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Show j Screen Shorts Since Hollywood has inumateci that the finished product of "Forever "For-ever Amber" will only vaguely resemble Kathleen Winsor's best-selling best-selling novel of somewhat questionable ques-tionable content, the question is being asked, is it fair for the cinema ci-nema barons to offer the film as "Forever Amber," which isn't really, except for the title? Speaking of "Forever Amber," reminds us to mention the fact that Peggy Cummins, English actress, ac-tress, is to have the title role. She's just over 5 feet in height and weighs under 100 pounds, has golden hair which cascades around her shoulders. She has had lots of experience, however, having done 36 plays and pictures in England. In his role in Paramount's "California," technicolor drama of the gold rush days, Ray Milland has the smallest wardrobe of his movie career one fringed leather guide's uniform. When Rochester, the gravel-voiced gravel-voiced gremlin of the Jack Benny program, returned home after being listed as "missing at sea," for several hours when the motor of his cabin-cruiser went dead on him, he found that his press agent had prepared his obitauary notice and sent it to the newspapers. Alan Hale began his fifty-fourth fifty-fourth picture on his fifty-fourth birthday, when he started work in "A Very Rich Man," with Sydney Syd-ney Greenstreet and Martha O'Driscoll. He will have a comedy role this time. Grace Moore, the singer, is trying try-ing to get Reggie Gardiner away from Hollywood. She wants him to do "Madame Pompadous" with her on the stage next fall. Besides all the other things that Orson Welles can do, we discover dis-cover that he's quite a paint sling-er. sling-er. He plans an exhibition of his paintings in New York in the near future. He began his painting with stage scenery and most of his subjects sub-jects deal with theatrical characters. char-acters. ' Adolphe Menjou is to have the title role in "The Bachelor's Daughters," with Billie Burke. The daughter roles will have Claire Trevor, Gail Russell, Jane Wyatt and Ann Dvorak, and Pianist Eugene List, who played at the Potsdam- Conference, will furnish the romance for the girls in his first acting role. In the screen version of "Life With Father," it appears that William Powell and Irene Dunne will have the leads. |