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The Gayest Blade Who Ever Matched Hot Steel With

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What loving..what fýlag..what foughing ..with the One and Only

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BOB HOPE Joan Caulfield Monsieur Beaucaire

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DOROTHY LAMOUR ROBERT PRESTON

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1947.

Hollywood Wakes Up To Find A Star Shortage

by

PATRICIA CLARY

HOLLYWOOD,.~Of all the war-caused shortages, the oddest is a shortage of movie stars. There's a shortage of stars because big- name players have broken away to form their own producing units. And they have chosen to do that because they can make doals for the profits of the pictures that will save them thousands of dollars in high income taxes.

Like all other shortages, this one means a break for new and untried brands. For the first time expensive "A". pictures are going be- fore the cameras with "unknowns" in the roles originally intended for Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart and James Mason.

Producer Preston: Sturges cites as a perfect example of the star shortage the picture "Ven- detta," which comes on the heels of such ambitious starless pictures as "The Jolson Story" and "The Green Years."

"I couldn't get Grant, Bogart or Mason," Sturges sald, "so I gave

the starring role to an unknown, name of de George."

Sturges started to produce the ple- ture, then resigned after a disagree- ment with co-producer Howard

Kughes.

Other members of the cast, Fotth Domergue, Hillary Brooke, J. Carroll Naish

and Nigel Bruce, also fall into the non-star class. Sturges doesn't I think, what

however, that is an insur-

obstacle.

The reason #star is so desir- able," he explained, "lles in fact that his name

name automatically carries with it a vust amount of publicity and advertising, which attach themselves to the picture he plays in.

SWELL PICTURES

"The problem is to obtain a substi- tute for this advertising and publi- city. The answer is n telephone wire, one between Mrs Jones' house and Mrs Smith's, over which Mrs Jones says: 'I saw a swell picture last night. "Vendetta." You must Вес

A "well" picture, he said, WEB the only alternative to stars. With stars, a producer can make a 60-30 plcture and still do business, but without them, the picture bas to stand by itself. That means

an

extra dividend for movie-goers, and It son

sometimes means an extra divi-

mes dend for movie-makers loo.

"The unknowns," Slørges explain- ed, "don't stay unknown. They be come stars."

Annoyance

To Players

HE'S GOT SOME HOPE!

BOB HOPE gets into more tight squeezes as "Monsieur Beaucairò, in the comedy film adaption of the novel by Booth Tarkington now showing at the King's Theatro. Hora ho is with Joseph Schildkraut and a court lackey in the process of being dandified.

SHE TREASURES

BOTH EDITIONS

Jones

Brown-eyed, brown-haired Jennifer treasures not one, but two copies of Franz Werfel's best-seller, "The Song of Bernadette" are

And each of the copies of the same book holds an extra-special significance for the former Tulsa, Oklahoma, Little Theatre actress.

Hollywood film players becoming increasingly annoyed

calls by telephone

from strangers who have secured their numbers via the "black market.'

A certain well-known male star, private defective to find out about one of the many victims, hired the business, and discovered that his number

nber was being peddled by bobby-Boxer at 15 cents.

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"Answering the phone at all hours

at the Queen's Theatre.

The first copy of the book is the

of the night is bad enough," he cum-one she received as a subscriber to plained. "But that bargain rate-15 cents! That really hits mel"

Shortage of telephones has made:

it impossible for players to have their numbers changed every three to six months as they did before the war.

FLUMMOXED!

Viveca Lindfors,

Warner Bros.'

As everyone must know by the Book-of-the-Month Club. At now, Jennifer was chosen from the time, David O. Selznick, sensing

to play the role of "Berna screen role had yet come her way. among thousands of applicants her possibilities, had put her under contract, but not even a small dette" in the film, now showing

Her next copy of the book came to her months later after she had gone through countiess

gruelling fests, and after the months of prepa- ration before the film actually went before the cameras, with

Jennifer, herself, heading the impressive cast.

At D

Da.m., just before she played first scene, she received special delivery package on the set. Inside was copy of "The Song of Bernadette." On the Hylcat was written: "To Jennifer Jones, with sincere wishes for your Bernadette -Franz Werfel."

Cinema Guide her dr

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new Swedish star, is having some | QUEEN'S--The Song of. Bernadette.. difficulty with her English.

KING'S-Monsieur Beaucaire,

Recently she, hurried in from Д LEE The Constant Nymph. dancing lesson to tell her

diction ALIIAMBRA—The Lady Objects, teacher, Prof. Daniel Van Draegen, | CENTRAL-The Lady Objects. "Ooh, my fools are tired!"

"Feet, corrected the professor. "MY feets are tired," said Miss

Lindfors.

NEXT CHANGE QUEEN'S—Wintertime,

LEE-The Ban Who Came

Dinner.

To

"Feet," corrected the professor, "Each feet is tired," rotoried Mias | ALHAMBRA--Battle Cry of China. Lindfors, triumphantly."

CENTRAL-Pride of the West,

SALOME, WHERE SHE FOUGHT

YVONNE OF CARLO and Red Camamon in ở reline love battlo in "The Lady Objects," fusty drama of the ploneer West," now showing at: the Alhambra and

Central Thostros.-

That, somehow, made it really

official.

The Alm won five Academy Awards in 1943-1, for the best per- formance by an actress (Jennifer Jones); 2, for the best achievements in art direction (James Basevi and William Darling); 3, for tho best achievements In cinematography (Arthur Miller); 4, for the best musical score of a dramatic or comedy picture (Alfred Newman); 5, for interior decoration (Thomas Little);

EFFECTIVE

CAMERA

Unusual photographic effects have been obtained by cinema- tographer Larry Butler and, producer-director Orson Welles by the relatively simple ex- pedient of placing a hinged mir- ror alongside the lens of a movie camera.” The device en- ables Butler. literally to shoot around a corner.

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The mirror is hung on the left side of the camera in such a way that it can be Bwung across leas. The reflected image of

the

Rita

Hayworth thus 13 photographed · ធន

she approaches the camera from the right. The mirror is slowly swung awny from the lens, displosing Welles standing directly in front. of the entriers, and Miss Hayworth then walks Into the picture.

This one of the special effects devised for the Alma "The Lady from Shanghal

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