THE CHINA-MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1959.
Roderick Mann
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The man in
sober grey signs up Mr. Howard
one believed all one read about Mr Douglas Fairbanks, one would expect him
to teeter into a room, heavily weighed down with decorations, and begin the conversa~ tion:-
"As I was telling them at Buck House...."
In fact, Mr Fairbanks does none of those things, for he is as far removed from his publicity as is Sabrina from the Old Vic. Possibly further.
When he talked to me vie other day at his house in South Kensington he was wearing o ruber, grey-striped
cub tie. sult-and
There was not a medal in sight. Not
even a St Christopher..
"You know," said Fairbanks, "1 used to cringe when
I read some of those stories about myself,
WITH ALFRED HITCHCOCKAT, YOUR SHOULDER,
For those who seek to sneer,
of course, Fairbanks still pre- sents plenty of targets.
There
his Rolls-Royce (number DV5); his free-lance diplomatic work; the fact that he hus made a singular sucecas of overy one of his
business ventures-and
interests range from hotels to ball-point
his
pens.
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The sneers, kowever, rhort of his Am work Fairbanks's productions
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muke
"I'm not tough, you see; I have a skin like issue paper. I never learned to take. In fact, it not to the stage where I was scared to give a direct
answerTM question-even if it was only someone asking the time,
noncy--und Today even the most artistle
Mim- umong makers no longer sneers at that,
Fairbanks, 1 report, has just pulled off an interesting ensting couple has signed Trevor Howard and Dorothy Dandridge "Promise for his new picture
of the Sun/-to be made
England and in Spain.
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And he has also recruited the services of Laslo Benedek, the
THE BARBARIC IDOL
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NOT WHEN YOU'VE DONE IT TEN TIMES..
Tula kis between Cary Grant and Eva Marle Baint cost AL-G.-M. something like a million dollars for that is the price they had to pay to ret these high-priced afars together the new Alfred Blichcock thriller North By North-West, In the course of bis long screen career Mr. Grant has kissed some of the very best names in the Actresses' Year Book. Of flisi Balnt, his latest partner in the ancient art of osculation, he says:
Well up to standard."
talented direktor who made Marlon Brando's banred-in- Britain "The Wild One."
Fairbanks will not appear in
the film.
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There are no sneers, I pro- mise you, from his bank manaTM
ger.
Mas Elizabeth Taylor-who is to make a brief appearance in Mike Todd jun.'s all-smelling "It has been reported," he lm "Scent of Mystery"ns said, "that I will never set sul not made up her ́ mind In film again, That is not what she will smell like her- true. If I found the right scií.
part, I would. Though I "All E know," she says, "is honestly prefer producing to that I've got to smell like some-- acting."
The teaming of the explosive Mr Howard with the sensuous, coloured Miss Dandridge is surprising one.
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thing. Any ideas?"
I am told that Miss Debbie Roynolds, who lost her hus- band, Eddie Fisher, to Mas Taylor, has been making aug- gestions for weeks.
New faces
I talked to Diane Cilento the other night,
Does Fairbanks furcsce. problema urising when the im is shown in the colour-conscious Southern States of America?
"No," he says. "The love
Had she not fallen ill with Interesi between the two is only suggested, never actually pneumonia recently, she would shown. I cannot believe there now be appearing on Broadway The Disenchanted... Instead And in will be any objections. with the kind of
Enlared (n performance she la flming in one always gets from Mr Ho- Jetstream,
I asked how she had gut on word, the sensitivity of the
in the New York hospital. Mim need not be questioned.
She said: HC may not be tough, Mr
"The place they Folrbanks. But he is remark looks me to specialised in plus- tic surgery. It was all rother macabre and fantasifully expensive. My nurse told me she was only working there in order to make
enough money to buy a new face."
ably shrewd. And rich,
-by- THOMAS
CAN BE SO GENTLE... WISEMAN
THERE are many de-
vious routes to The Top, but Yul Brynner must be the only map who has got there by way of a barber's shop.
While others have
bared their souls or their midrift. Mr Brynnet, more daringly, bared his skull.
has
But just as Dorothy Lamour did not care to be known just for her sarong, and Betty Craple did not care to be known just for her legs, Mr Brynner does not care to be known for his drastic halut alone.
There is more to him than lack of hair, he insists.
Flut the Inescapable fact k that before he began bis cruninl strip-tenso Mr Brynner mede no great impact on the public, About 10 years ago he appeared in London in two plays, Dark Eyes at the Strand, and Lute Song at the Winter Garden, Both ran for only a few weeks.
The cities
were reasonably kind to him, but none perceived in him the qualties of world star. Mr Brynner assures me he did not perceive those quailties in himself.
He still had must of his hair
REJZCIZD
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about himself to gain currency; they add to the profitable air of myślery which he coreles aroitud with him ay an Englishman
carries on umbrella, whether it Is going to be needed or not.
Dismayed
"After all." he says, "they uiso nubbed Jayne Mansfield and we are not really the saine type,"
His appeal to women, which results in him being mobbed on occasions when mobbing is encouraged, be dennes in WIT unexpected way.
"It is not my looks," he says, "but my total lack of regard He has enough personal eccen- for my looks. It is my work tricities to keep ilic rumours which counts: I am a painful flowing nicely. For instance, he perfectionist. I will make 110 sleeps only four or five hours a compromise over my integrily night, but during the day has as an artist." the Eastern trick of being able to fall asleep at will—with - pii *'-couple of "Sitwas-standing up,
YUL BRYNNER Made of sterner stuff than most actor
Brynner would leave.
is reversed: the situation
accutives leave..
Today experience you can Imagine. the There really is nothing to com- pare to the sensation of flying through the ulr, it Is purc rows excitement."
"I still sometimes hove today with producers and execu
in those days and the potentiail. tres," he says. "My rule
either I do things my own way
ties of a naked, billiard-ball or 1 go away. They know skull had not dawned on him or this.. I haven't gone away yet. anyone else.
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Mystery
Bryaner came to Parla from
Thes- he admits no photo- graphers or reporters to lis home maintaininic at his private ilfe-te has been mar- it for 14 years to the same giri-la private. This puts kúffi. cient distance between himself and his public 10 word off disenchantment,
be
Mr Brynner purports to dismayed by the impression he sometimes gives:
"People who meet me he says, "expect me to be inhuman, (or superliuuman or barbaris or
something nonsensical like that. I am expected to be either aloof or fierce or ride.
"I am afraid same people never overcome these
pre. conceived notions, which is o sad experience for mo."
However, he will admit that
for there is some basis
these "I can
he get tough," he says, "and 1 de
of not unbend easily.
But evor then, according to "When I first took up this Peking where he spent his early fallacious Impressions, his friends, he tended to behave atitude in my television days childhood. "I was born," like an Oriental potentate.
I had to do it on sheer rut. $299, "on the north island Now, of course, It is much easier. Japan on Jul 11, 1920. I spent "yen, I did," mys Brynner. But I always had enough arro- my childhoot. In China and my unabashed, "I was a directot." gance to do things my own way, youth in Paris. He directed television pinys i On which I am now congratu
the lated by the same people who say about my background.
"That is all I am prepared to New York, displaying a contempt for sponsors and fired me.
know many contradictory executives who sought to inter-
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"I am uncompromising to the paint of rudeness
Rudeness comes from lack of respect and there are many people for whom I feel a singular lack of respect. and "But this is no reason to look decent about it quite willing That is because I never deny or I am sometimes also a 1 was frequently fired," he to tergive me for having been confirm them."
gentle fellow do I look very rocalla nostalgically. "Many of fired by them."
To the suggestion that ho barbarie to you?" those èxecutives were fools, they
Mr Brynner's toughness is might be the son of an Eastern
for with his artistic integrity. "They have all been perfectly wild stories have appeared. upon me as a freak. I am not.
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ald not understand. their own not disputed by anyone he butintis.
made of sterner Rud than most
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prince he replies, smilingly: "Not that I know of."
Perfectionist
very
prosaic: princely ancestors, ever he was mobbed by a hysterical it only suspected, are not usual pubile. To them he
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*I "enthot' stand people, in actors. At 13 he was a trapeze The truth is probably more At the Connex Film Festival. authority who have no fight to arilat in the Cirque Diver in be in authority and I told the Forts and was badly injured in
ly kept dark by.fim. actors. freak, a hairless wondor," Mr In those days the solution to "Being a trapeze artist," he Wely, Brynner. allows tho Drynnor was not fattoreilor such, diagrosnimia was that Me says, "Is the not exhilarating somewhat Improbabinatorics annoyed.
s.. fall.
And so far. Brynner, hairless in Hollywood, hus mulaiged to keep the Philistines at bay..
Vord Miles, who rail to bo described as the suc- ‚cessor to Graco Kelly because of her cool beauty, says: "Maybe I didn't marry a prince. But I married royalty of sorts." Of sorts is right. Her husband, Gordon. Scott, is the current screen Tarzan
the king of the apos.
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Maurice
QUOTE Chevalier on be-
ing 70 years old:-
"It's not bad-especially when you consider the allern- tive.
director
QUOTE from
Brian Desmond
Hurst on his carcer:-
"I have Interesting pians, That's show-business jargon for "There isn't a thing in sight.""
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