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Show Screen Shorts rTn's hard to believe it has i twenty years since one of ! b ma or studios-Metro-Gold-; was formed. The I- i cllebrated its 20th anniver- :2, a ala round A 1 of festivities. V. How many of the top-rank- i I stars of twenty years ago can t " !me' How about Tom Mix, S yu TLioyd, Gloria Swanson, A Harold Uoya, Tal madge Corinne Griffith, Rudolph Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks, Pickford, Colleen Moore rT( Said Denny and Pola Negri? I J Remember them? After spending more than S100 000 on writing and costum-lg costum-lg 'their projected re-make of 1 Victor Hugo's "Jean Valjean shelve it. A suitable actor to J 20th Century-Fox decided to play the leading role could not be found after it was impossible to secure Laird Cregar for the role. MGM, who wanted to use 51 Elinor Glyn's red-hot old novel, 2J "Three Weeks," as a vehicle for W?l Walter Pidgeon and Hedy Lamarr m can't get the script past the Hays office. We don't wonder! I Clark Gable, who is now out I of the Army and off the govern-h govern-h ment payroll, will not be avail- able for a picture before Aug 1, ' it is said. Gable already has gain-f, gain-f, ed back the 20 pounds he lost in J the service. Anne Baxter, who found her 535 height of five-three and one-half . a handicap, did stretching exer-ffl exer-ffl cises and stretched herself one 3fl whole Inch and a half. Gene Tier- ney has grown an inch and a half to five feet-six and a half, in one B3E year, without trying. The character which Bing y Crosby plays in "Here Comes the j WAVES" is a take-off on Sinatra with Bing finally joining the navy I to escape the swooners. Wonder II how Sinatra will like that? It is possible that Tallulah mm Bankhead and Ida Lupino will i play the bad and good sisters, re- spectively in the screen version of liiil Ben Ames Williams' play, "Leave , Her to Heaven." Miss Lupino is 1( a certainty and while Miss Bank-' Bank-' head has not signed, up to this writing, it is believed she will accept ac-cept the role. The leading male role is yet to be ascertained. Joan Loring, 18-year-old starlet, star-let, received the surprise of her life when she was given the role of Bessie in "The Corn Is Green" over several top actresses who were trying for the port. Tests by the younger were so superior that (there was no chance for the others. oth-ers. Sam Goldwyn is delighted with his newest find Virginia Mayo who is described by some !as a young edition of Madeleine Carroll. Her first top role is opposite oppo-site Bob Hope in "The Princess and the Pirate." It is interesting to learn that theaters in liberated French towns (are getting Hollywood pictures within 72 hours after occupation. More than 100 features have been prepared for immediate releace, m under a plan worked out long ago by the OWI Overseas Motion Pic- (ture Bureau, the first of which Is "A Salute to France," which is one of a series planned for all liberated lib-erated countries with the psycho- logical aim of explaining that the Allies have arrived to help the (French throw off the Nazis, and not as a rescue army to succor a beaten people. "Buffalo Bill" proved such a -office success that Fox is looking for another Indian story and as soon as it is found will make it into another "heap big movies." . 1 |