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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1948.

Stars accuse the

film bosses

THERE are signs that rest-

lessness Among British

film stars over "sausage- machine" production methods Is coming to a head. The drift from the studios to stage work le one significant portent.

The rather pompous nouncement by the Rank or- ganisation, suspending Mar- garet Lockwood's contract for declining a role, is unimportant in itself. They have already chosen a new film for her, "My Sister is Dend,"

But the incident is the first public manifestation of an unhealthy ten- dency in Big Business film methods

here.

Many stars and directors have complained to

the

of the burenu- cratic system.

Directors And they nre being "directed" from a high executive

JOAN DOWLING

Dond-street incident

дге

breaking

of our lm-makers away to work independently of the big group system. It is a natural artistle urge towards Freedom of the Screen.

FARR GETS TOUGH NATOLE DE GRUNWALD, Alm A writer and producer, who left the Rank fold to form his own com- pany, is to follow "Bond Street,"

level in a way that stullifies ingin now nearing completion at Welwyn, Hum and enthusiasm. Stars

are with an adaptation of the Puslikin complaining of type-casting and the classic, "Queen of Spades." compulsion, under long-term con- tracts, of acting to unsuitable roles. This is why an increasing number

LINDA'S A. "MASS OF BLISTERS"

Hollywood, — Inda Darnell complalus that earsels she has but to wear in historical Blis Includitur "Forever Amber" may deprive her of mother- hood.

She says her body is "such a mass of blisters and writs It will take six months' remedial exercise to make it normal."

Adis Linda; "Those corsets have reduced me 17 pounds.”

From London comes support

for Linda from 1wo of Eng- land's famous beauties-the Dowager Marchioness of Head- fort, formerly Rosie Boot the Gaiety Girl, and Mrs J. Evans, formerly Camille Clifford, the original Gibson Girl,

told

inda is not consoled when wasp-waisted Women of Victorian days had big familles, Althou

some Victorian

werden had 20 children both mathers #tid children often

dled young.

BOX-OFFICE

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FOR 1947

LONDON.-New York's Na-

By HAROLD CONWAY

Eighteen-year-old Jonn Dowling (she was the ektest evacuee in the play "No Room at the Inn") had to saunter along the street na un over- dressed matcher-up from a fashion house.

When the "rushes", were shown on the studio screen, there appeared the visage of a man, turning and gazing with interest at Joan. It Attert the scene so well that the shot is being kept In.

The unwitting nelor may be in for a shock at his local cinema.

NOISES OFF

intention of gate- I HAVE no

crashing the To Boo or Not To Boa debate. But recent demonstra- tions at Covent Garden enll for com- ment.

Is is

Friendly operatie rivalry healthy, But if this rivalry going to foster vocal factions among the followers of the theatres con- cerned, we can look for some dia- concerting developments.

that there might be more than op- Impartial observers have suspected

peared on the surface behind some Ethel Barrymore. pillar of the of the opera booing fately. Corres- American come over to London to play one of

stage and screen, muy pondence I have received lends

colour to this view, the principal parts.

We have plenty of room in Lon-

In "Bond Street" "--which contatos don for opera in English and Italian, four distinct stories, linked together There is no need for the partisans by a wedding-dress--Derek Forr gets to wage a minlature war. his first big acting chance. He will be seen in a tough character-role.

D

BOND-STREET TENT

EST story of this production con- cerns the scenes filmed in Bond street itself.

Director Gordon Parry and two caincramen set up a "telephone- repairers" tent on the kerb, They donned worlagen's overalls and, Ter two days, spatted in the enclosure with miniature cameras.

The actors misted guletly with the shoppers; no one bothered in gtance into th hole-in-the-road"

lent. The best that of all was un- planned.

POET'S PALACE TAINSBOROUGH'S idea of mak-i Inga Byron film, with Dennis Prier in the lead, is an interesting iterary genius do not always suc- one, though attempts to dramatise

ceed, as a recent Shelley-Byron play again instanced.

The Ahn will pleture some of the authentle Italian backgrounds, in- Venter Grand Canal, Mr Price and eluding the poet's old palace on the a neation until have recently been

there.

But I am sorry they are calling the picture "The Bad Lord Byron." This seems a cheap pandering to the wrong kind of box-office appeal.

Studio Highlights And Sidelights

CR Laurence Olivier's "Ham was maintained to dress jungle sets

let," which will be shown in "Tarzan and the Mermulds,” for the first time in April, cost

£500,000 to produce. Even with

Bailey (Dulcie

Gray to

lim-

all the efforts at retrenchment. MALAYAN-BORN Dulcie Savage- it still costs about £200,000 to goers) has found make most major British pie- or herself. With husband Michael an attractive job tures. An exception is "Shadow Dennison she will star in film called of Tomorrow" which deals

The Glass Alountain," which will ne with Britain's employment of Dolomiter. Michael will be a planist,

cessitate

location trip to the ex-Nazi concentration, camp Dutele a silly wife, as she is in the scientists

on research for

current "Mine Own Executioner." possible future war at £70,000.

a

4tiommi-Board-of-Review-of- USTRALIAN"Ani Richards, in The Bad Lord

York оп

OBJECTIONS of the present Loril -Byron-to Gainsborough's Alm Byron" appear to holiday from have been overcome. Hollywood, finds the city amazing old

The 86-year- descendant of nrrival, she of On her

found herself Byron, the poet, recently entertained

Lord George with Sylvia Shiney and John Hodiak Dennis Price, the

his Home Thrumpton Hall, actor with the

Motion Pictures

Colin A New names Johnson and Michael Resigrave the best actress and actor 1947.

sharing colossal Broadway billboards t

In 1910 the critics of 10 New posters plugging "Love From a York daily papers

Stranger." pieked Miss

Said Anr: " can scarcely find myself in that picture." She Johnson on that year's best actress

distinctly for her part. In "Brief Encounter."

remembers acting for The Board selected Miss Johnson "Love From a Stranger" was being months before the cameras, while for her part in "This Happy Breed," Redgrave for his part in "Mourning Becomes Electra."

It considered Chaplin's "Monsieur Verdoux" the best film in 1947,

The Board Included "Great Ex- pectations," "Odd Mun Out.". "The

Overlanders and two Italian pro- ductions in the year's 10 best pic- lures,

made.

NABU, for the American Gibraltar Productions. "Song of Indin."

title role in the fim.

Spencer's

The Man For

is alving to Ceylon for jungle back The Ladies

round seenes.

THE Corridor of Mirrors," Just The American film weekly, Show-in cinema history of two countries completed, writes a new chapter man's Trade Review: considers It is the arst British Alm to be James Mason the most popular actor made entirely in France since the in Britain with Anna Nengle and coming of sound. Made by an in- Margaret Lockwood sharing the lead dependent rompany. of actresses.

it stars Erie Portman. It has opened the dour to future co-operation be-

wen

Britain and France. More neitish films are likely to be made in Paris.

The Kinematograph Weekly says the best box-office film of 1947 In Britain was "The Courtneys of Cur- zon Street."

Runners-up were "Great Expecla- tions," "Old Man Out, "Frieda," "Holiday Camp". and Hollywood's "The Jolson Story" and The Sun."

By PATRICIA CLARY

emotionally? Clark Gable, Van John- WHO'S the man who most strong- ly influences today's woman, son, Frank Sinatra, her husband?

No, fellows, it's Spencer Tracy. Apollo Films, That's what the ladies said, when poll-takers from the Women's Re- search Guild of America them.

asked strong, dependable Icok about him They said Tracy had a that was very influencing.

Gable, Johnson and the rest of the screen's romantle figures in poor seconds.

COMPLETE greenery, valued at more than U.S.S100,000 contain-

"Duel in ing all kinds of tropical shrubbery

This journal says John Mills led James Mason and Margaret Lock wood as the most popular stor.

Gainsborough was the most suc- centul studio of the year 1947,

COMMOTION IN 7 LANGUAGES

Merle Oberon sneezed on the set of "Berlin Express" and caused a commotion in seven langkunges.

Chicago-born Robert Ryan said, "God bless you."

Charles Korvin gave the Hungarian word, "Eezzupere!"

Paul Lukas, who plays a German In the Bim, stayed in character with "Gesundheit."

Director Jacques

Tourneur. born in Paris, said, "A vos souhaits."

Polish-born Roman Toporow came. up with "Na zdrowie."

And Linguist Peter von Zerneck filled in with the Italian "Saluto" and the Rumanian "Noroc."

THEATRE Directory

QUEEN'S-Do You Love Me? (Maureen O'Hara, Dick Haymes)

(Margaret Lock-

KING'S Jassy

wood)

CENTRAL Cloak and Dagger

(Gary Cooper, Lilli Palmer)

came

In the cast was a romantle hero but Tracy.

past, it was

# foregone conclusion that any actor in the No matter how sympathetic Tracy's character, the other fellow got the girl. Gable did for years.

scenes

Avas

The strength of Gable's romantic measured in klases, Tracy's by slammed doors. He was the man who always walked out and said "goodbye."

Tracy Steps Out

But in "Casa Timberlane,"

M-C- M's movie of the Sinclair Lewis navel about a respectable Minnesola Judge, Tracy brings the dependable, Influential hero into his own. He not only marries Lana Turner but takes her

from Cameron Mitchell ps Zachary Scott, the wolf. the

door. He does it again Frank Capra picture,

"State the Union," in which he is mar rled to Katharine Hepburn, who ac- cording to the script in wildly in love with him, and attractive Angela Lansbury

LEE The Tears of Yangtse from

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ORIENTAL-8moky (Fred Mac-

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Lamour) ALHAMBRA-Cloak and Dagger STAR-Heils of St Mary (Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman) MAJESTIC-Courage of Lassle

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And

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of

ta

Tracy even holds his own, in Miss Lansbury's affections, ngainst Van Johnson,

"And that in some sailsfaction," Tracy said.

It's almost as satisfying, he sold, as being chosen, hands down, the No. 1 influence on American wo- men's emotions. -----

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