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Show STSGESCREENMDIO Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE TIME was when a motion picture actor was just an actor; very few Hollywood sters went in for business enterprises en-terprises on the side. But nowadays now-adays there's hardly one who isn't emulating Bing Crosby in making money earn money. Alan Ladd not long ago bought a partnership in a Santa Monica restaurant. And Bill Hoi-. Hoi-. den, while working in "Dear Ruth," joined Arthur Treacher, band leader lead-er Carl Hoff and radio producer Andrew An-drew G. Hickox in organizing Hick- j ox Productions, Inc., a radio tran- i scription company which will syndi- I cate musical and dramatic shows j to radio stations across the coun- I try. Oh yes Holden also has invested in-vested money in a helicopter man- uiacturing concern. Joyce Reynolds is back at War- ner Eros, after an eighteen-months ' i absence from movies. Her last pic- j V u JOYCE REYNOLDS ture was "Janie"; her next one will be "The Wallflower," a comedy, based on the play of the same name. Robert Hutton will co-star. Jack Baker has one of the oddest jobs in Hollywood; he makes plastic plas-tic barnacles for all pier, dock and wharf sequences in Warner Bros, films. He also equips houses with artificial icicles shapes them by hand from cellophane and silicate of soda, then dips them in alcohol to make them brittle. You'll see some of his best in Errol Flynn's "Never Say Goodbye." Nanette Parks, who's been under contract to Paramount for the last year, received a wonderful present for her 21st birthday the lead in 'CataIina," a Technicolor musical. Sterling Hayden will be one of her leading men, and Olga San Juan, Cass Daley and Billy De Wolfe head the supporting cast. The picture is slated to go before the cameras very soon. Considering the high price of bakery bak-ery goods, it's disconcerting to learn that eight pies were wasted on the set of "It's a Wonderful Life," for a scene in which Todd Karns had to walk while balancing a pie on his head. After the eighth pie hit the dust the property man, Lou Hafely, deflated the pie tin and inserted two pins on each side for balance; the ninth pie stayed put. It's no wonder that the girls like to work for Director Mitchell Lei-sen; Lei-sen; stars like Paulette Goddard and Olivia de Havilland say they do, and more and more of the top notchers are asking to be assigned to his films. He's introduced a new method meth-od in "Suddenly It's Spring" holds rehearsals without make-up for the first hour or two, so the girls don't have to report at the crack of dawn. & Bing Crosby, who has crooned in 47 languages, including Esperanto, will sing a typical Brazilian song in Portuguese in "Road to Rio"; his tutor is Louis Oliveira, who'll act j as technical advisor on the picture. As in the four previous "Road" pic-1 pic-1 tures, Crosby will be teamed with Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour, with Norman McLeod directing. Daniel Dare is producing for Paramount. $ Most musical plays or films have not more than hall a dozen new tunes, but nearly every Abbott and Costello air show this season has included in-cluded a specially written musical number in which the theme dovetails dove-tails with the story line of the Thursday Thurs-day NBC broadcast. To compose a special musical production each week is no small assignment. I RKO's tentatively titled "Kamikaze" "Kami-kaze" will include confiscated Japanese Japa-nese film never before seen by the public. More than a million feet of the film were studied before the film used in the picture was decided on. I ' ODDS AND EN DS "Juvenile Jury" filmed by Universal Pictures, has been released throughout the country. . . . Ed "Archie" Gardner has com pleted final sketches for his cartoon strip which u ill be based on the happenings hap-penings at "Duffy's Tavern.". . . Paulette Paul-ette Goddard s uardrohe in "Vncon-quered" "Vncon-quered" is costing Paramount $10,000, we're tol-d though she has the role of s slat e girt, dressed mostly in homespun. home-spun. . . . X'ben something good bap-pens bap-pens to Larry Haines of "Young Dr. Mai one' he attributes it to the tie he's wearing and continues to wear the tarns one till his luck changes. |