Hollywood Today captures star travels and showbiz chatter
Joan Collins and Anthony Newley may drive across America with their child if the doctor approves. Vivien Leigh returns to work as Mata Hari in London. Brigitte Bardot debuts on screen while Roger Vadim praises her. Darryl Zanuck nets 5 million from The Longest Day after initial rejection. Jackie Chan’s first baby with David Laire. Pola Negri to star in The Moon Spinners, Elizabeth Taylor and Sophia Loren tours noted. Vaughn Meader’s Blue Angel set interrupted by a Goldwater supporter. Marlene Dietrich flaunts denim, boots and travel style in Europe. Elaine Stritch stories hint at late hours and tempers. Delmonico's Delmonico's underwater-inspired club debuts. Anna Magnani to co star with Anita Ekberg in The Merry Wives of Windsor filming. Dan Dailey sheds pounds in Spain for Bertil Unger project.
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America
New York
Los Angeles
Tony
London
Vivien Leigh
Mata Hari
Wolf Mankowitz
Brigitte Bardot
Roger Vadim
B. B
20Th Century-Fox
Darryl Zanuck
Jackie Chan
Tony Armtrong-Jones
David Laire
Columbus previews under the Yum Yum Tree film
Columbia Pictures plans color sneak previews of Under the Yum Yum Tree in 40 markets before Thanksgiving. The program targets opinion-makers including civic officials, university admins, editors, and commentators to drum up youth support and gather reaction for promotion.
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Frederick Brison
David Swift
Columbia Pictures
Robert §. Ferguson
Areviews
Walter Winchell dishes on Hollywood and politics in gossip flood
A dense string of celebrity sketches and rumors from the era covers Ava Gardner dropping a scene in Mexico, Mays wedding plans, Curtis Kaufman merger scrambles, Sarasota to Miami disputes, fires and fatalities, political shifts in Vietnam, Broadway and film feuds, and Wall Street tales. Names, places, and dates jumble through a rapid-fire gossip column.
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Ava Gardner
Fotog
Mexico
Willie Mays
Tony Curtis
Christine Kaufman
Palm Springs
Calif
Joan Davis
Beverly
Vegas
Miami
The Victors World Premiere Tour in New York
The American premiere of Carl Foreman's The Victors debuts December 19 at the Criterion and Sutton Theatres in New York. Cast includes Vincent Edwards Albert Finney George Hamilton Melina Mercouri Jeanne Moreau George Peppard Maurice Ronet Rosanna Schiaffino Romy Schneider Elle Sommer Eli Wallach Michael Callan with co stars Peter Fonda James Mitchum Senta Berger Joel Flateau. Foreman directed produced and wrote the screenplay with location filming from Sweden to Salerno Italy and music by Sol Kaplan. Royal world premieres follow in London Stockholm and Copenhagen.
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Carl Foreman
Criterion
Sutton Theatres
Vincent Edwards
Albert Finney
George Hamilton
Melina Mercouri
Jeanne Moreau
George Peppard
Maurice Ronet
Rosanna Schiaffino
Romy Schneider
Elle Sommer
Eli Wallach
Michael Callan
Peter Fonda
James Mitchum
Senta Berger
Joel Flateau
Columbua Pictures
The
Victors
Sweden
Salerno
Italy
Alexander Baron
Foreman
Sol Kaplan
London
Stockholm
Copenhagen
Success Is a Gorilla Suit for Actor George Barrows
Hollywood veteran George Barrows makes a living as a gorilla actor since 1946. He works about 200 gorilla appearances, commands 1000 dollars a week when hired, and endures a 60 pound suit with limited head wear for safety and comfort. He studies real apes and uses a plaster face cast to craft the creature.
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Joseph Finnigan
Hollywood
UPI
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Cary
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Barrows
Dana Kaye
CBS
San Diego Zoo
MGM Eyes Liz Taylor Richard Burton in Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Hollywood reports say MGM plans a Liz Taylor and Richard Burton pairing to star in a new adaptation of Lady Chatterley’s Lover after the success of The VIPs. The studio hopes to capitalize on their romance image as Stanley Kramer promotes Hollywood as a global entertainment capital.
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Boris Karloff in The Terror at the Bremont Theatre
The Terror features Boris Karloff as Baron von Leppe in a moodful horror tale directed by Roger Corman. The film stars Jack Nicholson and Sandra Knight with Dorothy Neumann, Jonathan Haze, and Richard Miller in a lavish, color Vistascope production an American International release with Filmgroup Inc.
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Richard Miller
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