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Show creen Shorts It is conceivable that the 24 per cent cut demanded by the War Production Board in film consumption consump-tion during 1943 will prove to be a blessing in disguise. Certainly producers pro-ducers will be more, particular about the film to which they assign as-sign their precious film and this will mean fewer and better pictures pic-tures for the movie-goers. A print of the picture "Stage-Door "Stage-Door Canteen," which will be released re-leased around the first of April and in which about eighty stars of the screen, radio and stage will appear, will be placed in a vault in Washington "so that people a hundred years from now can know a few straight facts about show folks, and how they played their part in helping thousands of boys to find a few brief hours of happiness happi-ness before they sailed away to battle." A print will also be preserved pre-served in London for the same purpose. pur-pose. Eleanor Powell had to practice prac-tice many long and weary hours before she became proficient in rope twirling which she displays in "I Dood It." Her coaches were four cowboys who ride ponies through the M-G-M gates daily. Four "glamor boys," all husbands hus-bands of "glamor girls," are not shaving these days, having grown Commando-like stubbles for their roles in "Bataan Patrol," which they must wear until February 11th. The boys and their wives are: Philip Terry (Joan Crawford); Desi Arnaz (Lucille Ball); Robert Taylor (Barbara Stanwyck) ; and Bob Walter (Jennifer Jones). Because Noel Coward's "In Which We Serve," one of the outstanding out-standing war movies of all time, opened its Los Angeles run two weeks past the academy deadline of December 31st, it will be ineligible ineli-gible for an academy award nomination. nom-ination. Signed to a movie contract more as a publicity stunt than anything else, Paramount executives execu-tives got the surprise of their lives when they discovered that young Mimi Chandler, 16-year-old daughter of Kentucky's popular United States senator, really has talent. She can act and she can sing and consequently she has been given one of the four leading lead-ing musical roles in "The Four Angels," An-gels," with Dorothy Lamour,-Betty Hutton and Diana Lynn. Veronica Lake is proving that she has what it takes to be an actress. ac-tress. In her first role, "I Wanted Wings," she was cast as a siren; slapstick comedy was her forte in "Sullivan's Travels"; in "I Mar- ried A Witch," she did fantasy; in "This Gun For Hire," and "The Glass Key," she went melodramatic; melodrama-tic; and in her current role in "So Proudly We Hail," as a nurse on Bataan, she goes emotional in a big way. When Bette Davis is assigned a role in a film, she and her hairdresser hair-dresser go into a huddle, study the role, and then design a coiffure which they think that particular i person would wear. As a result. Bette has never worn her hair the same way for any picture. Seldom does she consent to wear a wig. Greta Garbo's next film is scheduled to be "Russia," in which she will die heroically, scorching the earth before the German advance. ad-vance. She hopes that the new picture pic-ture will be lucky for her and help erase memories of her last film, which almost ruined her. So satisfied were Paramount executives with the rushes of "So Proudly We Hail," in which Sonny Tufts and Paulette Goddard are co-starred, co-starred, that they immediately began be-gan scurrying around to find other stories for them to do together. Hermes Pan, the director of "Coney Island," Betty Grable's latest lat-est vehicle, spent two months rehearsing re-hearsing one hundred girls and men for the finale of the picture. The number will take ten days to shoot. It shows sliding stairways and sets that change while the cameras turn. The betting in Hollywood is that Greer Garson will be selected as Hollywood's "First Lady for 1942" for the excellence of her portrayal por-trayal of the title role In "Mrs. Miniver," not to mention her splendid splen-did performance in "Random Harvest." |