Charlotte Rampling in Auckland

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33453, 7 February 1974, Page 6

Charlotte Rampling in Auckland

(New Zealand Press Association? AUCKLAND, February 6. The slim blonde with long tawny hair in a faded blue denim bikini who has been seen on several Auckland beaches recently was identified today after shoppers had reported seeing her in Queen Street in a long lavender dress with a youngster in a portable walking-stick trundler.

She is the English screen actress, Charlotte Rampling, now visiting Auckland —secretly, she had hoped—with her husband, Brian Southcombe. Miss Rampling is meeting his parents for the first time. He left Auckland for London in 1964, when he was a clerk in a French airline. Brian Southcombe, Charlotte and a male model, Randall Laurence, made the headlines in London when, on her initiative, the three shared a flat. After she married Brian, Randall stayed on for a time. The Southcombes live in the French yachting resort of St Tropez. Their rented home is a vine-covered villa overlooking the harbour and wooded hills. They are negotiating to buy another with five acres of grounds, including a small vineyard. They live as do the French locals, shopping at the market, buying local

wine from the hose in their own container ($3 for twc gallons and a half) —and paying $1.05 a gallon for petrol for their Mercedes. Charlotte Rampling, who was 28 on Monday, cannot go much further in films. John Boorman’s “Zardoz” in which she plays opposite Sean Connery, opens in New York and Los Angeles this week. Liliane Cavani’s “The Night Porter,” her second film with Dirk Bogarde, opens in Paris on February 26. London critics previewed it last week. The critic of the “Daily Express” David Wigg called it “The hottest movie since ‘Last Tango In Paris’.” Charlotte Rampling stars in a film yet to be released, "Caravan To Vacarres,” from an Alistair McLean novel. Her latest films screened in Auckland were “Asylum” and “Henry The Eighth?