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Show I Screen Shorts Did you remember that Ida traveled nil the way from L"'tnd to ry out for the part of J in "Alice in Wonderland ? "A U hM 't get the part but she SacSel one of her ambitions, 0 be in Hollywood. Meet two modern Cinderellas in Hollywood: Jean Sullivan, with brown hair and green eyes, who X picked right out of the halls f TIC LA. and shot into the fem-nine fem-nine roie in "Uncertain Glory". A so Gail Russell, who, only a few 'short months ago, was In diversity high school In West S Angeles who made her film Sut in "Our Hearts Were Young d Gay," and got away with it nicelv, too. Now that Danny Kaye Is recognized rec-ognized as one of the up-and-coming comedians in Holwood. following his success in Up in Arms " it's probable that a tno of shorts which he made in the late . .. . .... -cMotionfil Pictures, Thirties iui j-juv- will hit the screen. Their titles are, Twere "Dime a Dance," "Getting An Eyeful" and "Cupid Takes a Holiday." . 4.mong the well known old-timers old-timers of another day who are 2K e cast of "Wilson" the biography of Woodrow Wilson, World War I President, is Francis X Bushman, now in his early sixties six-ties who is impersonating Bernard Baruch, head of the War Industries Indus-tries Board during the-Wilson administration. ad-ministration. Lionel Barrymore and little Margaret O'Brien are to appear together in "Higher Than The Torch," a human interest drama by Lionel Houser, in which the chief characters are a child, a dog and a priest. MGM plans to do it in color. - "All-Out Arlene," the story which Fox plans to do of the Women's Wo-men's Army Corps, is to be a musical mus-ical in color, with Dorothy Mc Guire and William Eythe in the leads. MGM wants Frank Sinatra for the crooner to be co-starred with Gene Kelly and Kathryn Grayson in Joseph Pasternak's production "Anchors Aweigh." Sinatra may accept, for he has the option of doing one film a year away from his studio. There's quite a bit of compe-tion compe-tion for parts in the screen adaptation adap-tation of "A Tree Grows In Brook- her late namesake of musical com- I edy and Zeigfeld fame. I lyn." At present the reports are that Katherine Hepburn wants the part of the mother but that Norma Nor-ma Shearer will most likely get the role. William Eythe may play Johnny Nolan and Alice Faye, Aunt Cissie. Marilyn Day, 17-year-old radio rad-io singer who'll be first seen on the screen in Universal's "Moonlight "Moon-light in Vermont," was born Marilyn Mar-ilyn Miller, but it not related to |