1948-10-16 — Page 2

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CHARLES BOYER

JENNIFER JONES

Se Irresistible!

So Innocent?

In Each Other's Arms,4, and Hearts...at last?

ERNST LUBITSCH'S

Production of

Cluny Brown 20

PETER LAWFORD - HELEN WAIKEN - REGINALD GARDINER - REGINALD OHEN

Produced and Directed by ERNST LUBITSCH

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Vishinsky at UNO Paris Meeting....Ganges in India overflows Training of recruits in U. S. Army

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DENNIS O'KEEFE · JOHN LODER

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Directed by Robert Stevenson

Screenplay by Edmund H. North,

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1948.

FILM FAN FARE

Humble Studio Jobs Lead On To Stardom

By Melrose Gower

40 you want to be a film actor the studio hospital, where a producer of actress, and you don't was receiving treatment for a cold.

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screen

words that end? Why, mere- looks and, when the cyclist recover- ly get a job at any big studio na n ed his sensen, offered him a Carpenter, electrician, messenger test. girl, script clerk, prop boy or inbourer. Any huinble jeb will do for ntart.

When

Richard Martin WOB. graduated from Beverly Hills High School, he went to work on the re- ception desk at MGM. Three years Ben Plazza, later he was seen by

depart- head of RKO's new-talent

gave the youngster ment, who screen fest. MGM followed with a second test, Fox with a third. Piazza won out the three-way race and went to RKO. Early Inst year he signed a now contract to appear in five Westerns per year for years as Tim Holt's Moxico-Irish screen pal.

The above advice may sound a bit far-fetched but it's a fact, neverthe- less, that the motion picture indus- try, more than any ollier, does offer

humbler opportunities to lis

cm- ployees to rise to the, heights.

Ellen Corby, for 12 years a script giri at RKO Radlo, supplien a 'Biting Illustration at the moment. Threa years ago, at the age of 32, Miss Corby decided to become an actress. She gave up all other interests and concentrated on this new career. Since then she has appeared in 32 pictures. Her big "break" came when she received the important role of Aunt Trins, wistful Nor- studio walls: wegian spinster whose late-lowering romance complicates the lives of the other screen characters in "1 Re- member Mama."

stardom.

She may not rench starting late as she did, but Ellen Corby definitely has arrived an A character actress who will earn for the balance of her working life more than a dozen script girls roli- ed into one.

ON "HIGH JOBS"

Alan Ladd, now playing in Para- mount's "The Great Golsby." has done well for himself as a movie Thespion. But not so many years back, he was just un electrician at Warner's. working the "high jobs"- way up on the catwalks above the sound stages, One day a crew member working beside Ladd fel! 30 feet to the stage and was killed. Two days later Ladd, still unnerved by the accident tripped and fell over the catwalk rail. His own life was saved only because he struck the side woll of a set and rode it down. to the stage floor.

"I decided then," he relates with feeling, "that actors had the good Jobs, the safe jobs, I enrolled in the Ben

Bard School, and began studying dramaties."

Beauty and personally cost Marilyn Mercer her job as a studio Grant messenger last year. Cary and Director Irving Rels gave her a small part in "The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer," and the studio Have her a contract. Her latest role is in the George Raft picture, "Race Street."

In "Fort Apache," John Wayne co-stars with Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple and Pedro Armendariz. Twenty years ago Wayne was

football different, type of star^~---¡à player at the University of Southern California and director John Ford. was a football fan. Ford got Wayne n Inbourer's job at 20th Century- Fox, the big fellow worked up to be an assistant property man-then on

on acting and stardom

10 screen.

***UNCONSCIOUS"

the

threo

There's always opportunity in Hollywood-IF.

If you can get inside those high

DEFLATED

NOTHING

can be quite so deflating as the com- ment of a five-year-old..

Ack Bette Davis.

The star was working in a scene for "Winter Meot- ing" at Warner Bros. with Caroline McLeod, small fry 'of the films.

The youngster looked up at Bette and asked: "Aro you an actress too?"

. Bette briefly

hesitated only before assuring Caroline that she was.

"Oh," said Caroline, "and I did, so want to talk with somebody real!''

TALE OF EARLY AMERICA

SOMETHING new in feminine footzear for Paulette Goddard In In Ceell B. DeMille's, technicolour talo of early America, "Unconquered,” now showing at the Queen's and Alhambra Theatres. Cary Cooper, co-starred with Miss Goddard, is here shown coming to the lady's rescue after she luas walked through her shoes.

Typical

Actress

THE

Tot First, Second

HE general idea that an actress is an actress, on or off the screen, may be perfectly true. not in the case of Margaret O'Brien.

But

"And what type of acting will you do when you grow up?" he asked. "Would you think il fun to be dramatic like Greer Garson, or comedienne like Ginger Rogers, or"

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Margaret Interrupted, but

For four years Steve Savage was

When not before the cameras, an electrician, and a good-one, nt

Margaret is a living, breathing RKO. He appeared in 2 Little

Here pig-tailed dur- counterpart of that Theatre play staged by the youning who lust careened out of your politely. members of the Studio Club-ind way on a scooter and came darn Steve Savage suddenly became a near smashing n passing baby professional, making his film debut

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DRAMA

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pected of the electrician-turned- There's nothing of the prodigy actor, who bears quite a resemblance about Margaret. She gets into the.. to Clark Gable.

At various times different actors normal number of scrapes, and out have been called "unconscious by again. She can be as good as gold, And the very or a trying problem. irate directors. But there's one

worst punishment. her mother can well-known personality in Hollywood mete out is to make her eat dinner whose literal" unconsciousness was alone in her room. This happens directly responsible for his future only occasionally--but it does hap as a fine actor.

pen.. Richard Arlen is the personality. Margaret's position as 'n motion More than 20 years ago he was 0 pleture star hos never actually motorcycle messenger for a film de- duwned on her. Recently, during livery service. Riding Into the the Alming of "Tenth Avenue An- Paramount lot one day, he crashedgel," an important interviewer ur- Into a truck and was thrown head-rived on the set, pencil polsed, to long against the side of a building.do a story on Hollywood's youngest The unconscious youth was taken to dramatic actress.

ERNST LUBITSCH COMEDY

CHARLES BOYER and. Jonilfer Jones are teamed for the first time on the sorcon in the late Ernst Lubitsch's comedy; "Cluny Brown" This hilarious, comedy is based on Margery. Sharp's bestseller of two uninhibited people who don't belong anywhere--exospt' in ̈ench'

other's arms. At the King's Theatre today,

"Oh, I'm not going to be an ne- tress when I grow up," she said. "Didn't you know? I'm going to be a dog-trainor!" And she meant it.

SIMPLY PLAYING

Acting is simply playing to little Miss O'Brien, When she goes to see. a picture which is often because she returns them, she always loves home in the role of the heroine. When she saw Ingrid Bergman in "Saratoga Trunk," she was Cico for an entire week, and borrowed her aunt's best picture hat to further create the illusion.

Then after sceing "Song of Berna- dette, she was a nun. wrapped sanctimoniously In a family bed sheet and dripping candle wax over the sitting room carpet.

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But as for seeing her own plc- tures, Margaret just isn't interested.

"That's no fun." she answered group of neighbourhood

children. bent on visiting a Saturday matinec to see Margaret in one of her recent films. "Let's go somewhere else. I know how that one ends."

STAR NEWS

The ancient walls of the small re- public of San Marino will be used by 20th Century-Fox as background for some of the scenes in the Alm, "Prince of Faxes."

Henry King has taken a company to Italy to make the Aim: Tyrone Power is the star of the picture, which is based on the novel by Samuel Shellaberger.

Bob Hope's next role, la Para- mount's "Eary Does It," will bo different from any characterisation he has ever attempted—a confidence man posing as a wealthy American playboy.

The story takes place on a trans- Atlantic luxury liner. Richard Hydn Is the director.

Joseph Cotten has been picked for a leading role in "The Third Man," which is going into production in Vienna this month. It is based on a hitherto unpubilahed novel by Grahame Greene.

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