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Show By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union. I RITA IIAYWORTII won a victory when Director Charles Vidor offered her a chance to become Brian Aherne's leading lady in "The Lady in Question." Because the sultry-eyed actress wears clothes so well she's been labelled la-belled "the best dressed girl in filmland." And because she's what she is, she found herself in danger of acquiring another an-other label thut of a glamour girl. But the lovely Rita wants to act. If you've seen her in "Susan and God," with Joan Crawford and Frederic March, you know that she can do it, too. But in Uiat one she was beautifully dressed. She wanted a role that would give her a chance to show what she could do in spite of being dowdily dressed. Vidor certainly gave it to her In "The Lady In Question." Her entire wardrobe for this one cost less than $45. A drab suit, shoes with run-over heels, and a very simple afternoon frock that's what this "best dressed" young woman was given to wear. She was delighted. But she couldn't go dowdy all the way she had to wuar silk stockings. Remember Marie Wilson, the cunning cun-ning blonde who was clever enough to put herself across in Hollywood by playing dumb? Her most recent picture was "Boy Meets Girl," which isn't exactly recent, after all. She has just concluded a 20 weeks' personal appearance tour, and now she's back in pictures; you'll see . f , ' X I ': . i ' MARIE WILSON her in "Virginia," pluying a neurotic neu-rotic young New York society woman wom-an who wants to buy an historic Virginia plantation owned by Madeleine Mad-eleine Carroll and transform it into a night club. Grim fate pursues Bctte Davis on the screen. She's died, gone Insane, lost her eyesight, faced certain death on a plague-ridden Island; been murdered, and caused a scandal scan-dal that rocked the world. In her new picture, "The Letter," she starts right out by killing a man. However, her roles haven't affected her private life she's taking rhum-ba rhum-ba lessons in her free moments. Speaking of free time Raymond Gram Swing (whom Radio Guide recently re-cently named "the wisest and most scholarly of thewar commentators") has had but two free weeks for vacation vaca-tion in the past four years. And with the European situation what it is there's no telling when he'll ever again have time off. Wr A honeymoon that was delayed for five years started recently, when Laurette Fillbrandt ("Virginia Rich-man" Rich-man" of "Girl Alone") and her husband, hus-band, Russ Young, finally departed for Hollywood and points north. He's a radio announcer, and ever since their marriage, when he wasn't booked to announce she was committed com-mitted to acting getting 16 free weeks together was something of a triumph. Are you one of these movie fans who implore the stars to do something some-thing on the screen that will really be a message to you? If you are, you annoy your favorite star no end. George Brent has one of those fans, a girl who wants him to tap his cigarette three times on an ash tray at least once in each picture, just to let her know that he was thinking of her. He did it as a gag in one picture, and regrets it says since then she's been so insistent that he'd be muscle-bound if he acceded ac-ceded to her demands. Pretty Brenda Marshall (now working in "East of the River") gets regular letters from a youth who wants her to mention his name just once during the picture. And Jane Wyman receives roses to wear. When the roses arrived when she started work in "Tugboat Annie Sails Again" Jane took steps. She wrote him that she couldn't do it if she wanted to, because she has to do what the script tells her to, that she has rose fever and can't stand the flowers and besides, that she's married. |