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THE CHINA · MAIL;

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1959,

Roderick Mann

TOP COLUMNIST OF SHOW BUSINESS, MEETS THE DAUGHTER OF THE MAN BEHIND 'THE METHOD*

Susan the new star reveals a strange fear

THIS is the first picture of what is being hailed by Hollywood as an "electrifying twosome"-Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr as they appear in "The Journey," which was made in Vienna this summer. The story revolves travellers stranded at Budapest Air- around a group of terrified port during the Hungarian revolt. Brynner plays a Russian oficer with an ege for philosophy; philandering and Miss Kerr.

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THOMAS

WISEMAIN

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WAS out shopping with Susan Strasberg. She wanted a raincoat, she said.. A white, belted one. Like the ones Michele Morgan always wore in those French films when she looked so mysterious,

Beonuse Aliss. Strasberg is little more than 5ft. tall, this posed a problem. But eventually, In a Regent Street shop, we settled for one which Just cienred the ground and which she was auro she could have altered back in New York.

"How do I look?" she demanded, surveying herself in a lang inlerör, "Like Michele Morgan?" "No." 1 saldi. "You took Just like Susan Strasbery a raincoat ten rizes too large." Undismayed, she bought the coat. And drove back triumphantly to the Savoy with me. At 20, Susan Strasberg--a dark wisp of a girl with the face of u sad wall-is a top Broad- way star after only two plays, The Diary of Anne Frank and Time Remembered,

the

Have A Heart, Miss Seberg

London:

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think your policemen are wonderful.

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"There's a challenge for you.. Put that down

and get your readers interested."

I said "to Jenni Seborg, "Hove felt it would be better if I

heart. People stopped making went."

nifies like that around 1920, 11 Logical enough

I put that down the readers will think I'm being ironie.”

Seberg is a long-time 'martyr to

"But," I said -- and the buzzing was so insistent that i

eyes

"Oh, oh," "cald Miss Seberg, had to shalte my, head-"are groaning, "good old irony." they paying you as much as Mir She said It you might say Prenger would have paid good old chillblains," For Miss pour

"Oho," aho said, her good old irony.

widening, "yes indeed they are." "We can all err," she Sald I said, "I hopo It will be an sardonically, "even the critics. Interesting rate, but I am in- I don't mind erfiles when they're clined to doubt it In Engilsh critical. It's when they start in comedies, the girl is apt just to with good old irony object to be a nice girl. She has little them. Personal remarks.

more to do than be thero,"

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"Well, I'm kind of a nice girl. But I argue. I'm human too," sold Miss Seberg, "although not terribly comic. Nice but not instpla. I have played a nasty perverted

STAR?

One critic said that when Miss And after only two aims, Picnic and Stage Struck, she is also major name in Hollywood.

Seberg was playing St Joan, she recanted her heresies with all Actors' Studio

young woman-In On top of all this, she is the Coward sneer at it because they scene nt the

the emotion of someone refusing Bonjour Tristesse - and an daughter of

have taxed 55-year-old Lee know nothing about it. But which would

a second cup of tea. And

Inspired young woman, St Joan. Strasberg, the man who runs look at the talent the Studio has most experienced actress,

Refusing a second cup of tea So now I am ready to play a the Actors' Studio in New York;' produced, .Marlon Brando, she was superb.

she said, "I'm tougher now. I nice young woman. Nice but "Her problem is living down the man behind The Method Rod Steiger, Julie Harris, Eli

believe now that you can only not Insipid." you (referred to, rather scathingly, Wallach, Kim Stanley. How can all that glamour build-up.

trust yourself. I used know by Noel Coward ns "the armpit you sneer at them?”

That's not easy,

that, but now 1 believe it. Anyway, school of acting.")

deep down inside,

"Very few," sold Mist Seberg, think I

1 asked her if she thought sho sneezing, "have had the experi- was a stor, she'd rather have Her baby

and she said she ences I have had. Now i can thought she was a star public- than be an actress."

I've ity-wise, but she didn't know She gol up,

diminutive, changed." น sprite-like figure, and saw me to

whether anyone believed it. I said that small malicious the door.

She said, "I've enjoyed being spirit that bedevils •show well-known, you

know. columnista buzzing near "So But you can't always be well- Mr Prominger kas deserted known and stay dignified in this you?"

profession." "Ob. nò. no ло, Не has

When we got back to the hotel Miss Strasberg put her Michele Morgon raincoa: away and seltee propped herself on the with mountain of pillows,

Right mood

She came up for air again, and reassured herself that I was still there.

de-

Just imagine bucked," I said, "because what

How, I inquired, did she-the direct descendant of the Think- Yourself-a-Cucumber school of acting-pass the time in New York?

KWAY

"The Method has been

Gravely we shook hands. A cute little cucumber, MIG little is known of it invites Strasberg. derision.

"When your mother, Paula

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them.

Strasberg, was more coaching Back to school simply sold my contract

Who

who 13 In Britain

Marilyn Monroe in The Prince and the Showgirl, she was supposed to have put Marilyn MR VAN JOHNSON- Dld she while

the in the right mood by suggesting hours Imagining herself a Think of Coca-Cold and Frank Aiming Subway in the Sky cash-register - 19 Marten Sinatra.

could take that -tells me he is studying Brando claimed one must seriously?"

French. "I got so sick of * while at the Stadlo?

"Well," said Miss Strasberg,

people not understanding attacking strawberry tart when I was on the Riviera last which had just arrived with summer." he says. "I decided the tea, "that's probably only to take lessons." part of what she said.

Now he goes to classes every

"Well," said Miss Strasberg, flopping back among the pillows and almost

completely disap-

pearing from sight, "I'm not actually a student at the Actors' Studio, you see, I'm only allowed to watch-as an "obseTDET,

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week.

Columbia."

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to

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*You astound me," I said. "But I've never had to turn cartwheels in the park, or stand naited in a barrel. I think," said Miss Seberg, “I have been treat- ed with moderate honesty.

That sounded tingaliant

"Oh, yes," she said, coughing me. But she went on, "I stil through her cold, "I like it all have to make one picturo o year right. You see I come from 3 for Mr Preminger."

wonderful small town and "What pichire are, you muk- wonderful small towns log this yeur for Mr much over happens...S

She didn't strike me as Preminger?" I enquired, trying

In

nothing

a I

to swat the malicious spirit as й timid gir. Had Preminger, irritated my left ear.

wondered, found it easy to "We aren't doing one this direct her.

Apart from the lessons, saye Johnson, he has found the ideal year, way of Inercasing his vocabulary, by no means

the Brigitte sent He goes to all It

Bardot filmi.

Not easy “To become a student you've got to pass an audition, and I'm

"And whether you take scared I might flunk mine. seriously or not it seemed to Imagine the disgrace-at my have the right deal. Marilyn father's studio!!"

was wonderful in that Bim. Much better than Sir Laurence Olivier, 1 thought he was die appointing.

A small face peared gravely at me over a pillow.

"You know," she said severe

ly, "an awful lot of rubbish is "You know," written and talked about The "Marilyn Method. People like Noc! underrated.

limeligh

The Horror Girls find

IT has been brought to my attention that--in

company with various other monsters-sex

has been rearing its ugly head in British horror films.

Presumably on the principle that nothing frightens Englishman so much as a woman.

An

With so many Beasts at large en our screens, glamour girls, who used to be so puritahically neglected here, are now getting their biggest breaks fractured necks, as a rule.

Frankenstein's monster must have a pretty girl to throttle. Dracula must have a pretty girl whose bloed he can drink, and Things from outer space must have little things from South Kensington to atomise.

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a new way

to success

* wrint "you to have it straight. I never had orything romantic to do with Sinatra.

WEL

"No," aite said, "Frankle didn't dig him. Well, to be hasn't called me this time."

honest, I wouldn't say ho She was referring to the over disappointed about that. Frankie Mr Binatra, the men

tro men with "What I ke to whom Debrett has become an Hoor open book.

Which means work and money any let and opportunity for wbe can took good in an aclá bath.

one of the new As Girls said to me: "in the normal girl like 10 British m doesn't get much chanco:

may- Not waiting

be a couple of scenes in which sho look wistful

Hawkins goes off marinc.

when Jack sub- In a

"But when you're going to be uncouth disintegrated by un Martian a girl doet get a chance to este, doesn't sho7 I mean, it gives her a chance to show she can act."

The method

brains. Now Bertrand Russell, I could dig him—a man ikke Diat fascinates me. All that brain. No, I didn't get to find out about whether Frankie trad brains Miss Field, a very pretty red- We didn't get around to head,

thought Mr Sinatra's what with one thing and failure to call her had nothing other, to do with the fact that i her current steady with an ogre.

film she is going Just men

"Look," mild the Horror Girl, Sinatra is just

R man, and

men, aren't they?

that

an-

"I'm not impreserv! that som body is a famous fim star like there are lots of those. Some come girls are. They're

Aust body asked me it 1, would wall for Sinntra now that he going out with the aristocracy,

"Well, I haven't been sitting has a big at hom walling for his call. 111

There are now. opportunities

galore of this kind

Mia Maris Landi

scene in The Hounds

of the tell you that.

I

don't know

Baskervilles, in which she is what all the palaver fs about.

Bucked under in a swamp

June

Mi moment comte in The Horrots hero Inst

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HIRLEY-- ANN FIELD

" haven't been waiting for

-- Sinatra to call!

she continued, Monroe's

greatly I saw her do

BRIEFS

Starlet Jean Aubrey was reported malasing by the publicity department of Shep. perton Studios recently,

When shp showed up Mies Aubrey. explained that she had not been feeling well and wanted a health cure so she went shark fishing Corn. with Errol Flynn In wall.

Shrinking

PETER

BROOK bang bean telling me about the prob- lems of turning William Gold- ing's macabre novel, The Lord of the Flies, into a film for pro- ducer Sam Spiegel.

Gre

"The trouble is," said Brook, "that as all the characters children we can't really have a star cast, unless we use same technique as in The credible Shrinking Man.

the In-

"In which case we could pre- sumably have Marlon Brando, Gregory Peck, Marilyn Monroe to and just shrink them down child-size. Better not mention this to Sam Spiegel: the hears about it he'll probably want to do It."

Don't stamp

JANET MUNRO is the first '- girl over' to get a contract from Walt Dimey. She told me herly paying hor £7,000 year for a three-month year.

Smetinn I get them worried. They take me to din- ner and they t there and I can ey, their minds Ucking away,

“They're easing to themselves; A doll who talks. What do you

"Well, you see, I'ti foll you, Just because I went out with do with a doll the folks.

When Miss Munro arrived in I don't like the coarse approach Hollyword to make her first flim. Cunningham's him a few times when he was only she'd slop talking,"

from men. I can't stand men for Mr Disney

she received real. "Oh, I get them into o

• "How We that happon.?

royal treatment. After six years of the Black Museum when she woll, wo had a mutual friend, state. They don't know what to who are unovník,

"Sul, it would be a boring ag a rep actress this was a novel gullouined surely

two experience. Imbert Noel, a Texos million- make of me. Like the famour

world without at least ultimate in elenge.

llko "Sometimes I feel I'd Miss Shirley Ann Flelit gets pire, in oil, Frankie rang me Hollywood producer who

some m He rang me himself. Didn't get me up and gave me the piel sexes, wouldn't it?

I hear you're a doll,' he says. her chance in the when she is stabbed to death in one of his hackmáu to do it. the Tunnel of Love at. Battersea Fun Fair.

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I hear you're a gorgeous coll to got back to nature more, all my training to keep my heals respected him for that: It and really stacked Honey, you because when you're in Londen when I discovered that I had

many only to stamp. my you've got to meet a

tiny little was very pollio of him, I and I.

people,"

feet to get anything done.” You Inow thoo Anticipating that these girls thknight,

'mars, they come are going to become 'ne. famous. Anieziem

in tu rather different way, eg the Air Britain, are they Just Want Thrown Ziegfeld Girls, I called on Shir. Manebody to go to dinner with, ley Ann Field the other diy to, you know. Brid put out the life of a Horror Glm,,

I found Mish Flekh, lit, one

pleog and cudding a toddy

bear, in a small that in 8t John's Wood

I said that whao with uizUCOULİ The result of keeping her Hollywood producers ant thehood is that sho is now making like, the life of a 'glatnour girl a second fim for Mr. Didney.

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"go 1 interrupt him real woulda make a pretty good Third Man on the Mountain, wwell, I won't sit that thrill felly. Pardon me, I my, ut horror as even unembellished and her, solary will rise by ext that Frank Sinatra rang mo, have we been introdubed?” Tufe, by fiction.

#lapes to R13,000 a year-for a ""Toive sold "11" mid Mim three month yest. Bit ww Bed a very nice con- really, thedwn thn, 'det he

I've mal pene horrors versation. The didn't seem to me sy, do but I'm nosey, 1 Yetu. tu buve a lot of vocifty well he didit how you were that surt in my time who'd make .... It sometimes pays not, to -styouldn't have want të fila Logics, FOT. KRIJU,

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· stamp one's tiny little feet.

But Mr Preminger has "I couldn't bring mysuit deserted me. He physically to talk back at him, END A beautiful wedding but mentally somehow I stayed gift. It's Just that Mr myself. He didn't," said Miss need Seberg in en interesting phrase, Preminger thinks that I the experience that only studio can give me.

"Mr Preminger $2 ал

producer. and Individual

makes far fewer films than a I give good old irony the bla studio like Columbia. He weekend off.

"I'm passibly the only person in the world who goes to them to listen," he says, "but they're really very instructive--because much of the dialogue Is argot."

"(Argot, Jargon, or slank.)

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