1958-08-09 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1959)**

INSIDE SHOW BUSINESS

MARGARET LEIGHTON AND YUL BRYNNER

co-star

Desire" seven

years ago. The picture, one of the most important on 20th Century-Fox's programme, will be directed by Martin Rill, wha recently made the successful m │"The Long Hot Summer."

LAST NIGHT'S SURPRISE TEAMING FROM HOLLYWOOD FOLLYWOOD the other night: Southern aristocrats, will be made HOLL

sprang the most surprising cast-in America in the autumn. It will ing news of the season: Margarethe Miss Leighton's first film in Leighton to

with Yul Hollywood. Brynner in "The Sound and the Hee-port: a middle-aged wonian over-fond of the company of men. It Fury."

is regarded as one of the best The film, based on the William chances for an actress since Vivien Faulkner novel dealing with a de- Leigh won an Oscar for her ner- generate family of once-distinguished | formance in. "A Streetcar Named

SIMMERING TRIANGLE: A MAN, HIS CRUTCHES'.

epic 'Spartacus" for which

In one Sir Laurence Olivier

picture

-all the

heat on the

is

sought as star and direc-

tor.

CREEN villain Loe J. Cobb,

who usually ends as a bullet- riddled corpse, says he la bon ginning to feel like the Russian actor who described his roles:

Miss Leighton's husband, Laurence Harvey, will be touring America with the Old Vie Company while she is working, in Hollywood.

AND HIS WIFE

Look at the names he follows

as stooge to Archie: Tony Han- Becombe, Benny enck, Harry

Hill. Max Bygraves, Beryl Reid, Why

Wilding

James Kobertson Justice. goes gay

does a fan coming up to the. £250-a-week class somersault buck like this?

1

Suid Bresslaw: "Just once went un one of the Lyons' radio shows. I felt like a baby. They gave me one gag. It didn't get a laugh. I sat at home in despair, listening, I realised there was big hole in my experience." 'It's an honour'

"I've just completed a great tragedy. In this one I died. Be- fore that I played another tragedy, In that one I died. Now I appear in a comedy. In this ono I also die. But I die happy."

THE PLAY, by hair. At 24, the man who wanted dresser "Tonny Weasy" to join the Old Vic ands Iimself "Adam. My deluged with offers to tour

hot Raymond, tin roof festival

}

Friend," which was ta have been staged in

of plays at Chester, has been post- US latest shot from poned. Replacement: "Dry Ta version

Rot."

of

Tennessee Williams's "Cut on a Hot Tin Roof" pulls together in one picture all the clements of a

variety, to drool and gimble and But sing hoarse, puny songs. radio will give him tine-ume to persunde TV chiefs to give him n part in a straight play.

Bresslaw said: "People re

ol

of your face more quickly than they fire of your voice, It's a real honour to follow the string cortes who have worked with Archie. They can't all be wrong. This is the time to move Clear out of TV at your peak. Be grateful but realise ihat Popeye' and progress don't mix."

TOLLYWOOD director Frank Capra: "Films aren't ple- fures that are to be hung on a

on. contro wall. They have to have three

dimensions two on the sergen

versial story-the allure of and the third in the audience." the girl, the weariness of the man, the glass of

whisky which

Boothe,

and

fails to

the cruich

resting near the bed.

Elizabeth Taylor (s The wife and Paul Newman her husband, Elizabeth Taylor has

switched

A

from her gamin hair-syle sleek, foline look widch is more in keeping wiik her part ng the *Cel."

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

Stooge to

a dummy

BUDGET for "Ben Hur" -is it

now, being filmed in Italy has been increased to

£4,500,000, which will success?

make it the most expen- sive picture, M.G.M. has ever made.

CIXTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD Mar-

BERNARD

ODD title follow-up to the success of Bardot's "And

once again

LIMELIGHT GETS SOME ADVICE ON A GAMBLE

I Love Danger, He Says

by THOMAS WISEMAN

IN 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 sinile, their dimples or their bosom, as the case may be.

No longer care they claim to was one, which he doubled, he played-around, and

reluctance.

be rogues and vagabunds, stroll- hed assumed the role with ing players, madcaps and orcentries: now they are cap- fains of industry, solid at IC, and when you mee! them the Lalk is nut of riotous nights and

hangovers, but of over- heads, budgets and grasses.

STAR-TYCOON

The conquests they

boast auvat are those of the board Coom rather than the baudoir,

Mr Kirk Douglas is one of the most successful, of these new star-tycoons and when I callegi on him the other day at the heuse he has rented

.

"It I had listened to the Onancial wizards," he said, "I would never have made The Vikings. I was sticking my neck out if I had analysed it all in cold blood and pooked at it with the Gnadeler's eves I probably wouldn't have done it.

"I went into it with naiveto- that? the only way to make pictures. Hell, I could have shot it at Sonia Monica, but in my naivete I said I would shoot { in Norway in the fjords. If the Aim had been a flop i person- ally would-have-alood to lose $1,000,000.

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to

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got drunks hey didn't have enough gut.

vr really dangerously,

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0 0 0 1 0 0 0 BOX OFFICE

KIRK DOUGLAS

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

New title

has

an

been

"They were ist children. I coas get drunk too but I don't niake a career of it. Now 'il tell you what is real adventure. ★ Tommy Steele's songwriter, Gambling $4,000,000

Lionel Barl, д Alm-baving to take decisions atriking out into tresh territory. involving millions, that's a real After writing and composing grown-up · thrill Not gelting The Tommy Steele Story und The Duke Wore Jeans, he has drunk

written a musical adaptation of Ben Johnson's Volpone.

He has given

a slightly amended title-in tune with contemporary Idlom -- Wally

RESPECT

"Don't

Ket this wrong-1 Pone-King of the Underworld. the selling has been don't care that

much about And

Soho-with its "You see, I'm ̧ nat

moncy. I've been a poor boy changed to very, most of my life to have

racketeers, gangsters and rock in business-like businessmian" 1

'n' roll cellars. Eaten Square he was deeply tell you, I hate to be thought of luaithy respect for it, but 1 immersed in the box-office he as a businessman. Listen, if I'd haven't allowed it to contam turns of his latest production. listened to the businessinen te me. Anybody's an idiot The Vikings.

who thinks he can live without monoy; but ba's also

an idiol if he thinks money is going to

still be on the Bowery.

Showman's RESPONSIBILITY make him happy."

With reverence for he Was quating from the bible, Variety--he began to read ont the

ritualistic. strange phases which cati mean boom or bust, doom, or saivation to a

film tycoon.

To the traditional tycoon · all this must sound very much like hiresy, but then as Mr Doug- los says, he is not one of them.

"To show you how much the truncal boys know." he said,

bull at The Unity, Theatre

month.

The musical will have a try- this

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

-

Jap revue?

"I'll tell you something-show how much of a businessman am, the next film I'm going to

It is partly us a result of the make la Shaw's The Devil's Dis-

bus strike that the Sadler's Viking: Whom 14 Grand ciple. I don't expect: I wil

Wells production of The Merry Minneapolis," he cried fervent- mako a nickel-would a bugi-

Widow moves Into the West End. AFICHAEL WILDING will | ly, and continued his semi- nessman do that? I'm doing they told me when started I will take over the Coliseum Mmaking his carne. religious chant: "Lusty 12 Because I love the play."

out they'd have to Au in the from Bells are ingles, which Grand St Louis;

Virile in

Aluple on my chin. That's what cluses on July 26. The show was Kansas City: Plenty Masculine Mr Douglas's aversion to they said. Well, I didn't listen hard hit by the strike, with

Smash, Soke

BoT being considered a tycoon is to them. Now it's practically my attendances sometimes down by Sockaroo."

understandable. If you lotow trade-mark. And It's box-offico halt. about tycoons business.

back to films after a three- year absence in a new Brj- tish thriller tentatively can- od "Danger Within."

His role will also be a retum for Wilding to the debonnir, light comedy style that Arst made him a star.

one

-The story concerns a nurder in an allan prirouer-of-wor camp, with Wilding as prisoner who is not excape- Producer Colin Lesslie happy. hus signed Richard Todd and Richard Attenborough as two of The other prisoners.

RUGGED

Translated into English, means that Me Douglos

But even

the in

movie too."

ir he does not postess all of their characteris- this ties, Mr Douglas is a tycoon in Alm the sense that he is in charge

of multi-million prizes.

is making money. You could deduce as much eyen if didn't speak the language, from the smile

Iris which bisected Juce and

his the lyricism in voice and, if you want to vulgarly materialistic, from Bentley standing outside front door.

With such

dollar enter.

3 positium

Į

Sam strikes

Veteran Hollywood producer Sam Geldwyn has hit out at the current trend in dilms to have crime and sex as the real hero

Power there comes, inevitably, at heroine. Says Guldwyn: "I be responsibility, and I wondered and never undressed a woman in never made gangster pleture the it he did not regret the loss of public."

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his his carefree days

'more actor. Tycoons, even by anothe Douglas name, cannot afford to be hell-

typical raisors.

Before he starts the la

Mr In appearance, with ice- Wilding will co-star

does not resemble the TV skater Sonja Hienie in

tycoon: he is rugged, as positive Spectacular to be flmed here

und is a purch on the Br for showing in America

Now he is luck In the line that made him famous where will he live Hollywood or London? Most likely perma's nent addres-Lendon, which is

"I'm not one of tho uleer

has the coiled-up viuilty of a brigade. euid Mr Dougins. "I'm Only runner waiting for the starter's an actor, too, and that helps you Run to go off.

zet rid of all the pent-up feel-

ulcèrs, wore a pair of silky blue Ings that give people trousers,

monogrammed We've all gat murder in us, but in being collar, and he was busy. Be able to get rid of it in his per- fore my arrival he hadi been farmances. It's a kind of filmed for TV. and when I left catharsis. Very healthy. he was expecting an art dealer

God Created Woman" and where the work is Already he striped shirt with a button down an actor is fortunate

the horror films cycle is a chiller called: Created

new

"Frankenstein

Woman."

THE Crazy Gong return to the screen in September for the first Ume

since their 1940 hit, "Garbags." A scarch is now going lo find new young talent to support the ageing comics.

ORDON SCOTT, eleventh actor to pariray Tarzan en the screen, is already tired of his lola cloth. He has warned the producers that unless he la allowed to play other roles he will quit, His latest Alm: "Tar- zan's Fight for Life,"

is suggesting that his 84-year- old father at present in Američa night like to return to England.

FRANK SINATRA and close friend Peler Lawford have and will produce bought

story £

called "Ocean's Eleven," It tells of a band of Ex-G.1.5 who capture Las Vegas for 24 hours and rob five casinos.

Sintra Incidentally has a Onancial 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 Martin and Sammy Davla Jun. Lawford isn't the type for the story and I'll be busy else- where.

BRESSLAW (above), viriually an tin- known just a year ago, started lis frat stetring movie the other garet Butherford became day, "I Only Arshed," they will

at # microphone for the "Night of Hundred. Stars" charity She asked tearfully: "What are you trying to do, hang me? I don't need this contraption to mike myself heard" And pro- eceded to prove it..

entangled in the wires of a chest call it, after the catch-phrase Atiger.“ Bliss Bloom will play player of a vintage musi-

JULIE ANDREWS. has FILAIRE BLOOM and -Dame

Edith Evans were added to made her first record since the CAUS of the Bellish starring in London in “My

version film

of

John Fair Lady." It is a long- "Look Back In Osborne's

rehearsal which has turned

Mary Ure's rival for the love of cal, "Rose Marie." Bresslaw Richard Burton. Damo Eth "Private Popeye" of ITV's "The show. Army Game into a national will play Mary Ure's mother.

figure.

SUIARLES LAUGHTON met a peer at a cocktail party.

Exactly 12 months. Bresslaw knows this is how long it takes said the peer: "You must come to become a star on TV. Now down to my home some time." he is pulling out of the show, Answered Laughton: "I did to will not return for the next

last week-for 23. 6d

RTHUR MILLER is working 12-month

run. The 15st ex- arsked

on the film version of his RAD.A. student has play "A View from the Bridge," himself: Can TV kill a comic which will be shot in New York an quickly as it makes one? and Franco, The stor will bo

Italian actor. Haf Vallone, who

is now appearing in the French version of the play,

Third fiddle

Inslead of "The Army Game," As soon as the Broadway Bresslaw will play third fladje to a dummy In the Archie run of "Romanoff, and Andrews Show on the old steam Juliot" onda. late this your radio Briefly, over lunch with Peter Uadinov flics to Archie's boes Peter Brouck, ha Hollywood to join Kirk agreed to change into a yelce, throwing away his main assets

Dougins and Charles at a ft. sin, gormloss fame and Laughton in the £1,500,00 two bulging eyes

Prole DART of Cary Grant's pay-ol?

in "Endis orgel," with Ingrid Bergman, was a £0,000 Holly-Royce car. Bergman walls for money, STONY PERKINS is out of the

Merlon Brando production, Shake Hands With The Devil" to be made in Ireland dala sum- mer. His schedule was upset by his late størt on "Green Man-

Ander Hiphure long with So Boy Doa Murray mison into Brande's Irish wellian sura with James Cagney.

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VERTURDAY'S ADLUTION / AIME RECE

Milady stay-gory se ve bay this.

with some pictures.

"As for this heli-raising busi- When I tncided him about mess, that's all pretty childish. this business of becoming à I'm a man who loves donger- Lycoon, Mr

But real danger. .Douglas was just love it. anxious to point out that if he Those Hollywood

SIDE GLANCES

Dells are Binging was expected to last a year and occupy the Christmas theatre until the pantomime opened. Now efforts are being made to book enough shows to fill the gap-left-when- The Merry Widow ends la run in September.

One of the attractions may be.

This should Japanese revue.

restore Japanese honour after all the Chinese shows seen lately.

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