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SIMONE SIGNORET

CARY

GRANT

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1959,

BRIGITTE BARDOT

| DOUGLAS ·

BEGEDE DE

THE

Not just

a fantasy

in flosh

E personalities who found themselves in this particu- ir Limelight during 1958 were me at iniformly delighted. Strange as it may seem, some of them would have preferred oblivion, and they may well get their wish in 1959.

people I am choosing as my per- ities of the year were not necessarity nist worthy, the most talented, the tinguished or the most agreeable. but they were the man something.

Mier Brigitte Bardot was undoubtedly d most studied personality of 1950; undergraduates swolted-up in her, the public mohbei her, intellectuals analysed her. puritans contend her, liberals condoned her, cinema managers ariored her, the police protected her, and Ruger Vadim divorced her. Most of DS JAL watched her.

#1

He deserves his smooth personality

THE

Suspense

nof killing mo

MOST

KM

afford to act like an actor

Not the most worthy-but

they dominated my year

THOMAS WISEMAN'S

I also mel her, which was When she arrived in London very pleasant because she is to do a feet-which might win pleasant girl; I have to admit, her role in The Guns of however, that i have not

yet Nuvarone-Columbia threw the fer managed to stay awake through sort of party for her that

for thrown unly out an entire Bardot film, which usually

won am who have De

individual netrestes very

Oscar or at least made a Alm.

may

Idiosyncrasy.

Profitable?

Un-

The elimelle mements of ፡ነ Bardot film fend themselves to only a limited number of varia- tims, and I think we have now Act them all. Hers is doubtedly the most protracted strip-tease aut to be seen any- where in the world, and I'm afraid the

Jun't sospen just king me. I suggest that #21 1059 Miss Bardo: might prodi- ably keep her clothes on.

The most over-publicised per- sonality of the year was Mis Bardol's successor ne the second Mr Vadim; ANNETTE STROY- BERG, Danish model who has never acted in her life.

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Hollywood has sometimes publieised starlets before they have made a Min, but this the Arst the the big ballyhoo has been given to a iri before she has ryen made a test. The Press was invited to see Miss Strayberg rehearse her test with Trevor Howard which must be the nitinzate in previews.

The most intelligent actress I moet daring the year was Mig SIMONE SIGNORET, who was in the Gim of to appear Rem at the *Terpla Actresses no maily live in a mirror-plated paradise which throws back at

hem inlitte themselves

reflections

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LIMELIGHT

The trouble with most people, chapel, but, as she put it, noth rest of us. She does not belleve. that being an actress precludes he thought, was that they not ing flashy."

with them- Miss Mansfield declared her you from being a human being, only don't get

conversation! repertoire relves, they haven't even been self as being against Just,

thon introduced to themselves.

gambling,

hard includes subjects other

smoking and Soe is a real woman, herself.

Miss BELINDA LEE was the liquor. Most not just a fantasy in flesh.

transformed personality

This may be why on serven she is Infinitely exciting than Miss Bardut. fact that she is a true also helps, of course,

Charming

115,

the

actress

of 1958. She used to be the girt with the antiseptic scrappent,

and

Generous

And Miss Mansfeld though!

was just marriage

Оце

BELINDA ៩៩៥ ៖ Celebrity

af too steep & price?

the most newly rich; they were the most conspicuously success- ful of the now class of Holly- wood stars who feel that if they arc commodities that havo to

be sold they might as well do the selling themselves and take a large chunk of the grosa profits.

Both Mr Lancaster and Mr Douglas are big businessmen as well as netors. They find the Money, hire the directors and