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but the peenarist Cornel Wilde was in gaol of Paris,
nally catches
up with recently. So, also, WILH
Minister Tone not only 13 Maureen O'Hara. Likewise
bounced into the Bostille; the into the hoosgow recently guillotine lops off his noggin to
Jane Russell, Franchot
As a young bank teller in RICO Tone, Harold Lloyd, Farley Kadie's "It's Only Money," Granger and a host of other Frank Sinatra suffers from in- Hollywood luminaries. The ancial nunemin and romantic motion picture calabooses paralysis. He falls heir to $00,- 000 suddenly on the same day a were congested with gentle-
buge bank shortage 17 dis- men and ladies of the film covered. In an effort to help colony,
the boy friend, Jane Russell un- wittingly
shift to manages to herself-and suspicion dragged off to the local lovic-up.
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The kicarceration of
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Thes prominent scenarists.
In Samuel Goldwyn's "Edge have of Dom** of inte
Farley Granger screen authors enjoyed a feld day of writing hauled away in the Binck Maria motion picture scripts in which and falsely accused of a hold- the hero or heroine is caged in up. A kindly priest convinces the coop at one time or other the caps that Farley's too decent in the course of the picture's a fad to stick up anyone-and they let him go. Decent, huh? Why, according to the script, Granger has just murdered un-
fore, the hold-up took place.
nction.
Makes For Suspenso other priest a few minutes be
"It makes for suspense," the
| hard-hearted writers chuckle.
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The scrkveners were parti-
Maureen O'llara, Dan O'Herlihy and Alan Hale, Jr., during one scripted "Mad Wednesday" for Producer Dircelor Preston sequence in RKO Radio's "Sens
Sturges wasn't ratisfed with of the Musketeers,"
strong-arming Harold Lloyd and It's bad enough when the Jimmy Coulla into the tank: there men and their frail friend also consigned Jackle, famous are tored by brutal palace 20-year-old on actor, to the Hunros Into the rat-infested rame filthy hole. This did irre- depli ví #1 17:11 centry parable harm to Jackie's brilli:01 dungeon.
status
Hollywood's only genuite social un.
It doenta positively unenlied for (except by the seript) when Wilde, O'Herlihy and Hade nee strun up by the hubs, lash ed with whips and poked with hot iron-while Miss O'Hara, shuddering in Technicolour love liners, is forced to witness their
torture.
Claudette Colbert also gets n mighty raw deal from the open- ing; seen almost to the final fade-out of the Jack H. Skirball- Brice Manning production, "Blind Spot.**
The villains of the piece first break up her wedding ceremony, then hale her to the elink on a charge of murder, after which a legal erook has her committed to an insane asylum.
Insult To Injury
There medical scientists add insult to injury by examining her brafu with an encephalograph. Wholly unnecessary.
There are nerasions, of course, when our local Thesplans "bent the rap."
Iti
Muisie in a glamorous moment.
Ann got tired of
being
"Well, it was about time.
Howar the sensational Hughes production, "The Out-Vasn't it?" said Ann Soth- "It was law." Jack Turtel, as Billy the fern defensively..
Kid, and Walter Huston, playing reiting so that I was shm- Doc Holiday, successfully evade all efforts to clap them inside ing my choques and legal the adobe walls of a enwtown papers 'Maisie'." gaol.
Ana was right, of course. Nine And in the RKO-Walt Disney version of Robert Louis Steven-yeurs of playing a single charac- bound lu story.er in 15 lies was Son's Kreat adventure "Treasure Island." Hebert Newhave an Impeial. And she had ton, cast as villainous Long John no desire to go into competition
with Edgar Silver, dodges Execution Dock
Rice Burrough'a long-bont the by fleeing in while he figuratively thumbs his "Tarzan", who has been on the serien 30 years, with 10 Tarzan heroes keeping him there.
nose at the righteous members of the neling company.
It's all very sad and upsetting, however, to see so many fine cinema citizens being treated like common criminals. Small nice can they glean from the bromidie quotation that "stone Everyone walls do not a prison make, nor around these parts knows there Isn't a sinarter brain in Holly- iron bars a cage."
The "pokey is always the wond thah Claudette's.
pokey.
Why, only last month those. producers, Skirball | same two and Manning, signed her to director's contract under which she will guide three big-budget
ms in 1950.
Franchol Tone gets tone: down most thoroughly in the A. &. Production, "The man on the Elitel Tower," For
Detective long time he leads Charles Lathton a merry chase through the streets and fleckspots
NO REGRETS
"Maine was a fine character," the blue-eyed, blonde five-foot- one actress said. "I have abso- lutely no regrets about those nine years. But after all, a girl doen want a change.”
HE DOESN'T MIND HIS WIFE'S WEIRD · HOBBY
your
Does
wife collect hrunken heads, processed into the diminutive by
Ecuadorian head-hunters?
Don't be alarmed. Armand Denis' wife, Michaela, does, and he isn't alarmed. As a matter of fact he helps her,
fascinating films. of the corners of the
She dresses to and she helps him make
take their eyes
weirdest
earth.
off the game Michaela doesn't look like the
Πο
that collects shrunken for type dress women
heids
(assuming, of course, men's approval, or to make there is such a type).
She is an other women green with attractive red-head who has envy 7
For men's
and
Just
niso served na a mode! |fashion designer. It was
that she was down in South approval, Laratne
America studying the fabrics, Day declared flatly. Further-NI
colours and designs of the In- mure, she intimates, any woman fans in the jungles, and there who claims otherwise is either a were the heads and well, you
bber or foolish.
know how it is when you get What brought forth the lovely the collector's bug... Incidental. was they, she picked up her husband Laraine's comments wardrobe designed by Michael in Bolivia.
WED IN ALTITUDE
Armand Denis, noted ex. plorer and movie producer. and his receni bride, Michaela, leaving on his African Jauni for a combined boneymoon and movie project,
while Woulfe for her to wear co-starring with Robert Ryan and John Agar in "The Woman 13." There nre 12 on Pier changes of costume, each as eye- catching as the Hope diamond in a five-and-ten.
"Certainly I dress for men," Armand
fashions. "Where's study continued. Laraine the thrill in knowing that other meeting everywhere, and
in Fotosi, Bolivia, women think an outfit is smart November if you don't get a tumble or a the highest elty in the world, smile from the men? Nor in it a built, allegedly, on a mountain
Naturally Michaela went along kick that is restricted to single of silver, they were married.
with him, Both of them feet girls. 1
don't see. anything
White a married women
the Latin-American more at home in a pulley chair wrong with
her first experience in the Jungle than they do dressing as well as she knows trip wis
New York's Fifth how, thereby being a credit to with the jungle, that is not in a taxi on her husband in publle as well so of her husband. as making him appreciatively he proud of her,
She had met Armand in New
Ilc recently completed York, around Christmas of 1947. The following spring they left "Savage Splendor" for RKO Individually for South America, Radio in the course of a 22,-
000-mile to make alms, she to
journey through They
WES kept Africa. Denis
Icently Inst
signed as technical adviser on the forthcoming MGM picture, "King Belomon's Mines."
and nervousnes
Recently Avenue. completed a 100,000-mile "You don't find the tension auto trip of Africa, on an eC=
in the jungle pedition with Lewis Collow. "One tominine folble that They took thousands of fret of that you do in so-called civil- sation," Armand said **Lions, FANTASTIC! ARTISTICI DRAMATIC! WONDERFUL! ever falls to amuse me, is the Technicolour film along the way, elephants and fever are nothing habit ut four or five girls, and the results, including their compared to lilo here- The
capturing wild
Jungle means peace.” with cowboy What are animals a fashionable spot.
type. THE FIRST FULL LENGTH FEATURE OF MARIONETTES dressed to the teeth, lunching in experiences in
Or whom? Lassoes, will soon be seen in the And Michaela agrees they dressed for?
with APPEARING IN THE WORLD
The only difference be And whom do they think they're world-wide release of "Savage him.
Splendour" by RKO Radio tween the two is the location of |foaling?"
Theirs is the Arst full-length the Jungle,
Michaela likea picture of Africa to be mado South America, Armand keg In Technicolour.
Africa, But then, this will be Michaela's first trip into the African jungles.
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When Laraine, wife of Les Durocher, manager of the New York Glanis, goes to a baseball game she dresses in the smartest of sports attire.
But this is only one of his
exploits. more recent
Dents
won fame a few years ago for
"A baseball stadium is still his "Goons Goona," "Wild Car chiefly a man's world," she said, go" (with Frank Buck) and And now ho
"and when a woman can take "Dark Rapture."
men's eyes and minds off the has gone back to Atrica as ad-
"The trouble with Kenya or Tanganyika
Michiela, they are too civilised."
says
and hero, as they say in
we leave our two travellers.
game for even monient, It's viser in the making of another the travelogues, cause for satisfaction indeed.”, i fim.
Maisie
Four recent non-Maisie roles gave her that change, and Ann
Sothern's stock as an actress has one up like value in Jand where oil has been discovered. She did two musicals-Ane enjoys sing- ing and dancing-April Show- ers" and "Words and Music" and two dramas, "Letter to Three Wives" and "The Judge Steps Out".
"While I was making *The Judze" I kept thinking to my- self. "Here I am running away! from Maisle. Will she show through? Am I kidding myself?"
But Ann is an actress, and whatever it was that made Mat ale a success seems to be inherent in any role she plays. Ier! eharacterisations live,
"SMILES" VETERAN
Broadway discovered Ann'a talents before Hollywood, no s Strangely frequently the case. enough, Ann was in Hollywood at the time. The late Florenz Ziegfeki saw one of the severni films in which she had bit parts, and offered her a role in "Smiler" -with Marilya Miller, Her auc-
CCES WAS immediate.
After two more musleal come-' dies, "Everybody Welcome" and "Of Thee I Sing," she was offer- ed the feminine lead in the film "Let's Fall In Love". That was 1934, the year she returned to Hollywood for keeps, and the year she changed her name from Harriet Lake to Aan Sothem,
"Maisie" appeared On the scene in 1930, and existed until 1947.
In Hollywood Ann is noted for outspokenness. She is quick to correct an error in fact or in mis-statement by anybody; she won't make a positive statement won
Is Bure.
She doesn't unless she like affectations, does like to stay up late, loves to entertain. They call her "rocking chale Ann" (never "Annie") on net because she prefers rocking while sitting and knitting.
PENCHANT FOR MUSIC
the
Her penchant for musicais is not surprising: She was playing plano rather well at seven. Her mother was a concert singer and her maternal grandfather was Hans Nilson, the distinguished
With Alexander Knox in "The Judge Steps Out."
violinist. Her two sisters, Bonnie and Marfan,
Also good
planisis.
the
Ann has a daughter, Patricin, She's whom she calls "Tichla".
born Ave years old, and was while Ann wis married to Robert Sterling, from whom slic is now divorced.
This autumn Ann has another plcture commitment with RKO Radio. The story is entitled "Come Share My Love," and il in a romantic comedy.
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