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...minor movie produced and shot in his homeland. But this is his first leading role in an international big-budget project. It is difficult to see where the money went. Certainly little of it was spent developing the story. In an army camp, circa 1945, a British major (David Niven) tries to impose order on an overflow of displaced persons. From the serried ranks a leader named Janovic emerges. As played by Topol, he is a sleight-of-tongue artist. Janovic can lie in a dozen languages and seduce a girl with the drop of a decibel. He is also...
...labyrinthine complications of the script use birth control pills for comic fuel the way French farce uses bedrooms. Gerald Hardcastle (David Niven), an elegant British banker with a cool million and a cooler mistress (Irina Demick), decides that he wants out of his dreary twelve-year marriage. Knowing that his wife Prudence (Deborah Kerr) has hardly been faithful herself, he substitutes aspirin for her birth control pills in hopes that she'll become pregnant by her lover so he can sue for divorce. Meanwhile, the Hardcastle maid decides to yield to her boy friend's advances and swipes...
...FESTIVAL. "The Life and Times of John Huston, Esquire" portrays Huston directing his recent film Reflections in a Golden Eye, acting with David Niven in 1967's Casino Royale, directing his first opera at Milan's La Scala Opera House, and relaxing in his Irish castle...
...Love," ABC also presented an adaptation of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. But what were they thinking about when they signed Britain's classical actor Nicol Williamson to play Lennie, the hulking, simple-minded American farm hand? That seemed a little like casting David Niven as Quasimodo. Well, in short, Williamson was an extraordinary Lennie. Of the trio of Britons who dominated the tube last week, his performance was the most remarkable. Bug-eyed and slackjawed, gangly and gawky, stammering and shuffling, he gave touching insight to his credo...
Hollywood really knows how to make a guy welcome. Barbra Streisand, Jack Lemmon, Steve Allen, Lucille Ball, Pierre Salinger, Gene Kelly, Kirk Douglas, Charlton Heston, Merle Oberon, Fred Astaire, Ava Gardner, Omar Sharif, Milton Berle, Danny Thomas, Mario Thomas, David Niven, Alan Jay Lerner, Donna Reed, Gregory Peck, Natalie Wood, Andy Williams, Tom Smothers, Don Adams and Shirley MacLaine-all of them, plus about 400 others, paid $250 per couple to do honor to Paris Couturier André Courrèges, 44, at a showing of his new collection in Los Angeles. Courreges could only assume that their presence...