Kaleidoscope (Warner Bros.) (1966)

‘| Like To Be Noticed And Admired,’ Declares Saucy Young British Actress Perched prettily on a stool in the Pinewood Film Studio, London, Susannah York, her shortie skirt hitched a fashionable five inches above the knee, could not help notice the approving glances which her attractive legs were drawing from every male in sight. For the first time in her career, the effervescent 24-year-old blonde actress is playing a “with-it’’ English girl of her own age and time. She does so in Warner Bros.’ suspensecomedy “Kaleidoscope,” which is set tO“ OPEN Olteeness sen ab PHOS Ateces % Theatre. “Like most modern young British girls,” she says with a sweet, diverting smile, “I like to be noticed and admired.” In the film she wears an up-to-the-minute wardrobe of the latest high-rise fashions, designed for her by the popular Carnaby Street team of Marion Foale and Sally Tuffin. Her most provocative costume, however, is the one provided by nature which she displays briefly in Quick Change Artist Turns Film Detective Versatile veteran actor Clive Revill, currently appearing in Warner Bros.’ “Kaleidoscope,” opening at the..... Theatre on ...... , seems to change roles as easily as changing hats. One of England’s outstanding Shakespearean actors, Revill recently dropped the pose of a dedicated psychiatrist in Warner Bros.’ “A Fine Madness” to assume the part of a steadfast policeman in “Kaleidoscope.” Not offbeat casting by any means. Rather, it is indicative of Revill’s talent and its wide range. In “Kaleidoscope,” a sprightly suspense-comedy directed by Jack Smight, Revill co-stars with Warren Beatty, Susannah York and Eric Porter, another prominent Shakespearean performer. Revill, who was born in Wellington, New Zealand, went to London in 1950 to enter the Old Vic Theatre School. Within a few years he became an outstanding performer in both British and American theatres. Between 1958 and 1961, starring in “Irma La Douce,” he toured from London to New York and other key American cities. He portrayed F agin in the Broadway production of “Oliver!” and starred in the London production of “Marat/Sade.” In addition to his role as a Scotland Yard inspector in “Kaleidoscope,” Revill’s film appearances include the detective-sergeant in “Bunny Lake Is Missing” and a Scottish accountant in “Modesty Blaise.” a bedroom scene in the Technicolor film. “I doubt that audiences will make anything peculiar out of the fact that I’m talking to my screen father while I’m stretched out on my bed in the altogether,” she declares. “In the story, he’s 1200 miles away in London and his call gets me out of my bath. It’s perfectly natural for a girl to answer the phone in the nude if that’s the way she is when it rings.” Susannah is not the sort of girl to be squeamish about appearing in the nude, if the script calls for it. “I don’t think I’d care to be involved in a French-type love scene, all rumpled up in the covers with my leading man,” she says. “But the way we have done this scene, it merely helps to illustrate the breezy, free-spirited kind of girl I play.” In “Kaleidoscope,” Miss York plays the daughter of a Scotland Yard inspector who uses her charms to attract a young American gambler into a plot to trap an international dope smuggler. Increasingly popular since her appearance in “Tom Jones,” Susannah was recently named by Life Magazine as one of Europe’s young stars-to-be. “Kaleidoscope,” directed by Jack Smight, is a Jerry Gershwin-Elliott Kastner presentation. Ambitious setae Warren Beatty portrays daredevil girl-getter Barney Lincoln in Warner Bros.’ sprightly suspense-comedy, “Kaleidoscope.” He enchants shapely co-star Susannah York in the Technicolor motion picture which opens on. . atthe ee ae Theatre, Also starring in the chronicle of the young lovers’ whirl through fashionable European spas are Clive Revill and Eric Porter. Jack Smight directed the Jerry Gershwin-Elliott Kastner production, Mat 1-B_ Still No. KAL/Pub 1 (Special Publicity Still) Young Lovers Pert Susannah York and handsome Warren Beatty star in Warner Bros.’ suspense-comedy, “Kaleidoscope,” as a romantic young couple who have an offbeat love affaire as they travel from one posh European spa to another. Beatty plays a beguiling gambler who charms sprightly Miss York into marrying him. Co-starring in the Technicolor motion picture are Clive Revill and Eric Porter, noted Shakespearean actors. The Elliott Kastner-Jerry Gershwin presenta tion, directed by Jack Smight, is due to open on Theatre. $150,000 Winner Warren Beatty, handsome star of Warner Bros.’ suspense-comedy, “Kaleidoscope,” practices his foolproof system for beating the biggest gambling casinos in Europe, in a scene from the Technicolor motion picture. Blonde Susannah York co-stars as his companion on the lucrative tour through the gaming spas, bul a mysterious man begins to shadow Beatty after Susannah returns to London. It is Inspector McGinnis of Scotland Yard, her father. The Jerry Gershwin-Elliott Kastner presentation, also starring Clive Revill and Erie Porter, is setto openon...... at thence (Special Publicity Still) .. Theatre. Jack Smight directed. Mat 2-A_ Still No. KAL/Pub. 2 at the Mat 2-C Still No. KAL/5 Pee Wk wk Ge ae De ar | Susannah York’s Fashion Flair The Very Model Of A ‘Mod’ Svelte, shapely Susannah York recently found herself draped in a wardrobe of stylish, swinging “mod” fashions. Miss York, starring opposite Warren Beatty in Warner Bros.’ sprightly suspense thriller, “Kaleidoscope,” Opening Ons. at the Theatre, portrays the effervescent youthful owner of a boutique in London’s Chelsea district. As such, her screen wardrobe is strictly modern, high-rise fashion. Consisting of 10 outfits, including suits, trouser suits, evening dresses and short cocktail ensembles, Miss Film Scene Uses Cards, All Marked Want to know the best way to mark a deck of cards? Don’t ask a crooked gambler. Go right to the card manufacturers. They know all the tricks. To keep things honest, however, they must know how to cheat. So motion picture art director Maurice Carter recently learned. Film producers Jerry Gershwin and Elliott Kastner assigned him to make 550 decks of marked cards for gambling sequences in Warner Bros.’ suspensecomedy, “Kaleidoscope,” starring Warren Beatty and Susannah York. The Technicolor film is due to open OR keene at the Theatre. Beatty, out to “break the bank” at Monte Carlo and other posh European gambling casinos, devises an ingenious, though highly crooked, method for achieving his goal. In the film, Beatty breaks into the factory of the Kaleidoscope Company which makes playing cards for all the top casinos. There he marks the backs of the cards before they are printed so that he will be able to identify at a glance any card played. Stuck with the problem of translating the scheme to the screen, Carter sought help from De La Rue’s, a leading European card manufacturer. The company admitted that the system, which was devised by screenwriters R. B. and J.-H. Carrington was feasible, but “highly impracticable” to accomplish due to the strict security measures which are always in force. Filming for “Kaleidoscope” was done at Pinewood Studios, London, and on location in London and on the French Riviera. And De La Rue did manufacture the 550 special decks of cards, then destroyed the plates. eeeee Noted Shakespearean Actor Plays Contemporary Film Villain Eric Porter’s credentials as an actor place him squarely in his profession’s royal family. With a background solidly entrenched in Shakespeare, Porter is singularly well equipped to tackle evil roles. In Warner Bros.’ suspensecomedy, “Kaleidoscope,” he plays a very contemporary villain, a London gambler who runs a sizeable dope smuggling ring. The Technicolor film, which stars Warren Beatty and Susannah York, is set to open on ...... Theatre. Jack Smight directed the Jerry Gershwin-Elliott Kastner presentation. Porter, who won the British Actor of the Year Award in 1961, has appeared in only three previous films: “Town On Trial,” “The Fall of the Roman Empire” and “The Pumpkin Kater.” His stage career, however, spans more than 20 years and includes innumerable performances with the Old Vic, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the National Theatre Company, headed by Sir Laurence Olivier. A native of London since his birth in April, 1928, Porter acted his “Kaleidoscope” role on the French Riviera, as well as in his home town. Major Movie Role Brings Star Home You can lead an actress to all sorts of exotic locations to film a picture, but if she is pert, blonde Susannah York, she would rather be home in London. “I’ve worked so much abroad,” she says, “that I almost felt like a stranger when I did come home to film Warner Bros.’ ‘Kaleidoscope’.” The Technicolor film, which also stars Warren Beatty, opens on ...... at tiene ee Theatre. Her film roles have taken Miss York to such distant and unlikely places as Malaysia for “The Seventh Dawn,” Austria for “Freud,” and Africa for “Sands of the Kalahari.” Even “Kaleidoscope” didn’t permit her to. stay in London. An important part of the sprightly suspense-comedy was filmed on location on the French Riviera. Home, for Miss York and_ her actor-husband, Michael Wells, is a small terraced cottage in London’s fashionable Chelsea section. York’s “Kaleidoscope” fashions were created by the successful London designing team of Marion Foale, 26, and Sally Tuffin, 27. “We didn’t give Susannah’s clothes a ‘kinky” image, but designed them as well-dressed young girl styles, which is the way fashion is moving anyway,” says Miss Tuffin. Although Miss Foale notes that “the designs are very simple and tasteful,” and are intended to impress both sexes with their free-flowing imaginative lines. Marion and Sally, who run their own boutique in London’s center of “mod” fashion, Carnaby Street, began designing about five years ago, after graduating from the Royal College of Art. They now manufacture women’s clothes in New York and London and plan to include their wardrobe for “Kaleidoscope” in their 1966 collection. The Technicolor motion picture was directed by Jack Smight. It is a Jerry Gershwin Elliott Kastner production. The Villain Eric Porter, noted British Shakespearean actor, concentrates his talents in the role of a contemporary villain in Warner Bros.’ suspense comedy, **Kaleidoscope.” Porter portrays a_ notorious dope smuggler who terrorizes stars Warren Beatty and Susannah York, The Technicolor film, epening on ....... at the Lapeer Theatre, also stars Clive Revill. Jack Smight directed. Mat 1-C_ Still No. KAL/601 (Special Publicity Still) Film Chase Excitement Shot On British Estate Of Earl Of Lovelace The stately homes of England have traditionally provided some of the most elegant motion picture backgrounds, but few would equal the imposing battlements of Horsley Towers, used by producer Elliott Kastner for a major sequence in Warner Bros.’ suspense-comedy, “Kaleidoscope.” The Technicolor film opens on ...... atthe sss. Theatre. It is through the tunnels and vaulted halls of this centuries-old mansion that Dominion, a notorious narcotics smuggler played by Eric Porter, pursues lovely Susannah York and handsome Warren Beatty. The romantic young couple, who have been enlisted by Scotland Yard to disrupt Dominion’s operations, find themselves fleeing through Horsley Towers’ maze of buttresses, tunnels, clois ters, towers, parapets and_ secret passages. Director Jack Smight was so pleased with the location that he rewrote the entire climax of the film to fit the unusual features of the old mansion. “In the original script, we intended to shoot the final chase outdoors, across lawns and through hedges,” he says. “But when I saw the 200-yard long tunnel that leads into the courtyard, it made much better dramatic sense to stage the chase there.” The tunnel was built by the Earl of Lovelace, the estate’s first Owner. PAGE 1 ef