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Show By INEZ GERHARD DURING the recording sessions far "Let's Fall in Love," actors at Columbia who were missing from their own sets always could be found on stage 7, where Dorothy Lamour was sinning in French. Portuguese, English with a French accent, English with a Cockney ac r- - i ,"! M. v v.; S ; . C . 1 . .. ( , 8 - 1 DOROTHY LAMOUlt cent, and what she calls East New Orleansese says it's her "native tongue." With the musical and also "Lulu Belle" finished, she has been in New York, combining a vacation with business and a bit of ear trouble. trou-ble. It's hard to get guest stars from Hollywood to commit themselves to broadcast dates, so when "Mystery Theater" executives asked K. T. Stevens if she would be in New York for their show they were startled when she said, "Sure, I'll be here six weeks from now, even six months from now." Was she giving up her career? "No, I've a new career, that of 'Mother,' " she explained. Franchot Tone will provide romantic ro-mantic competition for Cary Grant in "Every Girl Should Be Married," playing a wealthy wolf with frivolous intentions right up his alley! Grant's protege, Betsy Drake, is the girl in the case. "The Time of Your Life" is a magnificent picture. In transferring transfer-ring the Pulitzer-prize winning play to the screen, the Cagney brothers have reached a standard rarely achieved in Hollywood. This one should win a flock of Oscars. The cast is superb; it includes James and Jeanne Cagney, William Ben-dix, Ben-dix, Wayne Morris, Broderick Crawford, Ward Bond, James Barton, Bar-ton, Gale Page, and Reginald Beane, every one excellent. United Artists can be proud of passing this one along to the public. Between scenes of Paramount's "The Great Gatsby" Alan Ladd judged his 154th beauty contest. It was to pick the 1948 "Dream Girl" for the University of Washington Wash-ington chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. Fifty photographs were submitted, and co-stars Betty Bet-ty Field and Macdonald Carey helped select the winner. With his experience, Ladd could have done it alone. Everett Sloane helped make movie history when he stole a picture pic-ture from Orson Welles. He did it with his great performance in Columbia's Co-lumbia's "The Lady from Shanghai." Shang-hai." James Barton does the same thing, in "The Time of Your Life," to James Cagney. Barton is so good as Kit Carson, the old trapper, that few who see the picture ever will forget him. At RKO they believe that in "Battleground" "Bat-tleground" they have a worthy successor suc-cessor to those film classics of World War I, "All Quiet on the Western Front," "The Big Parade" and "What Price Glory." It is based on factual incidents of the battle of Bastogne, written by Robert Rob-ert Pirosh, a combat veteran who won the Bronze Star for valor at Bastogne. Odds and Ends . . . Frances Lang-ford Lang-ford plans to make a cross-country tour with her husband, Jon Hall, while the CBS Morgan-Ameche-Langford show takes its snmmcr vacation . . . George O'Hanlon, "Joe Doakes" of Warners' "So You Want to Be " shorts, gets his first straight role In a feature picture In "June Bride" . . . William Bendix will do a movie version of "The Life of Riley," based on his radio show characterization . . . Radio's "Dr. Christian," Jean Hersholt, will be the one who introduces In-grid In-grid Bergman and Edgar Bergen to King Frederick IX of Norway this summer. When "Club 15" closes for the summer the Andrews Sisters will head for England and a month's engagement at the Palladium. Margaret Mar-garet Whiting has five radio guest shots and several benefits lined up in New York. James Melton, star of "Harvest of Stars," is the favorite classical male singer of the country's leading lead-ing music critics, according to the fifth annual radio poll taken by "Musical America." |
