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success, but the film will translate the play in terms of Vista-
Vision and colour against the setting of the Swiss mountains.
Nigel Patrick and David Tomlinson will star with her, and
besides giving Kathleen Harrison her biggest film role, Paul
Soskin's production will also introduce as a new screen per-
sonality 23-year-old Jill Day. Brighton born Jill is already
known to radio listeners, of course, and television viewers
know how well her appearance matches her pleasing voice.

FRANKIE HOWERD, it seems, is also due for a big film
break, for just recently he has signed a contract with producer
Raymond Stross. Production is due to begin at Pinewood
as soon as Stross has completed his current picture, "An
Alligator Named Daisy".
Six films are planned for Howerd, and producer Stross says
that the aim is to establish Frankie as a major screen
comedian. "He is essentially a visual comic and we will
exploit that quality to the full". Stanley Holloway will also
be in the first film, and other big names, too, I gather.

IT IS perhaps indicative of a significant trend that Dar ryl F.
Zanuck, 20th Century Fox's studio production chief, recently
announced that his company's important properties in the
future would be cast with comparative newcomers in some of
the key roles. And now comes confirmation of this policy in the
news that two young British actresses have been assigned
top roles in new CinemaScope productions. .
Joan Collins is taking the title role in a dramatic true life
story, "The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing", and then there is
newcomer Dana Wynter, who will star in the film of Hamilton
Basso's best-selling novel "The View from Pompey's Head".

AT EALING Studios there are two of our brightest young
stars-George Baker and Belinda Lee- working on "The
Feminine Touch", together with one of our most distinguished
stage actresses- Diana Wynyard. The film , which is being
shot in Technicolor, with Pat J ackson directing, is an adapta-
tion from the novel "A Lamp is Heavy", by the Canadian
authoress Sheila MacKay Russell. Its story, we might put
it, recounts the life, love, laughter and tears of five young
girls who enter a famous London hospital as trainee nurses,
and there will be no lack of authenticity in the background,
evidently, for the ten-weeks' shooting schedule includes work
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