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Show Screen "p'e nirtjin' Hollywood studio . ,!munim-od plnns for spread-motion spread-motion pictures through iso-ir'l iso-ir'l EiuiP0;,n towns too small Ifwpport regular theater. Reg--features and short's will bo v in 16-miUimeter, narrow-"3c narrow-"3c film and exhibited by mo-projector mo-projector units, similar to used by the Army. ' f Throe outstanding films, in hich Ingrid Bergman stars, and w.,iCji approximately ?5,000,-1 ?5,000,-1 is invested by three different Lranies, are now awaiting re-Le re-Le and the problem now is to oVce them out so the market j'on't be glutted with Bergman ferial. The films are "Spell- Lnd," 'hich she made at her home studio (Selznick) more than year ago; "Saratoga Trunk," made for Warners two years ago, Ad "The Bells of St. Mary's," gently finished for Leo Mc-Carey. Mc-Carey. t Carmen Miranda, the South imeriean beauty, has just signed j new contract with Universal. However, she also announces that she is going to Brazil soon to marry her doctor fiance and then she plans to work four months of each year in Hollywood and spend the other eight in Rio. Perry. Como, small-town Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania boy, who nightly croons to millions, is one of the most modest big-timers in the film industry. in-dustry. Less than three years ago, Como quit singing with bands and retired to Pennsylvania where he could live like an average citizen cit-izen with his wife and infant son. That didn't last long, however. New York reached out, grabbed him and, today, through movies, radio, records and stage, he averages aver-ages about $7,000 a week. k Cole Porter's scrapbooks, borrowed bor-rowed by Warners to furnish information in-formation for the filming of their "Night and Day," are insured for $30,000. Red hair may be good for technicolor but it is anything but good for television. So Greer Gar- son discovered when her telecast was canceled because her red hair couldn't be transmitted. Martha Stewart, pretty singer from the Copacabana in New York, now in Hollywood, admits that she plans to marry Joe E. Lewis "just as soon as I can catch up with him.'' Joe added the 'E'' to his name to differentiate himself him-self from Joe Louis, the heavyweight heavy-weight champion. |