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Show STAGECSCREENiftADIO i Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE BETTER put "Bedelia" on the list of new pictures that you mustn't miss; it has j everything. It stars beautiful j Margaret Lockwood, Ian j Hunter, Anne Crawford and Barry K. Barnes, and the sup-i sup-i porting cast, from Jill Esmond straight through, couldn't be better. Vera Caspary, who wrote the book, helped with the screen play but I "Bedelia" is better than "Laura." I MARGARET LOCKWOOD I And ii you don't like pictures that make you shudder, don't let that , worry you the suspense Is beauti-I beauti-I fully handled, and it's distinctly not a horror picture. When a reviewer review-er wants to see a picture a second time, it's good! "Bedelia" is an Arthur Rank production, released by Eagle-Lion. RKO has another beauty contest winner on its hands; this one is Mar-na Mar-na Kennealy, winner ol the annual an-nual Irish beauty contest which eight years ago started Maureen O'Hara on the road to fame. Pat O'Brien discovered Miss Kennealy when in Ireland. $ Regan Callais is the first television televi-sion actress to be drafted to the screen. RKO signed her after she was discovered in a recent beauty contest in Chicago. She danced in night clubs In New York, Montreal and Atlantic City before going to Chicago to appear as an actress and dancer in the Patricia Stevens "Cover "Cov-er Girl" television show so she seems like a natural for the movies. & In the movies it's an unwritten law that a screen hero mustn't either stoop or stretch to kiss a girl. If he's a bit on the short side he stands on a plank. If he's too tall for the girl she's built up. So, for her romantic scenes with tall Kent Smith in "Nora Prentiss," Rosemary Rose-mary DeCamp had to wear three-Inch three-Inch platform soles. But it's Ann Sheridan who really sets a record she kisses him 22 times. This is the picture in which James Wong Howe, one of Hollywood's most famous fa-mous cameramen, makes his debut. ' As a result of Ed Gardner's appearance ap-pearance at the National Press Club dinner he got President Truman's autograph on his apron. Gardner tried three years ago, at the Birthday Birth-day Ball, but a bunch of Secret Service men interferred. & Lucille Wall, who plays an attorney attor-ney In "Portia Faces Life," frequently fre-quently gets letters asking her for legal advice. The other day one asked what to do about a parking park-ing ticket. "Pay the fine," wrote Lucille. "That's what I had to do." After major studios had been bidding bid-ding for them for seven years, James Cagney landed the screen rights to William Saroyan's "The Time of Your Life" it's the only play ever to win the Pulitzer and Drama Critics prizes simultaneously. simultaneous-ly. X Too bad that Jack Parr, the comic, couldn't see eye to eye about his material for the Vaughn Monroe show; he and the advertising agency agen-cy that had signed him on a six-year six-year contract ran into difficulties, and now the deal's off. m Ozzie Nelson has to be very careful care-ful of the dialogue he writes for the radio counterparts of his young sons. They listen to the show, and if they don't like the lines they remark later lat-er "Say, pop, we didn't sound much like ourselves today I " While on tour for the "March of Dimes" Ezra Stone and Jackie Kelk of "The Aldrich Family" had no trouble with bobby-soxers, but in every ev-ery community they were mobbed by mothers. "And we loved it!" declared the air's Henry and Homer. ODDS AND ENDS William Fraw ley doesn't have to worry about bis wardrobe for "My Wild Irish Rose"; Most of his scenes take place in a Turkish bath cabinet, and be wears a sheet. . . . Robert Stevens was called back from his honeymoon to play one of the chief supporting roles in "The Crime Doctor's Vacation," at Columbia. Colum-bia. . . . Vincent Sherman has been directing di-recting "The Unfaithful" at Warners with a very sore head; his garage door slid down on it. . . . William Boyd is an old-time screen star at heart, apparently; ap-parently; his new town and country car is named "Hopalong Cassidy"; be has the name on the door. |
