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Show Screen iioits From time to time; the remarkable re-markable record being made by Gone With the Wind pops up and in order to keep you up-to-date, we might mention that, made at a cost of what was considered the extravagant figure of $5,000,000, ! the film has grossed more than $31,000,000 to date. It is estimated that about 60,000,000 persons in this country alone have seen the adaptation of Margaret Mitchell's Civil War novel. It also ran continuously con-tinuously for four years in one theater in London. Since Charles Jackson wrote The Lost Week-End, the story of a terrific drunk, he is besieged by topers who want him to tell them how to swear off and make it stick. Jackson is of very little help to them because he's a teetotaler. tee-totaler. When Bob Hope and his touring tour-ing troupe were on Eniwetok, he learned, via Henry Fonda who was stationed there, that only half the men were able to see the show on account of limited facilities on the island. Hope immediately rounded up his troupe and insisted on putting, put-ting, on another show for the others. oth-ers. The final number of Ziegfeld Follies, which MGM claims will be the best and most expensive movie every produced in Culver City, will be Beauty Is Everywhere, Every-where, with two 50-foot cascades of soap bubbles floating down from the highest sound stage. Fred Astaire, Lucille Bremer and others dance in water, right thru the bubbles. Quite an effect? i -A: Don't believe the reports you hear that Clark Gable is going to quit pictures for the producing end of the business. While he may try his hand at prodcing from time to, time he plans to do some more acting, too. Paul Hervey, big pompous and blustering, who is playing his 30th business executive role in Pillar To Post, with Ida Lupino. candidly admits that his wife has always handled all the financial matters of his family. The excellence of her dramatic dra-matic work with Red Skelton in a camp-show performance of Girl Crazy, has caused studio officials to consider Diana Lewis, pint-sized pint-sized wife of William Powell, for special dramatic treatment. Among the leading contenders contend-ers for stardom within the next few months, selected by the theatre the-atre owners are: Sonny Tufts, 'James Craig, Gloria de Haven, Roddy McDowell, June Ally, Barry Fitzgerald, Marsha Hunt, Sydney Greenstreet, Turhan Bey and Helmut Hel-mut Dantine. |