Show w to 2 t J 7 y A J JI V I Jack Be Benny ny n Director exasperated at his capers Comedian Makes Most of Kiss Scene in Film With Sheridan By TED GILL HOLLYWOOD Wide World World Jack Jack Benny who currently is is getting paid to kiss Ann Sheridan Sheridan Sheridan-if if you can imagine that thatis that that- A is quite fascinated with his work The script for one scene calls for Benny to trip over a a. dog ina in a hallway then walk over and kiss his wife Ann Lets see now said Jack on the first rehearsal I rehearsal I trip over Ann and kiss kiss no no that cant ant be right While the stage crew giggled Director William K Keighley e i g h hie 1 e y straightened out Benny on the dialog and the cameras started to roll Promptly the comedian entered tripped dutifully over the dog mumbled something incoherently under his breath that wasn't inthe inthe in inthe the script and planted a full lingering lingering lin un- gering kiss on the ruby lips of the Texas redhead Cut shouted the exasperated director at the camera crew Then turning to Benny he lectured Listen old man This is your wife your wife your screen wife Just take it easy follow the script and give her a short wifely ki kiss s. s Dont Don't try to make a career out of it it I But Mr Keighley Keighley- began Benny Dont Mr Keighley me answered answered answered an an- Mr Keighley I have eyes dont don't I I INow Now lets let's do it over again but this time just give the girl girla a short platonic kiss But go do you think this guy Benny Benny Ben Ben- ny is dumb Listen It took em a dozen retakes before th they Y could make him stop trying to get ahead of the script Now just j wait until Mary Livingstone Liv Liv- gets a load of that I George Sanders has patched up up his his' quarrel with his studio over his up make-up for far a pirate role and has reported for work again The studio wanted to give Sanders Sanders Sanders San San- ders red hair red beard and a false nose for The Tle Black Swan film story of the famous pirate Henry Morgan Sanders wouldn't stand for the nose and declared My own nose looks sufficiently sufficient sufficient- ly ferocious for a pirate Its It's the worst looking nose in town The studio compromised Sanders Sanders San San- ders gets to play the pirate with his own nose but the red hair and beard stay crimson not red ar ar- ar gued Sanders and anyway in color film they should steal every scene Three glad graduates of wilder and woollier dramas are happy to tobe tobe tobe be working these days day in a musical musical musi musical musi- musi cal with Glenn Miller They are George Montgomery who was graduated from the westerns Lynn Ban Bari a a. magna cum laude from the whodunits and Cesar Romero the erstwhile Cisco isco Kid All three are now playing key roles in Orchestra Wife Its fun working together said Miss Ban Bari and we have a little routine worked out to commemorate com corn our alma alm mater films films films- Cesar says Here comes the sheriff George says They went that way way And I finish with Save me save me Arent Aren't movies won n |