Word: cockneyism
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...keep aggressively displaying his non-U traits and compulsively needling Old Blighty's oldest values? With Caine, all this springs from something deeper than dialogue and technique, as does his mock-deadly appeal to women. He acquired these powers on "this long impossible road" from an impoverished Cockney London background through ten years of hardscrabble apprenticeship. "I've never had dramatic training," he says. "I'm a natural who has learned technique by mistakes...
Caine wears those early years like tattoos. He grew up in Southwark, in the part of London called Elephant and Castle, after a pub that was there long ago. From childhood he wanted out. "To be a Cockney is, well, like what the Negroes complain about in America," he says. "We're always sweeping the streets, washing the floors, operating lifts. The thing is that the Negro in America is militant about improving his position. But not the Cockney. I'm militant about improving my position, but I never had the backing of any of the others. When...
...Mayor John Lindsay, 45, with his wife Mary. And since he'd left the keys to the city back at the office, His Honor gave Audrey a kiss on the cheek, while Mary Lindsay said placidly: "I think anything Audrey does is great." Alfie, the jolly Cockney philanderer, had a fairly exotic collection of birds. So did the Cockney star of the movie, Michael Caine, 33, who has played the field with nearly every available actress and model in the show-business aviary. Now he has found a rara avis indeed: Swedish Starlet Camilla Sparv, 23. Caine turned...
...perfect crime in this picture is described twice. First time around, the criminal (Michael Caine) confidently imagines how it will happen. A cocksure young cockney, Caine likes to picture himself as a consummate cracksman and his accomplice (Shirley MacLaine) as a dumb Dora who knows just enough to keep her mouth shut. The pair arrives in the Middle East, where Caine smoothly contrives to encounter a gullible Moslem millionaire (Herbert Lom). Flabbergasted by the girl's resemblance to his late beloved wife, the millionaire instantly invites both Caine and MacLaine to dine in his private apartments, and after dinner...
...film rights to My Fair Lady, did not want Julie for Eliza; it was the simplest sort of Hollywood economics: by Hollywood calculations, she was not an important enough marquee name to risk in a major film. Audrey Hepburn got the part, but though her performance was admirable, her cockney character lacked the wondrous snippety snarl that Julie had given the role; Eliza's singing, moreover, was largely a product of outside dubbing, and short of Julie's performance at that. In any event, Julie bore Hepburn no grudge, although on many occasions later, while driving past...