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Show tar IPust Real or Reel Romance? Proof In the Pictures Knight Does the Lyrics By Virginia Vale ' TTVIEN LEIGH, the Eng-V Eng-V lish girl whom you'll see in the movie version of "Gone With the Wind," arrived in New York a while ago for a vacation. The vacation had begun a week or so before, but she had spent the first part of it in the country nearby, near-by, resting; after 22 weeks of work, with only five free days in that time, she needed a rest! In many ways she really resembles resem-bles "Scarlett O'Hara." She has the squarish jaw and pointed chin that you're familiar with if you read the book, and her eyes, though they're hazel, are near enough to being green so that the effect is almost the same. As for her Southern accent, it should pass muster even with the most critical of Southern audiences. She'll have to abandon it when she returns t6 work, for her next assignment In Hollywood is that of , the young wife in "Rebecca," another an-other popular novel. She will play opposite Laurence Olivier it's rumored ru-mored that their interest in each other is more than mildly sentimental, senti-mental, but in Hollywood that rumor ru-mor has a way of bobbing up whenever when-ever publicity is needed for a new picture. If you want more data- about Miss Leigh for your scrapbook she was born in India, received her education educa-tion in Germany, Italy, France and England, and has a five-year-old daughter. It's a new version of "Smiling Through" that will be Jeanette Mac-Donald's Mac-Donald's first picture under her new i '4 V H, if" "$ JEANETTE MacDONALD Metro contract. The well known author, Alice Duer Miller, ia writing the adaptation, and as usual the studio stu-dio will spare no effort to make the MacDonald production an excellent one. Another foreign actress, Ingrid Bergman, makes her bow to America Amer-ica soon. The picture, "Intermezzo," "Intermez-zo," is an American version of one she made in Sweden. She is returning return-ing to Sweden when it is completed. And, while we're on the subject of Sweden, Paul Muni's superb acting aided greatly In obtaining for Warner War-ner Brothers permission to screen the life of Alfred Bernard Nobel. Hal Wallis, of Warner Brothers, talked with his nephew and showed three Muni pictures, "Pasteur," "Zola" and "Juarez" the most convincing argument that could be offered. No less a person than Sir Robert Vansittart, chief diplomatic adviser to the British government, has been engaged by Alexander Korda to write the lyrics and dialogue for Korda's forthcoming technicolor production, "The Thief of Bagdad." He's doing it between diplomatic assignments. Korda is shooting the works on this new picture; it is one of the most ambitious productions ever to come from his studio. Michael Fitzmaurice has been typed as an unlucky suitor so frequently fre-quently on the air that he's afraid it will affect his private life. In one day not long ago he was jilted in "When a Girl Marries," treated as just a brother in "Myrt and Marge," and taken for a ride after winning the heart of a gunman's moll in "Gang Busters." As you've probably noticed by her pictures, Deanna Durbin is growing up. Gloria Jean, just ten years old, is booked to become her successor to those roles presenting a lovely young girl who can sing. Little Miss Jej.n has the lovely Deanna's charm and naturalness, and has a beautiful voice as well. ODDS AND ENDS John I.odrr ivill be the first actor to fly from London to Hollywood . . . James Cutiney has Sigurd a new contract with li'arncr Broth ers, thougli the current one rutis until October . . . Dorothy Lamour cun't get out of the South Seas; she's to co-star with Robert i'reston in I'ara-mount's I'ara-mount's "Typhoon," and also, inevitably, inevi-tably, in a sarong . . . Those who have seen parts of "I'inocchio," the next full-length full-length Dtsney film, say that it outdistances outdis-tances "Snow II hite." Released by Western Newspaper Union.) |