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Show By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) SAMUEL GOLDWYN has a sure-thing combination in Bette Davis and Director William Wil-liam Wyler, who've just done "The Little Foxes" for him. They were responsible for "Jezebel," which won the second sec-ond Academy Award for Bette, though a lot of people thought she'd H v given better performances per-formances in other pictures. They also did "The Letter." a hit film. Bette is working now in "The Man Who Came to Dinner," Din-ner," and likes it because it's legitimate legiti-mate comedy; the comedy she did with James Cag- Bette Davl. "Ti?"nBr'd.! Came C. 0. D.," wasn't so much to her liking, because be-cause it was slapstick stuff. And RKO, which releases "The Little Foxes," may have a sure thing on its hands In Terry Frost. He is the last of the three men who played "Killer Mears" In the stage version of "The Last Mile." Producer Pro-ducer Bert Gllroy picked him for a part In Tim Holt's "Cyclone on Horseback," In which Frost will make his film debut after a wait of 11 years. And the other two men who played "Killer Mears" were Spencer Spen-cer Tracy and Clark Gable and it was Gilroy who picked Gable for his first film, "Painted Desert" So, if good things come In threes, Terry Frost is headed straight for stardom. star-dom. A matrimonial expert, who's been asking American wives "What has Charles Boyer that your husband doesn't have?" maintains that 70 per cent of the country's married women are In love with male stars. One thing he's got is a beautiful and charming wife. It's on again, off again with John Garfield and Warner Brothers. As previously reported here, he refused to do "New Orleans Blues," was suspended, sus-pended, and Richard Rich-ard Whorf, the very talented actorwho's appeared so often of-ten on the stage with Lunt and Fon-tanne, Fon-tanne, replaced him. Garfield was assigned as-signed to "Bridges Are Built at Night," John Garfield and all seemed well. But it wasn't, and now he's been suspended again, and again Whorf has replaced him. Seems to be becoming be-coming a habit. Maybe Garfield has forgotten the rumpuses Bette Davis and James Cagney had with the same studio and that both of them went back to work at the same old stand when the fuss was finally settled. Guy Lombardo has been having a lot of fun with those lyricized commercials, com-mercials, superimposed over a musical mu-sical background, and radio audiences audi-ences like them so much that he's decided to make them a regular feature fea-ture of his Saturday evening programs. pro-grams. Tom Hanlon, announcer on Gene Autrey's CBS Sunday program, "Melody Ranch," figures that he's on his way up, in motion pictures. He recently played a scene with Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas at the Metro studio. He did a commercial com-mercial announcement which they were supposed to hear over the radio ra-dio during an important sequence. But he worked just out of camera range on the set with the Swedish star. Red Skelton has already arrived at the top, If reports of what preview pre-view audiences thought of "Whistling "Whis-tling In the Dark" are a prophecy. Seems he's going to give Bob Hope a run for Hope's laurels, and make all of us laugh our heads off while so doing. It looks as if September 15 would be Orson Welles day in Hollywood. On that date he inaugurates his new variety broadcasts as star, producer, produc-er, director and author with the Mercury players, and also starts the cdmeras grinding on his next RKO picture, "The Magnificent Am-bersons." Am-bersons." Between times he'll probably prob-ably do card tricks; he's just mastered mas-tered seven new ones. ODDS AND ENDS That man Rochester, Jack Benny't "valet," u the high spot of the neo Mary Martin pic-Uire, pic-Uire, "Kit the Boyt Goodbye" . . . Practically all newspaper critics have throun bouquets at "The Start Look Down" . . . Walt Disney and some of his staff will journey to South America to get ideas for cartoons suitable for that market . . . Charles Uughton will star in "Ou of Gas," a Tahiti tale by the "Mutiny on the Bounty" authors . . . Maureen O'Uara will have the lead op posite Tyrone Power in 20th Century Fox's "Benjamin Blnke" . . There's a National Society of Hardy Families, not -elated to Metro's. |