Valley Times from North Hollywood, California • 24

Opens Friday Big Bronsion Circus Movie For Paramount MAM twnre DAVE HOLLAND, Editor So Near Yet The Mirisch Company will create Paris and New Orleans a block apart from each other on the Hollywood sound stages of the Goldwyn and ZIV lots for two films rolling in mid-September for United Artists release. A complete three-story-high, block-long Paris street currently under construction on two stages of the Goldwyn lot for Billy Wilders Irma la Douce, Mirisch-Alperson presentation, which will star Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine. WILDER RECENTLY returned from shooting establishing shots in the streets of Paris, and plans to film principal photography on the sound stages. A similar pattern of production will be utilized for Lillian Heilmans Toys in the Attic with Dean Martin and Geraldine Page. Producer Walter Mirisch and director George Ray Hill will shoot establishing exteriors in New Orleans this month and then move onto sets on the Goldwyn lot and owing to the large amount of space taken up there by the Irma street also move onto sets and stages on the ZIV lot for principal photography.

24 Tuetday, Sept. 4, 1962 Valley Times TODAY Bob Crane's Appearance Snaps Record With eight performances of capacity-plus houses, the Laguna Beach Playhouse production of Send Me No Flowers starring KNXtro-vert Bob Crane, broke all house attendance records for the summer season at the beach community theater. Nearly 250 persons per performance viewed the Valley record rotator portray the hopeless hypochondriac causing the SRO flag to be hoisted even before the show opened for a week run last Tuesday. 'Purr-ee' Premiere Gay Purr-ee, Warners feature length musical cartoon, with voices of Judy Garland and Robert Goulet, will premiere in November. Paramount Pictures and Samuel Bronston Productions have entered into an agreement for the production of a spectacular international circus story to star John Wayne and other top personalities.

The announcement indicated that the multi-million dollar color and wide-screen attraction will be one of Paramounts most ambitious releases since The Ten Commandments and "The Greatest Show On Earth. BRONSTON is noted for his large-scale productions, which include El Cid, King of Kings and the forthcoming 55 Days at Peking and Fall of the Ro man Empire. Pre-production filming for the new picture which Paramount will release in the western hemisphere, will begin this November in the capitals of Europe and Asia Principal photography is slated for August, 1963, in Spain, headquarters of Samuel Bronston productions. The story will trace the formation of a novel and colorful circus troupe that tours the great capitals of the world during the first part of the twentieth century. Nicholas Ray will direct from a screenplay by Philip Yordan and James Edward Grant.

TONY MARTIN opens a limited 10-day engagement in the Cocoanut Grove Friday. Featured with the singer, making his first appearance in the Ambassador Hotels famed nitery in three years, are the dancing Steiner Brothers. VJIRCT WORLD PREMIERE in SPORTS ARENA Thus. Sept 6 Thru 16 11 DAYS ONLY NSIPSM 6 JOHNSON Follies Elvis Company Seattle Bound Big Backlog Of Properties M-G-M began its 19G2-63 fiscal year Sept. 1 with 27 writers assigned to 30 screenplays and treatments, continuing a new studio policy of maintaining a minimum two-year active backlog of properties.

Included in the works are "Unsinkable Molly Brown and The Prize, with others being sought. CONNOLLY'S COLUMN 'Lawrence' Only Runs Five Hours Producer Sam Spiegel has slimmed Lawrence of Arabia, which introduces Peter OToole to a panting public, to a five-hour running time. But hasnt announced how many intermissions itll have. Movies Are Longer Than Ever. Stanley Kramers Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, his first comedy since So This Is New York," will run three hours and 15 minutes with two intermissions! Thats what Ethel Merman tells me and she should know because shes one of the stars.

(P. 1 just 1 called Kramer and he confirms it.) Tony Curtis will pay off Metro for NOT making Lady by starring in The King of the Gypsies. The Technicolor tunefilm will be shot in Cinerama on a $10,000,000 budget, including 1,500 gypsies (producer Joe Pasternak swears!) fiddling away for dear life. John Huston is reportedly hocking everything he owns in Ireland (and he owns many a boreen over there) to bring Freud under the tape in time for this years Academy Awards deadline. The star Is Monty Clift and dont ever ask John to mako a movie with Clift again! The only thing holding up Edle Adams deal to co-star with Bob Hope in Call Me fBwana is her insistence that the producers supply herself and her entourage with five round-trip plane tickets from Los Angeles to jthe location site in Africa.

The producers just dont believe they can bend the budget that much. Producer Harold Hecht is giving "Taras Bulba" a four-city premiere Dec. 2G. Hecht will be on hand for the Hollywood preem and his stars will be distributed as follows: Yul Brynner in Mexico City, Christine Kaufmann in New York, and Tony Curtis in Rome. Shirley Temple and Charlie Black moved to a new Tudor tepee in Doodside, and put their old abode in Atherton, up for sale for $135,000.

Its a bargain, too," Shirley said. Spencer Tracy is top contender for starring role in one of Darryl Zanucks first pictures under the new regime at 20th-Fox Tate Is the Hunter, from the Ernie Gann novel. Did I mention that things are tough all qver? James Wong Howe, one of Hollywoods all-time great cameramen, is shooting a razorblade commercial at Paramount. the show of champion Performances! WORLD FREMItRC. StPT 4, ltd.

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ALL WALL1CHS MUSIC CITY STORES. LIBERTY TICKET AGENCIES AND SPORTS ARENA. Handy Box Office Pat king SPORTS ARENA 3939 S. FIGUEROA, of fair-goers (many certain to be Presley fans), Taurog will try to shoot the singer-actor at such Fair landmarks as the Monorail, Space Needle and Aerospace Exhibit Hall. Seattle filming is expected to be completed within two weeks with company then returning to studio for interiors.

Leading cast members besides Presley include John OBrien, Gary Lockwood and Vicky Tiu. Prices! $2, 2.5D, 3, 3.50, 4 (Inc. Tax), Children under 12 yrs. half price eves. Sepf.

10, 11, 12, 13 only. A Metro Goldwyn Mayer production company of 200 actors and technicians, headed by star Elvis Presley, left today for Seattle, to commence filming "Take Me to the Fair on the grounds of the Seattle Worlds Fair. Produced byTed Richmond and directed by Norman Taurog, the Cinemascope and Metrocolor production marks Presleys second motion picture for MGM and second under his new one-a-year five-year contract. His first for MGM was Jail-house Rock. WITH 50 special police hired to guard roped-off filming areas from thousands Their nights are as fast and frantic as their days! 1 jyrVWbuNaww 3 VALLEY I THEATRE GUIDE axtfta imif CORBIN 4 4 uW Ventura llvd at Corbin 0142223 t'lnwG AS I HE HTTftNI' WICHAa CUFF I JAMES I NICK ROEEHlSGHi MacARIHUFt' ADAMS HAYA ANNE HARAREEIIHELM waoprfOftY aarmowe ROBERT COHN I DAVID SWIFT A COLUMBIA NCTUttS RELEASE MJAMWKOtrnftrrMUDCfWA I FROMiK umwcoacamMwaMi 4: THE S1005S AROLCHRISTENSEN-EDSON STROLL KCGtNHt IK nwa BUDDY IW IBSEN ISM OTkH SWIFT Wayne In 'Fury' John Wayne sticking to big outdoor pictures, will next do Port Fury for Paramount.

Malone Has 'Soul' Dorothy Malone will star in The Soul Merchants for producer Curtis Roberts. STEVENS 2nd FEATURE ill SUatay Win Ur. Ms, Tp A bm NOW! IN ATMCATMir tmivt-m NCAB VOUf CONT. 11 AM. DAILY Fred MacMurray Jane Wyman "BOH VOYAGE" JEFF CHANDLER "MERRILLS MARAUDERS' T0MTEIS FAMILY HITE! SEATS 50c Children Under 12 Free When Accompanied by Parents SCWfNPUY IY ELW00D UUMU-unmmnnamaaMI motuat it kmh uium dmciid iy ml nna 4 uoRMWor FPooucTJOi COLUMBIA PICTURES RELEASE HUT a mi COLOR MSPint W1M wfje Pwuwwftr4aii aw.wtttfamkL FIRST: BILLY BUDD' Three Sea Sagas Set Sail On Film horizon JQI WESI COAS1 IHUIHS 4 P4L.1X.DI A in V-jHQ suns 1 IM-1-4I4I 114 N.

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Guinness the position of good, as turns out. THE MAN in the middle is Peter Ustinov, whose hand on the helm of the Avenger sometimes is unsure. But he is expert at piloting Billy Budd. Besides playing a leading role, he produced, directed and co-wrote. He is largely successful In his first direction of a screen drama, barring an occasional overlength of argumentive scenes.

His own performance might have used a bit more care, but that is symptomatic of actors who direct themselves. His great achievement in Billy Budd is evoking a memorable performance in the title by a handsome young British actor, Terence Stamp, 2G. His fetching, towheaded innocence is perfect iftn bu MIRISCH COMPANY ELVisPPesiey Galahad ha-aVMIIIA rrks GlGTUUNblO TECHNIRAMA TECHNICOLOR PRESENKD by WARNER BROS. man Melvilles short novel, Billy Budd, roretopman. It is basically a tale of good and evil, but it is not a mere morality play.

Goodness, as evidenced by the ingenuous seaman Budd, and evil, in the form of the sadistic master-at-arms Claggart, are convincing portrayals, the latter by Robert Ryan. So is the captain of the HMS Avenger, who stands between the poles and must CONT. 1 PM. DAILY IURT LANCASTER "BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ" Exciting Adventure 'JOURNEY 10 Jlti PI MET" 4403 MAGNOLIA TH-J-1534 OPEN 4 4S5AT. SUN.

I M. Utility MatLalnn Yvoi Manland "MY GEISHA" Plua Frank Sinatra a Daan Martin "SERGEANTS 3" CONTINUOUS performances DOORS OPEN 10:30 AM mn tmm Tksstna By BOB THOMAS AalodftUd Prru Movl Wrltff During the next few months, moviegoers are going to wonder how the British navy ever found time to fight the French around the end of the 18th century. It would seem that the fleets officers and men spent most of the time fighting each other. Three sea epics will soon be sailing into the nations theaters and Inevitably will face comparison with each other. The first of the films, Billy Budd, sets a fast pace.

COMING UP is the dramatically titled Damn the Defiant! with Britishers Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde and Anthony Quayle. This is reported to be well done sea stuff, complete with stiff-backed officers, muttering crew and stirring battles. These two films, both made In England, are being hurried into release before the big daddy of sea movies, Mutiny on the Bounty," hits the market. The prior two were filmed probably for little more than a tenth of the Bountys $20 million cost. BUT MONEY isnt everything.

Tor all its lack of scenic grandeur most of the film is played on one ship in calm seas Billy Budd is a crackling good movie, especially for the thoughtful movie patron. The story comes from Her- 2 SHOWS DAILY! MATINEES make a decision to destroy for the role. SPOKEN DRAMA 2:00 PM EVES 8:30 BEST WINNER OF 10 ACADEMY AWARDS! 3 5s panorama? ms sun. AT 8 00 ru for ticket information call HO 4 01U For theatre partus call HO 8-3280 HOLLYWOOD 41 SEASON JULY 3-SEPT. 1, 1962 COOtlt ar IIMIGIIATION GRAUMANS CHINESE fcMaUaUla Umahtli, THCAT.C H04SI1I JJIS MU am Magana HOUVWOOO ULVO.

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