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Show Ronald Coleman insists that he will make one picture this year and then he'll retire. Susan Hayward has been signed by Bill Bacher to star in "Katie Called Katje," which will be filmed in South Africa. It's the "Cimarron" of South Africa, which traces the trek of the Dutch pioneers from Cape- town to Johannesburg in 1849. Universal International is planning a Technicolor musical comedy, "Son of Robin Hood," as a vehicle for Donald O'Connor O'Con-nor and Charles Coburn. Co-burn Co-burn will play Robin Hood, O'Connor his son and the action of the film will involve an outlaw out-law band composed of a Sherwood Sher-wood Forest second generation. There's another comedy team in the making we hear. Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante are talking over the possibility of a screen re-teaming. The two comics were paired in MGM films during the early days of talkies and, since the public seems to be avid for comedy, MGM might do worse. There's at least one actress in Hollywood who's looking out for a rainy day that's Paulette Goddard. Besides owning a valuable val-uable piece of beach property, Miss Goddard has quite a number num-ber of valuable paintings, some $200,000 in jewelry, a career that is really just beginning and a role in the film. "Anna Lucas-ta" Lucas-ta" that brings her $17,500 a week, plus a percentage of the profits. Dan Dailey's next starring role, in "Rise and Shine," is a sort of "Private Hargroves" in reverse. It's about a guy who is the first to be drafted and given a send-off by his home town, only to find himself stationed sta-tioned thruout the war with an anti - aircraft battery within walking distance of the hometown home-town corner drugstore. Delmar Daves is polishing up "War Path" for Jack Warner, which will star Gary Cooper and Humphrey Bogart. The scene is laid in California in 1870. Dick Powell wants Peggy Cummings in the role opposite him in "Mrs. Mike." The approaching motherhood of Esther Williams has somewhat some-what upset MGM's shooting schedule for the attractive actress. act-ress. All of her pictures will have to be postponed because, as Esther says, "Those pictures are tailor-made for me, so nobody no-body else can do them." The baby is due in early August. Cecil B. DeMille's film, "King of Kings," made 24 years ago, has not missed a single week of playing time. Many times it has been shown free by missionaries mission-aries in back countries, who declare de-clare the film is worth more than three years of preaching. The Olivia de Havilland success, suc-cess, "The Snake Pit," hasn't been shown in England for the reason British censorship doesn't permit inmates of insane asylums asy-lums being shown on the screen. |