OCR Text |
Show '40 Pounds of Trouble' now at Rivoli featuring four-year-old membering her lines and to project a natural quality' in her acting technique. She naturally na-turally doesn't read a script as an adult, so Jewison used the rote system with the youngster in briefing her for scenes. Sometimes things happen in real life just like they do in movies. A perfect example, in the true Cinderella fashion, is six-year-old Claire Wilcox, who plays the title role with Tony Curtis in Universal's "40 Pounds Of Trouble," next attraction at-traction at the Rivoli Theatre, tonight, Friday and Saturday. She was selected for the plum role, her film debut, by Tony Curtis, producer Stan Margu-lies Margu-lies and director Norman Jewison. Jewi-son. The trio had interviewed more than 300 youngsters from Hollywood to New York before catching Miss Wilcox on one of her TV commercials. Although Al-though she had never been in front of a movie camera before, be-fore, her screen test stood out like a prune in a basket of eggs, according to director Jewison. He says it was hard to believe that the moppet had no previous acting experience. On the set she demonstrated an amazing facility for re- |