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... She was chosen by Carol Reed out of thousands of applicants to play the role of Aissa. in the film which is based on Joseph Conrad's novel: Reed said he was looking for a dirl with character, beauty, ark complexion, great dignity, a proud and graceful ...

Published: Saturday 20 January 1951
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 429 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Back to films

... in which she starred with Roger Livesey in 1945. Her new one will be Carol Reed's An Outcast of the Islands, from the Joseph Conrad story. She appears as Mrs. Almayer, the rather dowdy, downtrodden wife of a boastful, bullying island trader. Like Peggy ...

Published: Friday 06 April 1951
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 187 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Three discoveries

... his fine new picture Outcast, of the Islands, has been telling me of three discoveries he made for this version of a Joseph Conrad story. Kerima, a superbly beautiful girl who plays a native woman, will be as much talked of as the zither player who provided ...

Published: Wednesday 16 January 1952
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 65 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FILM STILL

... with a suggestion of underlying passion—a beauty that is at once as old as the world and as young as today. INthese words Joseph Conrad described AisFa, the strange woman who plays such a vital part in his story An Outcast of the Islands. Where was a film ...

Published: Saturday 02 February 1952
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 359 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BIRMINGHAM FILMS Carol Reed in the Pacific

... a tragedy without a heart and never invites sympathy: can be la'd not at the director's door, but at the author's. For Joseph Conrad's story of the despicable weakl.ng Willems. whose tormented passion for a native girl drags him down to treachery and cruelty ...

Published: Monday 04 February 1952
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 166 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

RADIO AND TV PROGRAMMES

... ''• Acts 1 and 2 tinued 19.5 Portraits from Memory: 9.35 '''The Coster Girl lan interview I Rert7and 1-4 0 ,1 on Joseph Conrad Idol:news A. 3. 11.1 Andre 1•-2 e Mitch-Binding 'Mum ech-Horne- play Oedipus 19.57 Chamber Costa , 1515 Raisin Fischer ...

Published: Friday 11 September 1953
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 806 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SARDINIA

... down with a sigh: I wonder what it's like out there' With Mr. Ross. as guide. one knows. Dent's have re-issued two Joseph Conrad volumes, Suspense and A Set of Six, both at 7s. 6d. With Murder for Some, by H. C. Huston (Hodder and Stoughton ...

Published: Thursday 11 March 1954
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 186 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FIRST HITCHCOCK CENTURY

... contender who had been bracket ed Yas Ray Hitchcock with the American holder of the pulled Pettiford high over title, Joseph Conrad, as co-favourite square leg for a 6. ...

Published: Tuesday 29 May 1956
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 790 | Page: 8 | Tags: none