Show E NTH ADIOS Released oy DY Features By INEZ GERHARD DEE ENGELBACH producer- producer director of CBS' CBS Hallmark Playhouse may not be a star- star maker but Joan Fontaine Irene Dunne Gregory Peck and many other ther stars agree that he gets out- out outs s t tan a n d din i n g performances from actors who might not give them otherwise Miss Fontaine did d i d Random Harvest on the Play- Play Playhouse Playhouse house ouse and asked to have him di- di direct direct her next picture Peck had 3 JOAN FONTAINE fought ought off requests to play Abra- Abra Abraam Abraham Abraham ham am Lincoln saying he was a cinch inch to be typed as Lincoln and wanted to postpone it but could not ot refuse the role in The Prairie Years fears with Engelbach directing Tactful but forceful direction that's hats what they say they get from him lim Hollywood has lured two of The Guiding Light cast into its fold Willard Villard Waterman Ray Bran- Bran Branon Brandon Brandon don on starts work as Bing Crosby's stuffy tuffy law in in Riding High and Betty Gerson the fe female fe- fe female female male lead will have a leading role in in a picture at Republic that's un- un unnamed unnamed named amed so far This will be Miss Gerson's ferson's first film venture so heres here's luck to her The new March of Time may give ive you a lot of ideas if you dont don't know where to spend your next va vas cation Or it may show you a alace place lace youve you've already enjoyed The film ilm shows a section cross-section of American holidays cruise ships big ig and little hotels camping trips dude ude ranches Americans spend some ome 11 billion dollars on vacations here ere is how they do it Gene Tierney who hasn't made a picture in too long will costar lostar with Ray Milland 1 in Par- Par Paramount's Paramount's amounts amount's Counter C o 0 u n t e r Intelli Intelli- fence gence It Is a love story set Against a background of army rocket ship experimentation Lucille Ball is really confused about bout television CBS says I can appear in it says the star of My Favorite Husband At Columbia Pictures they say no Paramount adds dds maybe Im I'm still waiting to hear ear from Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall may take a fling at summer stock lock this year in Santa Fe N. N M. M He left the stage 13 years ago when he ic headed for Hollywood and a screen creen career she has no stage experience Kid Chissell one of the ex- ex prizefighters in The Set- Set SetUp SetUp Up Jp used to work out in a Cleve- Cleve Cleveand Cleveland Cleveland land and gym in 1925 with an amateur fighter named Packy East Then Packy took the long count gave up fighting and Chissell didn't know what had become of him Didn't see East until some years later in Hollywood Packy had won quite a reputation there as Bob Hope And by the way Flamingo Road Coad is one of those expertly directed Michael l Curtiz pro pro- productions productions productions that has what it takes to make malc a good picture The cast includes Zachary Scott Sidney and Gladys George Those heavy bags Jennifer Jones and John Garfield drag around in We Were Strangers were really heavy Director John Huston in in- insisted insisted insisted that they be filled with wet clay as the script said and not just straw He said that was the only way the stars could get the thc right facial expressions What they said after five days work is not noton noton noton on record Francis Lederer's last picture made at Paramount was Mid Midnight Midnight Midnight night directed by Mitchell Leisen He then returned to the stage Re Re- Recently Recently Recently Paramount signed him for fora a picture to be directed by Leisen Title After Midnight ODDS ADDS AND ENDS Glenn G GlennFord I e n n Ford has h s to sing for the first time in a film in Columbia's For Those Who Dare what's more he has hasto hasto hasto to do it in German Jane Jaue Wy- Wy Wyman's Wymans Wymans Wyman's Wymans Wyman's mans man's bathing trunks in The Oc Oc- Octopus Octopus Oc- Oc Octopus and Miss Smith were judged provocatively short so they were lengthened half haJ an inch Which Wh ch chmay may not make much difference in trunks but would be something else when it came to eyelashes like Marie Wilsons Wilson's the longest in Hollywood Hol Hol- Hollywood Hollywood lywood they measure an inch and anda a II quarter and they're real |