Daily Mail (30/Jan/1926) - Mr. Ivor Novello
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- article: Mr. Ivor Novello
- newspaper: Daily Mail (30/Jan/1926)
- keywords: Gainsborough Pictures, Ivor Novello, Marie Belloc Lowndes, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
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Mr. Ivor Novello
MR. IVOR NOVELLO.
TO APPEAR IN A SERIES OF BRITISH FILMS.
Mr. Ivor Novello. the versatile young actor, film star, playwright, and song writer, has just signed a contract to appear in a series of British films for Gainsborough Pictures. Ltd. Mr. Novello is already well known to kinema audiences for his work as the young minister in "The White Rose" and the heart-wrecking apache in "The Rat." Very tempting offers of film work have recently been made to this act or by American film companies, in whose eyes he is the "Latin lover " type so popular on the screen, though there is a sensitiveness in his acting distinct from the caveman technique of Valentino.
Mr Novello, however, prefers to remain in England, particularly as he is confident that the much-desired revival of British films has actually begun.
The first film of the series he will begin making early in March is "The Lodger," a murder-mystery full of action and character, from the novel by Mrs. Belloc Lowndes.
This film, like others to be produced by the enterprising Gainsborough Pictures, Ltd., is already sold to America.
