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MAURIEN
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LINDA
DARNELL
BUFFALO
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THOMAS MITCHELL EDGAR BUCHANAN - ANTHONY QUINH
Tom 'NEAL
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'Sunshine Susie,'
Nazis idol, had a Jewish boy friend
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By Ernest Betts
and no filma.
"That man Laurence
OES anyone remember Screenwriters' Association, without said to me: Renate Muller, blonde which there would be no script, men Olivier is a genius" German dumpling who starred in "Sunshine Susie"?
Do you remember that mad
lyric she sang with Jack Hul- bert, "Today I Feel So Happy" It was in 1931..
That song and that girl were head- lines 10 years ago, and now they
Are Actors Overpaid? *DENTS of theatres are certainly
Albery, London theatre chlet.
DRITISH D
top
Just In Time
N the ship with Sherwood come the girl who plays Nell Gwynne in Fever Amber!" ffer name:
Annie Howard, aged 21, dark, small and full of beans. She tells me she was given the trip as a 21st birth- dav
present from her uncle, an antique dealer,
and instead of going to a West End hotel she is living at Kingston. Ann
Is British but has spent all
RISING SUN"Jump to the top of the column ng down film costs by at least a third, her life in Hollywood. She is to be
AT REDUCED PRICES!
ORIENTAL
JUST INSTALLED!
1947
LATEST MODEL
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Muller wasn't only a lm star. She became the friend of Goering and. Hitler, she spied for The Nazis on a diet of Jove, and wherever hands were kissed and heals were clicked, there was Rennte. reigning among the thugs.
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"Right but so are the salaries of our leading actors," Mr Bronson
Top Secret
production has e secret. Its object is to cut
but details won't be released for tested at Hammersmith studios for some months. When they are you the lead in "No Orchids for Misa will hear something sensational. Blandish," So uncle is just in time.
Backroom boys of the Rank Or-
General Rolcaso Canisation have been working on this. scheme for at least two years in FIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD Joan West End bullding of their
Simmons, who is kept on a tight OWII. པ་ They go around London with sealed, Joash by her studio bosses, was at Albert Holl Fale was to smite her hard. For lips and dark looks, saying nothing, generally released
General Impression is that you ran for Geraldo's "Dancing Through" Rennte, into whose deep Saxon eyes forget the atom bomb how, some festa. the Fuchrer stared when he was a thing bigger has happened.
Her normal hobbies are the Reason they won't talk is because Cricklewood blt bored with life, went off with
daned ball and the Favourite Font: a Jewish boy's friend. Soon Himm- an experimental British film is in local movies. fer and the Gestapo men were after production to tell the world that "People Will Say We're In Love
by this new process the costs of her.
And Renate, whom all the dim-making can be cut by a third. world adored, sang no more song of What it means in cash is that a happiness. Some way she died of film casting, say, £100,000 can be she Com-: produced for £60,000 £70,000, with mitted suicide... Or was she murmany Icchnical advantages, dered? That was in 1937. She was 31..
-health. Others that
Why Have Thom?
THE more speeches I hear after first nights the less I like them. But Ivor Novelle's after "We Proud- ly Present," was at least short. Just Robert Sherwood
thank you for the "immeasurable of the audience. Longest speechies are usually made by Firth PLAYWRIGHT Robert Sherwood la Shephard, funniest by Lealle Hen- In London from America with son, most finished by Noel Coward. his wife. He is to write a life of Opinion in the West End that the Harry Hopkins, President Roosevelt's author's agent should make the No. 1 economic adviser. He also speech. He generally gels the play
of British stars, produced.
But there is one man pow who thinks he knows what happened to WESTERN ELectric corP., U.S.A. | her flerbert Wilcox. He and An- na Neagle are Jointly to produce a Alm of Susie-to be called-simply talks with gusto
"Renate."
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THE ACTION'S TOUGH!
· THE LOVE IS ROUGH!
GEORDE
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in
SPECIAL MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT 12,30
WH
TOW
Rita Executivė WHAT Rita Hayworth didn't tell
me:
She is signing a contract with Columbia at £500'a week for 52 weeks in the year. She has the right to choose the story, director and co-star, and become an executive of the company.
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Now Rank H.Q.
EVONSHIRE HOUSE, Piccadilly, has been bought by Mr 3. Ar- thur Hankt. He has been trying to buy it for years. It will become the world headquarters of his Alm or- ganisation, scattered at present all over the West End.
Moira Signed
Why can't we be cheerful?
by STEPHEN WATTS
TILLIONS of people go to the pandered to with tinsel tesh and sac-
They just want
one in ten thousand goes for the stimulus of some fun and cheer- anything other than pleasure. Are they getting it?
fulness.
It is a cumulative complaint. It There are some good films about, is fine to see an "Odd Man Out," but there is an awful lot of gloom grim et it is, but when on top of it and misery.
HEAR that Molra Lister, aged Life Is carnest and grim these you see a succession of sombre films, 23, who puts up such a sleek per days, and a degree of escape through without the inspiration to lustily formance in "Prosent Laughter at entertainment is not a cowardly re- them, the sky begins to seem even the Haymarket Theatre, has been fuge; it is almost a tonle necessity. signed for a big part in the Ann But the great entertainment of the grayer than it is. Todd-Ray Miiland picture Para-
Surely it is time the Alm-makers, the cinema, is becoming the mount are making in England. Hat last place to look for pleasurable re both in Britain and in Hollywood,
people,
refreshment of the turned their faces away from gloom spirit.
Wallis, who practically handared axation and
producers,
canic Among her seven-year contract. "No "Now, nobody wants the screen to and let their films reflect some of thanks," said Moira "but I'd like to be all sweetness and light. But the the happier aspects of life. be in your film." It has the shocking high Incidence of courness-and-stig- title: "So Evil My Love." They've dow is beginning to worry sensible been shooting it in Chelsea and Ite-people. gent's Park.
Madeleine Riddle
COME of them bring their grum- SOME of them bring sympathise. WHY was Madeleine Carroll's pic- These people do not wani
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Building Up Glamour CREEN writers, notoriously with- CURRENT SHOWINGS
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JENNIFER JONES, Academy Award-winning star of "The Song of Bernadette," in a scene with Gladys Cooper in the picture," "Lova: "Lofters,” coming to the Queen's' and Alhambra.
a. It is the story of a girl who loses ar memory. "and is pfraid
of penetrating the blank w Joseph Cot
leading
films.
They used to be able to do it. Where are the gay, cheerful, energis- ing flims of yesteryear?
We never needed them more.
COSTUME ROLES MADE A STAR
Costume roles have proven the key to the success of at least one Hollywood feminine star.
When blonde Barbara Britton was seen by studio scouts in "The Old Maid," a nineteenth century perlod play at the Long Beach, California, City College, she was immediately handed a num contract and thereupon assigned the lead in another costume plece, "Secret of the Wastelands,"
her first flum.
Her first really important role was in the DeMille spectacle, "Reap the Wild Wind." Again it was the story of another generation. She was next cast in "Captain Kidd," "The Great John L" and in "The Vir gintan," none of them modern dress motion pictures.
And now she is receiving her big. gest break to date, a starring role with Loula Hoyward in Columbia's "The Return of Monte Cristo," once
again a swashbuckling costume drama, which is currently playing at the King's Theatre.
Betty Hutton Gets Her Wish
pur-
Betty Hutton, who usually trays hectic scatterbrained girls on the screen, haa wameda truly dramátic part for a long time. Paramount Studios Anally agreed, and in the alm "Dream Girl," Bolly finds herself with 12 such roles.
She portrays, à frustrated girl who escapes from reality in day dreams, In each of these dream sequences, she has an entirely, dit- ferent & personality. Sho plays, among other characters, a grand iddy of the theatre, a bride, tha mother, of twins, a murderess, an opera 'star, and a powerful newss paper, publisher.
atly will wear almost no “CÓR metics for any of these parts. Her drachette talent;" on ¬which she will have to rely wholly, will get 12- sovore tests Associated Pressing
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