1959-09-05 — Page 13

THE 'CHINA MAILĄ,

Roderick Mann

Monty Clift

Now, Gl Lollobrigida gets the Hollywood glass, The hair style is changed, the eyebrows lightened. The eyelashes are picked out, the mouth softened. In Hollywood Himing Never So Few with Frank Sinatra, Italy's pride and joy emerges, alas, with that all-100- familiar chocolate-box look. A look in which there la quile a lot of her glamorous Italian rival, Sophia Loren. (Right) The old Lollo

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1959.

TOP COLUMN OF SHOW BUSINESS

price

weeps: 'The

of fame is high

IT was an extraordinary encounter. A brief,

penetrating glimpse into the unhappy mind of one of Hollywood's youngest and-you may think-greatest virtuosos: Montgomery Clift

Ninety restless minutes during which time he alternately wept, mimicked me, lay on the floor, swore and pretended to

be deaf.

His new Alm, Suddenly, Last Summer-in which he co- stors with Elizabeth Taylor and Katherine Hepburn just been completed

It is a row, emotional, Tennessee Williams shocker and sven as he paced the floor of his hotel sulte-while the long- player in the next room echoed Sinatra--Clift was still tense,

"I play the doctor," he said "It's a long part, but a lousy part. There's no spark. The others, Liz and Katie, they spark off me.

One of the few

I asked if he had discussed the part with Tennessee Williams-- recalling how he had made a special Journey to see author James Jones about his Tole in From Here to Eternity.

He looked at me bleakly.

"No. Tennesee doesn'i glvc # damn as long as he gets his film rights. I never even met him. James Jones cured., So I went to see him."

"You must be one of the few ,actors ever to bother soeking out an

author?" I said..

He looked hard at me.

I

"Yes? Hey, what à bore must be. What a damn, dreary. bore."

"Not if it helps you turn in a good performance," I said,

What did you think of me in The Young Lions?" he asked.

"It was a fine performance," I said.

Tears coursed down cheeks. He wept silently, without embarrassment.

Miss Hahn, 17, talks

of her 'past'

MISS PAULINE HAHN, a 17-year-old veteran

of American show-business, has been brought to London to play the lead in the film of Pick-Up Girl.

Miss Hahn, looking like a youngish 12-year old, met me the other evening at the Dorchester bar and with truly frightening aplomb ordered a screwdriver (vodka and orange juice), lit a long cigarette and began to tell me all about herself and her "Past." Which is somehow. more considerable than the "Past" of any other 17-year-old I have encountered.

Just kid's stuff

"I've been in this business 15 years," said Miss Hahn with fuint nostalgin, giving me an indulgent smile. "That is to say," she added, "professionally."

Before that I didn't take it very seriously, Up to the age of two I was really Just an amateur, you know.

"I was 'discovered" by my mother when I was 10 months old. She claims she perceived Bame remarkable talent in me.

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Just kid's stuff, you know. I didn't get into the business proper unit I was... oh ..nearly two. Then I had an act on radio

together with my brother. Of course he was a lot older than me. He was five.

"I was

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getting 85 dollars & week. I know that doesn't sound much but salaries were con- siderably lower in those days, the unions weren't properly established yet in those days.

"I mean, I'll give you an

the

example. When I went on Ed Sullivan show I got 150 dollars and the follower week Martin and Lewis appeared and they got 200 dollars for the two of them.

"That was when I was about

eight. Of course later on I got

a lot more. On the Arthur Godfrey show-that's when was 13-1 got 1,200 dollars. At the same time I was appearing on Broadway in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof so it was a remunera-

tive period for me.

Breathing spell

"Just before that I'd gone into semi-retirement for nine months to think things over, you know. I'd wanted a little breathing spell to think about my future. I wasn't sure whether I wanted to continue in show business.

**I was very interested in becoming a psychiatrist at that time. Oh," I guess I'd always been interested in psychiatry-from the age of two 1 was kind of always interested in people."

I asked Miss Hahn if the con- sidered she had missed anything: by not being a normal retarded

"We also did a show at that Ume up in the resorts, enter- faining hotel guests. I wouldn't say we made an overnight baby, of the non-sloging, non- bit. it wasn't until I was al- ventriloquising sort. most four that I got tills TV show.

and

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She replied, ““Oh, no,

you

I

the words, no longer hesitant, tumbled over themselves,

"I'm proud of Lonely-hearts,"

ho Batch. "That and The

Young Lions. Nothing else,"

He mimicked

"I was proud of that. That was one of the few films X Ho fumbled for a cigarette, was really proud of. But you and is the corks-tipped and. know the only impact it had en some people? It was my first film after Fil had my car orash in Hollywood - and when people saw my face on they nbricked: Oh, God-poor Monty, What's happened to his face?'"

the

"I'd lost 12. to play the part, you see, and had my ears glued forward. I wanted to look Blog a rodent, that's why. Lean and alim like a rodent. Or let's say a rat passing for a mouse, But they didn't see that. Oh, no All they saw was that my face looked different and they chricked."

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I asked: "Did your car crash change you at all. It was Pretty bed bash, wasn't 117"

"Oh, yes" he mimicked. "It was a bad bash all right. A terribly bad bash.

"No, of course It didn't change me. I'm exactly the before. same person I was And this is the same face, My доре Wha broken in two places, and my cheek at gouged and my teeth had fo be straightened. But now it's Just as it was before. I ought to know, 's my face."

His eyes Grow wot again. ho Aung himself the on the floor and lay sizewied out, his suit rumpled, his face buried in the carpet,

"Are you ever moved by your Suddenly own performances screen?” I asked.

on

"What's that?" he said sharp- ly. "What's that?" He came

'Since you first went to Holly- over to me and I repeated the wood you've worked very hard question. "Hey," ho said. to keep your private life to his "You've got nico teeth. I wish yourself," I said, "Do the trap- and I had teeth like those, I hate pings of stardom really appel And mine.

How did you gol teeth you so much?"

ceded, "but I didn't.stat really dating til I was close on 16."

Was she Perhaps engaged? Miss Hohn said she didn't really wish

discuss her private life. She gave an enigmatic anile and replied, "Well, I won't make any statement on that to the Press."

(London Exprem Serview),

GIRL ON

A DIET...

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VITH uncharacteris- tic discreetness Mr Irving ("If I get a literate script I throw it in the

waste-paper basket") Allen has been building a star, a hobby. in which film producers sometimes indulge to their cost,

Two years ago Mr Allen, of the firm of Warwick Films, spotted a plumpish (11st.) dark-haired: giri announcing on televidon. She inmediately kindled a starmaker's glint. In his tough, wily old eyes.

The girl waa ANNE AUB- ́REY, ・ Mr Allen gavo her a

contract. And the

#ge-old

Pygmalion treatment began.

Bias Aubrey, the delighter

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"Of course I'm moved if I've

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He looked up from the carpet Got the part right. I cried when "Some actors got their sale. I saw myself in The Young faction from giving perform- Lions...... There was that speno paces. Others got theirs from with the girl in Brooklyn, you giving autographs. You have to know. It was so good I didn't pay a high price to be a public even realise it was me. I was gure, and I find it offensive so pleased and proud.”

And you have to be polite all "Are you proud of many of the time. That's difficult. I' your ploturen?”

сад bo polito in the "morning He laughed wildly and buried, and in the afternoon,

but by

kls head in his hands

"That's a pretly silly ques- Hon."

"Is it?"

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time five o'clock cones *he shrugged his shoulders duspairingly,

I left the talented, tortamod

мож course it is. How can Mopty Cilt standing shoeless setar be proud of many by the door, his suit' crumpled, of his pictures? There was his tio QTY) only one other pleture that

really meant anything-to-nar, "It, hasn't been much good, and that was "Lonely-hearts," has it?" he said. "I kept trying. think of thingủ to say but I

(London Exprem Service).

"One of the worst things couldn't you've ever done," 'I muid,

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wouldn't say that, I was never do previous acting experience, warded with her first starring did singing and dancing achilt child' like some child

was going to become a star. rolina thn called Condes- My God, ventriloquining on that crosses are, Then, when I was seven, I got know three year ago I was so Mr Allen bad, said so,

#1 ent steaks and salads and the my big break in si Mike Todd naive, you wouldn't believe it.

Slowly; at first, star plain cooked meat," she told show on Broadway' called As

making machinery went into me with the air of a sole dis The Girls Go.

action. Drama" lessons, · Volew cuming his stoicien, “I can't production Binging lens, drink, it's fattening. I work all Dieting Mainly dieting.” the time. When I'm not "Alm-

Today, Milas Aubrey, aged, ing I have lessons." 22, is a smooths und meny vy bloode of Set, sammelbing: "I don't go out much Fulham has been eradicated ́haveri't any serious boy friends trón' her personality?

-I don't meet anyone except |

“Oh no, I wouldn't say I› Am sophisticated Not sophisticated. I hope I'm a little more mature Low salaries Dow them I was during my adolescent plans,' 'IES - VOLT fumature then. I had a pretty “All the other children in the high IQ but I don't hold with show were all over Mike Todd IQ test-they sro do fine.” aquerling and kiming him and ke all that, but he didn't like being Island Mine Hahn, whether in

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I earn more than Sylvia Syma is reported to earn. One day I'll be a ster then I'll be able to relax. Then maybe I'll bo able to cat and go out.”:

I hopo Miss Aubrey manages 'to have ́a'llle. Burn food when she eventually gets to the top. Because once you're got there, the problem fe how to stay there,

Somehow I think it's going to be a long time, before inj Aubrey, has another aquari

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