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VI-ZA MAIL FILM PACE

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1958.

When an old friend is met

or a new friend made

the moment merits the

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YOU'D NEVER GUESS:

THEY CALLED HER BANDY

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WOULD

you

ever

have guessed that the shapely young woman in the picture on this page was once such

SHE'S GOT COURAGE TOO!

COTRDOTE Anly tent) us on

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a bow-legged child that elining. Gwen all the boys at school used to call "Bandy"?

her

Jt is true. Gwen Verdon is her nane. and she Leia the temp of this column day not ly because her underpinnings nro now so architecturally perteel, but because she

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delightful comedienne most skilfully witty have seen for years,

Owen is the star of

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Gwen is everything that they ever said about redheut. She

bathes and By supple 05 42 me. She moves around with Premiers energy of a cal un In het in roof She has Jus ahout the sexiest voice in shor business as low and as vibrant as a 'cellu.

On top of all this patcleatuda nous equipment she has both - thing even

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yked sense of humour.

With the tick of an eyebrow

musical called WHAT LOLA The curl of a lip, and the batllest

WANTS, which 15

version

screen show

twitch of a Grish mische sh cat turu

stage of the

we had in London recently der the title of "Damn Yankees."

you set em you understand why the stage

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When

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CARON TO STARTM IN HOLLYWOOD

ESLIE CARON, the

British bnaed

French star, is to re- turn to Hollywood. Bho will co-star with Shelley Winters's hus-

band Anthony Fran-

closa, in "The Man Who

Understood Women,"

Miea Caron lenyes

for Hollywood at the

ond of the year with

two children and

&

nanny. Husband Potor Hall, successful young

director. step

wili

Lollow when hoe in-

plates a new play he in working on.

Leslie Caron

Ank

that she expect to re- turn to Britain in the spring.

by

Leonard Mosley

American Version

routine of the Fault

strip-lense dance legend, pbout middle-aged that is both easy on the eyes Dastball fan who dreams that and mallelously funny.

teach 10 The helps his favourite

in the championship.

Miss Verdon in one of the a“ sexy, glammiregir! Devils shapely disciples who is routine inia

devastating called in to Yump the fem into

a state of amenability, In "What Lola Wants" sti She proceeds to do so, in the plays the temptress in a modem locker room of the baseball club,

satire.

"The anguish was going home and seeing my mother. She wus an ex-ballerine, and she was as slim, struight, and lovely as willow, I used to cry

I watched mery when dance."

with

her

who

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wow Gwen's mother turned her ugly duckling into a swan. The doctors wanted break Gwen's iegs and vesel them, which would have meant that she would never have be- come a dancer.

Her mother sent them away, Which makes it all the morg remarkable that, not many and put her daughter's legs in iron bools Instead years ago, she feared she would weighted Ruw up to be a semi-eripple. The remedy worked. "I was

bow-legged as กร she recalled, when

a few years she took Load,"

is today one spoke to her in New York noi up dancing and long ago.

A

I After

INSIDE SHOW BUSINESS

Jean dyes twice for

a mental approach

America's best.

SINATRA PLUS BARDOT

FILM LOOKS LIKE BEING

OFF FOR GOOD

Fiery Formula

DILLED as the most

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explosive screen event of the year, Frank Sinatra's teaming with Brigitte Bardot is splut- tering out like a damp squib.

Fizzles

by John Lambert

& Peter Evans script made up as work went along. Such a Continental

Bluatro also has been soured

The film, spicily titled "Paris By Night," was attitude could not satisfy the definitely datelined to American bachers. begin two weeks ago. by Bardot's over-exposure Instead Sinatra flew on American cinema screens, straight back to the Some of these, have been ĐO States from his high bod society shindig in Lon- "People will be sick of the sight. don to plan his first film is made" as producer.

Bardot, who cancelled her

that Sinatra barked:

of that doll before our picture

Miscust

visit to London while The producers of "Paris By FOR THE FIRST time since she played Ophella in Sir Sinatra was in town, is Night still insist that the Alm Laurence Olivier's "Hamlet" 10 years ago, Jean Simmons duo here for film talks next will

admit, "we don't know when." week.

has become a blonde.

Hollywood was acclaiming her new-look performance Sho will be shown Bri

In "Home Before Dark" as one of the most powerful fish locations for of her carcer.

next film, "Babette

As a young and vital woman threatened with to War.” insanity, Misa Simmons dyes her hair blonde to hide the grim, grey streaks caused by a year in a mental asylum. Next month Miss Simmons and her husband, Stewart Granger, come to Britain to film "The Night Comers" for top producer John Woolf.

It will be their first ülm together in this country since "Footsteps in the Foz" four years ago.

TALKING POINT

No date

her

"But," be made.

they

Her last picture for Pinewood was "Robbery Under Arms"- more than a year ago. It was Goes a role she pleaded to play: an earthy aplars in the Anna Magnani mould.

But Miss

ad- Swanson 'mitted: "I couldn't have been more miscaat. It was a There is now on chance of disaster. I'm not that kind of the thin singer, Sinatra, meeling actress at all, you see, I can't in singer, Bardot, before possibly play a bloway bar mod the sweet little girl next next Easter, Insiders say there or

now less chance of their door, meeting on screen at all.

What went wrong?

JA

TIGER BAY

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more the Kay Kendall L'an better at sophisti

comedy," said Norman

type. Accord- ented TOP STAR Yvonne Mitchell, Ing to the film producers It is Wison's former leading lady. All real men are winner of two best-actress all a small matter of words. The bha been rehashed thirao script gentle. Without tender-awarda, is to play a

during the last minute bit part in Tiger overal tunes neяs, mon are unin-Tay Her roles A lome-living six months. teresting.

woman who is murderol by Bardot tu meldom bean James Robertson Justice, The

In fact, dropped" German star Horst Buch- bothered by words.

three: Mary most of her pling have had the Ronald Lewis, Shirley Eaton.

-MARLENE DIRTAIGH’hols.

Of the five Bir Alexander Korda stars signed by the Rank Organisation in 1900, only two romain: Kadth orall

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