the uker has the culled-up vitality of a brigade." said Mr Douglas. "I'm runner waiting for the starter's in heter, too, and that helps you (un to go off.

zet rid of all the pent-up feel- He wore a pair of silky blue ing final Hive people ulcers. monogrammed We've all got murder in us, but striped shirt with a button down an actor is fortunate in being. collar, and he was busy. Be able to get rid of it in his per- fore my arrival he had been formances. It's a kind ot filmed for TV. and when I left catharsis. Very healthy.

Before he starts the film, Wilding will co-glar with ice-

in a skater Sonja lente

·Spectacular to be filmed here for showing in America.

Now he is back in the line that made hint famous where will he live Hollywood or London? Most likely · perma- nent addressLendon, which is where the work is. Already he is suggesting that his 84-year old father at present in America might like to return to England.

FRANK SINATRA and close

THE Crazy Gang return to the bought

screen In September for the fest time since their 1040 hit, "Gasbags." A search is now going on to find new young

·Elen to support the

ageing comics.

CORDON a dummy

-is it

has been increased success?

24,500,000, which will make it the most expen-

sive picture, M.G.M. has

ever made.

RERNARD BRESSLAW

SCOTT, eleventh actor to portray Tarzan on the screen, is already tired of his loin cloth. He has warned the producers that unless he is allowed to play other roles he will quit., His Intest film: Tar- zan's Fight for Life,"

friend Peter Lawford have

and

produca will # story called "Ocean's It tells of a band of Eleven. ex-G.1.3 who capture L3$ Vegas for 24 hours and rob five casinos.

Sinatra incidentally has financial interest in a Las Vegas hotel-casino.

But neither the thin singer nor his friend will star in it, Sinatra says: "We would like Dean Mario and Sammy Davis Jun. Lawford Isn't the type for the story and I'll be busy disc-

where."

JULIE ANDREWS has LAIRE BLOOM and Dame Edith Evans were added to made her first record since

British cast of tha

starring in London in “My version of John Fair Lady." It is a long-

1 "Look Back In Osborne's Anger, Miss Bloom will play layer of a vintage musi

Olm

(above), virtually an un-

the known just a year ago, started CIXTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD Mar- his first starring movie the other Karzt Rutherford became day. "I Only Arsked," they wil entangled in the wires of a chest call it, after the catch-phrase Me Ure's rival for the love of Cal, "Rose Marie." microphone at a rehearsal which has turned Breseldw, for the *Night of

"Private Poucre" of ITV's "The Richard Burlón, Dame Edith

Hundred Stars charity show. Army Game," Into a national will play Mary Ure's mother.

She asked tearfully: "What are you trying to do, hang me? I don't need this contraption to mike myself heard' And pro- Deeded to prove it.

MILLER

gure.

¿HARLES LAUGHTON met a Exactly 12 months Brossinw

POST at a cocktail party. knows this is how long it takes his the peer: You must come to become

star on TV. Now down to my home some time." he is pulling out of the show, Answered Laughton: "I did so will not relum for the next fast week--for 2s. ̧ûkt"

A on the film version of his FLA.D.A student has

play "A View from the Bridge" which will be shot in New York and France. The star will be 'Italian actor. Raf Vallone, who - is now appearing in the French

version of the play.

DART

arked DART of Cary Grant's Day-off himself: Can TV klil a comic for his role in "Indis

as quietly as it makes one?

Third fiddle

Install of "The Army Game," AS soon as the Broadway Bresslow will play third fiddle duromy in the Archlo

to

creet" with Ingrid Bergman, WAS 20,000 Rolly-Royce ear. Bergman'settled for money. TONY PERKINS is out of the Marlon Brando production, "Shake Hands With The Dovil,"

run of Romanoff: and Andrews Show on the old steam to be made in Ireland this slim- Julist” onds late this year radio. Balelly, over lunch with mer. His schedule was upse Peter Ustinov flios to Archie's boss Peter Broust, he by his late alert on "Green Man- Hollywood to join Kirk cd to change into a veloc; fons with Andrey Hepburn, throwing away his máln“ nascia Douglas ⠀ sud, Charles or a Git. Blai gormless frame and Laughton in the £1,500,99 two bulging cre

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trousers,

he was expecting an art dealer

with some pictures,

"As for this hell-raising bust- When I tackled him about mess, that's all pretty childish. this business

a I'm a man who loves danger......... of becoming

But real danger. tycoon,

was just love it. Mr .Dougins anxious to point out that if he Those Hollywood

SIDE GLANCES

actors Who

By Galbraith

"Em so glad you dropped in! George is making a speech next week and wants to try it on some plain people, with average brains!"?

Only

One of the attractions may be Japanese revue. This should restore. Japanese honour after we have all the Chinese shows seen intely.

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