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HEDY LAMARR
bellboy
ROBERT WALKER
JUNE ALLYSON
Her Highness and the Bellboy
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PASSAGE TO MARSEILLE
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CLAUDE RAINS MICHELE MORGAN PHILIP DORN SYDNEY GREENSTREET HELMUT DANTINE PETER LORRE GEO, TOBIAS A HALA WALLIS PRODUCTION DIRECTED BY MICHAEL CURTIZ
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(by constag of C.5.E,).
YOUTH HELM
the
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BY
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PAUL VULPIUS
Produced to DONALD RUOD
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1947.
ANN TODD SHOCKS STAID HOLLYWOOD
as told to ERNEST BETTS
HE first thing you notice in Hollywood-in fact, from the moment you reach America is that you're tremendously important, far more important than in England.
In England you're one of Mr Rank's Young Ladies. Over there you're Miss Todd, the new British star, and you're made to feel as if you're the only star, the only person who matters, a queen arriving to meet her subjects. Everything you say, do, cat, enormous premieres in Hollywood shocked that any star could 103 think, drink or wenr. is of and was interviewed in front of the such a thing, tremendous importance. To be did you get that marvellous crmine a silk evening dress made from the microphone, I was asked: "Where Underneath Loretta's coat I word natural, not to live up to the coat? Did you buy it in England parachute my husband used on D convention, is to give people a or in America?"
Day. Sometimes, I wore clothes I fearful shock.
I said: "I didn't buy it at all. I had used in "The Seventh Vell," borrowed it from Loretta Young, and at the next premiere I borrow- It's sad, but we haven't the dollars. rd a fur coat again-from Irene those to buy furs here." They weru
For Instance; take my fur coat. When I went to one of
INGRID BERGMAN in a tense scene with Claude Rains and Leopoldine Konstantin in Alfred Hitchcock's espionage film, "Notorious," which will be shown at the Queen's Theatre next week.
Movie-hungry Shanghai Has to Wait And Wait
S
HANGHAI'S movie-hungry public will have to wait a long time for new American films unless the Chinese Government lifts its present import quota on films.
Pictures originally selected for Shanghai by film represen- tatives in the United States are being trans-shipped to such ter ritories as Hongkong and Macao, where there is no entry- block such as is encountered in Shanghai.
Distributors say the quota is un- fair because "we were just feeling things out when they släpped it on
115.
They charge that the Import quota -imposed by the Chinese Govern- ment since the end of the war-s "gumming things up" and driving them against the wall.
there
One distributor estimates are only enough pletures to last a few months.
The Importation of films was un- controlled-before-the-war.
restrictions
There were also no Immediately after the war.
But shortly after the first batch of postwar films arrived an import quota was set up based on a percen- tage of the shipments,
urc
Shanghai film distributors now taking steps to ask for a more generous allotment of Alms or the removal of the import quota alto- gether
Shanghal, meanwhile, has grown more critical of American films and is no longer willing to see "any thing that comes from Hollywood." Second-rate and even third-rute pictures brought in handsome profits in the days following the end of the war, but are shown to almost empty houses now.
in as a mere trickle, they
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These things just don't happen in Hollywood. I felt 1 was the first actress to daro to admit I'd worn the same thing twice.
The truth is, there wasn't a single thing among the clothes I took with me that was younger than Deven years old. When I came back
I wore a dress that had been given me by Paramount. Mind you, I'm not a business woman, but as an article of export I thought I ought to have been wrapped up better!
In Hollywood everything is bust- ness and everything is surprising. When I got to New York I was met by Mr Selznick, When I got to Hollywood he gave a party--a terrific party at his house in Bever ly Hills, the one Garbo used to live In. Clark Gable, Roz Russell, Eddle Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, scores of stars were there.
The party started before Iuncli and
it went on till three 'clock the next morning. My husband played tranls with Donald Budge while I was ordered, to play ping-
Jones.
pong with Jennifer
1 alt ball into the swimming pool and said: "Can't we move the table away a bit?" But of coursu not! Instead, they sent a litle boy into the pool to pick up the whenever I hit it there!
Service, you see. A gesture
boll
to
the queen, And, of course. It's love-
ly.
BUSINESS FIRST
At the same time you realise it's business. Never think they love you, because they don't. But, you get to love them. There's some- thing irresistible in the Clorious fuss they make of you, and I've made some wonderful friends there, Yet four days after that enormous party in Hollywood, when I had just started on the picture, I was sus- pended because of the strike,
At once I was forgotten, ignored, by Mr Selznick, "Oh, you shouldn't be suspended?" everyone snid, Yet it wasn't my fault. And I wasn't being paid either, file the other stars, who had their banking accounts and could get dollars. was just not working, and there 18 nothing more awful than Ilın! in Hallywood.
sf
To pay my way I did a number of broadcasts with Ray Atlland, Cary Grant and Herbert Marshall, receiving £600 a line instend the £25 i would have got from the B.B.C.. And, there again, every- thing Is wonderfully organised. efficient and important.
FANTASTIC PRICES
Living is terribly expensive. and the 10-a-day idea just makes you a sponger.on-your-friends-See- what it costs. I was allowed £50 a week by the studio, but the three- bedroomed house I lived in with a hausekeeper and a very old Ford car, cost
dollars
Screen Lover's (526) When I took a. chauffeur.
Marriage Plan
month
driven car to a premiere It waited. for me and took me home-for £151
While you are whirled and flat- Paul (the great screen tover) tered from one party to another you Henreid has a formula for sucwerks, that no one dines out while realise. how furiously everyone cess in marriage which might working on a film, and that you're well be championed by the centre of great brains, great America's over-burdened divorce attraction, great wit, and the most courts.
beautiful legs you've Ever seen, Hollywood is a tonic of sunshine The Henreld marriage procevas and people. on a basis of seven-year trial But you realise even more
'ut
teast
own.
that
they
Although British flims are coming periods, with no revolutionary ad- you must co-operate. If you don't hove Justments allowable until the ex-surrender your whole Rfe, including proved immensely popular with thepiration of
Not long ago, your husband, children, home and Shanghai public-Reuter.
some. when the Henreids adopted the first private thoughts to the job, of their two daughters, Monica. Will say: "Miss Todd, you're not now aged 3, it was in celebration of being co-operative,"
This is the part of Hollywood life their first seven years.
"Now," says Paul, we've got to diallike. In England your private get along for
another life is
your In America you can love the job BeVen,"
but you can hate what goes with it. Advocates of the Henreld plan The attitude of some of the publicity point out that each of its trial boys is the sort of thing that can perlods is longer than most modern start a war, and, to a visiting star marriages. Also, that the systern strange to it all, it can be very provides sufficient time, at least, for frightening. They're inclined to the people to get used to one start all sorts of rumours about you,
saying you're not co-operative.
OLIVIER'S
"HAMLET” ·
Laurence Olivier's film of has Shakespeare's "Hamlet" gone into production at Denham Studios in England. Laurence Olivier will star, produce and direct.
Casting for some of the other leading paris is as follows: Basil Sydney as the King;. Norman Woo- land, as Horatio; Michael Godfrey as Marcellus; Peter Cushing as Caric: Felix Aylmer as Polonius: Terence Morgan as Laertes; Esmond Knight as Bernardo; John Laurio as Francisco, and Harcourt Williams as the Player King.
Britlah starlet Jean Simunons has been chosen to all the coveted role of Ophelia, the most discussed film part of the year.
Under contract to the Rank or ganisation, Jean was strongly re commended for the role of Ophelia, and, although other pletures been
en arranged for her, there been
rearrangement of
had
has the
schedule of productions which allows
to play Important part
thi
her
"The production, and treatment of "Hamlet" will be imaginative and abstract. Laurence Olivier thinka the subject is better sülted to black and white film than colour.
"I see it as an engraving, rather
than a painting,” he says.
another.
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