The Picture Show Annual (1950)

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Hazel Brooks Eleanor Summerfield and Bryan Forbes playing ~ Patience " between scenes Rossano Brazzi Michael Medwin Bobby Henrey MICHAEL MEDWIN had done only a little film work when he was acclaimed by the critics as a " discovery " because of his role of a spiv in Night Beat. His later film s include Look Before You Love. The Queen of Spades. Trottie True. Even while at school his goal was the stage, and on leaving he trained under Italia Conti for two years. His stage experience included playing in " While the Rainbow Ends ’’ and " Peter Pan ’’ on the London stage, and two years with the Newcastle Repertory Company. BOBBY HENREY is the little boy who created such a sensation with his role of Felipe ia The Fallen Idol. He was bom in France on June 26th, 1939, but he spent most of the war years in the heart of London, and his mother wrote a book about his life. It was a photograph of him in this book that led to his screen debut. Bobby has spun-gold hair and blue eyes. His hobby is making pap>er boats. ELEANOR SUMMERFIELD, who made her screen debut in Take My Life, which was followed by London Belongs to Me and All over the Town, was bom in Bloomsbury, London, on March 7th, 1921. She won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. During the war she worked with E.N.S.A. in France, and later at the War Office. She has appeared in revues and a number of stage plays. Among'the things she likes are listening to music, lotting, dancing, and playing the piano. BRYAN FORBES, also in AU Over the Town, and also the wiimer of a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, has had repertory and London stage experience. He bad particularly good notices from the critics when he appeared in " Gathering Storm." Other stage successes were " The Guinea Pig " and" The Com is Green.” His first screen role was in The Small Back Room. He is a brilliant pianist. HAZEL BROOKS was bom in South Africa but she went to school in New York. Later she studied philosophy at Fordham and earned her living by working as a model. Eventually she went to Hollywood, where she married Cedric Gibbons, the screen art director, and later entered films, her sultry b^uty gracing such pictures as Arch of Triumph. Body and Soul and Sleep, My Cme. ROSSANO BRAZZI, whose first Hollywood film was Little Women, in which he was cast as Profes- Bhaer, studied law career, but taking up dramatics as a hobby made him change his mind. He appeared on stage and screen in his native Italy. sor for