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James Mason
James Mason, who starred in such classic suspense films as “Odd Man Out,” “North By Northwest” and “The Man Between,” returns to this genre in John le Carre’s “The Deadly Affair,” romantic spy thriller at therein Theatre in Technicolor, Also starred in the Columbia Pictures’ release, produced and directed by Sidney Lumet, are Maximilian Schell, Harriet Andersson, Harry Andrews and Simone Signoret as Elsa. “The Deadly Affair” is based on a novel by le Carre, best-selling author of “The Spy Who Came In From the Cold.”
Mason’s' characterization in “The Deadly Affair,’ marks a new approach to spy heroes. He is the very antithesis of the James Bond type of super-spy. He is as much concerned with his job as he is with the domestic problem of a younger wife who is unfaithful to him, and admits it. Mason’s superiors in British Intelligence have no interest in his theory that a dead diplomat has been murdered and not, as seems on the surface, a suicide. Mason, consequently, loses all patience and resigns from the service. But he is human enough to want to prove himself right and he independently continues his investigation.
Paul Dehn wrote the screenplay of “The Deadly Affair” and Quincy Jones the music.
Oscar Winners
Two Academy Award winners, Maximilian Schell and Simone Signoret are included in the stellar cast of John le Carre’s “The Deadly Affair,” the Columbia Pictures’ release in Technicolor at they eee Theatre.
Schell was awarded his Oscar for his portrayal of the defense attorney for Nazi war criminals in Stanley Kramer’s “Judgement at Nuremberg,” and Miss Signoret captured hers for her compelling performance as a married woman involved in a tragic love affair in “Room at the Top.”
Sidney Lumet produced and directed the spy thriller based on a novel by the best-selling author of “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.” Starred with Schell and Miss Signoret are James Mason, Harriet Andersson and Harry Andrews.
Mat IC; Still No. 106 Harriet Andersson, Swedish actress making her American screen bow in John le Carre's "The Deadly Affair," plays the wife of a secret agent whose concern over her restless romancing is as intense as his worries over his job. Also starred in the Columbia Pictures release in Technicolor, are James Mason, Maximilian Schell, Harry Andrews and Simone Signoret.
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Mat IE; Still No. 96 Simone Signoret as Elsa is one of the stars of John le Carre's ''The Deadly Affair," new Columbia Pictures spy thriller in which she plays the widow of a Foreign Office official believed to have been murdered. Also starred in the film, which Sidney Lumet produced and directed in Technicolor, are James Mason, Maximilian Schell, Harriet Andersson and Harry Andrews.
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James Mason stars as a secret agent in John le Carre's "The Deadly Affair," new Columbia Pictures release also starring Maximilian Schell, Harriet Andersson, Harry Andrews and Simone Signoret as Elsa. In color by Technicolor, ''The Deadly Affair’ is based on a novel by le Carre, author of "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold."
Play Within Movie
The ultra-modern in drama, as well as the drama of some 400 years ago, are breathlessly counterpointed in a major sequence of John le Carre’s “The Deadly Affair,” now at the ...... Theatre in Technicolor. This happens in the Columbia Pictures release when spies make contact with each other, while seated in the audience at a Royal Shakespeare Company performance of Christopher Marlowe’s play, “Edward the Second.”
There are several minutes of the Elizabethan play intercut with dramatic events in the thea
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Maximilian Schell is one of the stars in the new Columbia Pictures release in Technicolor, "The Deadly Affair." Produced and directed by Sidney Lumet, the new film is based on a novel by John Le Carre, author of "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold."' Also starred in ''The Deadly Affair'' are James Mason, Harriet Andersson, Harry Andrews and Simone Signoret.
tre itself.
“The Deadly Affair,” produced and directed by Sidney Lumet, stars James Mason, Maximilian Schell, Harriet Andersson, Harry Andrews and Simone Signoret as Elsa, The Royal Shakespeare Company is one of Britain’s most distinguished acting groups.
Peter Hall, managing director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, staged three segments of the play, for the film, at London’s Lyric Tammersmith Theatre. The Hammersmith interiors represent company’s usual London theatre, Aldwych, where exteriors were shot.
Portions of the three scenes in “Edward the Second,” that were used in the film are indicated in the best-selling novel by le Carre, who also wrote “The Spy Who Came In From the Cold.”
The Royal Shakespeare Company gives an annual Shakespeare season at Stratford-onAvon from April to December as well as a continuous repertory of new and classic plays at the Aldwych Theatre in London. This expansion to London and the undertaking of non-Shakespearean plays was pioneered by Hall, the company’s managing director. The Royal Shakespeare Company has brought to Broadway such plays as “Marat Sade”’ and “The Homecoming.”
The company, built about a core of some of Britain’s outstanding actors under long-term contract, totals over 100 players. It numbers in its ranks such celebrated names as Peggy Ashcroft, Peter McEnery, Dorothy Tutin, David Warner and Eric Porter.
The company’s statement of policy declares:
“The Royal Shakespeare Company believe that the Elizabethan theatre — and especially Shakespeare—offers a dramatic richness unequalled in any other epoch or language. It is a theatre where the ritualistic and the comic, the highbrow and the lowbrow, the lyrical and the bawdy all meet and intermingle with the complexity of life.”
Paul Dehn wrote the screenplay of “The Deadly Affair” from le Carre’s book. Quincy Jones wrote the music for the spy thriller.
Maximilian Schell
Maximilian Schell won a Best Actor “Oscar” for his work as the German defense attorney for Nazi war criminals in Stanley Kramer’s “Judgement at Nuremberg.” Now, Schell portrays another German, who, as a youth during World War II, worked for British intelligence, in John le Carre’s “The Deadly Affair,” at Meine Theatre in Technicolor. Co-starred with Schell in the Columbia Pictures release are James Mason, Harriet Andersson, Harry Andrews and Simone Signoret as Elsa. Sidney Lumet produced and directed the romantic spy thriller.
One of Europe’s finest young actors, Schell can have his pick
of motion picture roles. That he elected to play the complicated character he does in “The Deadly Affair,” based on a best-selling novel by the author of “The Spy Who Came In From the Cold,” is a tribute to the challenge of the dramatic film.
Schell is seen as the friend and confidente of a British agent who trusts him implicitly since they worked together against the Nazis during the war. He also becomes romantically involved with Englishman’s sexridden wife.
“The Deadly Affair” was written for the screen by Paul Dehn. Quincy Jones wrote the music for the spy thriller.
Simone Signoret
For Academy Award-winning actress Simone Signoret, the role’s the thing. Being the epitome of glamor on the screen is not half so important as being in a role worth playing, and she has just such a kind of part in John le Carre’s “The Deadly Affair,” a tingling spy thriller in Technicolor at the ...... Theatre co-starring James Mason, Maximilian Schell, Harriet Andersson and Harry Andrews. Sidney Lumet produced and directed the Columbia Pictures’ release based on a novel by the author of “The Spy Who Came In From the Cold.”
As Elsa Fennan in “The Deadly Affair,” Miss Signoret appears devoid of all makeup and with her hair tightly braided, vastly different from the lush, seductive figure she cut in romantic tandem with Oskar Werner in “Ship of Fools” or, earlier, opposite Laurence Harvey in the “Room at the Top,” in a performance which won her the Academy Award for Best Actress.
But it was not only her role, as a pawn in a complex and deadly game of shifting loyalties
and deceptions of the spy world, that determined her appearance in “The Deadly Affair.” It was also the appeal of working with a director of the stature of Sidney Lumet which decided Miss Signoret to do the film. “A good director is somebody you can trust because you admire the work he has done,” she explained.
Miss Signoret is not compulsive about her work. She can go for many months without an acting assignment, if nothing appeals to her, without any impairment to her ego.
One of her favorite stories concerns a producer who cabled asking if she were “free” to play a part in his new picture. She wired back saying she was “free not to play a part” in the film, which did not interest her.
Analyzing her appeal as a performer, Lumet feels that Simone’s essential quality can best be summed up in two words— “her humanity.”
Quincy Jones wrote the music for “The Deadly Affair’ while Paul Dehn penned the screenplay based on the John le Carre bestseller.
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James Mason and Harriet Andersson are among the stars of John le Carre's ''The Deadly Affair,"' new spy thriller released by Columbia Pictures in Technicolor. They play a secret agent and his rovingeyed wife, in a cast which includes Maximilian Schell, Harry Andrews and Simone Signoret as Elsa.
Harriet Andersson
Famed Swedish actress Harriet Andersson, a member of Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman’s celebrated “stock company,” makes her Englishlanguage screen debut in John le Carre’s “The Deadly Affair,” as the sex-charged young wife of a British intelligence officer. Costarred in the Columbia Pictures’ release at the Theatre in Technicolor are James Mason as her husband, Maximilian Schell, Harry Andrews and Simone Signoret as Elsa. The suspenseful spy drama, produced and directed by Sidney Lumet, is based on a best-selling novel by the author of “The Spy Who Came in From the Cold.”
Among Miss Andersson’s films are seven directed by Ingmar Bergman, including “Smiles of a Summer Night” and “Through a Glass Darkly;” “Loving Couples,” which marked Mai Zetter
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ling’s directorial debut, and Jorn Donner’s “To Love,” for which she won the Best Actress award at the Venice Film Festival. A native of Stockholm, Miss Andersson left school when she was 15 and took a job as a department store elevator operator while envisioning an acting career. She took lessons at a dramatic school and haunted Stockholm theatres.
After working in musical comedy roles for four years, she started all over again as a dramatic actress in a legitimate theatre in the Swedish city of Malmo. She now is one of the leading lights of the Swedish theatre. Her major roles include “The Diary of Anne Frank” and Ophelia in “Hamlet,” and she also appeared in Jean Anouilh’s play, “The Savage.”
“The Deadly Affair” was written for the screen by Paul Dehn. Quincy Jones wrote the music,