1947-02-08 — Page 2

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★KINGS

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Two great romantic stars in an unfor- gettable love story!

from James M. Cain's best-pollari

JOHN

M-G-M presents the thrilling picture made LANA

TURNER GARFIELD

The Postman Always Rings Twice

POSTIZA

ALLAY

SONAL

ADDED!

CECIL KELLAWAY - HUME CRONYN · LEON AMES AUDREY TOTTER ALAN REED

Directed by TAY GARNETT Produced by CAREY WILSON”

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FILMS & PLAYERS

You could

the

mistake

stars for

nursemaids

[OLLYWOOD is a difficult

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place to evaluate by any

ordinary standards.

Although

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HOLLYWOOD

LETTER by

MOLLY CASTLE

you could walk down the street in a ratlla skirt and no one would give you second glance, most people don't. In fact, there's hardly a day when you could not meet

wheels in which the islander way a pin-up girl, a glamone star- able to propet himself across to the like, say. Betty Grable or Hedy mainland where an adjacent petrol Lamarr or Lana Turner or station permitted hini to powder his Veronica Lake or Rosalind Rus-nose, scll--taking

Further, he wan to be paid at work to push her baby along 14s, 108, an hour for his time, night the smooth macadam sidewalks und day. of Beverly Hills.

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from day off

MINK-AND SLACKS The lesser, lights of Hollywood dreas for the calendar, the daytime thermometer being notoriously stuck at n' point somewhere above 70. These wear their mink coats from Celeber to Febritary, very often over slacks, just to keep them in prac- tice.

The star mothers, though, simple little outfits and you junt as crisily take them for makis, and some people do.

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This week the time arrived when the consequence had been met, and Dusly returned to the programme and demanded his back pay, which now amounted to £375 38. Bd.

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Thinking they were being very witty, they paid him off in pennies three bags full. They offered him a taxi to take it home., But Dusty bax a sense of humour, foo. When ask- rd for his address:

"Brooklyn," he said, settling him could self comfortably for the 3,000 mile nurse-drive. Be added. superfluously:

"Brooklyn, New York.”

AT THE TOP

Ginger Rogers likes. a rarefied

As they stroll along the well-kept paths, dippled with sunshine filter- ing through palm leaves, acacia or eucalyptus trees, edged with neatmosphere. When she Brat became and ever-flowering bushes of hibs

3, cleander, Santana, looking exactly the part of a young subur ban matron, it's difficult to tell which is the real girl, the young mother or the glamour star,

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As far as studios are concerned, they're satisfied with both roles, one for the screen, one for publicity. Because the fashion in publicity these days turns fon magazines, once brimiut of gay parties, into dull but homey

little booklets which might well be renamed Family Life or 7.15 & 9.15 p.m. Mother's Own.

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It's so funny, tto a scandal!

SÁCK EL. SKIRBALL DEVIATH:

CLAUDETTE COLBERT DON AMECHE

RICHARD FORAN:.

Sam Woods

GUEST WIFE

TO-MORROW: DOOD IT" Starring Red SKELTON

Eleanor POWELL

SUCH · IS FAME

This may be why a story which would have been. widely reported a few years ago escaped. attention, although the man who created the Flory Kol plenty. This established himself un

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traffic Island in the middle of a Hollywood street, lived there three weeks. His name was Dusty Rhodes, curiously appropriate in the circumstances.

It all came about through a radio programine. Radio, as national en- tertainment, is inextricably mixed

up with the movie industry because the talent is Interchangeable. The biggest names in radio-Bing Crosby, Jack Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, Benny, Fred Allen, Bergen-and- McCarthy are all movie stars; and For that reason most of the big pro- grammes come out of Hollywood.

CONSEQUENCE WAS....

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big star she bulll herself a big house right on the top of a big mountain.

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From this house on the top Beverly Crest she has the sort of view that makes you look nervously with a tall is making suggestions. over your shoulder in case anyone

Up there in the clear air Ginger can make decisions that enable her lo slay on top, When her decisions are such as will bring disapproval. on her red-gold head, she lets her mother take the rap. Thus I wan that the Press announced this week that Mrs Leila Rogers had turned down The Gibson Girl for her daughter Ginger after the studlo (RKO) had spent a fortune on the script.

Mollywood's star-mothers look like subvilan matrons when they're treking after baby: Betty Grabit angehtor

her

Glager, though devoted to mother, makes up her own mind. willing alibi. Her mother, however, is a perfectly

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Your heart will be wearing a smile!

BING sings Jonge ALL SENSATIONALI WORD singale je besnil náu thesta E

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BING.

INGRID

CROSBY BERGMAN

in LEO MCCANEY'S.

The Bells of St. Mary's

HENRY

TRAVERS

WILLIAM GARGAN

Produced and Direcund By Leo MeCany Screed Pay by Dudley Nichols » Story by Lee McCarey.

TO-MORROW

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There's a story nut of her child- sire for approval and determination hood which lustrates Ginger's de- to get it. She was living with her mother at Fort Worth one day when. she read a story about the life and loves of an infant prodigy. Though She was a little out of the infant 11 A.M. class by then, she was still in sockn she saw, that other baby take a bow, and hairbows. In her imagination so she started to play the piano.

In ree months Ginger learned seven little numbers. Then she got u revital.

and dewy-eyed as she glanced shy- She looked very young and fragile ly at the audience betwee

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umber, though she pounded out her repertoire with force and determi nation. Both the fragile force and the the sy glances would have drawn cheers and lears from a much less sympathetle audience than one com- posed of Mrs Rogers's friends and neighbours.

There was no doubt about her success. She took her curtain calls cumplacently, curtsying. But Ginger was born knowing when lo stop. Another time she might play seven more pieces and get more cheers. So what? she must have asked her- selt. So she's never played piano since.

AROUND BRITISH

STUDIOS

the

TEWART Granger, after finishing

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By A Special Film Correspondent UNEMA-GOERS throughout Britain cam vote in the

work on "Captain Boycott," National Film Award which left yearterday by air for Alsace, will decide the best British Grinning broadly, he informed

where he plans to shoot wild pigs. feature film and the most out- thing though he has no previous ex- standing actor and actress in perlance of this kind of "hamining," any British film-generally re-tree and go bang-bang.

he understands you simply climb B leased since September 1945. or

Half a million votes were re- IT corded in 1946, when Silver I

One of these is called Truth Consequences.

question-and- A

The answer programme.

person who doesn't know the answer pays the consequences.

In this case the consequence was three weeks on a desert island with

Star statuettes were

awarded

to James Mason and Margaret Lockwood and for the film "The Way to the Stars."

Three similar trophies are busy

offered in 1947. Polling is from February to February 28.

all found. The island selected wOS a traffic island at the very intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Là Bres, and "all" included a tent, a stove, food, and

gramophone with one record ("I wish I was in Dixie." There was also a boat on

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THE BELLS OF ST. MARY'S

Three winners of Academy awords for 1945 are associated in "The Bells of St Mary's," showing at the Al hambra. Producer-Director

Lea McCarey and Bing Crosby, who won their awards for "Going My Way," arb joined by Ingrid Bergman, who was similarly rewarded for starring role in "Gaslight."

her

In "The Bells of St Mary's" Crosby

portrays the same character, that of

Father O'Malley, that he played with

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being

DATRICIA ROC, who recently

finished

* leading part in "Jasny at Shepherd's Bush Studios, has and a nev experience. She

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SHOWING TO-DAY KING'S The Postman Always

Rings Twice. QUEEN'S-Week-end in Havana, ALHAMBRA—Bells of St Mary's

NEXT CHANCE

KING'S-The Harvey Girls, QUEEN'S—International Lady. ALHAMBRA-Texas.

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not seem strange that Keventeen-year-old Jean Simmons dashes back to her London suburban home every night, slips into an old pair of stacks and. a jumper, and helps to tidy up the house and look after her mother, who is sick.

Thousands of giris do it.

to

It only seems a little strange me because Jean-who was a hit fo "Caesar and Cleopatra" and a riot in "Great Expectations"

sis, in my to going

De Britain's greatest woman Alm star. And most um stars don't do it.

opinion.

Jean, unaffected, dark and lively, with long hair that she tosses pro- vocatively and eyes that donce and sparkle, is an Alice in Wonderland type.

Ten alms at the age of seventeen is. Jean's record. She made her name the hard way.

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THE first Margaret

Lockwood

knew about being chosen the most popular British film actress was when her mother read it in papers.

the

congratulated Margaret over lunch, and afterwards saw her re- hearse a scene for her first Techni- colour film "Jussy." She likes Technicolour for one

reason-she uses street make-up; therefore con

great success in "Going My Way, consented to play the part of her./get home more quickly..

As the newly appointed pastor St Mary's parochial

school,

his ideas self in the Gouisborough produc

of educating the young do not al- Uon "Holiday Camp" as the visiting ways

coincide with those of the nuns film ator on a personal appearance under Sister Benedict.

the Sister at a bathing beauty

Parade Superior, played by Miss Bergman, Fifty lovely girls specially chosen but a saving sense of humour

to on represent the typical British both sides unites them in their spiri- working girl on holiday, took part tual labours on behalf of humanity. In the parade, and after much deep These conflicts are handled with a consideration Patricia Roe smilingly delightfully delicate touch, and are awarded the prize to fim star Hazel, responsible for some of the picture's Court, who plays a leading part in most enjoyable and diverting "Holiday Camp."" sequences,

Miss

Lockwood's working day would not suit me. She rises at six, is at the studio from seven, Bots home at eight.

DEX Horrison and Lil Palmer' I will return to England in June from Hollywood.

A FEW weeks Dgo, lovely Carla

Lehmann was driving her car from her London flat to Denhum

When the school's very existence AN Australian who has succeeded Studios, to work on the film "Fame is threatened by a wealthy and in establisting himself in Eng-In The Spur," starring Michael cynical land-grabber, Father O'land Is John McCallum, who boa Redgrave and Rosamund John, As

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directed in all kis humani warmth by Leo McCarey whe porn you "Going My Way" -

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Malley and his nuns gang up him, completed two funs so for The she drove through the thick fox and UNDER THE DIRECTION OF BAND MASTER D. D. WHITE A.R.C.M.

on les-covered roads che skidded and

crashed inlo * lamp-post, sinashing the car but miraculously escoping-injury,

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with Google Withers and Jean Kent. Crosby sings four well-loved num. Now he is to bo teamed for

♪ Ten days later at the same ilme bers, Aderte Fideles," "The Bells of second time with Google Withers. and place, and in similar weather, St Mary's," "In the Land of Begin- Michael Balcon has cast him for the Carla was being driven to Denham. ning Apuls," and "Sanctlarime," and role of the escaped convict in "It This time her fired ear skidded and

now number, "Aren't You Glad Always Rains on Sunday,”.

crashed into a lorry. Again the You're You? Miss Bergmon

stor

Corla plons to make a detour in

the third time is always, lucky.

sings

for the first time in her screen care Hall, New York's temple

RTHUR RANK may buy Carnegle

a short Swedish folksong, while the

of

velicia was wrecked but the

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