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They're all talking about James Mason, Britain's No. 1 character actor — "colorful, dynamic, savagely brilliant." Here's an exclusive interview with him direct from London
By
Hettie Grimstead
BRITISH film critics often call him "colorful, dynamic, savagely brilliant." Actress Pamela Kellino called him "the most fascinating and unusual man I've ever met" a few years ago and then married him. Long-suffering directors and studio technicians sometimes call him names that are nobody's business. Delighted London exhibitors describe him as "the biggest boxoffice star we have" and Queen Elizabeth has been heard to say he's the perfect period actor.
They're all talking about this man James Mason, with his thick black hair and heavy brows and firm mouth and keen dark eyes that can flash with sud
If you saw him in "The Man in Grey" or "The Seventh Veil," you're probably already a Mason fan and will want to see him in his next release, "The Wicked Lady," in which he appears opposite Margaret Lockwood (right). Said to be Britain's highest paid movie actor, Mason is seen at left above as the sinister Lord Menderstoke in "Fanny by Gaslight," soon to be shown in this country.
den passion or soften to gentle tenderness. He's Britain's No. 1 character actor, at his best in costume productions to which he brings the swaggering gallantry and the fiery individuality which properly belong to the men of those bygone days. His film "The Man in Grey," was screened in London at the height of the blitz, and night after night a crowd that was mainly composed of women braved the dangers of the streets to pack the theater and see him. "The Wicked Lady," in which he plays (Please turn to page 83)
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