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Talking about film actresses:
it is a general rule, with one or two exceptions to prove it, that those who have the sweetest dispositions and are personally the most popular are the least glited as actressca,
Conversely, the best netresses are the most uncomfortable get along
to
with. It has taken me some time to screw up enough courage broach this. Now it is done, let us be odious.
to
Starting with Margaret Lock. wood and Anna Neagle, you have two of the most popular women In the studios. Technicians love working with Margaret-known
to one and all as Maggie.
She listen attentively and has the advantage of a phenom- enat memory. 8he netdom "Auffa" her lines and, greatest virtue of all, assume that the director knows his job.
Anna Neagle I equally co- operative, though it is easier for her since she can argues every- thing out beforehand with her husband, Herbert Wilcox, who both
her produces and directs pletures. Even so, Anna takes the trouble to remember people's nenes and ask after their babies.
No Femme Fatale
Then there is Anne Crawford, Now, Anne could not possibly be great. actress because her dis- position is so gentle and un- assuming that it is not within her nature to play convincingly the part of a a temme
fatale. Calvert is Intelligent-- Phyllis too intelligent to throw tempera- ments
ents and too intelligent, alas! herself body and soul in-
10
"Hint
י
to a piece of mare play-acting,
Rosamund John. Greta Gynt,
and Sheila Bim are three more actresses who need never be out
the
în
New star, Yvonne -de Carlo, of whom more will be heard, wears here a two-plece swimsuit of green lame with drape trunka.
Preston Sturges Producing
A Comedy Of Errors
One
Sunday Afternoon
A few years back, Warner Brothers made a picture from James Hagan's play, "One Sun- day Afternoon,"
with Rita) Hayworth, James Cagney, and Olivia de Havilland in leading| roles, but called it "The Straw- berry Blonde."
The studio is again working over the play, but will add 12 songs and Technicolour, will give the leading roles to Dennis Mor- gon, Jants Paige, Dorothy Malone, and Don DeFore, and will call it "One Sunday After- noon,"
There is some doubt at the moment whether to call the Aim a musical or a romantic comedy with music. Probably it will be
the latter.
Of the 12 musical numbers, six are new and alx will be revisions of such songa sa “A Bicycle Bulit for Two," and "My Merry Oldsmobile."
originals for this film in- clude a Waltz title song, "One Sunday Afternoon": balled, "Girls Were
ore Made to
to Take Care of Boys"; and novelty song called "Some Day." about wo- rights, which will be sung by Miss Paige and: Miss. Malone.
men's
Lyricist-composer Fairi Blanc it, with its 40 couplets, in
wrote
៧៧
Raving
Paige
Walsh, directing Miss two years ago in one of his pictures, told her then that he expected to direct a musical version of this play, and promis- ed her the role she now has.
Don' DeFore,
Heavy,
-
* likablo WAS once 2 college glee club singer, and, he sayı, has always been a party vocal. ist. He has disclaimed winging talent in his pleture career up to now bacaurs he was foarut
It might handicap his dramaile progress.
The pro-
Dennis Morgan has the role of
whose naivele The dentist
rets The picture will be the first him into Preston Sturges continues an
trouble. The screen role for unorthodox career with a story out-and-out comedy he intended to. produce as
Rex Harrison since he has been play is by Robert Richards, an
dramutist. ex-radio Itin America. In his work for the ducer is Jerry Wald. picture some 14 years ago.
British screen and stage he was is called "Unfaithfully Yours"
road chiefly for his comedy. He read the script for the comedy in New York when he
of work, since they waste minimum amount of time arguments.
for the "difficult" *C- Now resses. Ann Todd: even her
to her husband refers
respect fully as La Todd. Valerie Hob son: t
at least two famous directors blench whenever her name is mentioned. Kathleenyant and now buy was originally titled "The Symphony Story." He Irish dependence and traditional hos- will produce it for Twentieth Wity to the heirs of Cromwell Century-Fox.
meve
Blobhan McKenna::
put
squad.
ea on
in
new
landed from a recent sojourn in Current Shows Long-Escape"-for-20th-Cen- }
where he made Gols-
them into the awkward The reason he didn't-film-it-be-
Leigh: well, she fore, he says, is that he could n Vivien
tury-Fax., Immediately after] KING'S, "The Shocking Miss reading it he wired Mr. Sturges, Pilgrim."-Betty Grable and has been playing temperamentai never get anyone to believe parta for so long I suppose it is it. A comedy of errors, it is bas-"The part is better than Hamlet
Dick Haymes in a first-class The
misickes that
Occur
-longer and much funnier.*
musical with a comedy back- second nature now.
a famous conductor asks
ground,
The
Gershwins, Of course there are many poor when
establish his brother-in-law to look out for who try to
George and Ira, were res- actresses
by his young wife while he is away, their claims to greatness
ponsible for the music and the latter misunderstands And und throwing temperaments.
Lyrics. where does it got them? It gets him and has her followed by a
detective. them thrown out.
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The story stems, Mr. Sturges indicates, from a curious happen- g during his first writing stint in Hollywood, He was in studio office working on a story. Some time after starting work he discovered that it was taking
entirely different direction than he had planned.
дл
Not All Comedy
His rola
Will not be Bil comedy. As a symphòng con. ductor, movie stylo, he has had to master gestures for three symphonies which will be play. ad in the ploturs. He needed several works of training un der Robin Saunders-Clark, a young English conductor, since ha doesn't read a note of muslo. Geno Tierney was originally set to play opposite Mr. Harrison but was transferred to another
Well Plotted picture before this could get into Casting about for a reason work.
Kurt Kreuger returns to the for he had it wall plotted, and there eacmed no excuse for the screen after a two-year absence. He will get a little change of change-ho discovered that the radio in the next
office had pace as he remains for the whole been playing and that almost picture instead of being done unconsciously he had been alway with in an early reel, as has lowing the o_music to direct his cen eustomary_with_him in his
movie parts up to now, thoughts.
Vallee Rudy
rejoins The two chief players in the new comedy will be Rex Harri-Sturges for the Arst time since
Sup- the director started him on
Tie son and Linda Darnell porting players will be Rudy screen acting career in Vallee, Barbara Lawrence, Kurt Palm Beach Btory." Kreuger, Lionel Stander, Edgar Kennedy, and Julius Tannen.
British National Folds Up
Two dozen wide-eyed child- ren, a mother with a baby in a pram, and a reporter watched a British film company die quietly in a alde-street at Har- row (Eng) this week.
The company: British Na. tional Films.
After cameraman Jimmy Wi- son had shot a street sequence of No Room At The Inn, director Dan Birta gave the final order:
"Pack up boys and girls. This Is the end.
The reason: Lady Vule, the boes of the studio, has decided that the ones no longer afford to keep the studio running. The mystery: British National, after making mediocre to bad pictures for many years, has In the last 18 months, managed, to get hold of a promising team.
The Lima Temptation Harbor, Double Alib), and My Brother Jonathan have come from British National
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