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IT WAS William Shakespeare who remarked that "there is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at the flood leads on to fortune." Robert Donat, who made his professional debut as a boy actor in Shakespeare's comedies, as certainly remembering that famous passage today, for his own screen career has been suddenly caught up by a rising tide and swept out of its temporary . backwater toward the sea of world-wide fame once more.
It all began when Sir Alexander Korda came back to London from Hollywood recently and announced that he had merged his film production interests with those of Metro Goldwyn Mayer in Britain, reorganizing and re-opening the American corporation's studios here which had been closed since the outbreak of war in 1939. Suave and smiling as ever, Korda got to work on his new job with a speed which left onlookers breathless, and soon the familiar Leo reared his head again at the entrance to one of the great white lots at Denham in Middlesex, England's nearest approach to Hollywood set among the woods and fields some twenty miles outside London.
Bob Donat wasn't taking any particular interest in film news at the time. War conditions, coupled with recurrent attacks of the asthma from which he so frequently suffers, had kept him from working for long months at a stretch. Indeed, the only movies he had made in three years were "The Young Mr. Pitt" and "The Adventures of Tartu," modest affairs which did little more than keep his face and name before his fans. So Bob had returned to his first love the stage again, acting in a Shaw play for several weeks and then turning producer {Please turn to page 97 )
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American movie fans will wel1 come back Robert Donat, whose ■ !^ latest British production, "Perfect Strangers," with Deborah Kerr (rightj will soon be released. Donat has a contract with M-G-M to resume studio work over here.