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Bergman on love -and honesty

In the mirror-Bergman considers Bergman.

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ly the same way making the same inistakes.

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'I'D MAKE THE SAME MISTAKES

"Why not?" she asks. "Mistakes enrich one and make life worth while."

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1961.

Roderick Mann

I can't understand how I ever got

started,

says Miss Caron

SAT in a London restaurant the other day looking at Leslie Caron's face. And I must admit-it really is very odd. The face of a wan ton waif who has gone to night-school. Very odd index. - foxcinating.

I was not, I should point out, rudely staring at her across a crowded room. On the contrary,

I was lunching with her and my close inspection

of her features was at her invitation.

"Look at me," she said, and

I did, and it was no hardship.

"I cannot understand how I ever got started in Aims at all. Do you realise how unfash- lonable my face was ut the time?

"Not at all French-although I was supposed to be typically French. The typical French face has thin lips, a rounded Bourbon noac, and eyes slant- ing slightly downwards.

All wrong

"Now look at mine. Thick lps, turned-up nose, eyes wrong.

"You ean understand why-s

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agree, but when I played. Gigi I was over 25 and a mother, and the part was immensely atrenuous and very hard part," work."

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(a reputed **** adored him In Before we finished our lunch

LESLIE CARÓN: "They sold i looked like a wet est,”-

pany with his great friend, Miss Jullette Greco, now re-

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and Miss Caron couldn't visualise Fanny with I asked at this point out оп accent, nad. by ari

Then Josh veals the reasons for the whether she had enjoyed Gigi American company. -for I recalled being fold Logon signed Chevalier and move. that her co-star, Louis Jour- Boyer, and Horst Bucholz, and

When he told Miss Greco, dan, had hated it.

in the end I agreed. Though I "Well," sald Miss Caron, confess I accepted the part most- who had starred in all his recent when I took my first screen "Louls is a very strange person ly for the money

pictures, that he would be tied test in Paris-the producer

up for a year on his new epic of said: "My God, ahe looks like He hates being liked, you know, £70,000)."

the D Day landings The Longest a wel cat, I can't stand her" and everyone

Wet cat or no, since that Gigi. When people come up and I asked Miss Caron if he had she inquired: "What about Lime Miss Caron gone say how much they liked him ever thought of tackling Shake-e?" He told her there was no part in the him for her. "Then," in it he is appalled and rushes speare-tince, by marriage, her he says, "the look on her from strength to strength They also, she believes, help-

face pletures, and is now

are fairly told me all I wanted to know." ed her become a better actress,

in the way. o! carning and judging from her ne per- curious position

"Personally I enjoyed

Which "Goodbye Again" vastly greater sums of money very much.

is strange, "My English is not good en- formance in

Mr Zanuck, however, has than her husband, Peter for I do not usually like iny ough for it-yet," she said, "Not appusite Tony Perkins and Yves Montand, many erities think she Hall, who is director of the

Aims. If I like ten seconds out so much my accent as my dic- found a new companion, a red- haired French model called Stratford Memorial Theatre is right.

at a mere £4,000 a year.

However, "For the last two years I have

it seems that been turning down every film Olms like Gig have given us arole offered me," she went on. a completely distorted picture

of the real Miss Caron. "Then Analule Litvak sent me

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WITH her unequalled "Earth Mother" quality, Ingrid Bergman was bound to enjoy pretty demanding emo- tional life.

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The fact that at times became a near-tragic maze is vindicated today sinee her courageous stand List shocked and scornful world has Anally won through to social and professional reacceptance, She is now happy with third husband Lass Schmidt,

Now 44, Bergman affirms that if she had her life to live over again she would live it in expet-

The

im script of Sagan's "Almez-vous Brahins?" and 1 agreed to do it because Paula, In the story, is both my ugg and temperament and I understood

with the her problems

two men.'

bus

Hard work

On screen she appears to be a bubbling, delightful creature, wall- infinitely adorable and

she is a rather Ingrkl Berginan believes that like. In fact, honey is one of the most Im-sertour and terrifyingly com portant lessons to learn in life,pelent young woman. Something she tries hard to "It Infuriates me," said Miss instil into the three children of Caron, "that poople should as

sume a role like Gigi was cosy her marriage to Ruberto Rossel-

for me. I look very young, I lint-London Express Service.

ties with the Bard

Gigi strong.

of any picture of mine I consi- tion.

der it not bad at all. The truth "But the door is not completo. is I tend to feel ashamed when ly closed. It's I see my nims.”

Irina Demich. And, to show the measure of his friendship, he has given her the female lead

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His folly Btinguished director, is

●ILLY WILDER, the dis-

making a new comedy in Germany called "One Too, Three."