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Show a cripple. It's a funny thing, butl all the girls in Hollywood want to play screen baddies. Some can and some can't get by with it, however. Oscar Levant, known by thousands thou-sands of radio listeners to "Information "Infor-mation Please" and a well known musician, has been signed by Warners War-ners for a part in its proposed musical, mu-sical, "Silver Lining", based on the life of the late Marilyn Miller. Irving Berlin is in Hollywood to prepare for his production of his musical, "Blue Skies," in which Bing Crosby will be starred. This will be sad news to his many youthful admirers. Unable to find the required number of tights for the extras to wear in Errol Flynn's "Adventures "Adven-tures of oDn Juan,'' Warner Brothers Bro-thers will have the tights "painted on" the boys' legs. That's nothing new to the ladies they've been painting on their stockings for some time now. Gene Tierney is delighted with her wicked-girl role in "Leave Her to Heaven," in which she kills ereen Shorts The movies are doing their bit t0 cement the "Good Neighbor" policy of the Administration with our Pan-American nations to the South. One of Paramount's outstanding out-standing films for its 1945 schedule sched-ule is "Masquerade in Mexico," featuring Dorothy Lamour and Arturo de Cordova. MGM's contribution contri-bution is two of its most important import-ant pictures of this year, "Early to Wed" which is set in Mexico, with Van Johnson and Esther Williams featured and a musical, "Holiday in Mexico," soon to be produced in which Jose Iturbi will contribute his talents. The much beloved actor of the Mexicans, Cantinflas, is to make his Hollywood debut at RKO in a picture which is being written especially for his skill as a panto-mist. panto-mist. Its title "The Magnificent Tramp." This studio has recently finished filming another Mexican-background Mexican-background movie, "Pan-Americana," with Phil Terry, Audrey Loung and Robert Benchley. Carmen Miranda, 20th Century-Fox's lovely Latin, has a Mexican part in her new film, "Three Little Girls in Blue," a large-scale musical. Republic, encouraged en-couraged by the success of its "Brazil," set in the world's greatest great-est coffee country, is planning a companion picture, "Mexicana," featuring its South American star Tito Guizar. Columbia has fallen in step with its "A Gay Senorita," in which Jinx Falkenburg is to play the heroine in a story about Los Angeles' famed and picturesque Latin quarter on Olvera street. Talk is already starting that the academy award winners of this year will also be the winners in 1946 for their performance together to-gether in "The Bells of St. Mary's" as Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman Berg-man have the leads with Leo Mo-Carey Mo-Carey in charge. Harry Fitzgerald is not in its cast. Uncle Sam has put his finger I on Roy Rogers, who is scheduled tQ report for induction on June 4. |