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WINNER OF FIVE "OSCARS"

OLIVIA do HAVILLAND

for the best performance by an actress JOHN MEEHAN and HARRY HORNER for the best art direction (Black & White) EMILE KURI

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When a Woman Loves a Man- Sne Doesn't Want

The Truth About

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Olivia de Havilland Montgomery Clift Ralph Richardson

WILLIAM WYLER'S "The Heiress

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Olivia an Catherine Sloper

SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 19507

SEAT IN THE STALLS

[LEONARD MOSLEY REPORTS ON-

Two out

(JAMES MASON and DAVID NIVEN)

and two

(STEWART GRANGER and RICHARD TODD)

to play.

It won't be long now before the first Hollywood films made by British stars Stewart Granger and Richard Todd will be reaching the screen in the old country. I

SHE'S IN HER wish I could say I was all agog.

MENTAL UNDERWEAR

Instead, I await the Americanisation of our two top male players with the same apprehension that fond mother must feel whose sons have spent their Arst term at Narkover College.

What with life in the rough, tough, raw, and ruthless classrooms of lollywood have done to them?

Frankly, I'm frightened. In Richard Todd Wo have, as his performance In "A. woman

"The Hasty Heart" without lip-

actors for stick is in her mental under-ved, one of the most promising star

In Stewart Granger we may not have 0 wear." said Olivin de fowering edifice of talent, but handsome, engaging. Havilland. "She looks like and virile personalities like his ore few, n frightened little girl in- We can I afford to lose them. stend of a

We can even less alford to have mature person, their qualities ruined by Holly- and her naked face seems wood. to reveal all her inner thoughts. Yes, a woman

Why I'm Scared should use paint. It's her The record of two other coat of armour, her protec- British minte stars who have tlon in facing the world."

THE 'HOLLYWOOD' MASON

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his condent control himself on the screen seems have gone. He paces up and down like a puma with a pain. He has become addicted 10 needless Restures with the hands.

The quiet Mr Niven, in re- cent lins, has been transform- ed. The face that always used to keep so calm now writhes and contorts all over the screen. humorous eyes have

He has adopted a brogue that changed into orbs that stare at sometimes sounds like an Irish- you like over-ripe gooseberries. man with nose plugs; and much

As

James Mason-his of the time he speaks, he sawa Hollywood odyssey is a pretty the air as if he were an orches-

tral conductor, wortul story, too,

for

to neck opportunity Hollywood is quite enough to make me fear for the repula So thought Miss de Havillandtions of Todd and Granger. about her role as Catherine Look what the Americans have Sloper. the heroine of the made out of David Niven and Henry James novel, "Washing James Blason.

In the hands of directors like lon Square." Paramount's nim

There was once a time when Carol Reed (who starred him in version of this, the week-end air Niven was a charming, other Man Out") he really attraction at the King's Theatre,tractive, and popular ornament seemed able to act. is called "The fleiress."

of the screen. He had a talent for quiet, under-emphasised wit and smooth aminbility.

But have you seen him since

PLAIN GIRL

Miss Sloper, who lived in the 1030s, was quite a plain girl. Paramount's make-up men pictured her as a healthy girl with a well-scrubbed lock, not attractive but definitely lacking alture. On this principle, they went to work on Olivia,

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tire

The final result led to her observation on women without Tipstick. Rat though Ass de Havilland hns very ably reacted the heroine {"Snake Pit," in which she was good-looking but under mental felservation, it was not that roje which WOI her A second Academy Award. It was ns the rather plain Catherine Sloper that she scored.

As she predicted quite correctly in n publicity relense long before the film had been completed, her naked face "revealed!

her inner.

thoughts." And the distributors of Oscars read in it all the dramatic expression worthy of the best actress,

Jt 1 hardly # glamorous Olivia de Havilland who ap pears on the screen as Catherine Sloper.

t

As Henry James told his readers, Catherine was disappointment even to her dis- tinguished father, who compared her with her beautiful mother und constantly Inde unkind Comparisons.

MORE DIFFICULTIES

To make matters more d'icult for Olivia, it was decided at the 1850 atmosphere should be property captured. The hair- tion that women wore in that prio.!

DTC inost unattrac tive to our tastes today and whenever Hollywood before had entered the era these had been mudined to give the girls A

chance.

In "The Heiress," all of Miss de lavilland's coiffures follow the same severe, hard, definite lines of the period. The principal

Olivia one

copied from an old photograph of her paternal great-grandmother, Martha de Saumarez de Bavil- Innd, whose uncle was Lord de Saumarez, an Admiral of the Royal Navy.

However, desplie all these attacks on the charms of one of Hollywood's most-photo- #raphed actresses, "The Heiress turns out a triumph for Olivia. There are in it such other stars

as Montgomery Clift, playing a ray, young and penniless blade, and Sir Ralph Richardson as the father, but it is definitely Ollvin de Havilland's picture.

PRETTY GOOD FOR GRANDMA!

Can you wonder 1 am worried about Stewart Granger and Richard Todd?

P.S.-Ah well, maybe there's hope for David Niven, after all, Mason He has come back to England

to make pictures here again..

(London Express Service}

I have seen four American films lately with James Starring,

and finally

RICHARD TODD TAKES

A TOWELLING

Richard Todd

THERE ARE LAUGHS YET

The suggestion has been made recently that screen comedies have deteriorated since the days of the silents. Since Chaplin and Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd ind Harry Langdon, it is argued, the makers of screen comedies have lost their touch.

The answer to that one is that the Hollywood moguls no longer consider comedes worth their big money advertising campaigns and we do not hear as

much about them unless by chance someone else has been along to see one and comes back saying that he really had a good laugh. Two excellent comedies last week were **You Golia Siny Happy" and "The Lady

nellher Takes

@ Salior," which packed the houses in

Another good one is the week-

of

Word from London has it that Marlene Dietrich, who rumbles" attraction at the Roxy and a song or two during the course Broadway Theatres, "I Was a Male War Bride" with Cary of her stellar role with Jane Grant and Ann Sheridan. Wyman, Richard ("The Hasty

Todd Heart")

Michael and Wilding in Warner Bros. "Stage Fright," turned out to be "Just too, too distracting" for the rusicians who were supposed to accompany her!

This one deals with a moro far-fetched subject-the dimcul- t'es experienced by a WAC who also decided to marry on ser- vice and bring her war bride- groom home through the mil- lions of yards of red tape that go with such matrimonial prob-

Cary Grant is a captain in War bridegroom and WAC the the French Economic Commis-

Upshot was that she, and her clinging gowns by Parisian lems. Christian Dior, had to do their recording in a separate and be co-ordinated with "disturbed". musfe makers remote controll

Toom.

by son who with Miss Sheridan is groom

And la Dietrich, after all, is a grandmotherl

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What happens when the most-boosted British star of the moment meets up, for the first time, with picture- players of classic interna- tional calibre?

Alm

The

Richard Todd faced this in- portant challenge to his future recently, when his latest was shown to the critics. pinyers with whom he was com- peting were Marlene Dietrich and Jane Wyman, no less-plus our own Dame Syb! Thorndike and Alastair Sim.

In

OUT. ACTED

You will be seeing the result Hitchcock's new thriller,

"Stage Fright" (Warner). And it isn't very heartening.

In the hundred-odd minutes which this film lasts, Mr Todd has over half an hour to show his pace, und prove that his prize-winning performance in "The Hasty Heart" was not just a cigarette glow in a tunnel.

The result is dim.

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every scene with Wyman Dietrich he is outclassed and out-acled. As a young hero on the ru

run from a murder-charge, he gives out little tension and When his less personality. really big moment comes t the end--and he must project mienace in a Jurge way-he looked to ne more like a bank clerk with hay-fever twitches.

Now this is harsh erilleism. But if Richard Todd is to fula} the promise of his early Alms, he must learn that one prize doesn't make a permanent re- putation and hard work, good parts, and a lat mom concentra- -talents tion on his undoubted

are needed if he is to keep a tighter grip on fame's slippery pinnacle.

LESSON FOR HITCHCOCK Indeed, there is a lesson for someone else besides Todd in "Stace Fright." A lesson for Alfred Hitchcock himself,

For he 100 (the greatest thriller-maker of them all) has his m snatched from under him by the more expert among his players.

The baste plot of the flim is murder in theatrical back- ground, with a blood-stained

poker, a body in a corner, and; a backstage chase among the Frops.

But whenever nuthentic Hitchcock excitement is coming up, a cynical look from Dietrich takes

the chill off the atmosphere or Alastair Sim, Dame Sybil Thorndike, and Miles Malleson pop on to the screen, to give their famous performances 03 theatrical eccentries. They change the Igåseness into laughter.

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Copies of photographs taken by the South China smooth, amiable performance as books in personally they can do Morning Post and Hong Kong "Stage Fright" is good for so at the following places:-- Telegraph Staff Photographera several chuckles. But thanks to 1. Despatch Office, Kowloon

determined Railway Station.

la detective.

home on a troopship those clever stars,"

a thrill whera 2. Kowloon Tong Club. put on the job of tracking down`arouses coas'derable complica- never to give

tions. The comedy situations they can get a smile Instead When they get married, the are at times piled on too thick, well, it just im Hitchcock. Job of taking the war brido but the laughs are all there,

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