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Show A, S A piture based " the Hfe f Fddie Rickenbacker is about to be , aoBa after months of delay. h of Rickenbacker himself, has n f iled with the exception of f ?nf BiUy Mitchell, the pioneer $ 5 c te of air power, but the nfflcials are not giving out ad-" ad-" Ince information. The story op-'tr op-'tr Z wift the crash of Ricky's Ine in the Pacific and after a C depicting the perils of the S on their life rafts, will flash " back, showing his prior life. I "Panhandle Pete," which Is 15 - me by Ann Sothern in "Maisie roes to Reno," may be successor 1 popularity to that famous dit-! dit-! ty "Pistol-Packin' Mama." rjjhel Barrymore, who has just finished a six-weeks' stint . in "None But the Lonely Heart," i at RKO, Is going back to the East const with $250,000 in her purse. While no one contends that the veteran stage star rates that kind of coin, to secure her services the producer agreed to pay full salaries sala-ries to Miss Barrymore's company of which she was star and reimburse reim-burse Producer Herman Shumlin for canceled dates for the play, "The Corn Is Green," Miss Barrymore's Barry-more's stage play. I Myrna Loy, who is back in j Hollywood, will go back into the I "Thin Man" series with Bill Pow-I Pow-I ell, the first to be "The Thin Man Goes Home." In this film, the script introduces Detective Nick Charles' father anil mother. Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly Kel-ly will probably be teamed in several sev-eral films as a result of their work in "Cover Girl." By the way, "Cover "Cov-er Girl" started out as a stunt picture to be made largely for exploitation ex-ploitation purposes but now looms as the surprise boxoffice picture of 1944. Joan Blondell's back in Hollywood Holly-wood after her stage stint in Broadway. Her first role will be that of Aunt Sissy in the forthcoming' forth-coming' "A Tree Grows In Brook-1 Brook-1 lyn." |