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Show 3aorts The same people who used to pay writers good money to write "filth" into screen stories are now paying literary experts equally as much to "clean up" stories so that they can pass Hays' office scrutiny. One of the stories being so "cleansed" is "Forever Amber," a best seller so tantalizing that the bookstores can't keep it on their shelves. Instructions to several would be "cleaners" are to clean it up enough to pass the Hays' office code but leave it "interesting "interest-ing enough" to film. Speaking of "Forever Amber," Am-ber," reminds us that its author, attractive Kathleen Winsor, is expected ex-pected in Hollywood momentarily, role in the picturization of her to take a screen test, not for a novel but for a regular stock-act- Murphy's novel of Mary Magdalene. Magda-lene. Faye Emerson, wife of Col. Elliott Roosevelt, is to have the lead in Warner Brothers' "Danger Signal," a murder mystery to be based on the novel of the same title by Phyllis Bottome. Zachary Scott is to have the male lead. Boris Karloff is to continue his "horror" pictures, having recently re-cently been signed by RKO-Radio for starring parts in three such films, to be made during the next two years. He just recenly finished fin-ished recently work on "The Body Snatcher," and "Isle of the Dad." ing contract. In the last five years, Spring Byington has played the mother role to eighteen stars.. Her two latest mother-roles are mother to Shirley Temple in "I'll Be Seeing You," and now she'll be Captain Eddie Rickenbaker's mother in the film biography, "Captain Eddie." Ed-die." -A- Because someone remembered that Van Johnson danced in he's to have a dancing role with George Abbott's "Too Many Girls" Esther Williams in "Early to Wed." Charlie Laughton is going over big with his audiences at the Birmingham General hospital for soldiers twice weekly. He doesn't recite, nor does he rant or rave he reads the Bible and he gets their enthusiastic approval. k Academy awards will be bestowed be-stowed again fro mthe stage of the Chinese Theatre just the same as last year. This year's date' is March 15th. Practically everybody predicts that "Going My Way" will get the award. k Shirley Temple is to have the lead, after all, in "Kiss and Tell," the George Abbott-F. Hugh Herbert-Sol Seigel production for Columbia. Co-lumbia. The script has been rewritten re-written to meet the approval of David O. Selznick, who also will have the privilege of approving the screen play and the "rushes" each day. Ann Harding is back at her "home" studio for the first time in nine years, and her next film will be RKO-Radio's picturization of Edward Chodorov's play, "Those Endearing Young Charms." Lar-aline Lar-aline Day will play the daughter role, while Miss Harding plays her mother. Paramount , has presented the Navy Relief Society with a check for $75,000, representing a portion of th profits earned so far by "The Story of Dr. Wassell," a biographical bi-ographical drama of the heroic Navy doctor who was cited by President Roosevelt for rescuing wounded in the evacuation of Java in 1942. This is the second such contribution the film company has made to naval relief, the first being be-ing $50,000. Randolph Scott is to have the role of a young nobleman, who joins a pirate crew to avenge the death of his fathr, in the forthcoming forth-coming "Captain Kidd," in which Charles Laughton will be starred. Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotton are to be co-starred in David Da-vid Selznick's production of "The Scarlet Lily," the Rev. Edward F. |