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Show 'i Screen Shorts Judy Garland is to have a non-singing, dramatic role in "The Clock," an original screen story by Pauline Gallico. The story deals with the experiences in New York of a soldier and his girl during the 48 hours preceding his departure depar-ture for overseas. Ginger Rogers is wanted by Warner Brothers for a starring role in their proposed musical, "Silver I ining," to be based on the life of the late Marilyn Miller. Ginger has two pictures to do for RKO, however, before she would be available for any further work. They are "The Gibson Girl," and "Situation Out of Hand." MGM has already bought the screen rights to an unpublished book by James Hilton and has en-i gaged the author to work on the screen play. The story, with a First World War background, is not expected to be published before be-fore next fall. k Ingrid Bergman and Ray Mil-land Mil-land are scheduled to have the leading roles in a remake which Paramount is planning for "A Farewell to Arms," the Ernest Hemingway novel. The story of the First World War was previously previ-ously produced by Paramount in 1931 with Helen Hayes and Gary Cooper in the leads. "What's Wrong With Love?" an original story by Laslo Gorog and William Thiele, has been purchased pur-chased by Columbia as a starring vehicle for Rosalind Russell. The picture deals with the romantic adventures of a woman psychiatrist. psychia-trist. Gloria Jean, who is fast growing up, will have the romantic roman-tic lead in the Olsen and Johnson picture, "High Spirits," a murder mystery. Ethel Barrymore, after an absence of twelve years from the , screen, will play the leading feminine fem-inine role in the RKO picturiza-tion picturiza-tion of Richard Llewellyn's novel, "None But the Lonely Heart." Her last appearance before the camera was in the MGM "film, "Rasputin," in which she was starred with her brothers, John and Lionel. Deanna Durbin and producer, Felix Jackson, are seen together so much that the gossips have it that it's a real romance. While neither will admit that it's romance, Captain Clark Gable and Kay Williams are seeing all the night spots together. A: Veronica Lake has reached the amazing weight of 106 pounds, heavier than she has ever been before. She looks swell and probably proba-bly feels better. When filmed in , Hollywood, "Take It or Leave It", the film version of the popular radio show, will not have a $64 question, it will be a $640 one. Three of the 218 jitterbugs in one scene in the Jack Benny picture, pic-ture, "The Horn Blows at Midnight," Mid-night," were shooting it up so strenuously that they were injured. in-jured. The doctors recently ordered "three weeks of bedlam night clubs, gay dinners and plain, riotous rio-tous fun for beautiful Carmen Miranda. For months, while making mak-ing "Greenwich Village," Carmen conformed to a rigid schedule of pampering herself, which did her no good. The doctors want to get her out of the rut she got into. Diana Barrymore, who left Hollywood after completing work on "Ladies Courageous," to devote de-vote her talents henceforth to the stage, is back in the movie capital to do the remaining picture on her Universal contract. She will play a heavy in the Olsen and Johnson murder mystery farce, "High Spirits." |