Modern Screen (Jan-Nov 1956)

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The imaginative producerdirector always opens his films in some striking, unusual fashion, and The Man Who Knew Too Much, co-starring James Stewart and Doris Day, is no exception. Hitchcock is using a full-scale symphony orchestra as the background for his main titles with the camera concentrating on the percussion section and the cymbal player. Over a huge closeup of the clashing cymbals will be the inscription "A simple cymbal clash and what it meant to an American family." While the audience won't realize it until much later in the story, the orchestra and cymbal play a key role in the taut suspense drama, which concerns an attempted political assassination during a concert in London's famed Royal Albert Hall. . . . Knowing his fetish for authenticity, a friend asked James Stewart if he did any research for his role of a doctor in this film. "Yeah," drawled Stewart, "I watched three Medic shows on television." . . . Alfred Hitchcock abhors violence in films. Recently, the famed producer-director was asked why he didn't subscribe to the hard-boiled school. Hitchcock replied: "The softer destruction of the human being appeals to me." Fifteen years ago two men named John Masters and William Travers were fighting alongside each other in a British Army unit in India and Burma. They became close friends. When World War II ended, Masters gave up soldiering for writing and became a best-seller novelist. Travers became an actor and soon won fame "on the British stage. When MGM purchased the story rights for Masters' Bhowani Junction and decided to film it with Ava Gardner and Stewart Granger, they needed someone to play the important role of Patric Taylor, the third side of the romantic triangle. Who was selected? William Travers! Masters and Travers hadn't seen each other since the war! Phil Harris, currently starring in the Warner release Goodbye, My Lady, has had four records that sold over a million copies. They were "That's What I Like About The South," "Poker Club," "The Thing," and "The Old Master Painter." We asked Phil which of the four was his favorite. As you'd expect, it's "That's What I Like About The South." "But," says Phil, "let me tell you a funny, funny bit. In Goodbye, My hfidy, I star with Walter Brennan and Brandon de Wilde. The canine star of the film is Lady, a basenji hound whose ancestry dates back to the days of the pharaohs. The basenji is different from all other breeds of dogs in that it never barks, but will on occasion laugh and cry, often shedding real tears. Well, one day I walked in and everyone said, "Shhh!" So I tiptoed over to the director, William Wellman, and whispered "What's up?" Wellman cast a weary glance at me and whispered back, "We're trying to get the dog to laugh." "How do you do that?" I asked. "Give her to Walter Brennan," said Wellman. "How can Walter make her laugh?" I wanted to know. "Well," said Wellman, "the basenji laughs only when it feels bad. Brennan doesn't know this, so he tells her what he thinks are funny jokes. The basenji laughs, so Walter tells her more. Wait! Pretty soon the dog will be laughing hysterically, and Walter will be beaming." Carol Ohmart, one of Hollywood's brightest firids, will have her film debut in Paramount's The Scarlet Hour. Carol has had quite a meteoric rise in the entertainment world. Carol is in her mid-twenties and is of Egyptian-Alsace-Lorraine and Irish blood. Her measurements are bust 36, waist 24, and hips 35. At the age of one Carol won a national baby contest as the most beautiful and healthiest infant in the land. She was Miss Utah in 1946 and placed fourth in the Miss America contest. Her stage debut came at the age of three when she appeared on the Orpheum Theatre's stage in Seattle dressed in tights, a tiny black derby, and holding a cane. It took many top television roles to get her into the Broadway production of Kismet where she was discovered by Hollywood. Carol, in all seriousness, tells us that an argument always develops during a discussion of whether girls should keep their eyes opened or closed when kissing. (Continued on page 95)