1959-05-16 — Page 11

NEW GIRA IN BAYANA

Jo Morrow-she gets her chance in "Our Man

INSIDE SHOW BUSINESS

I

THE 'CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1959.

Roderick Mann

It's a mistake to think I'm modest, says Sir Alec

WAS LOOKING for Sir Alec Guinness in the cemetery. And trying to find an actor in a graveyard is not as easy as you might suppose -especially when most of the tombstones are bigger than he is, and the whole place is about the size of Windsor Great Park.

But finally I found lum, sitting contentedly among the stones in the hunshine, Onishing

a funeral scene for the Graham Greene flim Our Mast In Havana,

All around were characters... bearded Castro soldiers toting machine guns, ostorted gravediggers, small boys with large eyes, extras, techniqlans, and a dark-spectacled Cuban colled Clara Martinez, who looked as though she were sit there to keep an eye on things-- which she was.

Havana vacuum cleaner

Sir Carol Reed-who directs Guinness in this dim about t salesman recruited into the Secret Service-to 1 me about her.

"The Castro Government has made 39 charges in the original script,” he wald, "Miss Martines la here to make sure we stick to them."

"What's the point?" I said. "You can reshoot any of the scenes you want when you get back to the studios in London?"

SHOW BUSINESS

IN HAVANA

TRIO IN A RAYANA STREET Maureen O'ltura, director Sir Carol

Reed, and Sir Alee Guinnem.

papers in his hand. He closed terrible $3 I thought, One his eyes.

never knows, does ono"

"I suppose Larry Olivier and

The day's work finished, we I are pretty well-knownS in drove. back to the hotel In the "One's enthusiasm and ambition America now," he said, "Funny, wann Cuban afternoon. En will carry one through. But in you know, when I Arst met route Gubicas stopped off at o middle-age it's not so simple. Olivier I hated him.

3 really lore and bought some tins of That's why I reach for a false did. I thought him ruthlessly beef consonic. "When I flist

50 often,

suppose ambitious and Insensitive. We arrived at the hotel they kept this desperate feeling of in- were in a play togellier, and I calling nie 'My lord," he said. adequacy."

Mr had no time for him at all.

"Now I'm down to pluin Guinness. It's these parcels **Harn't БИССКАЯ helped?" 1

Uity nee me carrying in. I Bald. "After all you're eveis.

suppose. So un-chic, Nocl better known in America now than Laurence Olivier."

Coward would never do a thing like that...."

"True. Reed said, "but they, It seems, 2000 didn't think of that."

Shyest of all

While he was setting up the next scene, 1 sut bud talked to Guinness-the best-known British actor in the world. And the shycst.

"You know," he said, watching a lizard the sun-dappled grass, scurry Across

always when I am offered a role I mug- gest someone else who might do it better. I don't know why I do ip-a feeling of in- adequacy, I suppose. It's the same feel- Ing which makes me prefer acting beliind a false nose and lots of make-up, · Odd, isn't it?

"Don't

His present

FOOTNOTE: In the film with

misunderstand," "Then one day we were all Guinness said, "Tm not being invited to wome formal party modest. A fot of people think and I said I'd have to refuse Guinness are Noel Coward, Buri Sir Balph Richardson, I'm a modest man, but they're because I had no suit of tails. Maureen O'Hare, and

Ives, Next morning a parcel arrived

mistaken. The truth

new-

alwars intended to be a star for me-and inside was a suit comer Jo Morrow. actor. But I'm always worried of falls. It was a present from I saw Coward off to Europe and plagued with doubt and Olivier, who'd, overheard my just before I flew down here feeling of inadequacy when conversation,

I'll never forget and asked him why he thought I'm acting."

it. It completely took the wind his play Look After Lulu had out of my sulls.”

The wind, worn from

"When one is young it doesn't matter about not being good looking," he said, Gulf

NOW, MISS KENDALL,

of

Mexico, rustled

ONCE MORE, WITH FEELING

DIREATON BOKEN SHOWS HOW-TE MINTYN SONRA, KAY KEBALL. YML UNYUNOre.

Then a dog lets out a 500-dollar bark

BY PETER EVANS:::ON LOCATION IN PARIS

HE stars: Kay Ken- ter af arms, a series of THE

dall, Yul Brynner. The place: a Paris film and says:

studio.

The scent opens with Holly

wood director

Blantey

Buying wearlly: "Okay, let's go just once more."

Donen

Doil

"Cut, cut it," yells Donen. "Oh fe. That's all we dog. A yapping

shrugs.

The Besistant turns to Doach beded. A

"He's wafting for an dog." electric fan. The

+ overscaled. It's the lamps. Co hot,

The fan arrives, The camera. is cooled. Doneri ys: *Now do you think we might go on with the film?"

The scene

Panic

cost 1500 trucks,”

ELECTION FEVER HITS IAN!

the

the

folded so quickly on Broadway.

He got up to do the next "Dear boy," said The Master scene, leaving me basking in crisply, "I know exactly why it the hot, shimmering afternoon, folded. Nobody weat to sce dreaming of Ived dafquiris. it..

When he returned ho pulled a

Panama low over his eyes.

"A home, you know, I Ilva very quietly with my family anul birds. Deep down fusido, I suppose I'd love to go OUL rolstering with' characters I admire, like Trevor Howard. “Mul ́I'can't. I' can't drinke enough for one thing, and se the evening wears on I niways begin wishing they'd stop too. So it's never any good. The evening is always a failure."

"Holstering is an expensive hobby," I said. "You save o lot of money by staying at home."

"I save nothing." Guinness

seid. "As a matter of fact, I'm broke,

"I mean it," he said when 1 smiled, "I became a name too) inte to make money. Now it's. impossible, with taxes and everything."

'Salvage' job

What about the fim you just helped produce-The Scapegoat Don't you stand a chance of making money out of that?!

"I'd rather not talk about that," Guinness sald. "I've no Idea when it'll be shown, and I'm not happy about it. I'm told M.-G.-M., who will distri- bute it, are doing what is called д 'stivage' job an it because they're not happy with it at all. Well, It was a bit long and slow, I agree, but there were some good things In it. Now I dread to think what An be like after they're through with the scissors."

He gazed, a little moodily, neross the rows of gravestones,

TAN

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"Still," he said, “there the other night that sud-j The same man launs over and denly his smooth-running going to do this film of Gandhi,,

things to look forward to. I'm says: "That beric is probably career was facing a crisis. you know. It's not an obvious- the most expensive bark in the history of dogs. I rockcon it just Because of the General Elec-ly commercial proposition, but [it's one I very much want to do. Then Pro- going to play Spid Carmichool: "I had epre- T. E. Lawrence on the London Again the wreno is played.

The dog is found a tiny pugally planned that my latest three stogo in a play by Terence pour smile. Yul Brynner simply

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The his make-up

Donen is like a shrunken bulking

found: Miles Kayalms would be released at four-Rattigan, delicately date more powder on unhappe. Ho vodce climbs a owner is

monthly intervals over the next : his glistening bald head, The couple of oclaves: "Cut. Leta Kendall

year. studio lampa aro very hot, try again, please."

Mr Donen la not acting. He has tried to shoot the sequence 20 Umes or more. Without suc- .cess. It is one of those days.

Kay, Kendall gives uttle,

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But now fusses grande. man

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my

"So that would 'mean

would be kept · ire the

- "I" only do, the things tist really spent to me now, JUN know—and, of course, that's no guarantes: that they'll be #coerul" at the box-office.

· Atier Tye 'mado; the decision I'm always-plagued with

You should, have been found Miss Kendall. Brynner hosted again. And everyone is | public cợu while le starring in

We shot a comes over and smiles on ex-

planation: "This is a little pit». scene 30 times. That was a fure I'm doing before I make

doubts. my own big one The Magat Lcent Seven'--in Mexico."

record, though.” Then: Drink we might' break it yot,"

Donen Bhouta; "Silence. What's the hold-up. Come't. Now the sons is played onoa Let's rollen"

more. This timo tu going well. Amamlatant translates his Evan Donen la looking and -demand to the FraND CRIzorg- - But, na 1 and, it's one of those man, whole looking worried. · dery, “Bukopoly, a dog la kazk (There is a gabbió at French, a Ing. Inthar knally,

Miss Kendall says to Bryner: "Yuleki, would you like a cup of tea while we are waiting!

·Fade-out;

Footnote: the day, a comedy, is called "Once More, Wilh Foeling."

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"But now the producers of one of the films, political comedy called Left, Right, and

| Centro,' are keeping the fini on

"They asked me to play in

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""Now I'm faced with a cluster | Spartaqua, you know? — but of pictures co Olukor, turned : li down becauso And nothing for a year.""

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