The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Page 103

J- it si: I 1 TOMMY STEELE has given this ulHir.a- turn to British film producers: "Star IPilifillfrniiiffi me in a real posh British musical or I II go over to the Hollywood opposition. 6mm ffl as (kmtttm The goldeo boy of British show business vho. estimates that the thing he is after need not cost more than 250,000 sterling, says American producers have three times begged him to make a musical tor them. 1 I've got feelings for the Old Country," declares Steele. "The 'taxes may be a news: i Steele refuses appear for 1,000 ii Steele signs a film con- tract for 150,000 Steele refuses to pay 1 24,000 for a house Steele says: It aint fun- a ny being a four' 'J a a expensive I "Of course; young cording to my 1 star million pound 'industry." weather lousy, but I -T; cocksure the dis- TOM MY would have to come to him.

smart this cockney; with arming grin. Meanness? Greed? status. Right. I'll have the Oliver Messel suite at the Dorchester." (This is 25 guineas a day). "You're mad," said Cohen.

"But," said Steele, ''you For one thing, Steele stage hit, the pantomime has no intentian of sn- riiW Whittinntnn Dick Whittington" to Hollywood for his: Steele persisted, "It'll be millstone round your i neck when the film's fin-: ished, stuck there on the 4 set Tbey'ir charge you, rent for it. What'U you do with it?" 5 "I hadnt thought that," said intention "Give it to me," said Steele. He got his caravan. Obvionsly no Hollywood operator, however slick, going to out think it's a great little place: I don't want- to "work anywhere else. "But you know the sort of producers we set around here.

They want 'to make pictures on a measly 25,000, using extras instead of dancers because meyYe cheaper." Money big money is a decisive factor in the philosophy of this pint-sized, one-time bellboy who used to save 10 a week out of his 310 wage packet. It's- always making Neither. Just' honest-to- goodness: business acumen. Like the way he got a caravan for' 'nothing' out of film producer' Nat '1 Young Steele found a loophole in his contract -V for The- Duke Wore Jeans I see," he told Cohen, says here IVe got tp have accommodation ac- Stross may not be an-" xious to rush into musicals, but he spends considerably more than 25,000 per picture. This film," says Steele, "is like the cat and the "canary full of vampire bats and all that stuff, "But? it's strictly for laughs.

The kids will love it." Steele Is- reported to be keen on the idea "So long as its really siapup with bags of musk, colour and 'spec-' tacle and all that lark." In the' meantime. Steele is to make another "straight" film called i "King i of i the-Castle" for producer Reymond Stross. have to come over here, to do said firmly. But it's quite possible they won't need to, One of Britain's leading ducers, George H. Brown, has stepped in with an offer to star Tommy in a film ver- sion of his perennial could do it cheaper by letting me live.

a. caravan. You can buy one for 700. But it'll have to be in the middle of the studio, seeing I can't up early and you want me to start -work at 7 o'clock "Now you're talking," said: Cohen, beaming. From Roderick Mann in Atliens Why lb I STOPPED off at Athens on my way home from a holiday in the Lebanon and.

there, adorning the lobby, of my hotel, was Miss Jayne Mansfield. ''v I had been. wondeVing what had happened to her. After the savage mauling given her last picture, "Too Hot to by the critics (they agreed it was so terrible it could not oossiblv have, been re -Asia Jayne Mansfield 'I :W.i.J.r i -f v-- tfi it musi navw Husband Miciesy clean life." on the edge of my menu. For posterity.

"No," she said firmly. "I've never taken partem publicity stunts. I've 'done things, of course which have resulted in publicity but I've always been asked; I've never promoted them myself. i "Mind you, I believe fa publicity in building "up ft star.1 Mere talent' isn't enough." She gazed contentedly around the -and the 'restaurant gazed ex-nectantlv back, as though escapea, i assumcu sub must wisely have stocked up with nuts and gone to earth. In fact, she had gone to Athens, and when ,1 ran across her she was on her way to buy a nine-foot-high chandelier for her huge, all-pink house in Hollywood.

So I went with her. A serionsly should 'expecting -her to ignite' it sho It was a monstrous affair women tell me she is not could take them out in a should I worry? Why antended for a taken as a woman rainstorm without their com- I be unhappy about it?" any momeni. unhappy about it?" cnurcn sne ever swnencs either. 4. a to on I am convinced that what, then, is she taken TmTZ 1HUSI mg pieces.

nuai jui inj uinur thA maltr nrtiAn nf filinwr QPriniwlv fiq? 1flHrVd CfVllId wujr sue suuuiu uc uuiiappy (. ma' hnnOfif' Boulevard must ri inevitably anyone'take the Mansfield Held today about it while the band be nluneed into darkness. PSWr? serioUsly-other fthan. she has made 13 pie. tures of which it Is very i ner doctor While.

Miss, Mansfield l8 she.at8e8ymbol7 played "Never Sunday" "I agree with you I should three times at her request; do more she went and a man took candid 0n. "But I must be honest, pictures and she ordered I'm not unhappy about my and the restaurateur career. Or my life. Every dimcult to recall more than two. Her hut ones, made in Britam, ware stood pesiae ner cnanaeiier, do mt Mievt it.

She; has, tooK a close iook at ner. always struck me as a rather quite terrible. produced a canary called mornino I wake un and saVi For where does she really pathetic of stand todav? Goody Two. Shoes and the Of her performance in i Jayne and everybody kept Gosh aren't I luckyf She is not taken seriously Micnenn Man ja caricature "ioo hoi to mnoie, one loosing ano sne aranKMrreeK SjMfckev and I live MBrS "JWA critic wrote: "Her acting is i beer "pd -I. an ache, in goo Mean life (she ae? nungers even a nignunare caataw)tv.

search' of a 'Not the It was uohill work, like Cr mere is, cunousiy enougn, obl iV a uwuu spending money uselessly. a marked similarity between rad over your wheaties. in an opea sports car. i i 3 We've got -J three lovely Mtu Mannfietd And that star She has hist finished "Ymi think 1 hniiM rnn- phitHrcn ahrt wn want 1(1. of the thirties, -Miss Mae making a comedy called "It centrate mora on comedy? We're i wonderfully happy.

Wt Aiatlnnt our. nf HaODeneH in Athens. Thia lail nMarr nTka'. iirtitr iV. I'mtrnnnA This last one's That's why it's a SQstrangt uutinv uu.

She is Yes, I said, "comedy. I' No drama. No drama at i sexual unreality. i- Hot'honse Is she worried? I The chandelier session Am no more pun I'Jhat's her Who? who? who? Caifu iwfc7Jt's not Sophia Lorert, Hhougi no one ouldt Warn youvlf yow rthoughT if nary stunts." that people always mink ot me as a sexy person." Trhey dor I asked. yes," sha replied.

"Do you know, when I arrived- here in Athens I was asked the oddest, questions by Greek newspapermen." unreality over, we adjourned to a hostelry and sha explained why. One cannot, for example, "I know in my film, V1T i ffiff. ERE is an interesting a. theme that would have Talent is not enontfh ii for imagine them sitting at home with a book. Indeed, it takes 'PJSSL quite an effort to P1 afn.

sff them- sitting at hnrnd at all dave Deen she said (there, tnem sitting at home at aU. waj plot?) but rm told Now thrs ft notf toie of if8 doing all right on the uiaenoriiand play Thn hart nf Bella tn he "One asked if I'd do j. Her eyes opened wide. fggW lint "Publicity- stunts," she flfL5 would benefit world peace. was.

new. Cana mamju, ut, ui oiifHio, continent They, possess; but 'And that's all I worry part in a publicity stunt in I said, YeS, of Course 1 ufl" would. I'm. all world Wrights Jea.it Anouflh are played by former Canadian gn heafled iTheDeath of fiim carter in France with ot the -New Wave I Mr Sirhenon's books, Miss Stewart is a girl of This the story of fairly catholic tastes she dead woman who haunts came over here recently; to the imagination of. her lover act iff a Tarzan they are still quite obviously wnmen about.

My money's gone up my life, women. since I made it I'm getting- thoug tonttintr' thminht dian citizen Gina Lollo-brigida ai she appears' In her newest film, "Go Naked the World." at HM 1 1 PeBCC -if They do not have Miss ftnnon a imvV mv km Her eves" onened wida Mansheids hot-house un- appearance in Las Veeas asked' her to reheat It. and again. Teality. You know you this Christmas so why she did, and I wrote it down "Isn't everybody?" I4 THE SUN-HERALD, DEC.

1960 M4 A A 4 I 1.