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 CASTCharles Shaughnessy ROBERT MITCHUM Father Collins TREVOR HOWARD Major Doryan CHRISTOPHER JONES Michael JOHN MILLS Thomas Ryan LEO McKERN Rosy Ryan SARAH MILES Tim O'Leary BARRY FOSTER Mrs. McCardle MARIE KEAN Mr. McCardle ARTHUR O'SULLIVAN Moureen EVIN CROWLEY Driver DOUGLAS SHELDON Captain GERALD SIM Corporal BARRY JACKSON Lanky Private DES KEOGH O'Keefe NIALL TOIBIN Paddy PHILIP O'FLYNN Moureen's boyfriend DONAL NELIGAN Constable O'Connor BRIAN O'HIGGINS Bernard NIALL O'BRIEN Joseph OWEN SULLIVAN CREDITS Directed by DAVID LEAN Original Screenplay by ROBERT BOLT Produced by ANTHONY HAVELOCK-ALLAN Filmed in Super Panavision® and Metrocolor Director of Photography Freddie Young, B.S.C. Associate Producer Roy Stevens Production Designer Stephen Grimes Original Music Composed and Conducted by Maurice Jarre Second Unit Directors Roy Stevens (Storm) Charles Frend Second Unit Cameramen Denys Coop Bob Huke, B.S.C. Costume Designer Jocelyn Rickards Film Editor Norman Savage Locations and Properties Eddie Fowlie Art Director Roy Walker Assistant Art Director Derek Irvine Set Decorator Josie MacAvin Make-Up Charles Parker Hairstylist A. G. Scott Special Effects Robert MacDonald Chief Electricians Bernie Prentice Roy Rodhouse Construction Peter Dukelow Production Liaison William O'Kelly Production Manager Douglas Twiddy Camera Operator Ernest Day Assistant Directors Pedro Vidal Michael Stevenson Continuity Phyllis Crocker Sound Recording John Bramall Music Recording Eric Tomlinson Sound Editors Winston Ryder Ernie Grimsdale Re-Recording Gordon K. McCallum A Faraway Productions AG Film Presented by METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER Listed on Ten Best Films RYAN'S DAUGHTER is rapidly becoming one of the most honored films in MGM history. It has been named one of the ten best pictures of the year by the following opinion-makers and critics in some of America's most prestigious publications. Judith Crist, New York Magazine and Today Show Rex Reed, Holiday Magazine and Chicago Tribune Syndicate (Best Picture of the Year) Wanda Hale, New York Daily News Bob Thomas, A.P. Vernon Scott, UPI Stewart Klein, WNEW-TV Gene Shalit, NBC-TV Winfred Blevins, Los Angeles Herald Examiner Bruce Bahrenberg, Newark News Newton North, City East Catholic News; John Fitzgerald Bernie Drew, Show Magazine Terry Kay, Atlanta Journal Myron Meisel, University of Chicago, Grey City Journal |
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DAVID LEAN: MASTER CRAFTSMAN AT WORK David Lean, the same director that brought "Doctor Zhivago," "Lawrence of
Arabia" and "Bridge on the River Kwai" to the screen, on location in Ireland
for his latest for MGM, "Ryan's Daughter."MAT NO. 2B RD-X6 David Lean's films have won a total of 25 Academy Awards, among many other critics' and festival honors. His last three brought in over $200 million at the box office. What, one might ask, is the secret of this extraordinary man's success? Says Lean himself: "Film-making is damn hard work, and being a rather lazy person, I like to get very excited about a story before I will work so hard." The statement is typical of this self-effacing Briton whose personal life has remained personal, with none of the flamboyance usually associated with film directors. Lean's reputation as the masterful creator of SPECTACLES like "Doctor Zhivago," "The Bridge on the River Kwai," and "Lawrence of Arabia" tends to obscure his primary skill as a film-maker: that of a painstaking, personal attention to every shot. Even his earliest films, like "Brief Encounter," "Great Expectations," and "Oliver Twist," were distinguished by Lean's intimate control. Robert Mitchum, who stars in Lean's new film "Ryan's Daughter," says that "working with David is like building the Taj Mahal out of toothpicks." If the art of writing consists mostly of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of a desk chair, the same is true of other arts: creativity is nine-tenths labor and one-tenth inspiration. The secret of Lean's success is undoubtedly his fierce dedication, the sheer effort he puts into his work, and his insistence that the scene on film be as good as he can possibly make it. "You can never get on film exactly what you have visualized before shooting starts," he says, "I am very seldom satisfied with what I have done. There are too many variables: the actors are never exactly as you saw them in the script; the sets, costumes, the make-up, and props can be controlled but are seldom exactly what you want, and, of course, for exteriors the weather is an ever-present problem. "Making a movie is like making a mosaic. If you make each little piece as good as you can possibly get it, then the whole thing will be that much better." And this Lean does with a vengeance. As a film-maker he is a consummate craftsman, both within each shot and in the continuity of shots. A former editor, who cut "Pygmalion", among others, Lean's films are beautifully paced, with hidden rhythms slowing or speeding the narrative flow at the proper moments. Film directors are often divided by industry insiders into two categories: those who "know the technical stuff" and those who "are good with actors." The best ones, like Lean, qualify in both respects. Watching Lean work with his actors on a film set is an experience so intimate that one feels like a Peeping Tom. The atmosphere on a David Lean set is always subdued and expectant; there is the feeling that something of value is being put together. One day on the "Ryan's Daughter" location in Ireland, for example, the director was filming a scene between Sarah Miles, who plays the title role, and young American actor Christopher Jones. The location was a wooded glade, crowded with equipment and crewmen. It is the scene in which the two begin a love affair. Both actors were nervous. Instead of shouting instructions from a canvas chair, Lean stood beside them and simply stared into their eyes, each in turn. Then he took them aside separately, his hand on a shoulder, placed his mouth an inch from the actor's ear and whispered some private thought. Presumably, this technique, besides establishing a close director-actor rapport, also created some curiosity in each actor as to what wisdom Lean had imparted to his co-player and heightened the emotional tension of the ensuing scene. When he is filming, Lean almost never relaxes. He is on his feet constantly, either pacing around behind the camera or standing silently beside his actors, lost in thought. Between shots, he races off, sometimes miles away, to locate new camera positions. During one of the most dramatic scenes in "Ryan's Daughter," an Atlantic hurricane which buffets the Irish coast, Lean and his crew filmed 12 hours a day for four days in winds gusting up to 90 m.p.h., so strong in fact that just staying on their feet was a major effort. Lean's amazing physical stamina, which he proved in the jungles of Ceylon for "Kwai," and in the Jordanian desert for "Lawrence," was again the key factor in getting on screen what must be one of the most awesome storms ever filmed. "Ryan's Daughter" took nearly a year to shoot because of Lean's absolute adherence to his film-making standards, but it may be the best film he has ever made. * * * David Lean's film "Ryan's Daughter," an original love story by Robert Bolt, stars Robert Mitchum, Trevor Howard, Christopher Jones, John Mills, Leo McKern, and Sarah Miles in the title role of a passionate young girl who expects more of life and love than her narrow world can offer. Set in 1916 Ireland the MGM presentation was produced by Anthony Havelock-Allan for Faraway Productions AG. Photographed in Super Panavision 70 and Metrocolor by cinematographer Freddie A. Young, "Ryan's Daughter" features Barry Foster in a major supporting role. Maurice Jarre composed the score. |
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SARAH MILES: A WORLD OF HER OWN IN SURREY Sarah Miles stars in the title role of "Ryan's Daughter" as a dream-ridden
girl living in a remote, tiny Irish village, but she aspires to greater
things. RD-52 MAT NO. 1A Actress Sarah Miles lives in a world of her own. Not that she's out of her head, or a recluse. It's simply that she has created her own happy environment, surrounded by the things she loves best: her husband, writer Robert Bolt, and their three-year-old son Thomas; five horses, four dogs, and a stately home beside one of rural England's loveliest rivers. When she married Robert four years ago, Sarah wanted to change her professional name. The Actors Guild refused her, saying she was too well-known as Sarah Miles. But in private she is very much Mrs. Bolt. The Bolts live in an imposing brick home called Mill House, built during the Queen Anne period and situated beside the River Wye in Byfleet Surrey, 45 minutes drive from London. Next to the house is the old mill from which the house takes its name where Bolt reads and writes in a study designed for him by Sarah in the style of a sea captain's cabin. The rushing of the Wye beneath the mill indeed gives the feeling that the study is afloat. The Bolts spent ten months in Ireland in 1969 working on David Lean's new film "Ryan's Daughter," for which Robert wrote the screenplay and in which Sarah plays the title role. During the time in Ireland, Bolt wrote a new play, "Vivat! Vivat Regina!" It is now a smash hit in London's West End and stars the versatile Miss Miles as Mary Queen of Scots. Even when she is not involved in a film or a play, Sarah is constantly busy. While Robert writes in the study in the morning, she heads for her stables, about 100 yards from Mill House, to curry and feed the horses and clean out their stalls. Sarah always has plenty of company. Young Thomas, Addo the huge Pyreneean Mountain dog, Arthur the Old English sheepdog, Gladys the terrier, and Betty the mongrel are always at her side. Sarah does all the work, pleasant and dirty alike. She prefers to do what normally would be a groom's chores herself. "I'm not the sort of horse breeder who never touches a horse," she says. After the stable chores are done, Sarah saddles up her favorite mare and goes for a ride, often with Thomas in front of her. By the time she returns to the stable, it is time for lunch, spread in summer on a long table beneath a 300-year-old fir tree. Cold-cuts, salad, fresh bread, and chilled white wine are Bolt staples. Robert joins her. After lunch, Sarah changes from the T-shirt and jeans she prefers for working with the horses to a pair of suede pants, a loose-fitting blouse (Sarah likes the "no-bra" look), and one of her collection of large, floppy hats. If the day is warm and sunny, she and Robert may take a cruise down the River Wye in an outboard while young Thomas naps in the house. They may go as far as the point where the Wye joins the River Thames. In late afternoon, they're back at Mill House, Sarah to work on her redecoration plans for the house and to read a new filmscript a producer has sent her, Robert to continue his writing. Both Robert and Sarah enjoy solitude and loathe urban life. "Even though we're some distance from London," says Robert, I'm afraid we're slowly being surrounded by civilization. I'm thinking of looking for a place out in Devonshire where the jet noise and the highways have yet to encroach." In the meantime, though, Mill House provides a relatively quiet haven for one of the most talented couples in show business. |
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HAYLEY MILLS MEETS A FAMILIAR MONSTER Hayley Mills shrieked with mock horror at the creature who confronted her on the set of David Lean's new film "Ryan's Daughter", in County Kerry, Ireland. The creature was a small, misshapen man in tattered clothing. He walked with a limp and when he opened his mouth to speak, only gutural noises came from behind his crooked teeth. "Dad," exclaimed the pretty young actress, "what have they done to you?" The creature was British film star John Mills, who plays the most unusual role of his long career in "Ryan's Daughter": an unfortunate named Michael whose animal-like eyes are witness to everything that happens in the village of Kirrary, where screenwriter Robert Bolt's story takes place. "There's only thing, though, Dad," Hayley interjected. "Next time someone tells me I look just like you, I won't know quite what to say." For the first time in his career, Mills did not have a single line to speak. "It's an extraordinary part," says John. "Everything had to be conveyed by facial expression and gestures. I enjoyed the character immensely." On completion of her starring role in "Take a Girl Like You", Hayley had joined her parents at their rented cottage near the fishing village of Dingle for a short family reunion. John and his wife authoress Mary Hayley Bell, lived there during filming. Hayley's brother Jonathan, a red-head like his mother, was working as one of David Lean's assistant directors. Juliet, the Mills' elder daughter, stars in the U.S. TV series "Nanny and the Professor" and lives in Los Angeles. Besides starring in David Lean's latest film, John Mills has also played leading roles in four other Lean successes: "In Which We Serve", the director's first film, "This Happy Breed", "Great Expectations", and "Hobson's Choice". The Mills family is one of the most closely-knit in show business. Hayley made her film debut in 1959 opposite her father in "Tiger Bay", and the father-daughter team have since co-starred in "The Chalk Garden", "The Truth About Spring", and "The Family Way". John also directed his daughter in "Sky West and Crooked". Mary Hayley Bell is the literary member of the family. After an initial career as an actress before World War II, she turned to writing for the stage. Her plays, many starring husband John, were staples of the London theatre for two decades. Mary's play "Whistle Down the Wind" was turned into a film by Bryan Forbes, his first as a director, and starred Hayley. Obviously, the talented Mills clan is a happy answer to those who say that careers and family don't mix. |
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HOLLYWOOD'S LONE WOLF- CHRISTOPHER JONES  Christopher Jones stars in David Lean's film as a young officer back from
the front who falls in love with "Ryan's Daughter" even though she's already
married.
MAT NO. 1B RD-67Christopher Jones, star of David Lean's film "Ryan's Daughter," is a lone wolf - because he prefers it that way. He has been accused of turning a cold shoulder to other actors, members of the crew, almost anyone he comes in contact with. While on location in Dingle, Ireland, where "Ryan's Daughter" filmed, a trip of several hours' duration from any major city, the few hardy reporters who made the trip were often confined to polite talk about the rain (it is nearly always raining in Dingle) with Jones. During his entire stay of several months, the only person who was able to carry on much of a conversation with the young star, was his actress-girl friend, Olivia Hussey, who spent most of the summer with him. The only other persons who share his confidence are his personal mangers, Stuart Cohen and Rudolph Altobelli. Much of Jones' attitude can be attributed to his unhappy childhood. His mother died when the boy was five years old and he was raised in a Tennessee orphange. Frightened and alone, he continually tried to run away and was labeled by the strict institution, a "rebel." Drafted by the army, Jones lost his rebel attitude and became something of a recluse. After the army, he went to New York intending to be a doctor. He met Susan Strasberg instead, and married her. Her world-famous father Lee, founder of Actors Studio, which produced Marlon Brando, Paul Newman and James Dean, coached his new son-in-law and he became a proficient actor. The couple has one daughter, and they are separated. Cast in the role of "Jesse James," Jones began a film career that quickly won him leads in "Wild In The Streets" as a teen rock idol who is elected president, and "Three In The Attic." Impressed by his rapid rise, director Frank Pierson signed Jones for a lead in "The Looking Glass War." This single role became the turning point in the young star's career. While it was still shooting, David Lean saw footage of it and immediately decided that his search for the wounded soldier in "Ryan's Daughter" was over. The director had already interviewed more than 70 male leads and none of them impressed him enough even to ask for a second look, but with Jones, Lean was smitten! "I couldn't take my eyes off him," the director recalls now, "That's part of the magic of whatever a 'star personality' is, if you are compelled to watch them on the screen." Lean's eye for talent raised Julie Christie, Omar Sharif, Peter O'Toole, and Alec Guinness, among others, from obscurity to stardom with one film. Jones has a definite knack for impressing directors. Before leaving for Rome for the "Ryan's Daughter" stint, producer Dino de Laurentiis gave him a new silver-grey ferrari as a reward for his performance in "Brief Season." On the set with Sarah Miles, Robert Mitchum, Leo McKern, John Mills, and Trevor Howard, Jones fit perfectly into the role of a British army major wounded on the Western Front. The soldier is given a sop by his superiors, a remote garrison on Ireland's Atlantic coast, where he soon enters into an adulterous affair with the village schoolmaster's wife. Lean is excited about the performance of Jones and feels that his confidence was well-founded. Even though Christopher Jones might not be the ideal screen star to interview, this is really a small problem. He has proven he has the stuff stars are made of the secret blend of film presence and talent that only the super stars, the Gables, Deans, and Newmans understand. |
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LEO McKERN: TALENTED ACTOR Leo McKern stars as the pub-keeper Tom Ryan whose daughter Rosy is the focal
point of David Lean's love story for MGM, "Ryan's Daughter." RD-57 MAT NO. 1D Amidst the trawlers and lobster boats that dotted the harbor of little Dingle, Ireland, a 33-foot Bermudian sloop named "Nutkin" rode proudly at anchor safe in the knowledge that she was the sleekest craft on the water. Her owner and skipper is Australian actor Leo McKern, star of such hits as "A Man For All Seasons", "Help", and "King and Country", who lived in Dingle while shooting his starring role in David Lean's new film for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, "Ryan's Daughter". "Ryan's Daughter", written by Robert Bolt and produced by Anthony Havelock-Allan, also stars Robert Mitchum, Trevor Howard, Christopher Jones, John Mills, and Sarah Miles. Bolt's story is set in a remote Irish village in 1916 and concerns a young girl, played by Sarah Miles, going through what Bolt calls "the whole tragic-comic business of growing up, of adjusting your asiprations to reality without abandoning them altogether". Leo McKern plays the girl's doting father, Tom Ryan, whose worship of her has made her willful and heedless. As owner of the village pub Ryan is also an informer for the British, and brings tragedy to his daughter. McKern, who grew a bristling beard for his part, took full advantage of the seaside film location on his days off. His rented four-bedroom cottage sits beside Dingle Harbor in a golden field of wild iris. From his back door it was just a short walk and a 200-yard dinghy ride to "Nutkin's" anchorage. Nearby is a neolithic standing stone erected by a primitive culture over 3,000 years ago. "The marvelous thing about an extended period of location filming," says 49-year old Leo, "is that I can have the whole family with me and we can all share the experience of living in a fascinating spot we might otherwise never visit". Leo's wife, former Australian actress Jane Holland, managed the McKern household which included their daughters, Abigail, 15, and Ginny, 4, and Rollo the Golden Labrador. Shep, a local sheepdog, was an adopted member of the family. "Jane and the girls like to take the odd trip with me on 'Nutkin'," Leo says, "but Rollo is really my most enthusiastic shipmate." McKern, whose great-grandfather emigrated to Australia from Limmerick, is well-liked by the townspeople of Dingle, most of whom are seafaring folk. "Leo is a man of the sea," says pub-keeper and trawler-owner Paddy Bawn Brosnan. "I know he's a film actor, but I've never seen any of his pictures, so I'm not impressed by his fame or anything. All I know is that he's like us, and that's enough for me." When he finished filming "Ryan's Daughter", Leo sailed "Nutkin" back to her berth in England's Hamble River to prepare her for a long cruise before his next acting assignment. Not as far as Australia, however. "I love the sea," says Leo, "but I'm no Francis Chichester." |
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ROBERT MITCHUM HOLLYWOOD'S FIRST HIPPIE As a mild, but seemingly worldly schoolmaster, Robert Mitchum stars as the
man "Ryan's Daughter" marries in the new David Lean story of love from MGM.
MAT NO. 1C RD-56Robert Mitchum was a hippie 25 years before the word was invented. In his own inimitable way, he still is. Mitchum himself denies the letter of that judgment, while confirming its substances: "Hippies call themselves freaks, but movie stars are the biggest freaks of all. Hell, your eyeball is ten feet high on that screen. The people out front really think you amount to something. That's pretty freaky "Yeah, I'm a movie star. My fascinating life history is so many golden horse droppings. To compensate for the indignity of being a freak, they put flowers in your dressing room on the first day of shooting. I've played everything but women and dogs. If it fits between pie crusts, I do it." The Mitchum rhetoric is an almost impenetrable defensive wall against all potential invaders of his private self. He uses language outrageously, even in casual conversation, mixing obscenity, vivid metaphor, and obscure phrases meaningful only to himself in almost equal measure. Nothing is sacred to his withering wit. "There's a great show on television. It keeps coming back every season, so the ratings must be good. They call it the Vietnam war. When television realizes it is possible to devote as much time to art as to war, I may watch it. Meantime, it is where it rightfully belongs - in the hands of children." Mitchum's tough talk softens somewhat when he is questioned about his latest film, "Ryan's Daughter," directed by David Lean, of "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Doctor Zhivago" fame. In it he plays what is for him a most unusual role: a shy, good-natured schoolteacher. It may be the best thing he has ever done in films. "David Lean sent me a copy of the script, by Robert Bolt, nearly two years ago. I read it and found it literate, lyrical, something to dwell on. Then Bolt called and asked me whether I would play the part. I said 'I would love to, but I am planning to commit suicide.' And Bolt said 'If you would care to simply postpone your plan until after the film is completed, David and I would be happy to bear the expense of your funeral. So I went to Ireland." "Ryan's Daughter" is an original love story by Bolt and only his fourth screenplay. Like Lean, he has won two Academy Awards. The MGM film stars Mitchum, Trevor Howard, Christopher Jones, John Mills, Leo McKern, and Sarah Miles in the title role. "Working with David Lean," says Mitchum, "is like building a Rolls Royce with your bare hands. He is so meticulous, he made me feel like an amateur. Nothing escapes him. Of course his method of making films isn't exactly the quickest way. We were in some place called Dingle for a year. But his films are indeed the Rolls Royces of the screen, so I guess it's worth it in the end." Asked about his performance, Mitchum is typically evasive. "Am I good in the film? That's like asking an old whore if she enjoyed it. Who can tell?" Apparently David Lean himself can. "Bob is absolutely marvelous in 'Ryan's Daughter.' I've wanted to use him in a film ever since I saw him in Laughton's 'The Night of the Hunter.' Bob's a bloody good actor whose talent has seldom been fully utilized." Like the man from Missouri, movie audiences will wait to be shown. But if Mitchum is as good as they say, he may have to reconsider his recently announced (for the fifth, or is it the sixth, time?) retirement from the screen. "Oh, no," he protests. "I like going to seed. It's the only way." |
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PRODUCER HAVELOCK-ALLAN REJOINS DAVID LEAN AFTER 25 YEARS  Anthony Havelock-Allan, producer of "Ryan's Daughter".MAT NO. 1E AL-1 After 25 years of going their separate and successful ways, David Lean and Anthony Havelock-Allan have joined forces once more. "Ryan's Daughter," the MGM presentation directed by Lean and produced by Havelock-Allan, is their sixth film together, but the first since Lean's superb adaptation of Dickens' classic "Great Expectations" in 1946. "It's marvelous to be working with David again," says the tall, distinguished-looking producer, "and I honestly think that 'Ryan's Daughter' is the best picture he's ever made." "David's two best qualities as a director are his ability to accurately visualize a particular environment and his talent for extracting the best performances of which his actors are capable. He does both these things with equal facility and in proper relation to one another. The result is a film which is intimate in its revelation of character and yet has scope and universality as well." Havelock-Allan first entered the film industry in 1933 as a casting director and rose quickly to producer two years later on Paramount quota pictures. As associate producer with Noel Coward on "In Which We Serve," Havelock-Allan began his association with Lean. The dramatic story of a destroyer in World War II was Lean's first film as a director and turned out to be one of the finest dreams of the war years. In 1943, Lean, Havelock-Allan, cameraman Ronald Neame formed their own film-producing company, Cineguild. Continuing the relationship with Noel Coward begun by "In Which We Serve," Cineguild, with Lean directing and Havelock-Allan as associate producer, made "This Happy Breed," "Blithe Spirit," and "Brief Encounter," all from Coward plays. "This Happy Breed," a portrait of a lower middle-class English family's progress through the twenty years between world wars, prefigured in historical scope if not in setting, Lean's later films of men and women whose lives are impinged upon by great events: "Doctor Zhivago" and "Ryan's Daughter," for example. While Cineguild was not particularly happy with "Blithe Spirit," they recouped with "Brief Encounter," a screenplay adapted by Lean, Havelock-Allan and Neame from Coward's one-act play "Still Life." Lean's taut direction of "Brief Encounter" created two brilliant performances by stars Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson as the parting lovers and the film is still considered one of the highlights of British cinema. Cineguild moved into more costly and complex production with the two Dickensian adaptations, "Great Expectations" and "Oliver Twist." Much of the success of these two films can be attributed to Lean's immaculate sense of period in re-creation of the 19th Century settings. Havelock-Allan, along with Lean and Neame, was twice nominated Best Screenplay Academy Awards, for "Brief Encounter" and "Great Expectations. In 1948, Havelock-Allan formed his own independent company, Constellation Films Ltd., and went on to produce an impressive string of feature films, among them Anthony Asquith's "Orders to Kill," Brendan Behan's "The Quare Fellow," Sir Laurence Olivier's "Othello," and, recenty, the immensely popular screen version of "Romeo and Juliet," directed by Franco Zeffirelli and starring Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting. Havelock-Allan also produced and co-directed "An Evening with the Royal Ballet." Does this veteran producer find working with David Lean in the Seventies very different from working with him in the Forties? "Yes, naturally. We were fortunate enough to have a larger budget than we ever had during the Cineguild days and therefore can realize more ambitious production plans. But we're also fortunate that David's self-discipline is, if anything, stricter than it was then. So, even though we are certainly working on a larger scale, David's control is also proportionately greater. He is as dedicated an artist as there is." |
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"SO YOU WANT TO BE AN ACTOR?" TREVOR HOWARD  Trevor Howard stars in "Ryan's Daughter" as the village priest.MAT NO. 1G RD-62 So you want to be an actor? You say the lustrous life of a film star is for you? You can, without much difficulty, envision yourself arriving at premieres in a chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce with your initials on the side, or lolling in a kidney-shaped swimming pool beside your forty-room villa? Perhaps, but the actualities of a movie star's life today are somewhat different: Though the rewards are still rich, the halycon days of Garbo and Gable, when the roughest thing a big star had to do was fight a morning-after hangover and actors almost never ventured beyond the civilized confines of a studio, are, for better or worse, gone forever. Take, for example, an incident that occurred on the set of MGM's "Ryan's Daughter", directed by David Lean on the remote western coast of Ireland and starring Robert Mitchum, Trevor Howard, Christopher Jones, John Mills, Leo McKern, and Sarah Miles. Two of the stars of the film, renowned British actors Trevor Howard and John Mills, were called upon to row a curragh - a feather-light canoe-like boat of tarred canvas stretched over a wood frame - from 100 yards offshore in the Atlantic directly toward shore, where Lean's camera was placed. There was no question of doubles being used, since the actors had to disembark from the boat and pull it right up to the camera. Howard, who is 54, and Mills, 61, had trained for several weeks before filming to master the tricky art of rowing a round-bottomed curragh. Both men were in superb physical shape and had had ample past experience on the sea, both professionally and privately. Mills, in fact, became Britain's favorite sailor during World War II for his performances in naval films like Lean's "In Which We Serve", "We Dive at Dawn", "Above Us the Waves", and "Dunkirk". Howard too had had considerable experience afloat for such films as "The Way Ahead", "The Key" and MGM's "Mutiny on the Bounty". Coumeenoole Cove, where the MGM presentation produced by Anthony Havelock-Allan for Faraway Productions AG, was being filmed, is known for its cross-currents, which race between the mainland and the Great Blasket Islands, causing almost constant, unpredictable turbulence. On the first take of the curragh scene, the two stars pulled on their oars, caught in an incoming wave, headed toward the camera, and disembarked. No sooner had they done so than a wave broke behind them and turned the boat sideways, filling it with water and slamming it broadside into the beach. Howard and Mills were sent sprawling into the shallows and swallowed some sea-water before being helped to their feet by the crew. Both were willing to continue, though they might have had second thoughts if they could have foreseen what was in store for them on the second take. An hour later, when the boat had been emptied of water and re-floated, the actors shoved off once more and waited 100 yards offshore for the director's signal. As David Lean shouted "Action!"; Howard and Mills began rowing the frail curragh toward shore through tenfoot rollers. The craft rose up on the crest of a slow-breaking wave, its bow high and surfed beautifully toward the Panavision camera. Suddenly, as if from nowhere, a 20-foot wall of water struck the boat on the port quarter, lifted it up like a toy, and flipped it upside down. Trevor Howard was thrown through the air and hit the sandy bottom, but came quickly to the surface. John Mills was less fortunate. The starboard gunwhale of the curragh came crashing down on his head and left shoulder, knocking him unconscious and trapping him under the overturned boat. Rescuers, trailing safety lines, swarmed into the 42-degree water and dragged the two actors ashore. Mills' limp figure was placed on a stretcher, carried up a 100-foot cliff to an ambulance, and taken to a hospital in Dingle. He regained consciousness after about ten minutes and X-rays showed only a slight brain concussion. Three days later, nursing painful shoulder bruises which had prevented him from sleeping, Mills was cheerful nonetheless. "I was very lucky," he said. "If the sea had been just a bit worse, or the boat had struck me at a slightly different angle, I might not be here today." Trevor Howard's reaction was predictable. "In the old days," he said, "we used to do this sort of thing in studio tanks and the special effects men whipped up the waves." |
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STAR WITH 100 PICTURES WINS FIRST OSCAR  John Mills in his Academy Award winning role of Michael, a deformed village
cretin, in "Ryan's Daughter." MAT NO. 1F RD-66David Lean's film, "Ryan's Daughter," marks the fifth time actor John Mills has worked with the director, but the first time he has won the coveted Academy Award. As a speechless idiot, in "Ryan's Daughter," his performance was so compelling, he was voted the Best Supporting Actor of 1970. His previous four films for Lean, "In Which We Serve," "This Happy Breed," "Great Expectations," and "Hobson's Choice," have all become movie classics. Mills respects the talents of Lean so much, he once told a reporter, "I would appear in one of his films, if all I had to do was open a door." Speaking of his Oscar, Mills recently said, "I think both David and I won this honor." As the village cretin in "Ryan's Daughter," Mills played the role without once speaking a word, a remarkable feat, considering the fact he was once the most popular commanding officer in wartime British films, and once gave a monologue in a picture lasting 10 minutes! Under several layers of makeup, which gave his face a pitiful and grotesque appearance, Mills toiled for a period of 14-months with director David Lean to create the character of Michael, an idiot in a small Irish village. With more than 100 films behind him, Mills feels his part in "Ryan's Daughter" was the greatest of his career. "And," he adds with a wink, "the one that took me the longest to film!" With him during most of the location stint, was his actress-wife, Mary Hayley Bell. A stage star in her own right, Mary gave up the theatre after her marriage to John, to devote her time to her new husband and writing. One of her most successful novels, "Whistle Down the Wind," was also a successful play, and later a movie, which became a hit throughout Britain in 1963. She wrote of the Mills family life, in "What Shall We Do Tomorrow?" which also enjoyed great popularity in England, and still sells briskly. Another novel by Mary, "Bats with Baby Faces," was turned into a film which starred Hayley. Hayley later went on to became a Walt Disney star, and is now a celebrated actress of great maturity. Her first screen appearance was opposite her father in "Tiger Bay." Juliet Mills, another member of the theatrical clan is the star of the popular TV show, "Nanny and the Professor." Jonathan Mills, a son, was given the assignment of third assistant director on "Ryan's Daughter" by Lean, who was impressed with his knowledge of motion picture technique. Other famous starring roles the actor has done over the years, which have made him one of the Deans of British and American films are the original "Goodbye Mr. Chips," "The History of Mr. Polly," "Scott of the Antarctic," "Around The World in 80 Days," "War and Peace," "Swiss Family Robinson," "The Family Way," and "Oh, What a Lovely War." It was a chance decision when he was fired as a door-to-door salesman, that led him to try acting, shortly after leaving high school. He has never regretted the decision, or thought about seeking any other type of work. For John Mills, there can be only one occupation, the one which won him the coveted Academy Award Oscar. |
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FREDDIE A. YOUNG - PREMIERE CINEMATOGRAPHER Cinematographer Freddie Young, who won his third Academy Award for his
camera work on David Lean's film for MGM, "Ryan's Daughter." Young won two
previous Oscars for "Doctor Zhivago" and "Lawrence of Arabia," both films
directed by Lean. MAT NO. 2C FY-2Freddie A. Young, whose stunning camera work on David Lean's film, "Ryan's Daughter," won him the coveted Academy Award for Best Cinematography, won his first two Oscars with Lean directed films, "Lawrence of Arabia," and "Doctor Zhivago." Even though he began his film career in silent movies, Young has come into special prominence in the last decade through his association with David Lean. Now a living legend throughout the film industry, Young is still ready to follow Lean to any part of the globe - at a moment's notice. Following in the footsteps of Lean is no easy task as Young can testify. The cameraman spent nine grueling months in the blistering desert heat of the Middle-East filming "Lawrence of Arabia," went 400-miles north of the Arctic Circle for key scenes in "Doctor Zhivago," and worked for more than a year in rain drenched Ireland on the wind swept west coast. During the production of "Lawrence," Young had a force of 1000 camels and riders to contend with which often required a full day to get into position for one shot, in addition to the heat and sand which caused havoc with delicate movie cameras and sensitive film. In Finland, where many scenes from "Doctor Zhivago" were made, the temperatures dropped to 30 below, increasing the difficulties of photographing actors against a brilliant white background. The production of "Ryan's Daughter" which was filmed entirely on location, over a period of 14 months, was one of the most ambitious assignments Young was ever given. An entire village of 40 structures was constructed on the remote and wild Dingle Peninsula, the furthest point of Europe thrusting westward into the cold waters of the Atlantic. Young assembled a talented crew of technical experts to help him film one of the climactic scenes from "Ryan’s Daughter," a storm off the Atlantic whose gale force winds reached 80 mph. Using a special device he created himself, Young was able to actually focus his camera directly into the storm - something that had been impossible before. Stars of the film, Robert Mitchum, Trevor Howard, Christopher Jones, John Mills, Leo McKern and Sarah Miles, all had lavish praise for the cinematographer who was frequently forced to work under extremely difficult conditions - yet made each scene of the movie a masterpiece. Truly a master of the wide screen technique of movie making, Freddie A. Young has carved a secure niche for himself in the world of cinematography - which puts him in the front rank of camera immortals, an honor he richly deserves. |
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JOCELYN RICKARDS Jocelyn Rickards has never thought of herself as a designer of actors' outfits because, as she explains, "many people think costume designing is simply putting clothes on an actor. But in fact it is dressing the character in something that is right for the part. Costumes are a vital part of character portrayal. If they are right, they can help the actor. If not, they can hinder his characterization." However modest Jocelyn is about her work, she is considered by such experts as David Lean, director of "Doctor Zhivago" and "Lawrence of Arabia," to be one of the most influential costume designers working in films. For "Ryan's Daughter," Lean's latest film, the director asked Jocelyn to create costumes of the 1916 era for an entire village in rural Ireland. This included military and religious garb, as well as clothing for school children and the stars, Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Trevor Howard, Christopher Jones, John Mills, and Leo McKern. She was restricted in her use of pretty materials and flamboyant styles because these would not have been in keeping with the character of life in that part of Ireland. Yet they had to be expressive. It was her most challenging assignment, but the results delighted David Lean, a tireless perfectionist whose last three films have won 25 Oscars and many more nominations. Much of the bra-less look of today's fashion houses was pioneered by Jocelyn in Antonioni's modern classic "Blow-Up" when she costumed Vanessa Redgrave in a loosely revealing blouse. Previously she had designed costumes for "The Knack" and these were so well-received that three different fashion houses bought collections based on her designs. But as forward-looking as she is with contemporary themes, she has the artist's desire to seek new frontiers with historical costume dramas, like MGM's "Alfred the Great." Even though she was already a success in Melbourne, Australia, her birthplace, as a painter, Jocelyn yearned for different things and, in typical fashion, she bought a one-way ticket to London where she has lived ever since. |
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 Two-time Oscar winner David Lean (foreground) preparing for filming the
spectacular storm on the coast of Ireland seen in his latest film for MGM,
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the original MGM sound track album Ryan's Daughter A story of love filmed by David Lean The MGM Soundtrack Album, with music composed by award winning Maurice Jarre, has already become a runaway best seller. An MGM Single, featuring Eddie Gorme singing a rendition of "Rosy's Theme" from the film is also immensely popular. Take these steps to plan a successful...See the film...Hear The Music Promotion: 6 ways to benefit your engagement... 1 Contact your regional MGM Record Advertising/Promotion Representative to set window displays in music stores, department stores and other outlets. A special display piece, pictured on this page, is available FREE, and should be used along with one sheets, stills, etc. 2 Check with your local DJ's to be sure they have copies of the Soundtrack and the "Rosy's Theme" single. You might want to prepare a special herald, for distribution in local record outlets, with the cost shared by a leading radio station. Many radio stations, now publish a weekly "Top 40...or Pick Hit List", that you may secure space promoting the music and film. 3 Call your leading juke box operators, and be sure they are using the single on their machines. 4 Present copies of the Album to newspaper amusement editors and music editors. 5 Leading music stores, may co-op an ad promoting the film and the MGM Album. This promotion should be coordinated with your regional MGM Record Advertising/Promotion representative. 6 A limited number of MGM Albums and singles should be used for radio or newspaper contests. Check with your MGM Record Advertising/Promotion representative for his assistance in setting up a radio promotion for the music. The following is a list of the MGM Record Advertising/Promotion Representatives is as follows: ATLANTA, GEORGIA Larry King 1073 Huff Road (404) 351-4821 BALTIMORE, MD. Joe Bilello 1101 Desoto (301) 644-2900 BOSTON, MASS. Arthur Katz 30 Nashua St. Woburn, Mass. (617) 935 4700 BUFFALO, N.Y. James Taylor 1790 Main St. (716) 882-0427 CHARLOTTE, N.C. Mike Lawing 2212 W. Morehead St. (704) 394-4391 CHICAGO, ILL. Bob Ruttenberg Vic Perrotti 2623 N. Pulaski Rd. (312) 342-6600 DALLAS, TEXAS Frank Anderson 1411 Roundtable Dr. (214) 637-1921 DENVER, COLORADO Sandy Siler 1111 S. Platte River Dr. (303) 733-7203 DETROIT, MICH. Stu Grant 2211 W. Edsel Ford FWY (313) 361-5500 GREAT FALLS, MONT. Dudley James 316 Sixth Ave. S. (406) 761-2420 HARTFORD, CONN. Bob Greenberg 734 Tolland St. (203) 289-8631 HONOLULU, HAWAII Irv Pinensky 2071 S. Beretania St. 246-6522 LOS ANGELES, CALIF. Del Roy 1555 W. Rosecrans Ave. (213) 770-8200 MIAMI, FLA. Skip Schrieber 7250 N.W. 36th Ave. (305) 691-3140 MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Jim Nash 4600 W. 77th St. (612) 920-9177 NASHVILLE, TENN. Gene Amonette 1019 S. 6th St. (615) 256-6208 NEW ORLEANS, LA. Ray Malinda 1924 Lafayette St. (504) 522-1157 NEW YORK, NEW YORK Jerry Dubior 536 Broad Hollow Rd. (516) 694-8990 Barry Resnick 43-42 10th St. (212) 786-9637 NEWARK, NEW JERSEY Jerry Winston 37 Williams St. (201) 623-5845 PHILADELPHIA, PA. Joe Fiorentino 919 N. Broad St. (215) 232-3333 ST. LOUIS, MO. Glen Bruder 1815 Locust St. (314) 621-7171 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF Marty Dahl 868 Cowan Rd. (415) 697-6800 SEATTLE, WASH. Dan Holiday 729 S. Fidalgo (206) 763-8600 SHREVEPORT, LA. Ronnie Lewis 728 Texas St. (318) 422-7182 n.y.-l.a. premieres Press from leading cities throughout the United States and Canada attended the New York Premiere at the Ziegfeld Theatre or the Los Angeles Premiere at the Pacific Beverly Hills Theatre. The numerous premiere activities included interviews with the stars, director and producer, along with many of the other personalities behind the cameras. The numerous interviews from these premieres resulted in feature stories throughout the United States and Canada, to assist in pre-selling "RYAN'S DAUGHTER" in all major cities. radio interviews A series of outstanding radio interviews, available complete and open-end for local commentary with script, were made on location in Ireland. The interviews run an average of seven minutes, however can be edited to fit local programming. These interviews were scheduled in cities worldwide for initial engagements in addition to being broadcast by ABC, CBS, Mutual radio networks, Voice of America, and over 500 college radio stations. The interviews now available for use in your city, feature David Lean, Robert Bolt, Robert Mitchum, John Mills, Trevor Howard, and Sarah Miles. Order these FREE direct from: DICK STROUT, INC. P.O. Box 907 Beverly Hills, California 90213 sound on film programs Two special one hour programs have been made by "Sound On Film" entitled "A LEAN PORTRAIT" and "A CONVERSATION WITH ROBERT BOLT". These programs have been scheduled on over 100 college radio stations throughout the United States, to coincide with local engagements. These programs, complete with transcript, are available FREE, for broadcast on your local college stations from: SOUND ON FILM Erwin Frankel Productions 49 King Street New York, New York nationwide tours The stars, director, producer, and many of the talented persons behind the cameras toured the United States and Canada from coast to coast visiting press, appearing on television shows, taping radio interviews, and visiting college campuses and civic groups. Tours started early in October and continued through December with eleven personalities visiting over thirty cities. Several of the stars appeared on network television shows such as the TONITE SHOW, MERV GRIFFIN, DICK CAVETT, MIKE DOUGLAS, and KUP'S SHOW. composers corner An outstanding one hour radio program, entitled "Composers Corner" features musical interludes from the soundtrack, between conversation with the composer of the film score, Maurice Jarre, who won Academy Awards for his two previous scores for David Lean films, "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Doctor Zhivago". The "Composers Corner" was originally serviced to over 300 leading good music and FM stations, however now is available FREE for local broadcast in conjunction with your playdate. Order direct: DICK STROUT, INC. P.O. Box 907 Beverly Hills, California 90213 |
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Highlights of David Lean's film Special displays featuring mounted photos of previous David Lean films, along with large cut-outs of the stars of "Ryan's Daughter", have been displayed in city hall, libraries, and museums in leading cities in conjunction with initial engagements. Contact your MGM regional Advertising/Promotion Manager to plan a display in your city. The opening of a motion picture the stature of David Lean's "RYAN'S DAUGHTER" should be a noteworthy local event - one that requires careful planning of an advertising, publicity and promotion campaign that will generate momentum and set house records starting on opening night. Contact your regional MGM Advertising/Promotion Manager for his assistance - he is ready to work for you! MGM Advertising/Promotion Managers... KARL FASICK MGM, Inc. 665 Boylston St. Boston, Mass. 02116 (617) 267-9075 STEVE SEGAL MGM, Inc. 1775 Broadway New York, N.Y. 10036 (212) 246-6200 DON DAVIDSON MGM, Inc. 1612 Market St. Philadelphia, Pa. 19103 (215) 567-5150 JERRY MARTIN MGM, Inc. 136 Marietta St., NW Atlanta, Ga. 30303 (404) 523-1851 DAVID FORBES MGM, Inc. 2310 Cass Ave. Detroit, Mich. 48201 (313) 963-6621 LARRY DIECKHAUS MGM, Inc. 550 W. Jackson Blvd. Chicago, Ill. 60606 (312) 372-5313 GARY JOHNSON MGM, Inc. 539 N. Grand Blvd. St. Louis, Mo. 63101 (314) 533-0201 MIKE GERETY MGM, Inc. 1907 Elm St. Dallas, Texas 75201 (214) 741-3071 JUDSON MOSES MGM, Inc. 8500 Wilshire Blvd. Beverly Hills, Ca. 90211 (213) 657-6800 WALTER VON HAUFFE MGM, Inc. 3360 Geary Blvd. San Francisco, Ca. 94118 (415) 387-8626 HILDA CUNNINGHAM MGM Pictures of Canada 696 Yonge St. Toronto, Canada (416) 924-7101 theatre trailer... The theatre trailer, available from NSS, should be scheduled well in advance of your engagement. The trailer, pictures highlights of David Lean's previous award winning successes, "Lawrence of Arabia", "Bridge on the River Kwai" and "Doctor Zhivago", as well as scenes from "Ryan's Daughter". Extra copies of this trailer, should be ordered for crossplugs. television... There are several versions of radio spots, all of which should be utilized for your engagement of "Ryan's Daughter". The regular spots, feature excellent selling copy as well as music from the film. The review spots, feature key lines from editors and columnists raves in initial engagements. Initial engagements used large schedules on Top 40, Middle of the Road, Good Music and leading FM stations. The radio buy is definitely a "must" in planning a successful advertising campaign. Radio spots should be ordered from your regional MGM Advertising/Promotion Manager. television special... Three television spots - a 60, 30 and 20 second spot are available from your regional MGM Advertising/Promotion Manager. Initial engagements were very successful in using prime time spots adjacent to top rated shows, along with spots in evening news programs. featurette... A one hour television special, will be broadcast by 197 stations in the NET (National Education Television) on Monday, March 8 entitled "DAVID LEAN: A Self Portrait". TV Guide has already slated a half page "Closeup" as additional advance publicity for this special that features scenes of his films, highlights of "Ryan's Daughter" along with commentary by David Lean. Check your local NET station for the time of the broadcast in your city. radio... An exciting nine minute featurette, filmed on location in Ireland, is available FREE, for placement with a local television station. The featurette can also be scheduled at various civic club, religious group or school organization meetings. Order from your regional MGM Advertising/Promotion Manager. live radio copy... 60-SEC. SPOT He directed "Bridge on the River Kwai", "Lawrence of Arabia", and one of the most spectacular films of all time - "Dr. Zhivago". The films of David Lean have won 25 Academy Awards. And now, after two years of production, he has created his most beautiful film - "Ryan's Daughter". Starring Robert Mitchum, Christopher Jones, John Mills, Trevor Howard, Leo McKern and Sarah Miles. Like "Dr. Zhivago", it is a story of love set against a background of war and revolution. Like any film by David Lean, it is a masterpiece! "Best picture of the year. David Lean is a genius" says Wanda Hale, The Daily News. "One of the ten best films of the year!" says Judith Crist, New York Magazine. "'Ryan's Daughter' is a major event in the history of the movies. This is what great and lasting movie making is all about!" says Rex Reed, Holiday Magazine. Ryan's Daughter. From MGM. Rated "GP". All ages - parental guidance. 30-SEC. SPOT He directed "Bridge On The River Kwai", "Lawrence of Arabia", and one of the most spectacular films of all time - "Dr. Zhivago". The films of David Lean have won 25 Academy Awards. And now, after two years of production, he has created his most beautiful film... "Ryan's Daughter". Starring Robert Mitchum, Christopher Jones, John Mills, Trevor Howard, Leo McKern and Sarah Miles. Like "Dr. Zhivago", it is a story of love set against a background of war and revolution. Like any film by David Lean, it is a masterpiece! Ryan's Daughter. From MGM. Rated "GP" - all ages - parental guidance. Heralds... An eye-catching two color herald is available on "RYAN'S DAUGHTER", and should be considered for distribution in department store ticket counters, music stores, and possible mailings. These are available at $9.75, with imprinting at nominal cost from: HARRY K. McWILLIAMS, ASSOCIATES, INC. 151 Lafayette Street New York, New York 10013 A full-color, four page herald, for use as a mailer in conjunction with group sales has been designed, with space for local imprint. These outstanding heralds can be ordered at $25 for 500 copies from: HARRY K. McWILLIAMS, ASSOCIATES, INC. 151 Lafayette Street New York, New York 10013 For rush orders Dial (212) 925-5013 |
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