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Show worked out a fast new steping routine a mixture of American jive and South American rhythms but he can't find a name for it. The studio, 20th Century-Fox and the star, Gene Tierney, are frightened over the grim nature of the heroine role he plays in "Leave Her to Heaven". It seems that the actual production produces more real horror than was indicated on paper. They don't know how the movie fans will react to Gene in such a role. ' Screen Shorts: Paramount has its "Blue Skies", which will have Bing Crosby Cros-by singing Irving Berlin's melodies. melo-dies. It is expected to cost more than $3,000,000 to produce. Warner's Warn-er's "Night and Day," the Cole Porter biography, is ready to start any day, with an estimated production pro-duction budget of $5,000,000. And MGM is following suit with "Till the Clouds Roll By," a cavalcade of Jerome Kern's lyrics, with Robert Rob-ert Walker portraying the composer compos-er and Judy Garland in the role of Marilyn Miller. This film is expected ex-pected to cost between two and three million. Irving Berlin, by the way, is in Hollywood, a discharged veteran veter-an as it were, after three years' war service with his "This Is The Army'' and various war front tours. Van Heflin, discharged from service because of a head injury suffered in Europe, is back at MGM after two years' absence. Fans will easily remember him because be-cause of his excellent work in "Johnny Eager." Betty Grable and baby girl, Victoria, are in New York City with their bandleader husband and father, who has a six-weeks' engagement en-gagement at the Hotel Astor. During the filming of "Yolan-da "Yolan-da and the Thief " Fred Astaire |