Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-18
HOLLYWOOD
By SHEILAH GRAHAM

ton: Would Richard Burtor
rather travel solo. solitary
alone and unaccompanied Il
Mexico in the fall to make his
Might Of the Iguana" film fol-
Seven Arts Productions? An
other question: Will Elizabeth
Taylor allow him to? And YET
another question: Hasn't Rich
ard m ade arrangements fol
wife Sybil and their two chill
Fdren to visit him in Mexico?
And If he has, the whole thing
makes perfect sense, or doesn't
1t? While Billy Wilder was
in London he signed those two
great actors, Peter O'TOOle and
Peter Sellers, for his Sherlock
Holmes-Dr. Watson movie. Billy
prefers to make his films In
Hollywood, regardless of what
the locale calls for, and the
famous Holmes address in Lon
don's Baker Street will be re-
produced on a Hollywood sound
stage. Sherlock Holmes
follows the current Sellers pic
ture in New York.
= $50
Maybe kim Novak will re-
place Liz Taylor in THE Sand
piper" Her former partner
Marty RanschOff, was talking
to her about it in London.
And it is interesting that Di-
rector Henry Hathaway who
was "let out" of Kim's "Of HUI
man Bondage" film, should be
replacing Frank Capra on Sam
Br0nstOn's Circus" which has
now been postponed until the
late fall in Madrid. With
Rhonda Fleming no longer that
way about Glenn Ford, she has
been dining devotedly with Bev-
erly Hills Stockbroker Dick Ell.
wood, who is repeatedly telling
friends they will wed. And
in Rome, Claudia CardinaIe,s
accent in 1.-THE Pink Panther
was somewhat too thick, and
her dialogue is being redubbed
f. They do say n the pubs
and in Belgravia that another
famous actor name, much ir
the news but not previously
mentioned, will come up in the
Doctor Stephen Ward Christine
Keller case. Nanni Logs
-Four Days Of Naples" wal
thriller was received unfavor-
ably by the London critics, but
the public is flocking to see 1t
This raises the question oil
whether or not a bad review
keeps the public from seeing q
film.
Director Stanley Kubrick
now cutting his intriguing
film, ''Dr. Strangelove, or How
I Learned to Stop Worrying
and Love the Bomb" told me
Half Of the box office result
Is determined by what the pic.
ture sounds like, the rest Il
word Of mouth and the critics
count a little bit. But most
people go to see a film because
their friends like It,"
Sterling Hayden has his first
important role in five years In
DIR. Strangelove." Mr.. Ku-
brick. who has read it, told
me that Hayden's autobiog-
raphy, "Wanderer." is brilliant
ly written. Knopf is publish
ing It in September. EFT could
start an entirely different ca
reer for him. He Is now writ
ing a novel. He has never really
cared for being an actor"
remember thinking this when
the bronzed blond New Eng
lander first came to Hollywood
just before the war, made a
picture with Madeleine Carroll
and married her.
4
Sir Carol Reeds daughter
Tracy has the only woman's
role in the picture with Sterling
and Peter Sellers. She wears a
brief bikini. Some photographs
have already been published in
the British papers. But Sir
Carol has asked, "No more"
Too unidentified, I gather. But
If you are not half-naked, or
altogether so. in a European
picture today, you might just
as well pack UP and go home.
Otto Preminger, looking
sweet and almost cherubic,
stopped at our table to chat
awhile with Mr.. Kubrick and to
tell me that THE Cardinal
will be wrapped up in about
three weeks. The premiere. he
told me, "a big one. will be in
Boston, December II, and you