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Show -- "-fa" - - Screen Shorts More living personalities are portrayed in Warner's "Mission to Moscow" than in probably any other film ever produced. Walter Huston portrays Ambassador Jo-soph Jo-soph E. Davies; Ann Harding, Mrs. Davins; Oscar Homolka, Maxine Litvinoff; Gene Lockart, Vyaches-lav Vyaches-lav Molotoff; Henry Daniell, Joa-chira Joa-chira Von Ribbentrop; Dudley Field Malone, Winston Churchill; Doris Lloyd, Mrs. Churchill; Vladimir Vlad-imir Sokoloff, President Kalinin; Manart Kippin, Joseph Stalin; Kirt Katch, Marshal Semyon Tim-oshenko; Tim-oshenko; and many others. We suspect that many of the young actresses envied Joan Leslie her chance to appear as the only girl in the cast of "This Is The Army,' with its 350 all-soldier outfit. But they wouldn't if they knew all the facts. The boys were reminded, by no less authority than the War Department, that they were "soldier-actors" on no playboy mission, that their chore is strictly military and that they must not "talk to actresses." It used to be that actresses could buy the costumes they wore before the cameras for "a song,' but now, with shortages, etc., due to the war, that's a thing of the past. The studios are hanging on to all the clothes and plan to renovate ren-ovate them for future films. After Alice Faye finisher her work in "The Girls He Left Behind," Be-hind," she plans to retire from the screen, perhaps permanently. She declares that she can't "be a wfe and mother and have a movie career. ca-reer. One or the other has to go, and I'm letting the career go. I have too much at stake." Ann Sothern plans to marry Robert Sterling, now an Army flier, just as soon as her divorce from Roger Pryor becomes final, which will be about the middle of this month. Joan Crawford is leaving Hollywood, Hol-lywood, taking with her her husband, hus-band, Phil Terry, and her two adopted children, and is heading East, for a part in "Craig's Wife." Refusing to take off her newly-acquired wedding ring, Michele Morgan, who married Bill Marshall Mar-shall not so long ago, covered the ring with flesh-colored adhesive tape, while appearing in "Two Tickets to London." Jimmy Cagney's contract with Warners for the last two years gave him $150,000 per picture for three pictures a year and ten per cent, of the gross. "Yankee Doodle" Doo-dle" is expected to gross $5,000,-000 $5,000,-000 or more, so Jimmy will get an extra $500,000 for that role. In Bob Hopes' latest, he plays the part of a soldier stationed at a camp near the town in which Betty Hutton runs a "get thin" 4 beauty salon. Bob feeds Betty's reducing ladies chocolates to keep them fat so that his sweetheart can make money keeping them thin. No wonder the film's name is "Let's Face It." Martha Scott is forsaking the plain jane roles for a glamorous gal in "Hi, Diddle Diddle," and we know her fans will be glad. She competes with super-glamorous Constance Bennett for the love of a naval ensign and, while we haven't seen the film or read the story we believe we can guess who wins him in the end. Rita Hayworth's favorite dance partner is Eduardo Cansino, her father, with whom she used to dance on the vaudeville stage when she was in her early teens. They had to stop dancing together when Rita grew so tall she's two inches taller than he is. Van Johnson's fans will be delighted de-lighted to learn that he is convalescing conval-escing nicely from his accident and that surgeons declare that plastic surgery will alleviate any danger of permanent head scars. |