1959-04-25 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, › 1959.

INSIDE SHOW BUSINESS

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What love has done

for

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Janette Scott

NOW SHE CHOOSES

WHAT FILM TO MAKE

BY PETER EVANS

EANNA DURBIN failed. So did Margaret O'Brien. And simpering Shirley Temple's lollipop charm turned sour before she was out of her teens,

Britab's

tires child star, Janette Seoli, successfully bridged that gap between pigtails and cocktalis. The ginger-pop giggle has become, at 20, a dry-martini smile,

But

A studio executive admitted: "Suddenly she's all grown up. She has turned down several good parts recently because she thought they weren't right for her. And now she has demanded -and got a rewrlie job to build up her role in School för Scandal'

JANETTE COT)

"Yesterday she was a teenager who did as she was told, about my career. Now she's a grown woman who knows what she wants and is whole life. Everything

determined to get it."

Career

it.

A close friend of Janette agreed to put more life into Scott sold that the big, new Influence in her

Is her "Certainly Jechie has given new furice, 34-your-old show= me so much more confidence as bus/news-wlag Canadian crooner

Even a person,

parents Jackle Bae.

have noticed it.

"Before pretty confused about things.

worried

Said Miss Scott coully: "It's I'm being difficult, not that exactly. The fact la the role iri 'School for Scandal' was nothing more than a feed päri. "Forumetely the producers wanted me for the part

and

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I was

Clearer

FROM PIGTAILS TO COCKTAILS

It was my thought doesn't worry me. Now I know I can live without stardom or fame or succes.

FILM

PREVIEW

by Thomas. Wisamun

Mr. Pallos gives 1066

the epic treatment

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informed, in.

Malden, Slough, "Staines, Bourne End and the streets of Shepperton."

The film, rather appropriately,

bours.

HE events of 1066, it easily on our own, but it be shot. I

with which movie producers familiar, are to get the "R.. C. Sherriff has writ- full film treatment. Pro- ten a wonderful script. We la called Friends and Neigh ducer Stephen Pallos is told him to write it without planning a film about regard for, costa." William the Conqueror.

Mr Sherriff, it appears, took Mr Pallos at his word.

"It hus LWO

great

Wo

I somehow doubt whether this

being version of history paries, that of. William the would. cut much lee at the Conqueror and Harold;

to play the 11-plus examination, but it would get anyone will probably do pretty well parts," said Mr Pallos. at the box-office.

*t want those things. Naturally I do. But I won't die or anything is I don't have them. One's marriage is far more Said Mr Pallon: "We had Important then a few blobs of to get an paint on the front of a cinemo."

Big joke

Hollywood, which has made heroes out of the most sur- prising people, is new planning to dovete a pleture to the life of a practical Joker.

He is American Ferdinand Kaldo Demara, whose activides includu successfully passing himself off as a Royal Canadian Navy surgeon, a lecture LM

monk.

"The film is full of megain- cent scenes. We will show how Willem rode out and whipped Mathilda when she turned him paychology and American com

down as a faband," said. Mr fallos enthusiastically.

"Now things have changed. Now I can see myself and my career and my future in a much clearer light. I have perspective. "Jackie has taught me there are more important things in And Miss Scott miled a dry-pally interested because of If it were Imartini amile. On her, it looked the high coat,

Lonly £500,000 we could do

a lot of life than being a film star.

much don't plan to retire.

But the sweet.

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on BRIDGE

COLONEL Robert Scott, USA

(Ret.) of San Angelo is

on old compolymer in every

sense of the word.

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tent he saw through a

of camouflage bids by

series

North

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a slam contrael.

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SHOW BUSINESS IN AMERICA

I just didn't do what

mother told me,

says Betty Grable

New York.

AT T3 in the morning as the blazing neon of Broadway gradually darkened around us and the giant cabs belted home through the concrete canyons with the last of the revellers, I sat in a small room talking to Betty Grable,

Remember her? The prototype of the pin-up; the girl whose shapely legs once decorated the lockers of a million Servicemen all over the world?

which looked just the same.

"Nor did I have a particularly good figure compared with some of the girls today. But I guess I must have had something be cause an awful lot of boys used to write to me,"

four diamond bid. Where were had the best..

all the bids coming from?

Obviously North had o freak-

Broadway.

on

It is 3 m.

. and top show roports

Britain's columnist on a como-book by the most popular pin-up of them all

and

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only write to earn money, I'm not interested in being remembered after I. die."

I told him he was an interest-

A FRENCH producer la to make « flim. about Pone of the.. principal activities in Paris"—— bating.

Washout

Walt Disney sent a team of film-makers to Sweden to shoot an ico-skaling story, Hans Brinker or The Silver Skatem.

Sweden, it seems, is about the only place where you can be intre of plenty of leo at this time of the year.

Unfortunately, spring airtvog

at Easier for the first time in | 200 years—and all the too has

melted....

The unli is now waiting in hopes that it will freeze again. Bono local soothsayers forecast it will, ord as the lending exponent of a fantasy, Mr Disney, can hardly ignore them.

No problem

ing change from our surfeit of Alistair Maclean's Iafest angry young playwrights, and novel is to be filmed in he said: "Well, you see, success England this year by Hollywood enrrupts so deliciously. I cantor Richard Widnark. tell you that the last time I saw

your John Osborne he was The book is The Last Frontier lying by the pool of the Boverly-which tells the melodramatic His Hotel having suntan oil story of a British intelligence

rubbed on him by a beautifuloficer penetrating into Hun-

companion.

ty medicing a British "I never saw anyone looking dentist

less angry."

A short YUN- upsets Noo!

Noel Coward,

ard, Interviewed on television hore the other night-took the opportunity to After Lulu. plug his Broadway play Look

Last night I discovered the reason for Noel's distress. Look After Lulu came off after only

performances.

afor

Mr MacLean has not made

Intervention in this emergemsay 'but this, one prfumes, will not deter Mr Widmark who haa bought the Alm rights of the Fury for himself

und

Allow days carlton it 60,000 a week, she had opened at u boost: New York night spot-the Lalin Quarter,

It is now extremely A little plumper, maybe, and a little older. But, with legs difficult to get a beat.

talked to Portman in his She said: "It's strange, you know. I was pinned up, or truth is that Miss Stanley and dressing-room. He said: "The planed down all over the world, but I was never a sex symbol I shared a sort of distant dislike

IN THESE DAYS when a jiīm, ilke Marilyn Monroe.

to be really big, also needs to u One of the things which dis-far-flung, and our producers set though I admire her 08 Dr actress.

trossed him, he said, was the

uut to make opics in India. "Sho

critical fact that New York audiences Spain, Yugoslavia, France was pretty about ma lu ber statements,, tended to follow the critics Germany,, it is almost touching all kinds of things whereas in London they did not. to find a new picture which will *aying about my private life drinking habits. A bit much, I thought. But I said nothing, We never had a row. I rather wish we had. If we had been at each other's throats It might have made a more

A romance Interesting story.” into films. She could

Portmany has been starring flourishes understand why I preferred on Broadway ever, since he to stay at home rather than go. came here in the play Separate

The romance between beautf- to. promteres and cavert Tabics, I asked him if he had ful Claire Bloom and around Hallywood,

sam the film. vertion and he Methed actor Rod Steiger con- files with people like Tyrone "So far as she's concerned said he hadn't.

thues to flourish. They aro "I shan't see it," he told me. Power and Don Ameche. Now I never made it-I never got

Rashomon Hollywood ta a factory, There's anywhere. Only tonight she "They say David Niven has both starring in no time for fun,

said: "You know, Betty, it copied my stage performance ""The critics always used to you'd done some of the things I down to the last detail, I like pan my fly and now that I've advised you to you'd have been David, so I don't think there is Teen some of them on television & big star.

anything to be gained by seeing recently I am not at all suro "How do you like that? Me' the film:"" this woren't right"

--who topped the 'box office I. asked about her life now 'polls for over six years." and she said: “I live quietly in California

In the show sho had dono many of the numbers from her old musicals. She told me: **

Ish hand. In that case he was surely prepared for the diamond opening that East had Invited had the best of Hollywood, you by his double of four diamonds. know, I came just between Allto Maybe he won't quite so reudy Faye and Marilyn Monroe. Wo for the suit that South had hait such fun making those odd raised.

Bob got his hand on the thres of clubs. East's queen forced South's ace and the slam went

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What do you do?

with my husband, No quarrel

Harry Jarnos, and children. We'

our two never go out,

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Your partner does not stand

for your double, and bids three

dhamma,

-- What do you do now?

because most actors will insist

never

High living

——it's a must

on Broadway) and spending all their spare time together,

I saw them the other · night at the Harwyn Club chuckling, over a photograph which, had"

them Just been taken of together.

New York friends say there is te doubt that they will marry B000, for Men Bloons hitta row wold her London Frome and

I had a drink with Georgs' scorm arixious to settle here. Axelrod the young ploy

Milan Blocro--in common with

on taking themselves seriously. By stalking out of her Broad-wright who wrote The Seven as many British artists I have way play A Touch of the Poet Year Itch and Will Success Spoil met Herd adores New York.

I never havD.

In said, quite seriously; og, Wholoh" "šą understanžela, need: a. Certer of a million VK100,

"I won't even road the and

parting sellies Rock Hunter?. mallos

this opuler, at ita two remaining alien, Belo- Dipiker wül, of course, Sho Portman... – MISC Halen theres, was out" · front tonight – dặn detring liẩm. Stanley ban, givan win the man who:pated-xam-thai bám

dollarna, zene, to lymfabmit London. Which fenots

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Michool Craig gets French glamour girl Mylone Domongcot ono of his co-stars in the film Upstairs and Down- stairs. The story is con- corned with the troubles of Q young married couple trying to find themselves a

suitablo home help. Min De- mongeot turns out to be one of tho principal troubles.

habitually write parts for con- ventional glamour, girls,

The Novak role is of a rather Trappistive secretary involved with an elderly business-man,

Miss Novak says:

"I'm not a glamour girl. This charactor is closer to the real me than any- thing I have ever done,"

The question is: Will ho ba to pass himself oft as an actor-and get the leading 'part?

The real Kim

The latest Hollywood glamour girl to claim she is really quite a amplo arul at heart is ley blonde Kim Novak,

PLAYING # small part in the French film Les Liaisons Dangereuses is the daughter of Hollywood Alm tycoon Jack warnier.

She says: " am theliled. My She is currently appearing in father would never give me a The Middle of the Night, a new altence to be seen in one of his

im written by Paddy Chayel- films."

-(London Express Service).

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