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FILMS &
PLAYERS
SPOTLIGHT PIRATES IN THE CARIBBEAN
By
ERNEST BETTS
IR ALEXANDER KORDA was discussing the pro- posed slash in American Blm with Eric Johnston, US. film boss, who has been on a visit to London. It's a sore point in America, and Johnston was saying: "If this goes on, you know, we might have to stop imports of your Scotch whisky," Said Kordn, delighted: "If you did that you'd earn the undying gratitude of the entire British nation."
LAUREL and Hardy will give their
own version of looking for a job during their present visit to Eng- land. The two contics insist On A fortnight's holiday before starting their 20-minute act, want to get
acclimatised and see what (If any "UR Gang" the famous comedies which started the kid craze in prelures, are returning. Hal Roach,
thing) makes 119 laugh. They haven't been over since 1932, when Inuing was qulle natural.
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CARMEN Jones," Olay Rose's
big coloured opera, may cume to Covent Garden this summer.
WHEN Van Johnson asked his
leading lady, Janet Leigh, what the proposed to do after making "Romance of Hasy Ridge," she said: "Learn how to be an actress."
"ANDOUR (continued). Someone asked Veronlea Lake what part She was playing in Salzon" with Alan Ladd. "I can't say," Veronica. " may he the heroitie
and nobody
or the heavy. The story's written on the set every day. knows what part they're playing til Only certainty They get the script." is that Veronica wears that blind-eye hair-do again.
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CHAR
HARACTER Reter Cyril Smith, shut in a coffin six times for the mystery-thriller film, "Deep End decided to live there. "Just bring me an early morning cup of tea and - a paper," he said, “and I'll be all
right."
THE Battle of Britain against Hollywood for James Mason ended in a victory for Korda, when Britain's star signed two-picture contract with him. Shooting begins next September in London, Holly- wood or France, as convenient,
Y the way, that an Rex Harri-
BY
non is to do for Kordn is a re-. nake of "The Scarlet Pimpernel.”
was listed as America's highest paid woman by the US Treasury Department. In 1944, year covered by the report. she earned £77,083. Walter Wanger, the producer, earned £75,127, -Irene Dunne £63,500,
DEANNA Durbin
SHROUDING GLAMOUR
IN BUBBLES
and
TIME was, and not so long ago, either, when Blmmakers had to depend upon opaque shower doors.
large extra
towels und heavy shadows 10 preserve the modesty of glamour girls when they took a bath for the cinema.
But not any more. The bubble bath has saved the day. Dubbles. like û full-length, high-necked evening gown, provide plenty pr concealment:
Current beneficiary of the new bubble technique Is cinema-land's
youngest glamour gal, Clare Foley,
who made them, is pouring £250,000
into a new, younger, nuisier edition,
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LYNIS Jolins, of the husky vice U and steek, profile, is off to New York and Hollywood. No contract: Just a holiday.
STEWART Granger flew back from Paris in ກ Dakota for his daughter's first birthday party at Haslemere.
TWENTIETH Century Fox plan to spend £1,000,000 rebuilding the eld Fox Studios at Wembley, if per- mits can be
wheedled from the Beard of Trade.
PICTURE above show's Ray Mil land, Paudette Goddard and John Wayne, principals in Cecll} B. De Mille's production, "Reap the Wild Wind," which is show- ing at the King's Theatre.
Reap the Wild Wind" Is a tale told in bold, heroic strokes of America's fight to rid the Florida Keys of piration) wreckers who preyed on the feline of her wind- Jammer merchant marine In the
The stand-out sequence
this swash-buckling suga
Sea of the comes when Ray Milland and Wayne, in an old wreck un the bottom of the Caribbean, engage In a nightmarish battle with a giant
In the supporting cast, Raymond Massey plays the heavy villain, King Cutler,
wreckers. chief of the Lynne Overman portrays his mortal Preston, Susan enemy. Robert
1840's.
squid.
in
rejoice to say that the comely Hayward. Charles Bickford, Martha Ursula Jeans is set for a picture, O'Driscoll, Walter Hampden, Janet
Beecher and Louise Beavers writ in their appointed roles.
G. B. Stern's "The Woman in the Half." It will be the first effort of
a
new Britis
Wessex company.
In Dalrymple, Films, headed by making of "Western Approaches.
PALKING Shakesprare at the
Savoy recently was Sir Barry: Jackson, man of 45 who looks like 10. He has a line-up of nine plays, 50 players at Stratford's Shake- speare Festival in April.
Hollywood Newsreel
do
(By John Kennedy) WARNER BROTHERS have HENRY V has made a profit nf bought the film rights of f ̈ ̈£140,000 in America since "Pall of Valour," by Charles Jackson, author of "The Lost attacking Week-end," Hollywood women stars
April.
phoгUCTION bur
But I understand they've
it.
11. Chaudette Colbert is cine. Now abandoned any iden of produc- the list of glamour going into
withi Ginger Rogers, tess include husband Jack Briggs, Maria Montez. Rosalind Russell and Joan Fontaine, Hedy Lamarr and Juan Bennett have sunk their dawless proflies in the Kuine, What a pity it everyone prʊ- duces and nobody nets.
Cinema Guide
SHOWING TO-DAY
"QUEEN'S The Kid From Brook-
lyn. KING'S Reap the Wild Wind. ALHAMBRA--The Daltons
Acain.
NEXT CHANCE
QUEEN'S-Cornered.
Ride
{* KING'S—Blossoms in the Dust, ‘ALHAMBRA--Spider Woman,
It deals with the unsavoury subject of sexual perversion, and I believe there were many pro- tests when making the film was suggested.
In any case, the Johnston Office would undoubtedly have insisted on so many alterations that all the point of the book would have been inst.
GABLE'S COMEBACK
IN MGM'S
**The
Alm new Hucksters," Clark Gable is going to try really to regain his prewar star position.
In it, too, visiting... British_star. Deborah Kerr is making her bld for American fame..
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WIGGING THE KID
DIDNT see it myself, but I'm told that the sight of the week was Jackle Coogan In Billingsley's wearing a wig.
Juckle was almost bald 10 years ago, when I wrote his life story,
At that time he was married to
HEARTACHES Belly Grable
who, though but 1 years of age, GIVE M.G.M.
Is as modest as are her older and
more experienced slaters.
She tales F prolonged and luxurious ablution in Warner Bros.' forthcoming comedy, "Janic Gets Married."
HEADACHES
was M AGM are having more than their
share of trouble with
stara'
The years have certainly altered Chaplin's "Kld."
LAST REDSKINS
VERNON CANSINO, young brother
of Columbia giar, Rita Hay. worth, will make his debut as an actor in a dramatic role in "The Last of the Redmen."
The
and
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"gay!
glittering!
glamorous!
SAMUEL GOLDWYN
DANNY KAYE THE KID FROM
BROOKLYN
***Virginia MAYO - VERA-ELLEN
The GOLDWYN GIRLS
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"You prove by this childish outburst how infallible our) Fuehrer it in confzing women to motherhood and home."
RAYMOND GRAM SWING speaking:
"This Alm is the most moving tangible pre- sentation of the meaning of liberty I have ever seen... It is surely one of the most' Important films over prosented."
CHARLES
MAUREEN
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This Land is Mine
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GEORGE
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ESAY
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A JEAN RENOIR-DUDLEY NICHOLS PRODUCTION Ducted by MARINOIS « Zurnen May be DUGLIT HICHOLE NEXT CHANGE
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"INCENDIARY BLONDE”
IN TECHNICOLOR Starring: BETTY HUTTON
The simplieity of the affair
film stars Jon Hall astonishing. As matter of fact
Michael O'Shea, and is based on A bright light spectacle OF AMERICA'S RECKLESS AGE! there was nothing to it but bubbles. affairs of the heart. The Erbes brothers, the astute
They'd hardly drawn breath after Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the
the set of Mohicans." plumbers who take care of all of Lana Turner's leaving
Vernon Casino was in the any visit Warner Bros. beauty bathing pro- "Green Dolphin Street" to
wounded blems, together with the property Tyrone Power in Mexico, when they for three years, and was man on the picture, merely dumped had three more stars involved in on the last day of the Anzio cam-
paign. a round dozen packages of bubble marital re-arrangements. bath into warm
Van Johnson, Greer water. then let They are
Garson and Mickey Rooney, nature take its course.
Most of Miss Foley and all of her
Van finally married Mrs Keenan i bathing suit were promptly con-
Wynn, after all those tenials, cealed within
is The marriage all-enveloping
very much mass of foam.
against the wish of the studio, which knows that it is unpopular with Van's bobby-sox fong.
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Baal Taibbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as his
· assistaní, Dr Watson, in "Spider Woman," exclling detective drama coming next week to the 'Alhambra.
to
Greer
Garson's marriage Richard Ney seems to have blown to pieces.
Greer has publicly denied that they are going to get a divorce, and will probably continue to deny it.
But that they've separated, in "common knowledge,
Mickey Rooney and his wife Betty Jane Rase have separated, and an official announcement of this will como out as soon as some
·legal business over property settlement is fixed up.
YOUNG PRODUCER
▶OBERT YOUNG is to make bis
debut as a producer.
He's to make a film tentatively entitled "Three Were Thorough- breds," in which he will also play the leading role opposite Marguerlic Chapman,
MORE BRITISH
PICTURES
British, films, which are winning good opinions all over the world for their quality, are now to go in for quantity, which so far has been rea- tricted by lack of space caused by studios being requisitioned for wor purposes.
When Sir Stafford Cripps, Pre-
Peter Lorre Advised sident of the Board of Trade addressed
On Eviction Trick
film makers in London recently, he said it was hoped to raise the number of fin's from the 30 made in 1040 to 60 or 80,
Peler Lorre looked troubled when he reported for work at the Warner: He gave the news that British pro- Bros studios one day and director ducers are overcoming the lack of Herman Shumlin, always very con- studius by many Ingenious means, siderate of his players, asked the Sydney Box, who mode "The Seventh cnuso. Lorre said he had bought ni Vell"", in a small studio-"“An eighth Ittle house, wanted to get in, but wonder of production," anid Sir Staf- the people just couldn't or wouldn't ford is planning four pictures lo MDVO aut.
consist mainly of outside shots so us to get round the studio space bottle- neck, and other producers are sending leams of British film makers abroad.
Shumlin reflecled for a moment. "Got It, Peter. Why don't you Just haunt them out?"
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