Show I I Costs s Director 75 Pounds By y John Todd HOLLYWOOD INS INS Director Director Alfred Hitchcock has lost 75 pounds from his padded figure in recent weeks but the cast hes he's working with In Century- Century Foxs Fox's Lifeboat Is is more responsible ble le for the loss than any reducing diet iet he might prefer to credit In the first place his small but highly noted Lifeboat crew headed leaded by Talullah Bankhead Wilam William Wil- Wil liam am Bendix and Henry Hull are disproving in th their ir working association association asso- asso the very thing they are proving roving in the screen story story how how confinement to unchanging comp company com- com pany p any ny in such s small all all' quarters as a lifeboat wears on nerves drives some ome slightly balmy and even results re- re suIts in one going over the side Instead of such dire results the thereal thereal thereal real life crew almost as rigidly confined since the film has but one the set et the lifeboat lifeboat has has developed a community good will and friendship friendship friend- friend ship hip that grows I with each days day's shooting The worst in fact was at first as pretty little Mary Anderson Anderson- whom you'll soon see in Song of Bernadette will Bernadette will readily tell you As As you can see she told your reporter everything takes place in n this lifeboat and the prop men keep it rolling around all the time just like the sea actuallY would At t first everyone felt we and and zy-and and andI I had to take Mother Sills' Sills seasick remedy for the first two weeks Mary who does a swell job of portraying how a wholesome romanCe romance ro- ro manCe can blossom even in a lifeboat lifeboat life- life boat is just plain tickled to death to be working in such company You learn something every everyday everyday everyday day she said Take Hitchcock Hes He's just swell and you soon learn he never tells anyone to do any any- thing He suggests things thIngs but but just once once and and you get so youre you're on your toes every minute so you dont don't miss his suggestions About the camaraderie among the crew which also includes such well-known well names as Walter and Canada Lee One of the best contributions to the company's morale is the fact that in the story a woman named Mrs Higley finally commits suicide suicide suicide sui sui- cide by plunging herself into the sea under c con conditions o n d i t i ion o n s which wouldn't be fair to reveal here Now whenever ships ship's biscuits are passed around to the crew someone pops one over the side of the lifeboat and cracks cracks for Mrs Higley r 0 f A r r rT rAlfred r s Alfred Hitchcock This Hitchcock This noted director has lost 75 pounds because of the wracking nerve-wracking of Lifeboat his latest picture |