Show l r STAGE SCREEN RADIC By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union HE first movie to be shown THE JL on the Normandy beachhead beachhead beach beach- head following the June invasion was Columbia's technicolor technicolor tech tech- Cover Girl accordIng according accord- accord Ing to information received from Col Co E. E E L. L L Munson chief of the Army Motion Picture service i iThe The musical was shown to the invading invading in in- armies on June 16 and Colonel Colonel Colonel Colo Colo- nel Munson reports that the boys loved it So this starring co-starring effort of Rita Hayworth's and Gene Kely's Kelly's Kellys Kely's Kel Kel- ys y's makes movie history Les Tremayne has bas added motion picture production to his acting ac ac- He is serving as production aide on Gene Lester productions 9 I i oA oAr r l Tear i r r c LES TREMAYNE TREl short features and has completed his first assignment Peeks at Hollywood Hollywood Hol lywood in which he be also appears as an actor r. r Carleton Young will be remembered remembered remembered by thousands of CBS radio radio- thriller fans tans as Chips Davis Com mando Some months ago he decided de do decided Bided to give ive up radio and become a movie actor In his bis first big part In Phil Bakers Baker's Take It or Leave It hes he's an announcer reading from froma fromI a radio script i I I Gary Cooper certainly knows what he does best For his first personally person I ally produced film for International Pictures hes he's decided on The American Amer II I lean ican Cowboy which is said to be a s I back I super Its It's laid way in the last century century adding adding one more to the long list of costume dramas Bob Haymes playing an army Winkle private in Columbia's Mr Goes to War was stuck by a pin when he be put on a uniform rented from one of Hollywoods Hollywood's big ers Investigating he be found a note pined inside the jacket It read This jacket was worn by me in Seven Days Leave Let it look sharp on you and act like a hero bero I did Signed Victor Mature Bob pulled out the pin and did his best I r. r James Melton who's now heard I over CBS Sunday nights has been I elevated to stardom by Metro as a result of his work in Fol lies lles They've put him down for the lead in a musical version of Cimmaron Cimmaron dim maron Meanwhile after aUer vacationIng vacation vacation- Ing on his bis Connecticut farm and doing a series of Oklahoma recordings recordings re reo with Jeanette MacDonald hell he'll start on a concert tour which whid will last from October to MarchAnd March And hell he'll do six sL operas at the Metropolitan Met 1 From Metro comes the news that thai the first Clark Gable Gabe picture followIng follow rollow following ing his discharge from the arm army will willbe willbe be Strange Adventure Based or OE orthe orthe the novel The Anointed its it's a prewar stor story of a merchant seaman seaman sea sea- man and a seagoing non-seagoing girl And well we'll see Myrna Loy as the girl Former child chUd stars who grew up tc enter the armed services will bt be honored in the new Columbia Snapshots subject The Kids Go tc War which Ralph Is pre paring The reel will include intimate intimate inti mate shots from private film library of Jackie Coogan when h he played in The Kid Jackie in Skippy days Freddie Bartholomew Bartholo Bartholo- Bartholomew mew at the time of David Copperfield Copper Copper- field and others including Micke Rooney Jimmie Dundee the ace stunt stuntman man is having a vacation from doIng doing doIng do do- Ing hazardous stunts hes he's playing i t wise cracking marine in hi Sturges' Sturges Hail the Conquering He Heroo ro roo In 22 years his toughest stunts he be says were driving an army jeci off a foot embankment In The Story of Dr Wassell the first time the jeep rolled over his head struck strud the wheel and knocked him unconscIous unconscious unconscious and being blown up in a sixton six sixton sixton ton truck in hi Wake Island 7 ODDS AND ENDS Marlene ENDS Marlene Diet Dietrich Dietrich Dietrich rich brought a coral necklace for Marii Marit Monte when she returned from Italy the gift of oj Jean lea Pierre Aumont Top role in the make re-make re of oj Of OJ Of Kumar Bondage goes to Paul Eleanor Elea Eleanor Eleanor nor Parker gets the Uette Bette Davis role opposite him Mm Diana Lynn billet billec I as a star in Out of oj Thit Th World WorM rules rates the dressing room ne nex Panic Paulette tie s on Star Row Lee Leo Tracy has been signed by IlKO foi Jo the lead in From the East his hiJ first picture since lIce his discharge from irum the army in which he served arI at ell ellI I Ill I'll nino |