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WHATEVER IT IS THAT FRENCH WOMEN HAVE...

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Madame Bovary has more

e of it!

M.8-M's

end great love story

JENNIFER JONES VAN HEFLIN LOUIS JOURDAN

Madame

Bovary

·JAMES MASON

@ortraying CUSTAVE PLAUDERT, THE AUTHOR

The world's

most exciting

love story!

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1950

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A startling study takes a film team far from Spring in Park Lane

Will the world public be won Last Tuesday, at the Michael Wilding in there popu- when cinemagoers wanted to

laugh and not think.

by tears where once they were Plaza Cinema in London, tar Mayfair films?

They did it so successfully won by laughter and gay tom-

the British

It is the biggest gamble of the that, practically by themselves, foolery

Wilcox-Neuglo saga. they saved Industry from bankruptcy,

Now

Wilcox (perhaps the Unem shrewdest ilm-maker of

Aim

the King and Queen at- Look at this photograph, tum tended the world premiere from the film well, and the of a new film-the first time first pleture from the aim to be published and you will have (Royal Command perfor- your answer. mances excepted) they have

The paint and powder have been to the pictures in been wiped from the Neagle has sensed the need for a of style, of subject, of change emotional appeal. Where he public since the opening of face. The hair is mated. The

eyes are frightened and hunted, woord your smiles before, he "Hamlet."

because they see brutish Nazi

is new out to stir your heart and lift your pride. torturers coming their way with methods of probing

new secrela.

Yes, it is a new Anna Neagle, the chocolate-box smile forgot. ten, the pretty simper

A new trend .

"Odette" In making

he 17 thrown ploncering a new trend in Bri

ush Alms and perhaps pro- priva-viding the answer to all those about citements, terrors, and

pictures herole successful.

in the tons of one of the most

sideshows of the Amerlea's achievements

The film, which they have asked specially to see, is Herbert Wilcox's "Odette." version of It is the screen Mire Odette Churchill's famed wartime adventures away-as she relives the ex- as a British agent in France and as

a prisoner of the Nazis in a German concen- tration camp,

and moving war.

war.

Wilcox, อร่ for For Herbert

Where they went for spectacle, for gallantry and endurawe Odelte is played in the film by Anna herself. "Odette" means a

big seaty, Wilcox lias Anna Neagle. Does that mean revolution. These were the two on the

to epitomise Britain's that this is a guy, umed) comedy people who gave Britain 1 chinen

In those him struggle through one person and in the spirit of Miss Neagle's entertainment.

moment one prison alone. lightsome Airtotions with with Wilding, ut

There's a lot of courage

to some Hollywood people

By MELROSE GOWER

she's the earcer.

toward

acting

girl licked mis- progress and now fortune,

healthy co-star of happy,

And who can ever forget and Granger

Joan Harold Russell,

handless the Goldwyn's veterun in "The Best Years of

Our Lives?"

to the canvas

of punches. Farley a rain from the resin

out his cocky op-

Many a pugilistic star, the plucky battered under

to Evans in Shmuel rises

"Our Very Own." knock

How many of you fans ponent.

know that Van Johnson has a hend? in. his plato And many a movie star, siver

Almost ten years believe it or not, fights off How come? pain, affliction and physical ago, after playing parts in the Johnson handicap to continue coura- "Dr Gillespie" series,

was awarded an important role geously in his or her career, with Spencer Tracy in "A Guy The hollywoods are filled Named Joe."

On the day of the assignment with them-Jane Greer, Ann

the young actor was the victim Blyth, Susan Peters, Ben

of a

a car crash that left him between life and Johnson, Lionel Barrymore, hovering

for Peter Law death

many months. Van Johnson,

heart car- ford, Walter Pidgeon, Hal But his courageous

him through the long riod Russell, to name a few at

Metro held

the ordeal;

up random.

production of "A Guy Named Joe"-and Van Johnson become

a star.

Jane Greer's face is her for tune; a mobile face, filed with expression. One morning, when she was a young girl with stage Jane and screen ambitions, awoke with the entire left side of her face paralysed.

WHEEL CHAIR RETURN

Susan Pelers and her hus- band Richard Quino were San Diego ono Doctors could do nothing for hunting near

day five years ago her, so Jane Creer did some- winter

She started when the accidental discharge thing for herself.

shotgun shattered

her making faces at her mirror, kept of

Three years later Susan

disturbing spine.

it up for one long, year, brought her facial muscles came back to star at Columbia under control, then became a in a wheel chair in "The Sign movie stor.

says

of the Ram."

They say

Susan will never walk

now, again-but right with a silli in her wheel chair, she's so hard on touring the East in the stage

LEFT-HANDED SNEER "Why," she twinkle, "I worked these facial muscles that today, version of "The when I want to, I can hand Wimpole Street." out the only left-handed sneer in Hollywood!""

What's a

Barretts of

wheel chair, more

or less, anyway? Ilonel Barry- victim of arthritis,

Ann Blyth was a youngster more, a

in

(London Express Serv(C#)

This is Emma

Bovary

It is a game with many on reading a novel to pick the actors who should play its characters on the screen. It is not improbable that many would have picked Jennifer for Emma Bovary Jones without a second thought.

THE SIREN day

Hollywood has finally re- discovered the lost continent of Atlanta. It had to for afaria Montes, who plays the siren. Two French, ofloers, Jean Piere Adment And Dennis O'Keefe, get lost in the North African desert and And Al- land They and Monten sid the first lost world in many moréen years "The Siren of 'the week-end Allantla a attraction _at_the King's

of 17 when she came to Holly has been touring sound stages

an Academy in one for the past ten years, wood, and won

Walter Pidgeon was trapped nomination Award

her for ant performance in "Mildred beźwden two rolling gun car-

World

Ho War I. Her career threatened riages to end right there. Vacationing spent 18 months in a hospital in the San Bernardino moun- He wasted three years

after his discharge valescing after tains, she was hurled from a

never quit fighting. speeding toboggan and suffered but he

Pétor Lawford's armo. a broken back.

She was bed-ridden in a chat almost cut off in his youth when for seven months, wore a steel he fell through a glass door. brace for another seven. But But he didn't let it stop his | Thosten.

con

WAS

More Interesting are the three men In Emma's life. In casting "Madame Bovary," which opens its run at the Queen's Theatre MGM picked on one American and two European stars.

Van Heflin plays Dr Charles Bovary. The French star, Louth Rodolphe Jourdan was picked Boulanger, the worldly aristocrat who casts aside the would-be worldly Emma when sho is desperate.

For the third lover, the weak law clerk, Leon Dupuis, the choice fell on Christopher Kent, whom Swedish movie fans used to know Alt Kjellin, the star of the Swedish films "Frenzy " with

Mai Zetterling, and "Appasionata" with Viveca Lind- fors.

Metro thought it over and de- elded that three male leads not were opposite Jennifer enough. They decided to throw Gustave Flaubert himself-the author-into the story. The ex- planation given is that James Mason wanted so much to play the role.

caso

So the story begins and ends

court with the famous against Flaubert which followed most at the the publication

the late sensallonal novel of 18503, then described even by the French as "immoral."

A Woman Screamed

RC-

A woman visilor screamed

Dennis when

Morgon cidentally sat down on a baby during the Aiming of "Pretty Baby" at Warner Bros.

But the "baby" was just a doll being used in the picture, which

comedy about the advertis ing bualnos

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