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Show SBiorts Most of the prominent screen stars in Hollywood are doing their bit to help the various relief organizations or-ganizations and other worthy charities. char-ities. Outstanding among them is Cary Grant, who gave the $125,-000 $125,-000 he got for his appearance in "The Philadelphia Story" to British Bri-tish war relief, and then followed this immense gift with $5,000 to the United China relief. The $125,-000 $125,-000 he will receive for appearing in "Arsenic and Old Lace" will be divided among the United Service organizations, the American Red Cross, and recognized British charities char-ities . . . Other stars who are contributing contri-buting their earnings from radio broadcasts from $1,000 to $5,000 per broadcast include Myrna Loy, Ginger Rogers, George Murphy, Alan Marshall, and many others . . . Samuel Goldwyn's definition of a screen personality is one who is enough like 20,000,000 other people peo-ple that they can recognize themselves them-selves in the star; second, he or she has to be what these 20,000,000 people would like to be; and third, he or she has to be somebody that 60,000,000 would like to visit with for an hour or two every chance they get. This probably explains why, out of the thousands of would-be stars, there are only a handful who reach the top . . . It took a lot of real persuasion to get Stirling Hayden back to Hollywood for a "re-take" of an important love scene between Hayden Hay-den and Madeleine Carroll in "Bahama "Ba-hama Passage," which had been spoiled in the laboratory. As soon as the "re-take" was finished, Hayden sped back to his home in the east . . . Among the sons and daughters daugh-ters of movie stars now making good on their own in the movies are Tim Holt, son of Jack Holt; Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., who is at present in the U. S. navy; Noah Beery, Jr.; Lon Chaney, Jr.; Bill Reid; Bryant Washburn, Jr.; Francis Fran-cis X. Bushman, Jr.; not to mention men-tion Jean Cagney, sister of Jimmy; June Havoc, sister of Gypsy Rose Lee, and Joan Fontaine, sister of Olivie de Havilland ... Believing that "Aloma of the South Seas" was destined to be a flop, Paramount sent it out to market mar-ket without a preview. Evidently, they had overlooked the fact that, in spite of shoddy and ridiculous plots, no jungle picture in ' the past five years has failed to make money. So, Dorothy Lamour and her sarong will be seen in more jungle films . . . Not satisfied with her smile on the screen, Hedy Lamarr decided to do something aobut it. So, before be-fore beginning work in her role in "H. M. Pullman, Esq.," Hedy went to work diligently with a coach and a mirror, with the result that you will see a new Hedy Lamarr smile when you see her in the picture . . . A: Potential Rudolf Valentinos by the dozens are being tested for the title role in the picture Edward Small wants to make based on the life of the late screen shiek. So far, Philip Reed has the inside track . . . George Cohan is said to have been paid $100,000 by Warner Bros, for the rights to his life story twice that paid to Alvin C. York, the studio's other contemporary contem-porary biographical subject. Cohan also insisted upon the right to ap- prove the scenario and specified that Jimmy Cagney was to be his impersonator . . . What seems to be a silly thing to do to the casual observer was done recently by Director Ralph Ceder, who traveled 5,000 miles and spent $50,000 pursuing and photographing, of all things, clouds. The reason? California skies are usually completely clear or wholly overcast, and cloud formations, for-mations, necessary in some pictures, pic-tures, are at a premium. |