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Well bred, well heeled, 18... latest in line

of Olivier's leading ladies

WHICH MAKES

A CHANGE FROM SLUM-TO-STARDOM

BRIGADE

SIR LAURENCE

OLIVIER'S

new leading lady in the film "Term of Trial" is Sarah Miles, an 18-year-old unknown with long unset hair, sage-green sweater, and boy-sized. jeans.

And script-page by script- page her part is much bigger than that of Oscar-winning French actress Simone Signorel, the co-star.

We met on Miss Mites's first day in front of a film camera. though from her assurance, her tremendous technical range, and uncanny emotional depth she bebaved like a veteran,

"Of course, ever since drama really wanted school the part

to play was 'Lolita," she said, lighting the latest In chain of menthol cigarettes. "But I didn't even get

as far as an audition.

"I see 'Lolita' as thin and straight and freckly, don't you, What d shock to see photos of that cute little blonde who finally got the part! Still, I suppose that's what they mean about 'she Hollywood concept.''

Miss Miles, let me stress, is not bitchy-just forthright.

Honesty

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・・・ ・ ・ ・ anyway, there I was at this dressing-table you see, trying on all these wigs under terribly bright lights and the only, other person in the room was Olivier.

Giggle

"It was so embarrassing be-

SARAH MILES ... AT 18. AN UNCANNY EMOTIONAL DEPTH

("I met a boy in advertising Britain today reached Miss Laine wife, mother, three years ago and we've been out for the wider world and Jazz-singer → shook her in love ever since"), and the whole world winking at her slender, unsuspecting feet, WAS IT premonition or one

mere drove

STON

recently by opening in handsome dark head in confu cabaret at the Savoy Hotel You know, I can understand ....a slightly stuffier (in Lena Horns when she said she sense) atmosphere only worked because she need- coincidence that than her natural jazz club ed, the money to pay for her kids schooling. I've got to BRON- habitat.

work, too-but if I didn't have turn commercial at sometime 0......!”. if you're going to get over the QUOTE

from DAVID hurdle to real fame," she NIVEN, en route for Spain shrugged.

SAMUEL to throw his film

Cause we'd never been intro- "King of Kings" to the duced and he just kept staring public at the Coliseum? et me.

So in the end I couldn't help giggling, and be said. You're playing the girl in "Term of Trial" aren't you?'

'I said; Yes, but what are you doing here?" and he said he had to get a wig wo, so he'd look younger, and I said: 'Ohi but you don't need one, and then, thank heavens, someone came in with tea.'

Miss Miles's face contracted with laughter, and I found myself liking her more and

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Her background, though un- A girl used to money, she has extraordinary, is a change from none of the conventional "dis- the contemporary pattern of covery's" awe of champagne Salford slum to - sudden - and minks; her apparent don't- stardom. She's well bred, well care sophistication stems from educated, and well heeled-even a rich blend of natural honesty though, as her prerogative, and inevitable naivety; and she tends to play all three down though she smells of talent, I to the current key of equality, believe her when she says in "B" Bat she'd as soon spend her life training horses

A graduate of RADA-she

as monkeying won a scholarship but it was around as a Olm star.

rescinded because her father "Well naturally, I'm both was found to be wealthy-her terribly

excited and a bit tur- first job took her straight into rified

at the thought of acting the West End playing a beatnik with Olivier and Signoret," she deb in "Dazzling Prospect" with went on with a slight sniff at Margaret Rutherford under the the cliche,

direction of Sir John Gleigud,

That was 12st summer. The show closed unexpectedly soon,

Sarah

"Ever since I knew F'd got the job I've been dashing round

and

to all the Classic Cinemas and after a couple of brier catching up on all the old Larry stabs Bt other parts films.

blazed her way down to Sussex "No, he wasn't there when I for three months' cut read for the part-in fact I thrust with the Worthing Rep. met him for the first time when Sha was still there in the I bumped into him the other midst of "The Moon is Blue" day at the wig-makers....I'm when called to read for the supposed to be blonde in the Olivier film.

Alm, you see, but I absolutely Lucky young Miss Miles with refuse to dye my hair because I her own flat ("my parents know it'll fall out so a wig's trust me because they think I'm the only answer.

sexless"), her solid romance

Cleo finds it tough

"Well,

seems you've got to

"So for my working-life has to make "Act of Mercy" just been a series of odds and with LESLIE CARON: ends. Then, suddenly having a "Thank God for the new hit record put me on the map generation of hell-raisers But I'm terrified of regular

the Finneys, the O'Tooles work-I'm such an inconsistent performer, always governed by and the like-because the moods.

industry needs them. There "If I feel al ease I can ad are hardly any colourful “ALEO LAINE — who for band relax with the music, characters-like Bogart

but if T my brass is one of the back on the song and never get

tense I just lean left." two best jazz-singers in adventurous with it.

at the top

CLEO

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