1959-09-12 — Page 13

SHOW BUSINESS

THE CHINA · MAIL; · SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12,· 1959, *) |

Roderick Mann

Miss Heywood and a dedicated man

IN

NOW HE PLANS A DAZZLING FUTURE

FOR HER AS A TOP DRAMATIC STAR

"

a house overlooking a bay just outside Dublin, Miss Anne Heywood sat drinking tea. Her eyes shone, her teeth glistened, her cheeks glowed. She looked what she is --the ultimate in chocolate-box beauty. Hers is the kind of face which launched a thousand soft-centres; which proclaims the beheflts of soft-drinks from every hoarding; which decorates every calendar.

A wholesome face, munchy-crunchy, crear feck, asexual

Miss Heywood does not take dope, nor cheat ot cards, nor suffer from night starvation. She likes dresses, and is rarely seen without one on. She has never taken an overdose of Murraymints- to get her name in the papers.

Sho is a nice girl. She is also, you may think, an exceedingly bad actress. But then you can't have everything.

A new force emerging?

Opposite her as she drank her tea, sit her producer, Mr Raymond Stross. He too was drink- Ing ica. It was ten-time.

You could tell he was a producer because he was smoking a cigar. You could also tell that he was in love with Miss Heywood because every tune I asked her a question he answered it. The way that lovers do.

He is married abw. Mr Stroes, but witen ho is free he will marry Miss Heywood. And a new forcs may emerge in mollon pictures. Thaiberg and Norma Shearer...Sülznick and •Jennifer Jones. Zanuck and Julieite Greco. And now,

Raymond and Anne.

Аспо

Heywood.

Übere

plo-ups

get her?

Talked for hours

Small wonder, as they eat there drinking tea, that they allowed themselves to wallow in a trough of emotional blanc- mango,

"I

mine, a Terrible Beauty, and I'd gone out to met her off the plans. And as soon as we saw each other we knew, Isn't that right, darling?”

"Yes," said Miss Heywood. "We sat

up that night and And I never even made a pass.. tablood for honira," Stross sald.

Did I, darling? And what was that culo thing you said when I mentioned making n pass7 Tell him that cute thing you- said."

played in Room at the Top," Miss Heywood sald. "I don't just want to be a pretty face."

"Of course she doesn't," said Stress. "Anne's got sex appeal. She's not like Virginia McKenna or any of the others. What ox appeal has Virginia McKeans got? About Ds much as that husband of hers, Bill Travers."

Not one enemy

"English_producers don't seem Misa Heywood, smiled: "I to know what to do with you lif said, "If you make a pass at you've got a beautiful face," said me you'll have to marry me.'" Miss Heywood. "But Raymond "Yes," chuckled Stroes. "That is quite different. He's moro was what she sold that was so American, I feel." culo,"

"We'll visit Hollywood, ΟΙ course," said "Strass encourag-

More than a face sty "I like Hollywood. I cân

honestly say I haven't got an enemy in Hollywood,

He took his eyes from her for a moment and looked at me, "I'm getting lots of offers "This girl," he said, "is going now," sold Miss Heywood. "And jo bo a great world stor. I shall the Bim I Just made in Italy dedicate my Bfo to her career, should do mo some good. It's Not since Jean Simmons and called Carthage in Flames and Deborah Kerr has there been a it's a really dramatic part for girl with her potential. But me. I end up perishing in what has the Bank Organica- dames." tion done for her? Nothing."

"It will be great for her," sold

them for years and they've done

"I've been under contract to Stross.

"They wanted me to appear nothing for me," said Misa semi-nude in the film," Miss Heywood.

Heywood_nald. "But I refused, "Why should she get up at They offered to do it with a 0a.m. In the morning to make double, but I su sald No. After rubbish iko Upstairs

me, wouldn't they? And I don't and all people would think it was

want that sort of thing."

said Stross firmly. "No

"There'll be no more of that," more pin-ups at all. She's a dramatie actrost. Where will pin-ups get her?"

"I tell you," said Simss, was in love with Anne before Downstairs?" demanded Stross, sho oven got off the air Why?" plane.

She was dying in from Rome to make the aim of

THE MAN NO WOMAN EVER WALKED OUT ON TWICE...

"I don't know," T wild. "What kind of rubbish do you want her to make?"

"She's going to make good Alms from now on," said Stross, who was responsible for such Alms as The Flesh is Weak and A Question of Adulieru.

"She's through with all that Rank Junke. This is intelli gent girl. Not an intellectual, mind you. I don't say that. But intelligent. She can be a great dramaile actress."

"You know something?" said Miss Heywood, "When I was working in Rome the alion producer told me I was like A rose which had not yet opened. When I left I was opening. And now I feel I'm fully open."

"Darling" Gold

Stromg softly, and their eyes inet over "I want to play the kind of the teacups. part that Simane Signoret

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