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Show Anita Louise , Seeks Role in English Film By SHEILAH GRAHAM ; (Copyright. 137. for The Telegram) HOLLYWOOD. Dec. 22 Anita , Louise goes to England in April and hopes to make a picture there. . . . Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks Fair-banks and Charlie Chaplin are in I the unique position of owning a r picture cuiiipany they da not want I United Artists which they hoped to sell to Sam Goldwyn and Alexander Alex-ander Korda. But they should wor-1 wor-1 ry. All they have to do is share the profits that Messrs. Goldwyn ' and Korda supply with their films. . . Jane Withers is the only star in Hollywood to attain and keep her i box office status with "B" pictures. ... Sonja Hrnie's bang on the head while ice skating for Twentieth Century-Fox netted tha studio 2S,-000 2S,-000 from the insurers. . . . "The proof of being a good scenario writer." says Gene Towne, "is when you can read upside down the memoranda memor-anda on a producer's desk, and at the same time tell him a story." Marion Davies has not had a baby in any of hrr films practically a record In Hollywood. . . . Sight of the week: Marlene Dietrich publicly public-ly kissing the surprised Jon Hall "For your great performance in Hurricane.' " . . . Tt Ta" not alt lieer and skittles being a movie star at Christmas time. Here are just a few of the people who figure on the "must" present lists Hairdressers, cameramen, studio police, prop men, grips, electricians, gatemen and publicity boys. ... A canny gentleman gentle-man who owns a foot of land between be-tween the old and new Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer studios is demanding 112,000 for his property. . . . Did you know that "Disraeli" very nearly near-ly was not made into a picture because be-cause a certain studio executive said, "It's about two men arguing over a ditch"? Ginger Rogers received all the mirrors in her new house as a present pres-ent for posing against them commercially. com-mercially. Incidentally, hillside homes in Hollywood cost nearly as much to reinforce against possible mountain slides as to build. Gin-ger'e Gin-ger'e home cost approximately SllOnnO a whlr-h S.W ftfal wn Inln a protective walL Lew Ayrea and Phil Ornuby are part owners of the new Palm Springs Tennis club, intended to force out of business the club formerly for-merly owned by Ralph Bellamy and Charles FarrelL I understand that Bellamy haa sold out hia Interest to FarrelL Sine - Ralph 'a success in The Awful Truth." he has been flooded with picture offers and he will now devote all his time to film making. . . . Joan Blondell has bought her Christmas present from Dick Powell a leather-bound book containing photographs from all his pictures. Deanna Durbin was so thrilled when she met Herbert Marshall her leading man in "Mad About Music" she could not go into her scene. "Please, Mr. Marshall, may I just look at you for a long time?" she finally managed to aay. It's nice to know that film stars are fans of film stars. . . . Mrs. Temple tells intimates -hat she was determined de-termined her Shirley should be a film actress before sh had finished growing her first curL . . . "Prince" Mike Romanoff waa rushing so fast to Warnera for his bit in "Food for Scandal," he was stopped by the police three times and handed that irritating slip of paper for speeding. . . . Janet Beecher says: "Hollywood is the final test of th souL You find heaven or helL" Irvin Cobb tells this story. Shortly Short-ly after the war, he found Charlie Chaplin sitting disconsolately in the lounge of the Rita hotel in New York. Charlie had just arrived from Hollywood and told Cobb he did not know a soul In the big city and was ao lonely he could cry. "For heaven's sake, find someone anyone to have dinner with me," he begged. Ha waa famous and could have dined with any person he named but just didn't know it. New Zealand's Lake Taupo, famous fa-mous fishing resort, is stocked with trout from the United States. |
