The Picture Show Annual (1953)

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1 Cditli Uepeavv- Ingrid Bergman stayed with her friend Ann Todd when she visited London—here they are in the garden of Ann Todd's Kensington home. Yolande Donlan and Dirk Bogarde rehearse their dialogue for a scene in the Technicolor comedy, “ Penny Princess ,” while director Val Guest follows from his copy of the script. This is the tea hour and trolleys are rolled on to the set. Robert Taylor, handsome and stalwart as Ivanhoe, welcomes the break, and George Sanders as Brian de Bois Guilbert, sinister, fascinating, in love with fair Rebecca, slides into a chair on which is painted his name in bold black lettering, and enjoys a chat with golden-haired, white-clad, glamorous Joan Fontaine as Rowena. A famous visitor has arrived. He makes his way smiling towards a pansy-eyed star of great beauty, her small sweet features framed in dark hair burnished like satin. " Is this just a friendly visit ? ” demanded those interested in the affairs of human hearts. The visitor was gay, debonair Michael Wilding, and the other star, exquisite Elizabeth Taylor. Wist- fully she told me she was lonely on this visit to England ! But maybe this was an over-statement. In any case it must have been a brief and transitory experience. Romance was close at hand for both—a romance that ended in wedding bells. Artistic and a brilliant painter, Michael Wilding told me once that his first ambition, until our studios claimed him, was to be a painter. Painting is still his greatest amusement between picture making. Frank Launder, writer and film director, seeks his subjects for a picture among the human events of life. He enjoys a touch of satire and one feels this punch in all his pictures. It provides a pleasing tang to sweet- ness, and a deeper touch to comedy. Over the ever popular mug of tea, he is seen in our picture having a friendly discussion with Stanley Hollov'ay, who was ” on call,” playing the father of the beauty queen in Lady Godiva Rides Again. Nigel Patrick and Ann Todd, as husband and wife, alight from their Anson aircraft to spend their honeymoon with her father, an aircraft manu- facturer—a scene from “The Sound Barrier .” l^OEL COWARD has added to his evergreen laurels by scoring a triumph in intimate cabaret, singing his own inimitable songs. He still retains his modesty and friendliness, no matter how high he climbs in the world of the theatre, cabaret or films. Noel Coward, as we all know, has a great flair for satirical humour. His unexpected meeting with two famous stars provided a Veronica Hursi entertains two of her guests at Kenley airfield. They are fighter pilots who fought throughout the Battle of Britain in 1940 and attended a party given by the pro- ducers and cast of “ Angels One Five ” while on location at this famous fighter station.