Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982), Wednesday 12 December 1951, page 34
Overseas movie gossip!
From London and Hollywood
LAURENCE OLIVIER and Vivien Leigh are soon to sail for New York to recapture Broadway with Vivien's
two Cleopatras-in Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra'' and Shaw's "Caesar and Cleopatra." The two plays were the highlight of the London season. The Oliviers have no accommodation problem. They are staying in Gertrude Lawrence's flat. Stage actor Dan Cunningham is to go with them in the cast, leaving Sydney girl Mary Rose Cunningham a "stage widow" for four months.
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AUSTRALIA'S Rex Rienits
has just notched up his third film surress. Anglo-Amalgamated are making his "Wide Boy" into a film. What is it all about? landon's
shadiest, most renowned post-war character-the spiv.
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SURREALIST artist Salva-
dor Dali, whose curly
waxed moustache tickles his
eyelashes, and whose paintings of weeping watches, melting telephones, and elephants on
stilts have made him a fortune out of calculated madness, re-cently turned up in London with his equally eccentric wife Gala. They have made a film
in Spain about a girl who falls in love with a wheelbarrow.
Opening an exhibition of his works in London. 47-year-old Dali said that his painting style has changed from sur-
realistic eccentricity to what he calls realistic mysticism-a serious form of religious sym-
bolism.
BRITAIN'S film - directing
twins john and Roy Bonking are returning home from Hollywood with a big star in the bag-Van Johnson. Freckled, easy-going Van, who runs the gauntlet of Eng-lish bobby-soxers in the stately
Savoy Hotel every time he comes here sightseeing, will
star in "Crest of the Wave" The film is an Anelo-American
story of the armed services, but details of it are a secret. Van
Johnson's English leading lady? That's a secret too.
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GLAMOROUS Parisienne
Denise Darcel drawa Ab-bott and Costello for co-stars
in "Sour Dough.'' In this film she plays an Alaskan
dance-hall entertainer.
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TO an already buleing roster
of musicals, Metro has added yet another. It is titled "'One For the Road, and, all going well, June Allyson will
play the star role. She will portray a travelling saleslady
who sells men's safety razors.