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.