Show IN HOLLYWOOD HOllYWOOD Gene Kelly Turns Real Artist in An American in Paris Paris' By f Erskine John Johnson on HOLLYWOOD HOLLY NEA Behind Behind the screen Gene Kelly will make with the brush and palette in An American in m Paris Pans as convincingly as Cornel Wilde Vilde thumped the ivories in A A Song to Remember M G has noted artist Gene Grant teaching Kelly how to fool audiences as a celluloid Picasso Most movies in which a star surveys sUl a painting painting- that he is s supposed supposed supposed sup sup- posed to have done and puts a finishing daub to the canvas arc are laughable Grant says The fans fails will be writing Gene to send them oil paintings when the they see him himin in th this thin 9 picture Grant recently finished a portraIt portrait por pot trait of Edgar Bergen Its not pretty and its it's not flattering flat flat- he says Im not that kind of an artist and Bergen Berg knew it ithen w hen hen I started the portrait Gertrude Bergs Berg's deal with Paramount Paramount Paramount Para Para- mount calls for one film about her famous Goldberg family ery e two years if the studio decides to maka make mak a series serifS I r I hope it pans out Gertrude told me on the set of The Gold God Goldbergs bergs If they coax hard enough we might do one a year But I wouldn't give i up the television show for anything I Therell There'll be no studio designer ci credits edits for Gertrudes Gertrude's costumes in inthe inthe the saga that's made the writer actress a cool million I use my myown myown myown own clothes she says says but but theres there's theresa thercsa a makeup man around doing things thinS's to the Berg face Mascara around the eyes Gertrude Gertrude Gertrude Ger Ger- trude winked Jan Sterling's shivering over the thought of what public reaction may be to the blond floozy shi plays in m Ace in the Hole Im the worst so and in I screen history she whispered I r rI dont don't have hae one redeeming feature I Jan and hubby Pa Pan Pa 1 Douglas Dougas have mo ed d into a flossy floss Bel An Au manse that is part of f the Marion 7 Davies estate The swimming pool gasps Jan winds around like a river with bridges and beaches and everything c Jack Paar reports that necklines necklines neck neck- lines on TV are arc becoming so low that a manufacturer could make malc a fortune with a V-shaped V screen Come rain or shine Evelyn Keyes will vill play Desdemona to Sidney Chaplins Chaplin's Othello Says Evelyn It was too heavy for the summer summer sum sum- mer season and I needed plenty 01 of rehearsal time so we postponed it To do Shakespeare is like starting starting start start- ing from scratch But if you can cando cando cando do it nothing will ever er frighten you again Evelyn E admits that her romance with young Chaplin is still perk perk- ing No Ko marriage plans at nil all she he insists Hes gay and sensitive and I 1 like that It happened I am an reliably in informed informed informed in- in formed on a set where Errol Flynn was working The script call called lI for Errol to gulp a glass of mill The cameras turned Errol gulped but then spoiled the scene by spitting spitting spit spit- I ting ling out the milk and yelling Hey what are you guys trying to do to me This is milk Columbia top brass is expecting Sidney Blackmer who romped off with every ery medal and statuette for fora a best stage stag performance during the N. N Y run nun of Come Back Bace Little Sheba to make another haul for his emoting emoting- in The Hero on Academy Award night Handsome haired white Sidney who once played the juvenile lend lendin in Pearl Whites Whiles Perils of Pan Pall n line gave me this explanation of I his failure to register 7 ns as a Barrymore Barrymore Barrymore Barry- Barry I more lea league e actor until now Hollywood never gave me anything anything anything any any- thing that would sweat a mouse to play Sidney married marrie Suzanne Kaaren during his last stint In Wilson Vilson and returned to the stage He lie was once wed to Lenore Lenore Lenore Le- Le nore Ulric Paul is still talking I about all the flowers in Jeanne a Crains Crain's hospital room that must must- have set her Fox bosses back half halfa a grand how much in the thc doghouse doghouse dog dog- house Jeanne is with her studio Paul Taul grinned The baby was born with a full head of jet black hair Were We're not going going- to rush the fourth but Jeanne wants six The Vintage Laugh La Parade Now that the studios are beginning begin n ning ping to worry about the apple n cheeked stars of draft age a Sam Gol Goldwyn yarn from World War Var IL II ILis ILis is being told Shortly after David Niven Ni en enlisted enlisted enlisted en- en listed in the British army h he het t tI I wrote Goldwyn a touching sentimental senti senti- I I mental letter |