1958-08-23 — Page 13

THE CHINA 'MAIL;"'. SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1958.

Roderick Mann ·

TOP COLUMN OF SHOW BUSINESS

The sadness that lurks behind the

Miss Collins speaks out

MISS JOAN COLLINS has been saying some crisp words on the subject of Courtship and Marriage. See: Firecracker.

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Grant

smile

was three in the morning. Cary Grant was stretched full length on the carpeted floor of

his Dublin hotel sulte. He was wearing a green Italian silk dressing gown and striped pyjamas. He was tanned the colour of old brown brogues, and he was drinking tea.

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It looked like a acene from one of his sophisticated comedies, "You know," he said, "I think of myself ns packet of tea. People get used to buying one brand, and they don't change. It's the same thing with certain actors. People like you-and they go lo **I used in pantic Just at the "It makes me sad, Ari said. ace you whatever you do."

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He cupped his head in his hands and looked at the calling.

"Some people still think publicity can maite a star and get people into cinemas," he said. "It's just not true.

"It it wure, Jayne Mansfeld would be a major star. And a dlm like The Swan- which come out just when its star Grace Kelly was marrying her prince-would have cleaned up. In fact it did such bad business you could have shot a stag in the stalis."

Grant motioned me-to sit down on the floor beside him. Together we tackled a plate of club sandwiches.

con.

"Funny sing, publicity." hre tinued. "Look at Sophia Loren. She's not as big box-office as she could be because the public desire to see her has inrgely been satisfied through magazines.

Only six stars ...

"You can't pick up a paper without finding her in it. So why would anyone pay to see her in a movle?"

He got up, incredibly lithe and athletic, and paced the floor.

"There are only six stars in the world who can guarantee any kind of success w the box oflce," he said. (1¡C's One of then,

"Every one of them knows the busineRN back to front, You've gal in if you want to alay the pace.

it.

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Grant. wheelchair ty fun..

INSIDE SHOW ★

-BUSINESS-

'AY KENDALA, the brightest woman star in Britain, has parted

Kompan the employers, the flank Organisation. llor

neven-year contract has been cancelled and there is no amleable settlement.

Mu Kendall is perpared to film-but not while her husband Hex Harrison is in a slow.

Her last film for Rank was "Simon and Laura," Liren years azo. Bince then she has made "Les Girl" and "Reluctant Debutante" butside England for a Hollywood company:

Her feeling is that she doesn't want to be separated from her husband to appear in a film. A play would be different.

As the news of the Rank break came out there was an advance "Reluctant repart from New York of her performaner in Debutants". "Miss Kendall better and fuunter than ever," in said, TN the most surprismy turnabout in the 40-year history of the British Board of Film Ceneers the censor is now pussing films that he once banned.

Dut the showmen are shocked to find that their films are not belag given the fighly exploitable "X" certificato. Instead, "the consor is passing them with the general “A” certificate.

Now even schoolchildren can see uncut versions of such once. banned lms as "Ünrden of Eden," "Elyśla" and "Isle of Lovint," If accompanied by an adult

One distributor of nude Alms admitted the other night: "Frankly is the last thing we wanted. We were happy for him to ban the Alms. It was wonderful publicity."

HARRY BELAFONTE says: "There are three autors in my new film. End of the World: and some people say that the other two are unemployed.".

5 well as playing a leading part in the forthcoming West End A "Auntie Mome," Florence Desmond is understudying Beatrice LIBle in the title role. The last time Miss Desmond understudled Miss Lillie was in Neet Coward's "This Year of Grace,” Thirty years ago.

And you know-it made me sad thought of standing up at a dlaner

Then . Ari, with all his wealth ly hella. Betsy this wife, actress Üctsy and mc, with my successful Drake) hypnotised me and career, we just stood there look- suid everything would be ne, in at that Christmas tree and SIDE GLANCES

feeling emply Can you under- and since then it has.

"I go to a wonderful hyno- stand that?"

fist now. The only trouble is "Yes," I said, "I can under- I've made such progress that sind that."

NOOT as we meet he fails anleep."

He finished his club sandwich and drank the last of the tea.

"In this profession," he said, "the thing to do is to get out as the top-as Grace Kelly did. She couldn't have done any After all, more, so she quit, what could she have become? an older actress, not n Only better actress."

"You coom to stay the auce pretty well, I said.

De smiled. The old familar amile-worth £250,000 a film to any producer.

"Oh, sure," he chuckled, "What you don't know is the I have got a wheelchair hidden away in the bedroom. It's great fun. When I cross the Atlantic by boat I have races round the deck in it,"

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Meeting

Jean Seborg, the girl who almost elonked her way to obscurity clad in the armour of St Joan, and then won a brief reprieve in Bonjour Tristesse. has been discussing her fanec, François Morcull.

"We rst mot on a bench in "Ho was lol), France," she says, Jenn and bronzed sort ol Tony Perking in a bikini.

"I was

overwhelmed. We'd never had anything te him ta daddy's drugstore in Marhalte town, Iown even if our motto is 'The suburban store with the uptown service,"

Firecracker

Says Joan Collins, who is of * charneler:

Searching mind something

• "Men who plan to marry an

He walked with me

to to the actress and expect her

school teacher door. The intelligent, handsome behave like a star whose restlest, searching should marry a school teacher mind gives him no peace.

The Instead,

"I've made some poor Mms, let's face Like The Pride and the Passion. But I managed to stay in demand because most Inselnating actor in the I assume that this is directed know the business,

at her tong-time escort Arthur business. I didn't become a big name overnight. It took years."

"I've got a lot, I know," he Loewe Junior-who, I am told, He stopped for some more tea.

sold, "but the older I get the has now despaired of ever trap

the Arecracking Miss "You know what I'm doing here in more conscious am of what ping Dublin?" he said. "Previewing my new film I'm missing.. Children I cup-, Collins into matrimony. Indiscrect the one I made witli Ingrid Berg pose. Strange, isn't it, how wo man:

We've shown it all over the provinces destroy our own Chances of

life! I go on stage afterwards and answer, happiness in and

I always questions from the audience."

have, you know."

"You've got more courage than most actors," I sald.

"Oh, it takes courage all right," said Cary. "I couldn't have done it years ago bul practising hypnosis has now made it passible for me to walk on a stage without quaking.

A the door he paused. ho "You know someiking." sold, "fast year Ari OTSIMİN and I slood in the foyer of the Connaught Hotel looking at the giant Christmas tree they had there.

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IN the rougher parts

of Lancashire, when

I lived there some years ago, people with names like Klein or Cohen or Solomon were often apt to change them to Little or Kahane or Selling. It made life more com- fortable for them.

There was a local joke about a man named Levine who altered his name, by deed-poll, to Macdonald. A few months later he changed it from Macdonald to Grant, and when-people- asked him why, he replied:-

"So's I shall have a good Scottish Buswer when people Look at my face and then say: "What was your name before you changed it?**

Those were the days (and it was only just before the war) when someone was given sub- stantial damages for libel because o Fascist newspaper called him

a Jew, when he was not..

Progress

This

is

Marjorie

Morningstar

SHE CHANGED -

·HER NAME

TO ESCAPE FROM SOMETHING.

Wo have progressed, thank ambitions so far as their, child goodness, to the stage when a concerned-16 keep her pure New York, the runa inte

Then, at a holiday comp near no longer able to face the future A result, these ̈ middle; } people in Britain usually keep until the day

aber parents have been planning class Jews put up barriers of her wedding dashing young man named Noel for her, as the respectable wife the name with which they were born, and only change it when and to make her proud, of her Airman, Arman is a heal-aud of a doctor or a lawyer,

not simply because he has alter- It is something like Witherspoon religion and her face.

yet in America.

a necking to make it look less Jpwish. party with a boy friend, and

their own and imilt themselves into tight little communities, from which, it seems, you can

Big action but... only break outs by forgetting

out

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your

religion and changing,

- or Clenchwharton of Frillebøt- When she comes home all hot ed his family name from Ehrman

tom, and they cannot stand the and bothered from giggles that greet it any longer,

acks har mother what it in all He pies the best-looiding girl A beautiful young WOTSON your name,

named Natalie Wood (sho waa But that has not happened about, her mother says: Take in the tamp and romances her

Dim vour feelings and put them in for a night, a week, or even,

once a famous child star) Plays. I came away, from this and the girl whose heart would be feeling thankful Not, at least it the facts of the bank, and save them up for it she is specially pretty.

that I have K un sol out in 'n now im your marriage,"

exciting, for a whole season. in the right place—if only the chly had to indulgo in nome-

the where called MARJORIE MORNING.

changing 'myself once in my STAR are adcurate..

His avil eyes Hight on Mar. could find

life. Some years ago I dropped Joric, and ho goes in for the place la,

WOE - Gene Kelly kill. He persuades her to

the Holiday my middle name-which call

whose smooth Oswald hamelt adorningstar, and after camp Romeo 4 polid iniddle-class Jowrish When she struggles against some fusales on

Sho chalgo exterior conocals, a hourous the family called Morgenstern, who the Jewish pattern of her life, longue,

hd being about other size of a skyscraper, Joens butting her, pretty head her uncle says: "You're on

"Marjorie Morningstag is n 9 changes in her outlook. against the problems of love, course charted by Mones and

fascinating sudy of life

clubs. and He, and racial origins. Her par the Ten Commandments 8,000 Good she is an unhappy and land where certain ents are an Orthodox, God fear. years ago," and hints that atte bewildered gin, torn cath of het campa ore stlii etatricled ing couple who have only two should mice thì bort-of-15. beokaroună atih' Samity context; tienižtiéu,

This is the story

of an 10-

year-old gl, the daughter of y

The heel

-Leonard

Mosley

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