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Show STAGE SCREEN RADIO Reinsert bv WeMcrn Nrwspnp" Union. By VIRGINIA VALE DO LINDA DARNELL won 3 out over Gone Tierney for the title role in "Forever Amber," and a lot of us are still protesting that 20th Cen-tury-Fox has made another bad mistake in connection with that opus. Three hundred thousand dollars joes down the drains because of the 3rst one giving "Amber" to Peggy Summlns. Cornel Wilde remnlns as "Bruce Carleton"; Otto Preminger will direct, replacing John Stahl, j who walked out before shooting i came to a halt last spring. Come September the whole thing starts again and this time it's got to be good! Also in September William Cag-ney's Cag-ney's "The St-ay Lamb" goes Into production, with Audie Murphy, the most decorated G.I., making his debut, de-but, unless Cagney lends him out to somebody else first. Murphy j has been considering various film . I l-.. , $c .... ,..- . LINDA DARNELL bids ever since last February-James February-James Cagney has been after him j since last July. Following "The Stray Lamb," Murphy's booked for j "A Lion Is In the Streets." Wendy Day, 14-year-old daughter of Clarence Day Jr., who wrote I "Life With Father," has been given a role in the picture based on the j book and play. Irene Dunne and William Powell star; if the movie's half as good as the play it should j ! get an Academy Award. I A perfect piece of casting Clau-dette Clau-dette Colbert and Fred MacMurray In "The Egg and I." That hilarious hilari-ous account of an adventure In rais-lag rais-lag chickens should be the year's best comedy, especially appreciated appreciat-ed by all who've ever raised chickens. chick-ens. When Harry Von Zell went into movies he swore he'd never play a , radio announcer "Standing in front of a mike and talking and gig- ' gling into it is not acting, as I see it." But Von Zell, who's featured in RKO's "Till the End of Time," did play a radio announcer in "How Do You Do?" However, he alibis nimself; explains that he did more I than just talk into a mike he really acted. n That same "Till the End of Time" gave Guy Madison his big chance. ! His only other screen role had been in "Since You Went Away," In '. which he was the sailor who laughed I at Jennifer Jones' bowling. Fans ! went crazy about him, and there he is, playing opposite Dorothy Mc- Guire. Mary Meade, who sat on an elght-I elght-I foot champagne glass in Republic's S "Earl Carroll Sketchbook," has i been promoted. In "The Magnifl-i Magnifl-i cent Rogue" she lies around in the sand, in a wispy bathing suit. But it's an advance in her career she gets to speak a few linesl The air's daytime serials are non-audience non-audience broadcasts, but If you're ; i privileged to walk In on one, it's no shock (after the first few times! ) to j find a Broadway star In the cast j Margalo Gllmore's the latest recruit. re-cruit. Ob the stage, she has an important role in the smash hit. "The State of the Union." And on the air she's recently assumed the ; role of "Connie Wakefield" In "The Right to Happiness." As a special concession to Wendell Wen-dell Corey, who had the week's star- : . ring role In "Goodbye, Again' at the Yardley. Pa., summer theater, the company omitted a recent Wednesday Wed-nesday night performance. That made it possible for Corey to get to ' New York for his "McGarry and His Mouse," NBC air show. The concession wasn't hard to arrange the owner of the theater is Wendell Wen-dell Corey! T ODDS AND ENDSUndiscouraged by uhat happened uith "Forever Earnest," Earn-est," Jackie Coogan myj he'll return to the air with hi. own thou ; he'll air I so return to the screen in "Terry and I the Pirates." . . . "So You're Having a Nervous Breakdown," a short, is now being made by W arner Bros. . . . Remember Re-member Dick Jones, the third "Henry" ol "The Aldrich Family"? He's still in the army- The typical day of a Hollywood Hol-lywood star will be shown in the Columbia Co-lumbia screen snapshot, "Us Tough to Be a Star". . . Dennis Morgan tell it on his young daughter Kirstinsayt she asked him what part of the cow makes the bottle! 1 |