NEW BRITISH FILM MADE IN FRANCE

Chronicle (Levin), 14 February 1948, Page 6

NEW BRITISH FILM MADE IN FRANCE

Les. M.

Murphy)

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"The Corridor of Mirrors," writes a new chapter in the history of the cinema in two countries. It is the first British film to be made entirely in France since the coming of sound. It was made by an independent company, Apollo Films, in the old Buttes-Chaumont Stu'dios in Paris. It stars Eric Fortman. For the rest of the cast the coproducers have chosen comparatively uhknown players. After many trials and tribulations the film is now completed and the producers are satisfied.it will greatly appeal to public Opinion. The film has been more than an experiment, it makes a new departure in cinema history. It has eiicouraged that closer artistic relationship which Britihs admirers of French technique fiave long desired. Gharlie Chaplin now says he does not want to leave America, and is trying to explain away a letter to London darfming Hollywood. The come'dian is under a new savage attack by a score of columnists. All film companies in Hollywood plan a less sordid output, less murder, torture, drinking and violence, if only because the censors will not stand for them. ' The Motion Picture Research Society announees that it will award Bing Crosby and Rosalind Russell special certificates for a happy home life, as neither has ever been divorced. What you have to do to win medals these days! Hollywood is worried about Lassie's contract— she barked at Louis B. Mayer the other day. • Errol Flynn has plenty to . celebrate. He has just signed the film city's most fabulous contract — one million pounds income guaranteed over the next 15 years. And they used to call him Error Flynn! Warner Bros.' young beauty star Janis Paige married San Francisco restaurant owner Frank Martinelli on December 27. June Haver, who married in March and separated in June, must now wait until October to get her divorce petition heard. The Los Angeles Divorce Court lists are crow'ded until then. Univer'sal - toternational has launched a national publicity campaign to build up new Swedish star Marta Toren. A graduate of the Stockholm Royal Dramatic Academy, sho makes her film bow in "Casbah." It's dead certain the American immigratioii authorities will not readmit Virginia Bruce's husband, Ali Ipar, from Turkey, under three years — quotas are full. So Miss Bruce plans to go and live in Turkey with Ali. Britain is making an entertainment switch-over from crime and costume dramas — to comedy. The first off the mark will be Ealing Studios' chief, Sir Michael Balcon, who has picked three tales to sigrial the new general comedy policy. These tales are : "Another Shore," a; tale of an imaginative Irish youth who, to say the least, is pixilated; "Kind Hearts- are Coro-

nets," a period piece which treats a macabre theme with a light heart, and "Passport to Pimlico." a fantasy of extraordinary happenings in the heart of London. The grimmest painting in Holly;Wood is owned by Ida Lupino — John Decker's picture of a girl with her throat being cut by a sailor. Ida's mother will not hang it. r Paramount has signed world champion female wrestler,- Sarah Quigley, for Dorothy Lamour's cur.rent costume film, "Lulubelle." Sarah will beat up everybody in a bar-room brawl.