Dirk Bogarde's new girl
sheds 9 years:
THIS
is the face of a girl who is bringing Dirk Bogarde back to Britain.
It is the face of Mylene Demongeot as seen through the eyes of her husband, photographer Henri Coste, and with the aid of a British make-up
man.
For in the film she is to make with
Bogarde, "The Singer, Not the Song," the 24-year-old Miss Demongeot has to appear as a 15-year-old "Lolita"-like girl who falls in love with a priest.
It happens in a Mexican town. Bogarde is a bandit who terrorises the inhabitants,
TRIMMINGS
The picture marks the
return to Britain of
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1960.
TAKE AWAY NINE YEARS, A POUT AND WISE EYES.
AND A 24-YEAR-OLD STAR BECOMES A 15-YEAR-OLD “LOLITA "
24 to 15!
by DINAH KERR
London Express Service.
as
she will have to rely much on acting as on sex.
In playing the part I hope, nevertheless, she does not start a fashion. To have too many girls dedicating
Bogarde, who for more To play a 15-year-old which has established her than a year has been Mylene Demongeot is giving as a provocative performer. themselves to looking like working in Hollywood up the pencilled-in pout, Now, stripped of all the Lolita `would become for and Rome.
and the wise-eyed look more obvious trimmings, me a dreary diet.
Now it's Peter Sellers,
FETER SELLERS is play- ing: sadistie killer in his new Alm, "Moment of Truth.'
This curious departure from the Sellers lino was revealed recently. But why, at the height of his fame as a good humour man, should he turn
Villain
certainly. But it's something I crifica, it went on
to be a Switzerland, where he has made had to do. The public has omash hit with the public. Now his home. And he is now lining Lccepted me as a comic and if the film has opened in Now up a Ferrarl in Rome, 1 don't break the pattern now York to record' businesa I'll be in a
comic for the rest of my life." stralt-jacket-a
show
→ Globe-roving star Richard Actor Peter Bull has taken Burton is a man with a car in an advertisement in # The remarkable Sir Carol every port. He has just left a business magazine listing his his back on the kind of zole Reed Dems to have done it Thunderbird in Hollywood, achievements during the past that has boosted him to star again. After latest fim, after completing "The Bramble year. Among them, thle NOT
"Our Man
Havana," in
WEE Bush.'
." He has a silver Rolls In Ben-Hur. power?
Which is quite mauled gamble, generally
the Royce in London. A Cadillac in an achievement.
Sald he: "It's
A
by
The Dr.
Live
6670MAN, I'm goddam
tired of you!"
Angrily Dr LeRoy Adams
blurted out these words.
aren't perhaps
They
famous. But they
certainly his last.
were ever pressured a livin' soul for
money!
Immediately, the steamy quiet
Jekyll of
Oak
Hule's re-
*
The big change
in what
you are watching
MORE comedy, less DRAMA, MORE gangsters but fewer WESTERNS. That has been the big cinema change in the last two years. And for the first time Inside Show Business presents in vivid form just how the pattern of film making is changing.
The chart shows the details. Britain put its money on comedy.
Hollywood produced 19 to the
British 27, which în-
cluded inevitably the
American British
Comedy -19
27
7
Dran'a 62
24
[French TOTAL and Latin) 1959
53
23 109 164
TOTAL 1958
36
Gangster 19
9
2
30
20
Horror 18
4
22
16
Musical 4
2
15
Mystory 7
20
3
30.
16
Romance
Sex-Drama
War films
Western
15
2
€
23
29
2
13.
15
2
:10
.4
1
15
24
41
-
41
75
6
Pare 13
CHART BY MICHAEL RAND
"Carry On" series, and drama-62 to Britain's of course, had Brigitte were fewer musicals last "I'm All Right, Jack." 24-and the crop in Bardot.
year than in 1968, less Hollywood believed in cluded "Separate.
science fiction, more Tables," and "The Nun's. The survey shows, sur- jungle filme and less
that there romance. Story." And the French, prisingly,
INSIDE
SHOW
BUSINESS
HOW THEY GIVE GUINNESS A FACE LIKE THIS
By PETER EVANS
WHEN it was announced that
Sir Alec Guinness was to play a heavy-arniting, hard- swearing Scots colonel in "Tunes
Glory," " he
told me: "I know that physically I am
not right for the part,
at
but I want to do it very much."
The other day 1 talked to make-up man Harry Frampton.
by DEE WELLS How does this rather slightly
no teli-bale pattern to indicate what gun fired it.
bullt, aesthalle-looking man be- come a paunchy, puity-faced colonel?" I asked.
Suid
Frampton: "It
would
to have been reasonably simple to That Doc Adams intended vee this pistol ort Ruby rough him up a little with scars McCollum le almost certain
and a false, busted nose. But Hule found out even more. Alec said No. He wanted as That, for years, Doc Adams little make-up as possible. had shared in the pay-off money
meddlin' outsiders. quest was turned down Tried for murder, Ruby Infuriated, Hule stayed. To sentenced to find out why they wouldn't let of Sunday morning in the back- McCollum was
film see her. And to find out woods town of Live Oak, Florida, death in the electric chair,
that no one had what was being covered up. The fact was blasted by another, even
When Hule started digging it angrier, sound. Four shots. Two heard Ruby McCollum's side of
no one in was like quarrying granite with quick. Then, two alow. Like some the story struck
Nor did a glass shovel. No one would from the gambling racket run "He asked for a red, crew- code Florida odd. terse, vary basic morse
And cut toupee and a moustache. strike them as odd that 37 times tulk
by Ruby's husband, Samn. message.
The whites wouldn't-because that, in return, Sam got com- His nose has been shaded to But it Dr Adams got the mesenge, her lawyer tried to tell It, that
the State Attorney no one warried to snez good plete protection from any police give it a bulbous look. He got you might say, dead 37 ilmes
and old Doc Adams,
action.
still wasn't the face of a hervy -right. At any rate, he was dead, had called "Objection,"
The colouris wouldn't
Ils found out too that Doc drinker. So we used a light With four gaping holes in his that 37 times the judge had
because they knew they would Adants was a psychopathie Jar make-up around the
eyes 20 live longer if they didn't know and thief, That a good part of that they almost disappear into MORAL SWAMP
nothin' about nothin'.
ids medical practice was shady, the face, the lifeless eyes, of a THE CRIME OF RUDY
But bit by scrappy bit Hule and another good part down-hard drinker.
a lot. Things that right illegal. Abortions, perjury McCOLLUM, by William Brad- found out
"I'm often complimented on Hule Arrow; 25. d), had never been mentioned at emi malpractice of every sort
were added to the mounting list my make-up for Alec, but really As caused no stir when it came out, Ruby McCollum's trial.
He found out that Ruby had of Doc' Adam's crimes.
I play a very small part. here iwo years ago. Now, ut a
13 been the saintly Doe Adams's
I'm putting on the make-up Z paperback. it is well worth a
houghtful socond reading.
FORGED WILL although mistress. That,
she
can see him changing from becoming the He frightens you to
-(London Express Serpico).
substanial back.
Whodunit?
sustained him.
About this there Was 110 mystery whatsoover. For this is na whodunit. It is a true story. Twenty minutes after then ford shots were fired in August 1952 everyone in Live Oak knew who had done it.
of
It is an horrifle story of the was married herself and hatl Perhapa' the worst that Hunc within, really NO DOUBTS
uncovering
power-mad three children by her husband, found out was that Doc Adams character. of monster. It is also a shaming the last child she had nd was was not planning one murder death cometnes." Three witnesses had seen Ruby
condemnation
Southern Doe Adams's, And that she was but more likely two. McCollum go in. They had heard
Justice.
three months pregnant with
The second was to be of his her say: "You're gonna get
For this was justlee-Live Osk, another when she killed him. “ best friend, a rich ann somed what's coming to you all right." styk, And Live Oak Urs deep He found ou that clean La Vergne Blue, When Blute was From this they inferred that Doc in the nastiest part of the livin' Dọc Adams had not only ́slated to be killed don't known. Adams had asked her for pay- moral swaing that is America's his own wife, plus Ruby, but But in Doc Adams'e home they ment of a buil.
Doop South
Nently The part where another girl friend as well. A found a forged will. When the police car sirened izzors" are yarmin,
white woman, when he much signed by Doc Adanus is a bad up to Ruby McCollum's rom- Ruby McCollum was, ・ of preferred to Ruby,
facsimile of his frienda writing, fortable bungalow, she was course, part of that crawin, EMBARRASSMENT only one beneficiary.
The doc. He found out that when Doc To unearth all this · journalist
at shoutled
Ruby: Hulo risked his life, But ho
Sentenced, Ituby McCollum appealed. While the appeal was pending, a new man entered they
case.
walling, meddy, to be arrested no-good vermin. She was All she would say was: "I don't "nigger."" know whether I did right OF Doc Adarns was white. No Adama not,"
whiter men had over lived. No "I'm goddam tired of you," he never got one inch closer to his The State of Florida had no better man had ever lived, really meant. it. So much co original objective, the Interview much doubts. To then, Ruby Anybody In Live Oak could tell that Rubby had good reason to with Ruby McCollum McCollum was an ornery, mua! you that
believe he lustonded to kill her.
Today he could But today derin' woman. She had shot the
Already he had turned her that would be worth nothing. fincat, kindest, goodliest doctor
into a dopo addict. Already he or she fo,mod. She never was that Live Oak ever had.
had nearly killed her with males completely sane, and now she la He was their doo-not only, a
pivo injections of "medicine." incurably Lane. good.doctor, basta fast-rising
the white! political power, Already a Stale Donator, he WAN eyeing the governorship, Folk in Live Oak cald he might love made R- "Jen the varmint hadn'ia kit And look what she did it tear, bil Florida howled. For notikt --just to got out of paying her menaly Bill. As if Don Adema
INFURIATED Dc Adam know that Ruby Bacle, in Live, Delhi, in eco
He was William Hute the him if ever honan for governor, juice at the mention of this author of this book. A journalist, Ho must get rid of her. Just muferin nigger. Those who ho camo to Live Oait för" one before he was killed himself, he said büanky", was too good for
Fazlinato simple,
TERBÓN-to had found the why to do it. her, now bestrudiro her the bed interylow Rudy McCollum.
The way? 410-gaugo pistol she occides in a Slatontat But dedto the fact he came he had recently ondored. A platol house, ?! from nearby Alabama, he was unlike others in that it fired Or Dog Adlane, they still have considered im "outsider'!.. abot-gun iko charge of and, nothing but good to say, “K "furrinor," "Live Oak dkin's like round shot. Bbct that leaves **London Express, Bervice),
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