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ON THE TUMULT IN TOBAGO FOR 'MR. ALLISON'
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by NAN
ROBERTSON
TOBAGO
John Huston
is noted for ferreting out exotic locations. This place is no exception. Tobago, a British colony about as big as the borough
of Queens in New York, lies eighteen miles off Trinidad at the southern limit of the Caribbean. It is years away in time -
so unspoiled and so unexploited that even picture postcards cannot be found here.
"Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison," is the story of a nun
and a United States Marine who are marooned on a South Sea Island during Worl War II. There are only two stars and two English-speaking
parts in the film. They are played by Deborah Kerr, as Sister Angela, and Robert Mitchum, as the leatherneck, Allison.
Mr. Mitchum is already looking a bit the worse for
wear. Since shooting started in September, he has wrenched an ankle, cut a foot badly on a stone and skinned his chest while
sliding down a palm tree. "I'm beginning to feel like a stunt man," he said. "In one scene, a 300-pound turtle tows me underwater
for what seems like miles. I'm supposed to catch him for food in the film but it's a wonder the damned thing didn't eat me.
As it was, he almost dashed me against the coral reef."
Weather
Miss Kerr's sole complaint is heat. At this time of
year, Tobago's climate approximates a Turkish bath, and the temperatures hover around the nineties. "Talk about mad dogs and
Englishmen going out in the midday sun," she said in clipped British tones. "I go out in it with a scratchy nun's habit on.
All Bob's wearing is that underbrush on his chin and a pair of trousers."
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Remember Grace
Kelly ?
Anyone remember the Grace Kelly-Prince Rainier marriage?
Well, Miss Kelly's Metro film, "The Swan," went to its initial theatre dates at the time of the extravagantly - publicized
nuptials and - note - business was indifferent.
But now that the film has reached subsequent run, and Princess Kelly
is off the front pages and - note again - the boxoffice has picked up considerably.
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Margaret Leighton Set For New British Pic
London, May 29th, 1956
Margaret Leighton, who is due to appear on Broadway this summer
in "Separate Tables," has just started a new British picture in which she co-stars with Sir Ralph Richardson. It is titled
"A Novel Affair" and is rolling at Shepperton Studios. British Lion will distribute.
Muriel Box is directing and she collaborated on the screenplay
with Sydney Box. Peter Rogers is producing.
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DREAM WIFE (M-G-M) 1953
After making this dreary comody, Grant retired
from film-making. Here he played an American businessman who became interested in an Wastern princess, Betta St. John, who
believed in satisfying the every whim of her man, but found there was more to be said for the American career girl, Deborah
Kerr, who is chaperoning the princess on her American goodwill tour.
BALLERINA SUES 20th
FOR 'KING & I' SLIGHT
Ballerina Gemze De Lappe filed suit in New York Supreme
Court last week against 20th-Fox, Darryl F. Zanuck, Charles Brackett, and the Roxy Theatre charging that she did not receive
proper credit in "The King and I."
Through her attorney, Barry S. Cohen, the dancer alleges
that the producers "negligently, willfully and maliciously" refrained from giving her "the proper and appropriate credit due
her by virtue of her having created and performed the role of King Simon of Legree" in "The King and I." Instead Miss De Lappe
claims, they credited the role to a dancer who did not perform it. In the picture, the ballerina recreated the role she originated
in the Broadway production.
from VARIETY page 2
Wednesday, December 5th, 1956
UPDATED
Wednesday, June
10th, 2009
Deborah Kerr
BY
Robert Mitchum
In September of 1956, I arrived in Tobago, an island in the Southern Caribbean,
to begin filming Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, directed by John Huston. Upon meeting Miss Kerr, I was impressed by her chaste
and genteel demeanor, an attitude eminently suited to the saintly character she portrayed. made touchingly mortal by a few
freckles.
The ensuing period of our association revealed many more delightful aspects
of this splendid lady, and began the rapid development of an admiration and friendship for her that I shall treasure always.
She is warmly human and sympathetic, and possessed of a humor that ranged
from the subtle to the downright wicked.
When some Hollywood organization, charged with monitoring morality, became
belatedly alarmed at the perils of pairing a nun and a marine on a desert island and sent a representative to check on our
image of propriety, Mr. Huston planned a little surprise.
We contrived a scene wherein Sister Angela overcomes the suppression of
her base animal urges and, panting and clutching, throws herself on Mr. Allison in a lustful frenzy. With no film in the camera,
we "shot" the scene for our guest, who stood agape and immobilized in shock as John quietly said, "Cut."
Huston then turned to the stunned Mr. Grizzard and said, "You should have
seen it before we cleaned it up."
There was a small Catholic church on the island and the Sisters attached
to it were invited to see the rushes when they were shown. Deborah, always mindful of their presence, strived to maintain
an on-camera deportment that would earn their approval. However, in one scene, in which she was paddling the rubber raft,
her composure cracked.
Using a palm frond as a paddle, she was stroking away furiously, with
Mr. Huston's voice from the camera boat urging her on to even greater effort. "Even harder, honey," he was saying, "Paddle
even harder." With one desperate surge of energy, the paddle snapped in two. Holding up her bloodied hands, she looked straight
into the camera and said, "That'll show you how effing hard I'm paddling, John!"
The Deborah Kerr Curtain Call Playhouse
A Fellowship League Foundation
For the Performing Arts
Her Legend Her Life and Motion Picture Career
of the Woman all Women want to be - the charming
Deborah Kerr
To
Your Health!
Never Underestimate
Your Need for
Water
The Forgotten Nutrient
Water is so abundant, available and inexpensive
yet it's often taken for granted. It is the forgotten nutrient although it ranks in importance right up there along with vitamins,
minerals, protein, carbohydrate and fat. Just by living, breathing, perspiring and going to the bathroom you can lose between
two and three quarts of water daily, which need to be repaced. Each day drink six to eight glasses of fluids like tap or bottled
water, milk and juice.
Also eat foods with a high water content, such as fruits and vegetables.
Fluid intake is especially important for older adults - you better listen to me. If you lose too much water without replacing
it, you can become dehydrated.
You might faint or feel dizzy.
Here are some ways
water works in
your body:
* Carries
nutrients to cells and carries waste products away. Water is the body's transportation system.
* Surrounds and protects joint and organs
such as kidneys from shock or injury.
* Keeps the digestive tract working and the urine clear.
* Helps maintain body temperature.
Drink
Before
You're Thirsty!
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