1959-09-26 — Page 13

CHINA MAIL STURDAY.

TEMBER 26, || 1959.

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SHOW BUSINESS

THE RETURN OF

Roderick Mann

I despise most of my films, says Henry Fonda

For years Linda Chrisilan seemed more concerned with the tinsel life of fast cars and faster millionaires than with movie- new film, The House of the Senen Hawks.

LINDA CHRISTIAN making-but now she is soon to be seen in

Richard Greene

beats the TV jinx

AFTER four

years

lurking in and out FILM PREVIEW

of thickets as television's.

Robin Hood, Richard Edited by THOMAS WISEMAN Greene is returning to

films.

His

career represents * reversal of the usual procedure, Television series, for former film stora, usually road of no return.

become the

But Mr Greene has returned in the company of Eva Bartok

in a m

Curtain.

their girl friends. Mr Greene for one day's dancing in the hangs only pictures of his yacht. Soho strip-club sequence of

The room is also well stocked the film Boat Girl. with trophies of the chase around the world under sall.

called Beyond the Part-time job

£300 a week

The

thoutro was full of hirpd ex- tras all looking. liko tired businessmen. At the end of a strenuous day, Miss Justand remarked; "I am "I have noticed," he said, "that my friends become con- very weary. The audience siderably

interested in was not sympathique.” yachting when I mention gia st

mor

"I get as much money as I £2 10s. a case.

was getting in Hollywood at my peak," said Mr Greene.

At his peak he was earning

To make yachting for the Unfinished

multitude caster, Mr Greene is intending to go into the manu.

over £300 a week. He does not facture of yachts made out of Julla Lockwood-17-year-old regret the Hollywcod career that plasie. failed. "I was only 19 when i started and found myself on a

I

KNEW that Henry Fonda hated Hollywood. He has

never made a secret of his contempt for the film city and the more tawdry trappings of stardom. And, articulate actor that he is, the mediocrity of many of his own pictures genuinely appals him. ›

He has made over 60 alms And when 7 mot him over drink in Mayfair he confessed that he was bitterly critical, of all but half a dozen,

Sill lean-jawed and the at 54, he relaxed In a light lan .sult and sipped a gin-and-tonic,

Bitter pride

"I'm not a Boy Scout," he „Bold, “I say what I think. And, the "truth" is" I despise most of the films I've made. Even talk ing about them embaITÀRIES

me."

can have an occasional flop and got away with it. But not me, apparently."

He fingered his glass, chill with ice-cubes.

"I've had successen, of course,

Lake Mr Roberts. But I despised that film. It was ruined by its co-director, John Ford. I had played the life role on Broad- way for four years so I knew about it. Ford didn't. So he made...a, terrible picture..

The escape

"Then there

Was Wer and

The

FONDA..... #elf-erifio

Man Who Women?"

Understood

Fonda stored hard at his

drink, revolving the tee slowly sround Inside the glass.

"I haven't seen it yet, but my wife. has. She hated it, So I don't know what to think.

"I live in New York now." He went on; "And if I never saw Hollywood again I wouldn't worry, it's a sterile community

and when I'left'in 1947 to de a New York play I was de- lighted. I played away for seven years, and if there were enough plays on Broadway to keep me

"But you've made some great Peace, When I first agreed to Pictures," I said.

do it the script by Irwin Show busy I'd never go back at all, was fine. But what happened? He finished his drink and got The director, King Vidor used up. For the first Lime he to go home alight with his smiled. wito and rowinte it, All

"Let's hope there are the genius of Tolstoy went out of the window. Inevitably, it or plays," he said. was a disaster."

"One or two. And they never did any business. Look at Twelve Angry Men which I produced. I was proud of that, It won awards all over the world. But nobody went to reo it. And, because it was, a flop. I found myself rated bod box- office. A man like Bill Holden

"This is not

"What about your most re- cent film with Leslie Caron,

•

Offer declined

a lot

In the πάνω Ανα Gardner picture The Fair Bride -- act in Spain during the Civil War there Es ап American journalist called Hawthorne,

The character is based on Ernest Hemingway, who course, was in Spain during that unhappy time,

The other day the film's alrector Mr Nuntially Johnson, had an idea. The character was based on Hemingway -* 10 why not Invite the "great man to play the part?

An emissary was despatched

to Madrid to beard the grizzly one in hla hotel. And, in the bar, the idea was put to him.

"Listen," rumbled Heming- way, "I haven't become an Betor yet. It's difficult enough being a writer."

"But the part was specialty written into the film with you In mind," said the canissary,

"In that case," growled Hem- Ingway, "I suc

The emissary stalled for time. "Didn't Darryl Zanuck orice offer you a part in a film?"

"He did," said Hemingway. "AND I told him what to do with it."

Hemingway's wile, Mary, haş the last word. As the emissary prepared to leave she whispered: "It's

noti pity,

couldn't

going to be conceived in my Gina and Frank persuade him. Actually he's a

daughter of Margaret Lockwood "It will be a part-time occupa went to the Chelsea Embank moment," he said. sudden wave of success which I tion," he said. "I believe every ment for her first love scene in

alm called Please Turn Over, exotic fashion."

was quite unprepared for.

Bald.

actor should have a second string to his bow."

"I had gone an I think I In his first post-Tobin Hood would have turned out to be a feature film, Mr Greene will pretty hollow character," he play an airline pilot who rescues Eva Bartok from the hands of As it is 41-year-old Mr the East German police. Greene, his dimpled good looks well preserved, is enjoying a

and

"This will not be just a cuso of rescuing the damsel in dis-

well. Alled well fed tress," explained Mr Greene maturity, Elis house la "These people are nol,cardboard pensively furnished, his clothes figures,"

are expensively cut, he owns an

Aston-Martin that cost £3,500 This should ensure that thé and a yacht worth more than film cannot be confused with any

£12,000.

television series,

Mr Greene Is very fond of

his yacht. Other actors have their wells decorated with photographs

HIGH

quite

There will not be a cast of The love scene was never com- thousanda. He says: "In those plated. It seems that the Chelsea days communities were Embankment is 'too nelsy for small." will shoot the scene at Pinewood lovernuking these days,

They

Studios.

Self-control

This is going to demand great ack-control

Christopher from Fry, who is waiting the script. The last film he wrote was Ben Hur.

get together

Gina Lollobrigida' appears as Frank Sinatra's "girl friend in Burms in her first Rally- wood-made film called Never Be Fow. Mr Shairy; at the head of 600 native/ midlers, will be seen harassing the romanilo Japanese between interludes with Min Lollo- .../brigida back at baan, ila will

be #ded by Brilish commander in the operations against the Japanese but not operations against Miss Lollobrigida. I four the soldiers ies British

Burus never had it so good.

Horror films are going'; Sir Michael Balcon is to make soft, it seems. Christopher

a film in Israel based on the Biblical story of Ruth.

Ace Paris stripper Pos. my

Lee said: "In The Mummy only kill three people and

.

"I hope no

film with any of the break their necks.” extravagant, flamboyant films of

-London Express Service).

In the one will confuse not in a ghastly way. I just

of themselves and qualine Justand flew over the kind being made at the

SOPHIA GOES HOME A STAR

always Signor Font had remained in

In the back streets of Puzzuoli"

"I've

changed

‘BROOMSTICK' Inverbly feel for her lange warm dyes.

-03

natural-born actor."

Solution

of

The royal premiere to Sam Goldwyn's film version Porgy and Bear has been post- poned not, as reported, becALEST the Queen now cannot attend, but simply because there is no theatre 10 taico it.

Indeed, after the Queen had agreed to attend the charity premiere the Alm's makers. found themselves in a spol. They had announced the date.-- November and they had de theatre the chosen Dominion. It had to be Dominion because that, is-one of the only cinemas in London equipped to shew dimms in Todd-

·AÐ and big enough to copo a large charity perform-

with

апос

the

But the film rimming at the Dominion - South Pacific --- Ald not come off as expected.

and they

stuck with

So

IGH above the har- band Carlo Poet! I

entailed the risk of arrest on a Rome while. Mis Loren was the boys ad to call her by haven't. There's no going back Sun Goldwyn found himself bour of Capri, in a charge of bigamy.

no royal premiere working in Capriles Se

the derüive nickname of To them I'm no longer a real and nowhere to hold it, hotel poised on the very

"I hope," audi, Mịm Loren, an "hrbomellek" because of her person--I'm a flim stor. I know But the other week Miss went on the terrace outside skinnine

how it is..I used to be like that!

Understandably, nobody was peak of the sheer cliff, I Laren, who is not easily in her hotel room, "that things will

when I dreamed of being a flm mors delighted to hear the news sat the other day with timidated, was back in Italy straighten themselves out."

of the Queen's baby dad of When Mies -Loven reltirised stur." with her husband to whom

home sho WELK grooted

thor - walisoquent, cancelling of Sophia Loren looking was married by proxy in

with the awe and respool which Miss Loren looked at me with engagements -- than : Be out across a choppy sea Mexico.

cinemagodones, even those towards Naples, where

She was not unhappy. I have they used to mow brop never seen anyone look less like,

silck.2, a fugitive from Justice; And bư she spoke, of her, return to Astutoly, Mis Loren had Pozzuoli, the unlovely suburb of aşam fime Naples who has restup, there, when the public prosecutor was. We ho truce of nostalgia in her on holiday,

No there is no dvore n Miss Loren was born. Italy, Sigar Font is still legally married to his first wite, 'Hence Though the tare from Naples the problem.

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