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Show ereeii Shorten Word has come that Will Rogers, Jr., former congressman and a candidate for Democratic nomination as senator from California, Cali-fornia, is to portray the role of his father in Warners' forthcoming "The Life of Will Rogers." He ought to know how better than anybody else. The sum of $150,000 appears to be sort of standarized as the per-film rate of Hollywood's so-called so-called free lance starts and of those who are loaned to other companies com-panies by the producers to whom they are under term contract. In the $150,000 class are included, Irene Dunn, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Fontaine, Myrna Loy, Fred MacMurray, Claudette Colbert, Charles Boyer, Teressa Wright, David Niven, Joan Crawford and Joseph Cotten. Gary Cooper gets at least $200,000 per picture while Ginger Rogers and James Stewart cost $175,000 each. In the $100,000 per picture group are Loretta oung, Merle Oberon, Robert Cum-mings, Cum-mings, George Sanders, Charles Coburn. Ginger Rogers' next film will probably be Universal's "The Magnificent Mag-nificent Doll," which is a screen story by Irving Stone anent Dolly Madison, wife of President James Madison, and the social and political politi-cal intrigues of that day, climaxed cli-maxed by the trial of Aaron Burr. Stirley Hayden, back in Hollywood Hol-lywood to resume his film career, has had some interesting and exciting ex-citing evperiences since he bid Hollywood farewell in 1941, after starring in "Bahama Passage." He became a merchant marine officer, of-ficer, shipping to England in a convoy. While waiting for a return re-turn ship, he filled in the time training with a Polish commando unit in Scoland. Back in this country coun-try he signed up with the Marines and was commissioned a lieutenant. lieuten-ant. He changed his name to John Hamilton to avoid Hollywood Holly-wood publicity and was later assigned as-signed to the OSS. He skippered a small boat running the German blockade, parachuted into Jugoslavia, Jugosla-via, worked with partisan, British and American groups, went to Cairo during the Big Three conference con-ference and later to the Shangrai-La Shangrai-La fastnesses of Outer Mongolia. |