Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-19

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strikingly beautiful girl. When
she walks into a room virtually
every man in it comes to a
point, quivering. nostrils far
ing, pupils dilating. Obviously
not yet too sure Of her English,
she is skittish in q large group.
but is frank and talks readily
and engagingly when the inter-
viewers are few. She brushes Of
any talk Of the strain she might
put on a tape measure. matter
of-factly attributing 1t all to
spaghetti. She also matter-of-
factly wears clothes that show
her of to full advantage.
Jayne Mansfield is the men,
Der Of the group whose desire
to like and be liked is utterly
disarming and must win her
more friends than Dale Car
negie ever won. She is fun to
watch. She is through with
cheesecake, she tells you earn
estly, looking you square In the
eve and shutting out the rest
of the world. Cheesecake has
served its purpose and now
she can fulfill her yearning to
be q serious actress. A photog-
rapher calls her name and
Pavlov never saw a faster con-
ditioned reflex. Jayne throws
q smouldering look over one
shoulder, thrusts both shoul-
ders far back for counterbal-
ance, arches her back unbeliev-
ably and there is a chorus OF
astounded whistles. The picture
made, Miss Mansfield sits down
and resumes her remuneration
of cheesecake. The happy as
pect of this is that you laugh
at the performance and still
like Jayne.
Jane Russell, the girl who
started-or with whom Howard
Hughes started-this fetish of
the feminine facadeS. now feels
that she is an eScapee from the
cheesecake trap. She is, in fact,
q complete refutation of Miss
Mansfield's contention that a
movie star should be glamor-
ouSly different and not try to
create the impression that she
is the girl-next-door. For Miss
Russell is as fine a girl-next-
door type as you ever have
come across. At least. she GER
tainly is a girl you'd like TO
have next door.
She is q tall and attractive
career woman, who is making a
good living out of the movies,
who firmly becomes Mrs. Bob
Waterfield when at home and
who clearly sees no need to
be anything other than her.
self. She has a ready laugh
and can talk about other things
than her own movies. In town
in behalf of the latest, THE
Fuzzy Pink Nighgown." she
went only so far as to demon
strate that something called a
Fuzzy Pink cocktail could be
concocted from vodka. grena-
dine and quinine water. Of
fered one. she curled a sheer
in the direction Of the bar.
then accepted only to prove
that it wasn't as toxic as it
looked.
II there is anything phony
about this one. she is a much
better actress than she was
when she made THE Outlaw >
THEY r E A l. L Y TRY -
Watching that crew Producer
Jack Rose and Director Mel
vile Shavelson have had
around here filming House
boat" has provided ample IL
lustration of an old Hollywood
defense of itself:
Few people make bad movies
on purpose.
Everyone concerned with this
one, from producer, director
and stars Sophia Loren and
Cary Grant down to that mot
ley crew Of hired extras at the
Watergate Friday night, seems
bent upon making it a good
movie. How successful they will
be depends on how lightly
comic the screenplay by Shaw
elson and Rose is and how sue
cessful the former is in trans
lating it to the pictorial me-
dium.
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HARD WORKING-The an
swer won't be provided for sew
eral months, when movie meets
public. Meanwhile. all hands
are doing their utmost to give
technical excellence to every
scene, to every part of a whole
that now can be seen only in
Shavelson's mind. When a man
riding herd on one of the big
arcs feels he is about to need
a new set of electrodes. he
doesn't wait for a superior to
notice the tell-tale purple tint
in his light. he sings out. When
the man operating the camera
feels that he has PANIED across
a scene too slowly he doesn't