Screenland ((Jan–Jun 1947))

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black-haired Rachael Kempson, with the calm serene white brow and the wide hazel eyes, come to Liverpool as the guest artist to appear with him in "Flowers of the Forest." Two weeks later they became engaged and within six weeks they were married. For Michael had just received an offer to go to London to play in' the Old Vic Company and he thought it would be simpler to take his wife with him. That set the seal on Michael's stage career and soon established him among the brightest West End stars. In 1938 Alfred Hitchcock offered him a screen test and the result put him into one of the best pre-war British thrillers, "The Lady Vanishes," as Margaret Lockwood's leading man. Rachael should have appeared in the film with her husband, just as she so often acted with him on the stage, but she was too occupied with their first baby, golden-haired Vanessa who is now nine years old and industriously studying ballet dancing with firm determination to become a film actress in due course. Since then the Redgrave family has been increased twice. Corin William is seven, going to act when he grows up too, and though blue-eyed little Lynn is just three, she also shows every sign of following what her father laughingly calls "the inevitable Redgrave road." Now Michael devotes about eight months of every year to film work and the rest to the stage, sharing his activities with Rachael as they share the whole of their lives. She played with him recently in that poignant screen romance of the returned ex-prisoners-ofwar, "The Captive Heart," a sweet, wellpoised gracious girl who is always completely natural. Michael believes she brings him good fortune so he likes to have her around the set in any case. Another modern problem film which Michael specially likes is "The Years Between," in which he starred with Valerie Hobson, and he has also been seen in "Thunder Rock" and the spooky "Dead of Night," and his own great favorite, "Johnny in the Clouds." He has just finished making "Fame Is The Spur" in England, the film version of Howard Spring's best-seller about the career of a famous newspaper pub Be low, left, Joan Fonta'ne is a picture in period gown in scene with Richard Ney and Lumsden Hare. But a star's life also includes other activities, as the picture above with Alan Marshall on CBS radio show proves. Good to see ScREENLAND 71