1959-08-08 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 8,- 1959.

Roderick Mann

Now Miss Wynter boosts Mr. More

INTO London's sunshine flies a cool-eyed British beauty with an interesting mission. Miss Dana Wyntor-now a Hollywood actress of fair ropute--has come to the aid of the British film industry in general, and Mr Kenneth More in particular. She is to be his co-star in Sink the Bismarck-which should provide food for thought for all those British producers who, barely six years ago, rated Miss Wynter nothing more than a pretty face at a premiere, leered at her across a crowded foyer, and forgot about her.

Now you may think that Miss Wynter ia incapable of acting her way out of a wot paper bag. But that is not the point. The point is that

BHOW BUSINESS

Miss Wynter is known in it should be remembered, which she sunk out of Britain sis Amerien.

Rgo-unknown, unloved yearx Oshkosh, when you and unwanted--Mr More was ulrendy West End stor ku The

In

mention her name, they know who you mean. But in Oshkosh they do not know Mr Kenneth More from patent breakfast cereal,

n

Of course, the business of try hig to make Mr More big in Oshkosh too has been going on for some time,

Deep Blue Sea.

her of the Ritz. And Miss Wyn- ter, who, unlike many British

does not look

To And out I lunched with

actresses,

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though she spent all her forma live years totting up hockey scores, said:

and

zet

She fodled with her fork for a while, and then continued:

"The only way to gel knowa in Americs in to have lots of screen time to your credit

that you can never with Brfilsh filmu.

"Even if they are successful, nly one or twn ever get shown outside the art theatres. Most of them are regarded by Ameri- eans in oxpctly the same way that we regard Frenel Alms. Su you see, however many films

Dirk Bogarde maice, won't unless help them in America

Sh their films are shown on mala elreuits."

Miss Wynter, of course, 19 quite right,

Because of this, Mr Purdom, a mediocre autor, is known ini Oshkosh today. Whereas Mi Dogarde, a much better actor, is nol--as was proved at the last Academy awards when he Was announced as Dick Bogardy and it became quite clear that as for as most people there were con cerned he might as well have been a Levantine carpet sales-

maan.

Where now ?

"Of course," said Miss Wyn- ter, "being a Hollywood contract nctress has disadvantages too. You have to do more or less what you're told. And it's very

He has one bollywoo Embarrassing people like Kennels More and easy to get labelled.

a. succession

of

actresses. In The Sheriff of Frac- tured Jat he had the ald of Mias Jayne Mansfield In The 39 Steps he was assisted by Misa Talna Elg. In the completed North-West Frontier he partnered by Miss Lauren Bacall. Now, in Sink the -Bis- marck, he has Misa Wynier.

How is Miss Wynter enjoying the irony of the situation? For,

THE TWO FACES OF HEPBURN

From Here to Eternity. Look Aud

what part has aho re- what thin film did for her. turned to play In Sluk the Bis-

was never a lady again, marck? I tell you this raplog is furt A Wren omcer. what you need””.

is somewhai acklulbus in her

-There is no escopal

HITCH'S LAPSE

bad

Jeft

Miss Wynter, understandably, about British pro-

I am surprised that Mr Alfred comments

aliould be guilty of ducers, whose only advice when itchcock she was an unknown was to go such a lapse of taste. out into the provinces and do

Chicago where he been promoting his new rep..

"It I'd taken their advice." pieture North By North-West-

few hours before the she said, rather tartly, "where just a would I have been now? An queen visited the clly.

Why, he was asked later, had ageing rep, actress, thoroughly

for her discouraged and only good for he sot stayed over playing Wren officers in. British Majesty's visit? war pictures."

Hillsboook. Besides, he on "Auffrey," he says, "has found sidered her a typical suburban the secret of being great. It times bousewife with no interests in is simply to work: three the arts or anything else oulus hard as anyone else," tural."

THE SECRET

PROBLEM: CHILD

UXU. danced in who wrote

Playwright Harry Kurnits. Once More, With been discussing of - the Impending divorce

"The Hollywood star and his wife.

only thing holding it up." says Karnitz, "is their struggle over the custody of Neither of them

-(London Express Service).

Only a handful of years Audrey Hepburn the cliorus of a London night Feollig-bas club.

Today, with her success in. The Nun's Story, she is rightly

Her husband, Mel Ferrer- their child. who came with her to London wanto 11."

week-explains it simply.

Io was in a hurry, explained inst

~1, for instance. am a lady. Not long ago

acclaimed a world stor. I turned down a film si 20th Century Fox because I didn't like the story. The producer, Jerry Wald, sald I was cruzy. ''It's in it, he sola гаре всере said.

what You're too you need. much of a lady—like Deborah

"Actually I find this business of who is known and who isn't acutely embarrasing. Of course, J's true that Kenneth More Isn't known In the States as he

Some much bthough he's should

years ago Mr Bogando Dirk turned down the lead in beller known thin

Alan Whereas I've male Hollywood

The Bogarde

called It went to a non- many pletures and done lots of Equitian.

Kerr rinity callest Edmund -Purdom. TV and I am known now."

LIMELIGHT

Д

'And that's Just

was before she

by THOMAS WISEMAN

I hope Mr. Dene gets

success back

AT

T 20 Terry Dene is already a has-been fighting to make a come-back; he has had his crack-up; his marriage is broken; he is off alcohol at an age when a few retarded infants have not yet been on it. Precocity could hardly go any further,

Ils return journey-to fame scream and clap and let off and baelc-has lasted less than two years.

steam. It's a relief, a real relief. The psychiatrists said it was very good for me-singing. They said it was an outlet.

In that period he has had six cara: has, at times, earned

"What I feel I got to do is to HK$4,800 a week;

"gone has berserk": has been

be a success again so as I can psycho- analysed; has been dis- get my respect back."

cussed in the House of Commons.

Today, ari ageing idol of 20, he Unhealthy

has a lot of Press cuttings, a

mater-bike. and dreams

making a come-brck,

Frightened

of

It is. of course, unfortunate and unhealthy that anyone of 20-or any age, for that matter should be $0 addicted to success. But once you've had to do without

This week he was given a 13- it, it's dimeult

week contract-worth HK$24,000 and it only on medical grounds

by Larry Pares, who manages I hope Terry Dene gets his

the careers of several other success back.

singing prodigies like Bill Fury.

Marty Wilde and Vince Eager. Determined

So the vicious cycle of build-up

and let down may be repeated,

Fred Astaire has turned down Mr Dene came to see me the several very large offers for the ether day. He is an agreeable, im rights of his autobiography confused and frightened young Sleps In Time. He is deter

mined that his life story shall not be almed.

mon...

I haven't heard from my

wife," he said, "I keep ringing

TERRY

DENE: "The only thing

I enjoy doing is

going out there

on the logs

and singing and

letting ga."

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Breathtaking— that's Miss Steele

THEN producer Nor-·

man Williams ad- vertised for a "breath- takingly beautiful girl"

"I don't want to do my life in to play the leading role

her but she don't answer, I a film," he cald, "and 1 don't.

don't know where she is. I was waat anybody else to do it. in a new British film he

too emotionally Immature for alive, not dend. Why go into was, not surprisingly,

marriage. I always had a lot of the past?

trouble, you know, with my

nervous side. From when 1 was Shattered

Hitle you know. I was lightly

unstable, that's what I WES.

Before

I was in the Business

"However much they offer me

inundated with appli- cants.

At 10 next morning there were 80 girls waiting outside hio ofloc

Di Twickenham

I never had no girl friends and the offers are going up all Studios, indicating that

thero

I can't was no dacic of breathtakingly

They ecared me. They dubt the time I shan't sell. think much of me; they thought explain why exactly, but I just beautiful girls or at any

...

The only

BARBARA STEELE

two years

I was pretty wet. I just didn't don't went to Take up all my rate, skels, who considered have the push you know, to go past, Not in a film, I don't want themselves breathtakingly beau-fits the description. She is an extremely pretty, girl who was with ghela

to have to duplicate things I did Ural-in London, 30, 40 or 45 years ago.”

mystery was why, algned up by Itank No different

with the unemployment rate, xo with the promise-of a glow- It is thought that one of the among

British ing future. 'professional ·

Fighting shy main reasons why Astaire e glamour girl at an all-time "Then I got into the Business strongly opposed to a dim biog-high, anyone should have found In that time she has been seen and suddenly I had girl friends raghy is because he could not it necessary to advertise in three films and her aggregate flocking round my feet and the bear lo re-enact his marriage on more girls to foln the dole dialogue amounted to less than the length of tits story, Which girls thought I was marvellous, the acromi-or deo it being re- queue.

Somewhat Don't enacted by another actor.

belatedly "I"wesn't." no different

this is indicative of the Calvinistic know how all that happened. His wife, died dve years ago, ducer Necman Williams. Having night shy of indigenous E

'thought; also "oncurred to pro-way in which British producers after having been very happily surveyed and cruiinleed the Five of the girls who arower- rried to him for 21 years, applicants, Me Williams gave ed the original "Personal" ad- the part in his dim--Your vertlement have been promised When I saw him accently he Money Or Your Wife, originally all part in future produc told tam stace my wife's theath, called Where There's a Will--to tons.

"The only thing I enjoy doing

is going out there on the stage and singing and leing go. It's like like letting go your pent-up foglings, all what you've been holding kock

Astaire was shattered,

I have not been interested in 21-year-old Rank contract ezilat TS would be alco it they didn't Many other woman, I don't think Barbara Stogie. ANG KA *hivatorsäkt two "youiku (-£9000) dha-satna" for the kida) I lhall ever inerry KERÍA"

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