Word: splendor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Natalie Wood has every reason to feel exhilarated: at 23, she is just about the raciest filly to come down the Hollywood sound track since Liz Taylor. Her new pictures, both slated for mid-October release, are Splendor in the Grass, a bitter harvest of frustration and failure written by William Inge and directed by Elia Kazan, and West Side Story, the widescreen, cinema version of the Broadway musical tragedy, in which Natalie enacts the poignant role of Maria with a carefully coached Puerto Rican accent and dubbed-in songs...
...from the Duke and Duchess of Leeds. Indignant cries went up about national treasures leaving the country, and a private foundation and Her Majesty's government raised $392,000 to buy the painting back for London's National Gallery. It had hung since then in conspicuous splendor on a red tapestry screen at the top of the main stairway. From there one night last week it vanished some time between 7:40 o'clock, when a guard last saw it in place, and 10:05, when another discovered that it was gone...
Only 24, Beatty has not yet been seen by the public in a motion picture, but he is the lead in Director Elia Kazan's soon-to-be-released Splendor in the Grass (an original screenplay by Broadway's William Inge) ; and opposite Vivien Leigh, he has just made The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, an adaptation of Tennessee Williams' only novel, directed by José Quintero. Top directors, in short, consider him the best of the new young leading men. With a facial and vocal suggestion of Montgomery Clift and mannerisms of James Dean...
...wild effusiveness, and he has yet to demonstrate that he is as good a performer-but he is the better looking of the two, and he knows it. He has a firm but nonchalant acting style ("Method? No, I just act") that belies his vanity. During the shooting of Splendor in the Grass, he whipped out a pocket comb every time the camera made a pass at him, irritating Director Kazan to the flash point...
...Venice Film Festival, the cover of Paris Match. French critics saw her in an Italian film called La Viaccia, and the fellow on L'Express won the ensuing contest with "A great actress? Perhaps net yet. But beneath the glycerine tears, what a lovely face, what carnal splendor, what a future!" Opening this month in a new Franco-Italian film called Le Bel Antonio, she is currently working as a gypsy opposite Jean-Paul (Breathless) Belmondo in a picture called Cartouche, now being shot in Languedoc. Along the way, she has even developed a professional philosophy: "If only...