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SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1948.

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Darryl F.Zanuck

Forever Amber

你

TECHNICOLOR

starring

LINDA DARNELL - CORNEL WILDE RICHARD GREENE GEORGE SANDERS

Directed by-

Produced by

OTTO PREMINGER - WILLIAM PERLBERG- From the Meets by Kathlera Maser

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THE FABULOUS LIFE OF PEARL WHITE, THE FIRST QUEEN OF THE SCREEN!

THE

PERILS of PAULINE

Starting

BETTY HUTTON JOHN WUND

QUEEN'S

in

TECHNICOLOR

Foreign Names In British Films

BY H. H. WOLLENBERG

Sanders,

French actresses

Bron

in

Cary Grant, A singer from Italy. Is the star of LTHOUGH the London George

David Niven? Or A Two Citles adaptation of tho studios have always rolled Claude Rains,

comedy of the status of Italian musical

"Fuga a on the Inexhaustible re- Michele Morgan and Edwige Due Voc.". Je is Nino Martini and serves of British talent, wo Feuillere?

Nays opposite Patricia Roc in "One You", as the story has have occasionally found .

Morgan has just .com- Night Michele

retllied. foreign actor or actress within pleted the leading role opposite Sir The first arrival from Hollywood

Ralph Richardson in a new film by was Claude Rains, who was the cast of a British film,

We met, for example, the great Carol Reed, who, last year Britain once before to play Caesar

the world's best

"Caesar and Cleopatra". On American star, Pauletto Goddard, proclaimed as In Alexander Korda's "An Ideal director for his "Odd Man Out" this latest visit, only 12 hours after Husband"; the Swedish actress, It is "The Lost Illusion, a picture

Already at work at Pinewood Mal Zetterling, in the title role of made under Sir Alexander Korda's landing at London Airport, he was Studios on #ThePassionate "Friedo", or Simone Simon, the banner at hla Shepperton Studios. French actress, in "Temptation

Friends," the novel by the late 1.G. the Harbour" More recently Ealing Studios production. "Against

Wells. two other included the Wind." French actresson, Simone Sigporet and Glasle Preville.

REVERSE TRAFFIC

Recently Edwige Feuillere came to join Michele Morgan in Britain when the arrived to play the star Alm Cities In the Two part

Woman Haler," in which she is partnered by the popular star, Stewart Granger,

traffic Two artista of a different kind The time of the one-way to the United States, when almost who were in England in order to

(or for take part in a fim were the world every promising British

ballet dancer, Leonide that matter, European) Alm artist famous was called to Hollywood, appears Massine and the French ballerina, to belong to the past, considering Ludmilla Tcherina.

stara given important parts in the ballet of Hollywood the number who are working, or who are ex- film, 'Red Shoes!" pected in the near future, in Lon- don's studios.

They were

OTHER NAMES

from the United The next star States will bo George Sanders who, ns Cesare Borgia, will star opposite Trevor Howard, In the role of Machiavelll, in the alm version of Somerset' Maugham's novel, "Then

George Sanders and Now" be followed by Frederie March. will have an exceedingly due to begin work soon in Britain. Interesting part, that of Christopher Columbus, in Sydney Box's produc- tion of the same title, based on thei Mention must also be made of novel by Refael Sabatini.

At the Korda Stadlos at Shopper- Jean Pierre Aumont, who is starring

tion and at Isleworth a fow miles Who would have imagined, for in the Columbia British production

by from London they also expect an famous stage BLICCQ5S

David Niven, example, that the leading stars of of the

American Invasion. "The First Glasbury, one day film in Norman

known as a Holly- cqually well Hollywood would

directed by Caval- Berg Gentleman",

stor. a British Wood and England-stars like Ingrid

Anished work on "Bonnie Prince man, Orson Welles, Frederic March, canti.

Charlie." He has now returned to Hollywood, but his place in Britain will be taken shortly by Orson 10 siar in the Welles, who is famous stage play, "Cyrano do Bergerac".

Slr

DYNAMIT

DYNA

now.

Betty Hutton, recreates the exploits of Pearl White, the thrill queen of the screen of 20 years ago, In The Feria of Pauline," showing at the Queen's Theatre. The early days of movie-making of the early ple-throwers are hilariously reproduced, and some

are featured.

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A

Time For Keeps

ESTHER WILLIAMS

LAURITZ

JIMMY JOHNNIE

MELCHIOR-DURANTE-JOHNSTON XAVIER CUGAT and his Orchestra

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SPECIAL SUNDAY MORNING SHOW AT 12.30. RUSSIAN 'HISTORICAL PICTURE IN LAVISH SCALE!

“THE OATH":

WORLD PREMIERE

JEAN

OF "HAMLET”

Simmons did not

wear a new dress when the was presented to the King and Queen at the world premiere of Laurence Olivier's film pre- sentation of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" at the Odeon Theatre, Leicester Square, on May 6,

She had a new wardrobe for her recent world tour which took her to the Fiji Islands and decided to wear one of the dresses she took with her. It is of honey-coloured slipper satin in a full skirted in fanta style. With It she had a black lace mantilin.

DOUGLAS Fairbanks will attend

delegate to the Inter- national Convention of the Assocla- tion for the United Nations in Paris In September.

film. "The If his forthcoming O'Flynu," is completed in time, he hopes to visit England before the Convention opens.

of

Cinegulla's "Oliver

。

THEATRE Directory

KING'S Forever Amber (Linda Cornel Wildc. George Darnell. Sanders).

QUEEN'S-The Perits of Pauline (Belty Hutton, John Lund),

Affair Macomber LEE-The (Gregory Peck, Joan Bennett).

CENTRAL The Fighting Musketeers (Chinese Picture).

Time For ORIENTAL - This

Keeps (Esther Williams). CATHAY - Sinbad (Douglas Fairbanks Jnr., O'Hara).

ALHAMBRA - The

Pauline.

the

Also under contract to Alexander Korda is Cary Grant, who will take the leading role in Carol Reed's next film, a comedy entitled "The Devil's Delight,"

NO ORCHIDS

FROM THE

CRITICS

ONDON film erlies gave no or-. chids to "No Orchids for Miss Blandish." Instead, the latest pro- duct of British studio came in for an รา universal condemnation affront to public decency.

Renown Pictures made the im from

best-selling novel by the James Hadley Chase a story of an American heiress who is kidnapped and fought over by rival gangsters. Dr. Edith Sumerski, Parlin- mentary Secretary of the Ministry of Food, raised her voice in protest, 100. In a presidential address sho naked the Association of Married Women to join her.

"It is of paramount Importance that our sons are reared properly, and I deplore the effect some of the the films shown are having on family circle." sho said. "'No Orchids for Miss Blandish' will, in my opinion, pervert the minds-of the British people."

GOOD FOR BOX-OFFICE

In a rare front-page review, the London Evening Standard sald the picture was a disgrace to British Alms....a vielous display of sadism, brutality and suggestiveness.

More publicity men say the con- demnation should make the picture à box-office success.

Leigh Cowles, who produced ana directed the film, seemed undeterr- cd.

If a book sells million coples and the play runs a year in the West Sallur End, om I. wrong in thinking the Maureen public want to see a film made on

that subject?" he said.

Perils of

Aud Day MAJESTIC - Night (Cary Grant, Alexia Smith).

STAR-Down To Earth (Rita Hayworth. Larry Parks).

WAI YAN COLLEGE-The Un- fortunate Beauty: The

Spoiled Chinese Prlucess (2

operas In English).

EUROPEAN YMCA-Fex O' My Heart (Comedy presented by Y Younger Set).

"For 20 years America has been pictures. making tough gangster When we make the same type of film, If we don't make It tough they (the

call us critics) would When we do make them stupid.

is not nearly tough-which

gangster lough as the American Alms, they say the British should not descend to making that sort of American production."-Associated Fress.

mother Who Stars A Woman Or

A Period In

History?

(13

shote PENING

recently completed Twist" show Oliver's

Stuart) struggling (Josephine through a thunderstorm towards a parish workhouse, where her son is to be born: These scenes were pro- shot at Pinewood Studios, but

Ronald

discovered ducer

Neame

TOREVER Amber" as a novel is faithful to the novel, but loses in when he wanted to record the sound

F

not in the line of great bools, effect what the original achieved. track

that there were no really

of whose in "Manon Lescaut,"

It Becks 10 turn the story 18 thunder in any Rood records of

character local central

Amber most Amber and Bruce Carlton into a British studios. When

resembles in the gallery of women "super" love story, but in narrow- thunderstorm failed to materialise,

of fiction. It

попе has

of the ing the interest it has neglected to the problem

was solved by to spiritual intenseness of the Abbe prod below the surface of Amber's

call .telephono transatlantic

renel someting like Prevost's masterpiece, for Kathleen actions to Hollywood. Within a few hours, Winsor does not seriously attempt conviction. At the same time, it with recording of an American thunder to analyse Amber as a woman of is ever

impress trying to storm was on its way to London flesh and blood,

colour but utilises 'her

reducing and spectacle,

adventures Into and the noise is now incorporated merely as a peg on which to hang Amber and her into "Oliver Twist."

& brillant

Cssay on Restoration Insignificance. society.

This uncertainty

of Intention is way in which book Ja reflected in the

Linda Darnell handles hér part as She acte well, and seems the character, but gives the effect that she is never

1

Nevertheless, wife, distinguished /

the

0

ROGER LIVESEX has taken the unusual step of turning down a

by pervading Amber star flm role opposite his

ho felt enthusiasm on-the author's part, Its Ursula Jeans, because

frank denotation of the morals of to understand unsuited to the character.

They were to have been together the period (which has gained for

story or merely act as a prop or as on the screen, for the first time, the novel an undeserved notoriety) sure whether she is to dominate the to a vast and on Esther and its scholarship.

adornment in "Martha"--bassed

crowded painting. McCarken's stage, success,

of book on It is not the type Medals." After reading the script,

could bo Cornel Wilde is cold and unre- which brings the story forward to which a popular m

in the part of Lord the postwar period, Livesey altered founded without great sacrifice of sponsive

content and risk of confusion. The Carlton. But George Sanders gives his mind.

as the monarch Now Cecil Parker will partner result, now showing at the King's a perfect vignetto

to be Charles,——ACG. Theatro, tries very hard Urmula Jeons in the film.

"No

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MURDER

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Benedict Dogeant printer

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in her heart

GREGORY PECK JOAN BENNETT THE MACOMBER AFFAIR ROBERT PRESTON

11 Ernill Kenningarzyć MOST SAVADI LOVE STORY

stating

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REGINALD DEHNY - JEAN GILLIE'..

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