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The great original-Jane Russell

NOVEMBER

1968

Page

THE CHINA MAIL. SATURDAY

Back in

the straw!

A RETURN TO AN OLD CLASSIC

IN THE BACKGROUNDS TO LOVE

The successor, Tina Louise, down on the farm in “God's Little Acre."

FIFTEEN YEARS ago June Russell began a revolution in screen romance with her hayloft love scenes in "The Outlaw." It was the start of a long search for new barkgrounds to make passion the more picturesque. This

LIMELIGHT

CAROLE LESLEY: want respect. and 'that's what you got when you're a big star."

ZANIES

*" QUIET; DOY, QUIEF”

week the search has come back to its starting point-love is back in the barn. Above, in scenes from three films just out or in the making. The Chinn Mail demonstrates Hollywood's re- discovered belief that you can't make hay without straw.

PROBES THE MIND

Britain's version: how Patricia Bredin will be noticed in "The Bridal Path,"

OF A FILM

STARLET

The latest (but not the last) straw is held by Barbara Nichols in

· a scéne specially written into The Naked And The Dead."

It's such a hard road

to fame..

• (almost as hard as

finding a millionaire you love, says Miss Lesley)

HER

•

ER name was Maureen Rippin gale. She is better known now as Carole Lesley. She is a starlet, And it is no joke being a starlet, if that is what you happen to be.

In fact, it's hell with mirrors in it. Distorting mirrors. The world seen through false eyelashes is a hostile, dark place-and that is not just because you have used too much mascara this morning.

It is full of sneering people who make jokes about starleta, rude jokes. They

do not have any respect for you.

The photographers scramble to take your picture and wink at each other and then say: "What's your pame, dear?" They do not know that you are famous: only you know that.

But one day you will show 'em. You will nol let them take your pleture, Like Ava Gard- ner. Or Garbo. That' teach 'em, being so superior,

Last week Mr John Davis, managing direc» tor of the Rank Organisation, spake senthingly about some of his contract artists.

They got too much publicity, too soon. They were not ready to work hard They thought they know better. But. Mr Davis dock not understand. How could he?. He has never been larlet.

Miss Lesley is under contract to the rival Arm, ABPC. Sho has had parts in a number uf films, My Teenage Daughter, Woman in a Dressing Gown, No Trees in the Street. She is, 23. She has done well and fins been promised a starring part in a dlm called Cin- derella Nightingale,

She is a very pretty girl; and she has a certain warmth which Is valuable, on the screen. She wants so desperately to be a star that it would be churlish of fate to deny her this "wishi,

In training

Min Lesicy looked at herself In her pocket mirror. "To be a star, you've got to go into Train- Ing. Like a boxer," she said. No "You know what I'mtán. Into nights or anything. Or you don't look your best.

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"Why do I want to be star? Well, it's like, I mean,

to

I love pretty clothes and: have a nice house and ovdry- thing.

To findi a millionaire that you love is just us HATU DI to be a fim Mar. And thots, I want respect and that's what one does get when you're a big

For

"I'm terrible warrier. Inatanoe, Uke about my Jooks for inatuice, from à iliile giri! that's all I had, you know?. 1 want people to like me soment

"Do I think about anything except myself! Well, to be honest, no. 1' am self-centred. Because I have to be to improve myself. No. I don't take any interest in the world situation.

MOLT

"Lords and ladies Invite me to. dinner I couldn't care less.

when people don't have faith in me."

(At this stage, Misr Lestey was "I want people to think a lot so carried away by her own at me before I go out with feelings that she began to weep. them or I rather stay at home. "Well, what's the point? What But she took good care not to

"One time I didn't know how can I do about 17 NO‘I don't wipe her eyes because that would men's minds ticked, now

know. know who the Foreign Seere smudge the mascara and there I don't hate, men, no, I don't. 1 tury.is. That's what we pay (003

a photographer · coming, swear to you by my film career,- Laxes for for them to look after Nor did she allow the tears to "I don't hate men. Only I want all that.

What I'm interested in is continued.

She them to treat me with respect. quell the flow of words.)

what I know about. I-know how

by THOMAS

WISEMAN

It feels to be broke and to be unhappy?.

:

!

"I was very much in love with a boy a couple of years ago. - I "If I was a star. I wouldn't went out with him for one and talk about myself so much. La half years. Then he loft ma, wouldn't have to. If I didn't He's getting married to, Brigitte become a star I'm afraid I'd be Bardot. Now I just work. A very unhappy person. I work I get, a big klek from being very hard

under contract to a studio who "I have lessons every day--in really, have faith in-you, grammar and voice production want to do things for you. With- and timing and learning things out, ulterior motives, 'Not like off by heart.

men saying they can do big. "I don't go out much, I've things for you. been out about six times in the last three months. Mostly 1-stay at home.

Who

"makes you feel ka! You belong when a studio looks after you like that-like they ask "I don't want to go out with you if you've got a nice escort "I ran away from home when men and just be another Uttle to take you to a premiere. I was 18. I've lived a bit, so I starlet to them. If I did that, "And like having somebody

why know what He is about."

baven't I got any Ma you can go to for advlen, BC- "What hurts me is when people monde? Come on, you tell me cause they have faith in you; and

believe you'll be a star.”. say I'm not going to be a star, that? Why haven't It

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