Paramount World (May 1958 - July 1962)

39 PARAMOUNT world THE TALK IS GETTING AROUND ABOUT "BREATH OF SCANDAL" GQovt “>m PHIL M. DALY It had been planned to have the South African campaign on "The Ten Commandments" appear on this page. Although due imminently, the campaign had not reached us at press tins, so will be featured next month Tales from Old Vienna VIENNA e # e HERE IN VIENNA, where old Franz Josef's Empi.e glorified the woltz, the traveller with an eye for things cinematic might wonder why they haven't named a couple of the streets Hollywood and Vine, what with the American film technicians and movie correspondents that have been milling about. . . . Sheilah Graham, Henri Gris (UPI) Joe Hyams, Peer Oppenheimer, Frank Farrell, Sy Borgin (Newsweek), Ruth Waterbury, Bert Reisfeld, to name some of the fouth estaters, have been wont to meet .of late at the corner of Kartner Strasse and Opernplatz to discuss the latest movie happenings at Rosenhugl (the studio) or Hofburg, the ancient I Royal Palace where Paramount is shooting "A Breath of Scandal. ) Y T ▼ • • • HOLLYWOOD'S MICHAEL CURTIZ, who had his beginnings as a film craftsman at Rosenhugl Studios, and who now is directing "A Breath of Scandal," starring Sophia Loren, Maurice Chevalier, Angela Lansbury and John Gavin, says that Vienna is ideal for film-making from the technical, esthetic, directorial and color standpoints. . . . Yet the desire here for information about Hollywood's technical advances is a burning one. . . . Filmfachleule, which is the German term for film technicians, wandered across the Hungarian border into Austria (with government permission, of course) to watch Curtiz direct a scene between Miss Loren and Chevalier. ... At th^ finish the Hungarians, craving information about the latest Hollywood techniques and equipment, pounced on Curtiz., . . . Much of the equipment had been flown in for this picture based on cf Ferenc Molnar stage favorite. . . . What amazed the Hungarians most was a crab dolly (a Mole-Richardson item) and a battery-powered light | stanchion. . . . What flabbergasted the American members of the ’"Scandal" crew, on the other hand, was a hardwood, hand-hewn dolly track which proved as durable and as easy on sound pick-up equipment as Hollywood's aluminum tracks. TTY • • • HOLLYWOOD'S CAPACITY TO INFLUENCE is being demon strated also in the sphere of fashions in conjunction with the making here of Paramount's Carlo Ponti-Marcello Girosi production. . . . The 1910 hour-glass, peacock feather styles in the film about a beautiful princess who has a romantic interlude with an American are making their inevitable impression on the Viennese couturiers. . . . Some of the finer shops on Karnter Strasse, the Fifth Avenue of this old world city, are beginning to show some reversions to the 1905-1910 period. . . . (Paramount's promotion men in New York must be drooling over the exploitation possibilities the picture's styles will offer them!) . . . Miss Loren's apparel in "A Breath of Scandal" was conceived by George Hoyningen-Huene and executed by celebrated modiste Madame Ella Bey, 82 years old and wardrobe mistress for the duchesses, princesses and countesses of Franz Josef's time. ▼ Y Y • • • SETTINGS FOR THIS ROMANTIC film include Hofberg, the Emperor's official residence; Pallavacini Palace, left to the people of Austria by an illustrious Italian count; Belvedere Palace, the home of Eugene, the prince who in 1643 drove the Turks back from Vienna; Prein, the playground of Austrian nobility; Schloss Kreutzenstein, the hunting castle of the Hapsburgs where the ill-fated Arch-Duke kept trysts with Maria their suicide at Mayerling, and Schonbrunn, Franz Josef's ice. ... An eyeful, indeed, for American movie-goers. Film Dally of New York rates "Breath of Scandal" so highly that it gave its full Along the Rfalto column to the picture. VIENNA Sophia Loren as the Princess in "Breath of Scandal," is flanked by Mr. and Mrs. Ladislav Koch. Our Israel Manager was in Vienna on vacation, and paid a visit to the set of the picture. Maurice Chevalier, Isabel Jeans and Angela Lansbury in a scene from "Breath of Scandal." Sophia Loren, Maurice Chevalier and director Michael Curtiz check a technical detail in advance of shooting a scene for "Breath of Scandal."