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TJiy Fcair Lady To Be IHlollyvoods Most Costly
By VERNON SCOTT
UPI Hollywood Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD (UPI) An
enormous crystal chandelier
winked its myriad lights down
on Audrey Hepburn and Rex
Harrison for the grand ballioom
scene of "My Fair Lady" when
a hoarse voice shattered tne air,
: "Let's be quiet on the set!"
The voice belonged to George
Cukor, who is directing the
movie version of Broadway's
greatest musical. And he was
shouting at more than 200 ex
tras who milled around under
the lights. Because "My Fair
Lady" is the most costly pic
ture ever made in Hollywood
($17 million), each minute's de
lay on the Warner Bros, stage
wasted tnousanas oi aouari.
" Miss Hepburn and Harrison
held their places at stage cen
ter while Cukor instructed the
extras and bit players on their
assignments. .
The set was brightly illumi
nated, a sunburst of elegant
costumes, extravagant jewelry,
beautiful women and debonair
men. Hair stylists and makeup
, specialists circulated among the
actors.
Ready for another take, Cu
kor called, "Roll 'em,'' and the
action began. Suddenly Eliza
Doolittle and Henry Higgins
came vibrantly alive as Audrey
and Harrison spoke their line"
Relax Between Scenes '
: When the cameras stopped
grinding . the performers re-
, Miss Hepburn smiled brightly
when asked how the picture
was going.
, "Wonderfully," she said. "I
find it more ecstatic than hard
'work. Professionally it's the
grandest thing that ever hap
pened to me."
Harrison, never considered a
superstar before "My Fair
Lady," has the distinction of
being the only actor to star in
two pictures the combined cost
of which is $57 millionVCleo
patra" and "My Fair Lady."
He was asked whether he
thought the picture would
match the New York production
for quality and artistic accom
plishment. - '
"I should certainly hope so,"
he said.
Key Tn Success
Cukor is the key to success
or failure for "My Fair Lady."
H is the most recent of many
distinguished movie directors
who have been put on the spot
in developing a smash Hroaci
way hit Into a smash boxolfice
film.
In the past Hollywood tins
fallen woefully short ot doing
justice to great musicals
"South Pacific," "Carousel,"
"Oklahoma," "Guys and
Dolls," "Gentlmen Prefer
Blondes." No matter how big
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AUDREY HEPBURN STARS
:is shown here flanked by Rex
the studio, how talented the cast
and director, the celluloid inter
pretations fell right on their ca
denzas, at least by comparison
with the stage versions.
In addition to bringing "My
I Fair Lady" to life on screen,
Cukor also is dealing with
Geroge Bernard Shaw fanatics
who will he measuring ine mov
ie against "Pygmalion."
With these things In mind,
Cukor said, "my fondest hope
is to keep the Shawvian wit in
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Screen Star Audrey Hepburn
Harrison (R) and Jeremy Brett
the movie along with the beauty
and romance' of the play. And
I want to make it clear that
we are making a motion pic
ture, not a photographed stage.
play."
Shoots In Continuity
Cukor is shooting in continu
ity, a rare circumstances in
movies. The reason is the dif
ficulty Audrey would have had
transferring her characteriza
tion of Liza back and forth
from the wretched ragamuffin
or a flower girl to the splendid
lady in the latter part of the
laiory.. . .
The director's responsibility is J
awesome, f ilm rights alone
cost $5 '4 million. Miss Hep
burn's salary is $1 million. And
a half million dollars was spent
on costumes alone.
The breath-taking sets cost an
additional million dollars and
occupy all of six cavernous
sound stages. Another stage
houses wardrobe, makeup and
hair styling centers. But great
gobs of money and overwhelm
ing sets nave lanen in me past
to breathe life into a filmed
Broadway musical.
My Fair Lady may be the
exception.
Says Cukor: "We are getting
an absolutely wonderful per
formance from Rex Harrison,
and our girl Audrey is thrilling
as Eliza. We're just about half
way through now, and in all hon
esty I can say the picture is
living up to my dreams."
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Designer Cecil Beaton has
worked on "My Fair Lady" for
more than a year. Rehearsals
with the cast began last June
and the cameras began rolling
last Aug. 12. Production will be
completed near Christmastime
and release in theaters is sched
uled for late next year.
Choreographer Hermes Pan
(his real name), who also work
ed on "Cleopatra," says, "This
is the perfect blend of story,
dance and music.
"There are 24 different music
al sequences, more than in any
otner picture. ,
The question arises, will the
ponderous weight of money, Jav
ish sets, blinding costumes,
huge screen and hundreds of
extras crush out the tender lit
tle love , story of the haughty
English patrician and the beau
tiful guttersnipe?
A resounding, unqualified
"no" is the answer from every
one connected with the picture.
There are many who believe
It will surpass the stage ver
sion. Jack L. Warner, big chief of
the studio, says "My Fair Lady"
is a milestone production for
the whole world of entertain
ment. Naturally, he is not alto
gether objective, but he has
been around longer than any
other studio mogul and knows
his business.
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He says: "The picture Is a
culmination of the great artistic
and technical resources which
we have developed over the
97
years ... We are certain My
Fair Lady will be the finest
motion picture ever made."
It will have to be a humdinger
to match the original.
The musical opened in New
York in March, 1956, and ran
continuously for six and a halt
years, closing after 2,717 per
formances in September of last
year. It broke all records for
musicals. ,
In London it did almost as
well. It endured 2,090 perform
ances from April, 1958, until
I July of this year. Additionally
it has been translated into many
languages for long runs in Ja
pan, Iceland, Mexico, Israel,
Germany and in South America
and Scandinavia.
In the United States is has
almost become a folk classic
of turn-of-the-century England.
It has grossed more than $60
million and sold more than 6
million record albums.
But more importantly, "My'
Fair Lady" evokes a special.
proprietary warmth in the peo
ple who have seen It.
More than anything else it is
this feeling that the movie must
engender. Almost everybody in
Hollywood hopes the picture
will do just that.
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Brazil, 'Giant of South Has Long To
Go in Building Up Industrial System
By JOSEPH SIMS
United Press International
RIO DE JANEIRO (UPI) -
Some of the most beautiful
women of the worm Daine
on Rlo's handsome beaches,
many of them "the national
tvDe" golden, tawny mulat
tos who have the blood of sev
eral races and the innocent sen
suality of carnival gaiety.
Brazil is a racial adventure.
Within one family the father
may have the features of a
Japanese, the mother an Indi
an, a daughter a ugnt SKinnea
Negro and a son blond fair and
blue eyes.
Immigrant waves from Ger
many. Poland, Japan, itaiy ana
other countries have been lured
here by the promise of a
land of plenty.
This huge non-Spanish (most
Brazilians have no idea what a
tamale" or a "taco".is) Latin
American country boasts such
thorough assimilation that ra
cial incidents are practically
unknown.
From the arid, desert ranges
in the northeast to tne pampa
wheat plains of the south, Bra
zil offers variety in other ways.
Its geographic conditions vary
from .the inaccessible, dense
jungle of the Amazon basin, the
high center plateau where the
capital city ot Brasilia was
constructed, to the hilly south
central region where nearly
half of Brazil's population lives.
lives.
Builds Industrial System
Lately. Brazil has been build
ing up an impressive industrial
system to satisfy domestic
needs for television sets and
refrigerators, automobiles and
oil tankers. But the "giant of
the south" Brazil makes up
the eastern coastal bulge of
South America has a long
way to go.
Brazil s mineral ana nyaro-
electrlc potential for the most
part goes untapped because of
poor communications, sparse
population and totally inade
quate transportation.
There are tew pavea roaas in
the interior. The railway sys
tems are ancient and unrelia
ble. Telegrams sent to some in
terior cities take weeks to ar
rive. Foreign exchange earn
ings still depend mainly on raw
materials mostly coffee
where world prices are unsta
ble. Her currency, the cruzeiro,
is one of the world's weakest
and she faces a worsening for
eign trade position.
' Successive governments have
built up a foreign debt of 1.8
billion dollars to United States
and other international lenders.
Her leaders say they are try
ing to curb ' government spend
ing and halt inflation. But so
far they have not been success
ful inflation last year was
more than SO per cent above
the previous year; this year it
is expected to reach over 65
per cent.
Tremendous potential, how
ever, Is tn the country. Brazil
has enormous deposits of man
ganese and iron ore, nickel,
chrome, diamonds, quartz,
tungsten, coal, mica, tantaite
and oil. She has 40,000 miles of
navigable rivers containing
three of the world s five largest
waterfalls) with hydroelectric
potential estimated at 15.5 mil
lion kilowatts.
With U. S. and European
financial help, the country is
planning and building scores of
dams to start harnessing this
potential.
Produces Most Coffee
Brazil exports sugar, rice,
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