Show S. S OH C CHOSEN OSEN KNOCK WOOD Sheilah Graham News Fro From the Studios HOLLYWOOD Sept 26 Idiots 26 Idiots Delight the successful Robert Sherwood play will be made into a picture after alL If you remember Producer Hunt Stromberg and Director CIarence Clarence Clarence Clar Clar- ence Brown were all ready to give this epic the starting gun when the Italian government protested so loudly and so long long that they decided to abandon the film Stromberg recently submitted a anew anew anew new script omitting all references to Italy Italy except except In the nicest possible possible possible pos pos- sible way way way-b Way Way- fo o the Washington commerce department which In turn tum handed it to the Italian governments government's representative who finally gave the long desired okeh Production with Norma Shearer and Clark Gable in the leads is scheduled for October 14 U which automatically postpones The Women Women Women Wo Wo- men Normas Norma's next starring vehicle For the past few feY weeks David has been trying to get Bette Davis to sign on the dotted Une ine ine for the role of Scarlett in you know mow what picture Her Warner bosses josses were willing willing willing-on on condition that hat Miss Davis first completes Dark Victory with George Brent and Juarez with Paul Muni This will take her to the beginning of the year Gable was supposed to report to for the Rhett Butler role October 15 which would have made madet it t Impossible for Bette to be his op op- op- op But now that Idiots Deight Delight De- De light ight is back on schedule Clark will be kept busy until Miss Davis Daviss Is s free to emote with him So now you have what you have been asking for fans fans fans-Bette Bette as asS S Scarlet Scarlett Clark as Rhett Touch wood Incidentally Miss Davis now admits that she and husband Harmon Nelson are having I marital trouble on the same old i score of Incompatibility Im I'm sorry Claudette Colbert gets Douglas Fairbanks Jr as her teammate teammate teammate team team- mate In Memory of Love Love for for R O Doug plays a Don DonJuan DonJuan DonJuan Juan society man married who becomes involved with an Important important important tant business woman Claudette I wonder how it ends It will be funny to see Irene Castle Castle Cas Cas- tle tie play her own mother in The Castles Casties in Jn which she will b be impersonated impersonated impersonated im im- im- im personated by Ginger Rogers with wit withFred withFred Fred of course as Vernon Castle Castl CastleS S Marie Wilson is to be a collegiate comedy with th the strange title The Cats Cat's Meow Florence Rice capable and hard hardworkIng hardworking hardworking working actress is Robert Taylor's Taylors Taylors Taylor's Tay Tay- lors lor's new leading lady in Stand StandUp StandUp StandUp Up and Fight which also has Wallace Beery in the cast Richard Greene has been graduated graduated graduated grad grad- to the job of support for Shirley Temple in In The Little Princess Lawrence Olivier good looking British actor comes to Hollywood to costar cos tar with Merle Oberon In Withering Heights If Robert Rober Donat comes to town as planned he will be legally involved with tw two studios Warners and Edward Edwan Small Productions which Productions which assert h his he heis heis is under contract to them So I dont don't suppose he will be coming after all Bergen and his McCarthy join W W. C. C Fields in You Cant Can't Cheat an Honest Man It will be interesting to see how Charlie and Bill get on together Fields if you remember feuded with Baby LeRoy during and after their films together wj 1 Norma Shearer She Sh it is scheduled for j Delight with Clark Gable while S S S I Bette Belie Davis succeeds her as chief candidate opposite the glamorous glamorous glam glam- orous Gable |