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Show f creen Myrna Loy has been given the leading role in "Earth and High Heaven" by Sam Goldwyn It's a good story for her and she will have Wm. Wyler producing. Girls, Tyronne Power is back from the armed services and will begin work on a film about the first of March. Between now an then, he and his wife Annabella will visit New York. Dorothy Lamour is the proud mother of a 6 lb., 8 ounce baby boy, born on Jan. 8. Pacing the floor at the hospital, in best tradition tra-dition of fatherhood, was William Ross Howard III. formerly of Baltimore, recently discharged from the army as a major. He and Miss Lamour were married nearly near-ly three years ago. Bobby Breen, just out of the Army, is back in Hollywood with the news that Mickey Rooney expects ex-pects to be out by March 1st and then he and Mickey plan a big radio deal. work on his current film, "Escape Me Never," he plans to. go adventuring adven-turing on his new schooner, the "Zaca," which is now being equipped equip-ped a a floating motion picture laboratory.. The Irish star will swashbuckle it to the Florida Keys and thence on to he Amazon. Ama-zon. During the trip he plans to make a documentary film, "Amazon," "Ama-zon," written around Portuguese pirate ship lying off the Keys. Irene Dunn is said to be the latest candidate for the mother role opposite Frederic March in "Life With Father." Jose Iturbi is planning to back a Broadway musical for Jean Dalyrmple next winter and write the score for it himself. Jean, by the way, is convalescing at the Iturbi home after a spell of double dou-ble pneumonia. According to a tabulation of the Gallup Audience Reearch Institute In-stitute poll, the ten favorite movies mo-vies with John Q. Public in 1945 were Valley of Decision, Anchors Aweigh, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, A Song to Remember, Meet Me in St. Louis, National Velvet, Thrill of Romance, God Is My Co-Pilot, Hollywood Canteen, and SOn of Lassie. With so many films of the lives of America's favorite songwriter song-writer being made, Hollywood is naturally anxious to make a film biography of one of the most highly favored of all Irving Berlin. Ber-lin. He's adamantly opposed, however, how-ever, to the idea. Life really began for Barry Fitzgerald at 40. He was 41 when he decided to make acting a life-ime life-ime profession. . When Errol Flynn finishes |