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Show eroeia Shorts Probably following- tlie current cur-rent trend of "easy come, easy go", productions in Hlolywood are becoming more elaborate and costly cost-ly It is estimated that Paramount Para-mount will spend at least $3,000,-000 $3,000,-000 in transferring "Lady in the Dark," featuring Ginger Rogers in the role starred in by Gertrude Lawrence, to the screen. It will be the most expensive picture since "Gone With the Wind." Harold Lloyd's first production produc-tion under his Columbia contract will be in a humorous story which deals with a 44-year-old inductee in the Army with the 18 to 19-year-old class, "Mr. Winkle Goes to War." Mimi Chandler, 16-year-old daughter of the Senator from Kentucky, Ken-tucky, has had her second six-month six-month option taken up by Paramount. Para-mount. Joe Louis, world's heavyweight heavy-weight champion, is in Hollywood where he will appear in "This Is the Army." His part in the film, will consist of his punching a bag to music in "What the Well-Dressed Well-Dressed Men In Harlem Wears" number. Dolores Costello will play an army officer's wife in "This Is the Army." Little Margaret O'Brien, who was such a hit in "Journey for Margaret," will next be seen In Metro's "Lost Angel." Serious-minded producers in Hollywood believe that the country coun-try generally now is undergoing a spiritual awakening, due to the war, and are putting more emphasis empha-sis on religious themes. While "The Song of Bernadette", dealing with the miracles of Lourdes, is being produced on a comparatively low budget, it is believed that it will prove a huge box office success. "Quo Vadis", another subject with a religious basis, will be produced this year by MGM. Bob Hope made, during the past year, and counting his radio weekly program which has been broadcast from different bases and encampments all over the country, 383 shows for the 365,-day 365,-day period. Contrary to usual customs, names of living persons will be used in dialogue and as characters in filming "The Story of Dr. Was-sell." Was-sell." Written permission was obtained ob-tained from forty-six persons for this name usage. Gary Cooper is playing the chief role. Through the media of motion picture films, the OWI's Overseas Over-seas Motion Picture Bureau is attempting at-tempting to dispel the impression that the United States is a country coun-try of gangsters and rootin', toot-in', toot-in', shootin' cowboys. A film showing Chicago's schools, churches, church-es, museums, art galleries, social life and industrial resources will be used to destroy the illusion that the Windy City is overrun with gangsters, while another film, titled simply "Cowboy", will reveal the fact that the cattle-growing country of the great West and Southwest is more modern than primitive and that cowboys are h a r d-working individuals, busy raising livestock for market. Claudette Colbert declares she will keep right on working this year even though the limit on salaries will make it impossible for her to retain but a fraction of the money she earns. "Sounds Pollyannish, maybe," she recently declared, "but I honestly love this job of making movies . . . Anyway, Any-way, if I must work for nothing, that's all right. Just so long as they let me keep on making faces." |