OCR Text |
Show ereen provided they are sufficiently in- sured. Not bad. The strenuous antics, such as riding bucking broncos, "bulldog-ging" "bulldog-ging" wild steers and fliwering over rough roads, performed by Abbott and Costello in their current cur-rent film, "Rio Rita," didn't bother bo-ther Costello one bit. He used to be a movie stunt man. Jane Darwell, sightly young actress, is scooting all around the place these days on a motor scooter, scoot-er, which she bought to replace her automobile, whose tires began blowing out the day after rubber rationing became effective. Jack Roper, heavyweight contender con-tender of days gone by, insisted that his pay of $100 a day for teaching Victor Mature to look like a fighter in "Strictly Dynamite," Dyna-mite," be upped to $500 a day when he learned that Mature was supposed sup-posed to kayo him in the opening fight of this musical comedy. While Roper may be a "has been" now, he says he still has his pride. Citable. Present indications are that they will be. With differences patched up between them, Deanna Durbin goes back to Universal next month to appear in "The Three Smart Girls Join Up," a photoplay about women in war industry, based on a story by Derek Bolton, R. A. P. pilot. Freddy Bartholomew, who, after five years with Metro, left that studio in 1939, is returning for a supporting role in "A Yank at Eaton," which stars Mickey Rooney. The cast also includes Edmund Gwenn, Juanita Quigley, and Ian Hunter. Myrna Loy will portray the role of a Broadway actress who deserts New York for a western ranch in "O Bury Me Not," an unproduced stage comedy by Patricia Pa-tricia Coleman, which MGM purchased pur-chased for a reported $40,000. How would you like to have 200 suits of clothes, 700 ties, 50 pairs of shoes and 100 overcoats? Well, Adolphe Menjou, judged the movie fashion-plate, has that many. His wardrobe is valued at $100,000. Those jewels Ginger Rogers wears in "Tales of Manhattan," are not just hunks of colored glass they're the real McCoy. She has an arrangement with a jeweler who loans her the jewels 1 u j "Gone With the Wind" has set a record not equaled by any other motion picture in history. Fifty-two Fifty-two million persons have paid a total of more than $30,000,000 for the privilege of sitting for more than two hours (and in some instances, in-stances, for a second and third two i hours plus) to see the film version of Margaret Mitchell's best seller, during its first and second round of the theatres of the country. The fact that world conditions condi-tions have kept this movie from being distributed as widely as it might ordinarily have been, leads to the expectation that even greater receipts may be forthcoming forthcom-ing when the war is over and conditions con-ditions settle down to something like normal again. Charlie Chaplin is preparing a musical score and a commentary for "The Circus," his 1927 silent film, and will release it sometime next summer if returns from his similar venture with "The Gold Rush," produced in 1925, are pro- |