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It'n

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In a Lonely Place stara Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame in a Blm based on a novel of suspense by Dorothy B. Hughes. Bogart is

Saya Vera. Ellen : "What I need at this noment in my career is to act, dance and king--in that order."

DAVID

THE £180 LEAP

HOLLYWOOD'S Vera-Elien makes a four-second-long teup in her first British in "Happy Go Lorety." Four seconds or speed. beauty, and grace that cost £180. lyhy £1807 The "take" lasted 30 stands in a four four and a half minule musical Rehenraat etme. Four hours Shooting time. Two and a half hours. Work out the

proportion of Vera- Ellen's £1,000-a-werk salary, and add in the cost of colour fiim, contumes. and wages for the 30 men needed to put the leap on the screen The bill for the whole Aim: £300,000.

LEWIN'S nunter

Spotlight

-today on Vera-Ellen

When Vera-Ellen

said:

an- cently Vera-Ellen started with Geno Kelly and Vera- pounced she was coming to work on the fourth dance Eilen. n screen writer who was the London to mako a muoient number in a

After new British

Cv sty showing the last person to see n murder Hollywood

director addressed his crew! "You're musical, "Happy Go Love "All you have to do is top that." victim alive,

crazy: They just don't ly." And Miss Ellen wasn't But Vera-Ellen Wan saying: make that kind of pleturo worrying what Hollywood "What I need at this moment in in Britain."

was going to say about it.

my career is to act, dance and ding-in that order." Hollywood had the right For days everyone working in idea-but the wrong tense, the scene had been walching We didn't make that kind Private showings of the greatest

dance number

filmed of picture until now. Re- "Slaughter ou Tenth Avenue,”

The is intended to give Bogart a chance to show of his dramatic talent. He plays a man with on ungovernable temper who blows up into spasms of violent rage. Sweet little Gloria teaches him to control himself. All's well that ends well

Ever

ATOM BOMBS HAD HIM WORRIED

-UNTIL HE

HIS WIFE

HE FOUND

HAD LIED

By Leonard Mosley

to

To

REACTION

Story, First She puts acting first. Why? Because in her view and it is au increasingly popular view- in musicals today it is the story that counts. To be able to tell

act.

a story you taust know how to

It was the story of "Happy Go Lovely" that sold Vera-Ellen on the idea of coming to Britain.

AL stone

She brought with her a top museal director Bruce Itum- herstone, wao made the Danby Kaye film "Wonder Man."

Elstree Humber. started hooling excite- rather than with a collection of rower to "Slaughter on Tenth

Avenue." people.

It was a 72-minule i nee scene, around aslage reconstruction of I'iccadilly-

etrus.

And that about sums up our own attitude to life, doesn't it? We worry over wars, we quarret

For 12 days Vera-Ellen and over politics, we rage against her three mile dancing partners taxes, restrictions, bureaucracies und Governments,

bad been renearsing,

For the

Bat this is nothing more than next eight days they will shoot, Cerebral fever. The fear in the Just Coffee nind doesn't hurt like the pain

- She talled ubi the hepit-le purely lunch. But she ate nothing. it's happening-to-me never does wiren dancing.

in

When I was a boy and I mixing adventure and used to

meat with its terrors, have to linfun

In a post or way, the potenbul Hectures on life from

J03 vietine Hem even to be enjoy father there was only one og it--enjoying it because it is part 1 remembered. Ile happening them, not as Jalways ended with The inuividual; but as a cúramuntis. with no une having a better same words:-

elance of rvival that anyora "Whatever else happens, ehe. never let yourself become a |clpher There is nothing more Important in life than remaining a real person.".

Dragged back from the and Your wife has left

You could, in fact say of every

unw hart past and held against the you for another man," why then painted he pretends to be: "He 7.20 & 9.30 background of 1950, those you would have seen a funda- worried about atom bombs,

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words are as valuable and mental reaction which no tom ut wait until he to foundi uut

bomb cam ever create. Fear, that his wife has led" diamonds as permanent as

anger, sorrow strong enough to

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in their wisdom. At this moment every man or woman in this still solidly democratic

is country facing the question: Am a unit of people or'um still a person?

Still, I pu runter 3 to you that if among that throng of fleeing rgonal, refugees, you had gone up to pain one of the people in the queue

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Which Is the reason, I think.

why the cosmic horrors and the mes slaughters threatened by

I "Seven Days to Noon" excite you but never touch your heart once, Whereas & dr. ma k

ના sad, sad, sad of your being.

it to happens that the other

day in Londen two films were "The shown which put into perspec- to the

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live tag Alms so often do) the For here is the personal behaviour of human beings in

tragedy that really strikes home.

A rich girl, with a richer father

the face of those dilemmas which test a person's reality. tries hard to find the affection

A British leam has made a for which che craves, the terrifying

Seven love-inarriage film called

the

which would Days to Noon" which would round out her lonely life. seem, on

the face of it, to probe But

has no looks, no and bring into the light all the

Her father nasty fears and terrors of the States, no cunning.

steretly dropines her, because fan't as lovely or as nc- complied as his deed wife, who

jed in bearing her.

ordinary citizen.

on

A selcntist working top-sceret alam projects for the Government suddenly feels that

One day a young man comes he is labouring with evil forces. Into her

orbit and woos her. puts one of the new. She is at first fascinated, and devastatingly effective bombs then overwhelmed with love. Into his gladstone bag disappears into the heart London-and posts a Jeller to the Premier.

HIS THREAT

of

She joyfully accepts his proposal of morringe.

When the tells her father of what is occurred, he is at arst sceptical, and then contemp-

In this he says that if Britain tuous. does not ease work on the Ile cannot

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belleve

that his

atom bomb within seven days daughter would attract such a he will bring the enormous handsonie suitor

if he were

forecs of Ussion into contact, poor. So he arranges things D set a time fuse, and blow that the young man will belleve

London and ulazes.

Its population to that if the g'ri marries she will

lose her fortune.

The The

It is the sort of threat which And he is right, too. all of us-over bar counters, in young man goes away. the kitchen, across the work girl walls for the elopement deck, nd in the intimacy of carriage to come, and the night our bedrooms have been talk, pastes in mia; mble witing; wed ing about for menus, licte 1 in the cold light of dawn the the threat of the atom bomb realises that she has been let brought home la ah its close down. horror.

What does she do? Pine and And, in this tense, exciting hope for better luck next time? 0lm, all the juice of fear and No, she hates. impending catastrophe is ski-

extructed. ine Cabinet

stays awake at night worrying:

the Arny is

HATRED

man,

110 inutter

SHE CAN PICK & CHOOSE NOW

She hates the young man wh

her; -But she Actress Patricia Murhun ar- eaded out; the as deserted cople of London are evacuated hates her father more lintes rive, al Los Angeles Airport en

him for having

been right, for route to Hollywood, now clam

after a dozen

en masse Into the salty of the having to remortelessly proved ouring for her country.

that she is as dull, as ugly, ne unimportant movie rein la 10

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But,

somehow (and it tribute to the accurate percep-

**Scyen

Days to

campaign back in 1940.

untalented and ex ingenuous a years following a huge build-up she herself suspected.

"The Heiress" is a tragedy The

reason? Miss Morison tion of the story), none of the that drives a shaft through your

was one of the stars of "Kiss Londoners who are living under heart, while

Me, Kate", the Broadway, Musi- this threat of terrible death and Nook 1s

'eal bit bared on Shakespeare's meledrama which Taming of the Shrew." Holly: injury

seems fundamentally only intoxic tes the pulses. Both wood worried. They are afraid, of la their way, are excellent films of choice rolza.

has detured ker with course. Thoy panic in patches. But it is the personal drama Patriola Moricon Some, have hysterics,

was last whleh lingers in the memory. I seen in This threat of mass annihila- Like all

Hongkong playing great tragedies, it nerandary rate in a film starring iton has the effect, however, of deals with 2. human being Belita, the too carnival queen,

+

it over

Es in the morning, and a meal at night before she

to bed at nine (sharp).

At lunch, while David Niven Ind Cesar Romero, her two co- stars (who don't dance), handle the full three courses she works and drinks

her own co-black

American

By her side was a shell with the

dance steps timed fo econds. She was deciding her trcial expression for every step. "I have to, because steps by themselves aren't dancing," she says, "You could string gether a series of perfect steps, and cli audiences would not know what you were trying to

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Pick Of Girls

Just how diMcult is it to make musical in a British studio? Surprisingly direrio Humberstone answers, "Not

very."

The

are

essential elements story, music, dancing, colour.

When

comes to chorus dancers Humberstone says that things are even better than in Hollywood. "I bave the plek of, girls from a dozen West End musicala," he says.

"In Holly-

wood we have no stage shows,

so any girls we want we have import fram New York or train ourselves."

best m

Even though our ineer, Molra Shearer, would hardly try

a Vera-Ellen Dart. she has influenced film musienis. For the first time Vera-Ellen

try ballet In a leture, Until the success of "The Red Shoes." Am producers warned Vera-Ellen: "Ballet

is strictly leal. It could never Cimereint."

other

The producers have ideas now, So has Vera-Ellen. At one time

it was suggested the come to Britain to flm in "The Red Shoes," Sve didn't think it was worth while-and either dist from hoss n! that time, Sam Goldwyn, hays been kicking myself ever since," she said,

Postscript

There is a postscript to this Aritish mualeat story. It come From Hollywood the other day in new film "The Dughter of Hose Grady," And he picture 10- Froduce another lending male near 29-year-old Gene Nelson. Already he is getting the promo. put him alongside Kelly - Tree Artare, De hor the Teoks, perrorality, and ability, I should say, to make him a star. But in London we could And ma one to dinnen rah' through a film with Vera-Ellen.

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