20th Century-Fox Dynamo (February 1960)

JENNIFER JONES JOAN COLLINS NOBU M'CARTHY ROLES TAILORED TO THEIR TALENTS Wide Variety Of Themes In Their 1960 Assignments The lovely actresses pictured on this page will find little time for leisure this year, for they, singly or together, are scheduled to portray principal roles in picturizations of well-known stage plays and novels. Under consideration for parts in “Stage Door”, for instance, are Joan Collins who continues to reveal precious and glamorous histrionic talent in “Seven Thieves”; Juliet Prowse who makes her American film debut as the dancing-singing sister of Shirley MacLaine in “Can Can”; Jayne Mansfield, back from triumphant personal appearances abroad, May Britt, Nobu McCarthy (the beautful, young Japanese actress who makes her bow in “Wake Me When It’s Over”) and Millie Perkins. “Stage Door” will be produced by Jack Cummings and directed by Jose Quintero. It is the story of a group of girls living in a Times Square theatrical boarding house, but enduring precarious existences waiting for a “break” for Broadway fame. The accent is on a particularly dedicated and beautiful aspirant who, about to attain her objective, after heart-breaking frustrations, settles for marriage to a promising assistant motion picture director who jeopardized his own career to advance hers. Another play, “Good-Bye, Charlie”, currently on Broadway, also is sched- uled for filming this year. It will be produced and directed by George Cukor who is currently completing “Let’s Make Love”, the Marilyn Monroe-Yves Montand vehicle. “Good-Bye, Charlie ' tells the fantastic story of a handsome man notorious for his profession of making passionate love to a married woman, but is eventually killed by a jealous husband. He is returned to the world as a beautiful woman, sets out to trick unsuspecting admirers and falls in love with a man who was his best friend. Jennifer Jones is scheduled to co-star in David O. Selznick’s “Tender Is The Night”, based on a novel by F. Scott Fitzerald. This property has been in preparation for almost two years. It is the story of a rich, but unstable wife of a psychiatrist who stakes his brilliant career in an uncompromising pursuit of personal wealth and acceptance by society. Deborah Kerr is the foremost contender for the feminine lead in the Leslie Stevens-Stanley Colbert production of the current Broadway success, “The Marriage-Go-Round”. She is sought for the role being played on Broad- way by Claudette Colbert, that of a wife whose years of happiness with her husband is jeopardized when a voluptuous young woman frankly concedes she is determined to have him father her child. In the play Charles Boyer acts the husband. Julie Newmar, who co-stars in the current motion pictures, “Rookie” and “Li’l Abner”, is the flirtatious guest who deliberately sets out to break up the marriage. Three other comparative newcomers have been assigned principal parts in productions. They are Margo Moore, who makes her debut in “Wake Me When It’s Over”, Ina Balin in “From The Terrace”, and Mary Ure who has a co-starring role in “Sons And Lovers”. Before 1960 is very old, however, at least a half dozen other new personalities, who for the past several years have been in training in the studio Talent School, will also make their debut in screenplays now in preparation. ■ ■ ■ ■ \ m m 1960 DEBORAH KERR JULIET PROWSE 11