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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. THE Bennetts of Broadway and Hollywood Richard and his daughters, Constance, Joan and Barbara have never appeared together on either stage or screen. But thanks to Joan's sense of humor hu-mor they'll do it vicariously in Columbia's "The Wife Takes a Flyer." An old family picture album figures prominently in the script. With the consent of the director, Richard Wallace, Joan filled it with the oldest and funniest photographs of her father and sisters that she could find and the glamorous Bennetts Ben-netts will appear as a group of sturdy Dutch country folk. Joan's the only one to appear personally; she co-stars with. Franchot Tone. Edmund O'Brien has left RKO Radio, Ra-dio, where he's been for the last two years. Universal has bought his contract, and assigned him to the role opposite Deanna Durbin in "Forever "For-ever Yours." He'll play an American Ameri-can volunteer flier with the Chinese army. Ann Sheridan, whom Paramount discovered as a Texas kindergarten teacher in 1933, will return to that studio to play Texas Guinan, famous night club owner of Broadway in the ANN SHERIDAN ' roaring Twenties, who greeted patrons pa-trons with "Hullo, sucker!" She wanted the role, Paramount wanted her for it, Warner Bros, wanted Fred MacMurray for "Princess O'Rourke," so a bit of swapping went on; now everybody's happy." It isn't often that you can see a government official flitting about the screen in a woman's nightgown, that's several sizes too large for him, but you'll be able to in "They All Kissed the Bride" unless changes are made. The actor's Melvyn Douglas, Doug-las, occupying an important post with the Office of Civilian Defense. He wrote Director Alexander Hall asking that the scene be deleted, but it's part of the plot. Cecil B. DeMille, when he assembled, assem-bled, edited and produced "Land of Liberty" for the movie industry, reserved re-served the right to designate one war charity to receive $5,000 of the receipts. He recently gave it to the Queen Wilhelmina Fund for Dutch war relief. Appropriate, as he's a descendant of a family that emigrated emi-grated from Holland in 1658. In broadcast parlance, a shot in the arm is any new situation devised de-vised by a script writer to put new life into a serial. "Valiant Lady" got one recently, but it happened also to be a shot in the heart; Joan Blaine, widowed one week, met a young millionaire the next! Dorothy Lamour is going back to 1900 when she begins work in "Galveston," "Gal-veston," a spectacular production which will have its climax in the Galveston flood. Two of her films, "Beyond the Blue Horizon" and "Road to Morocco," with Hope and Crosby, await release. Success story: Five years ago writer - director - producer Charles Martin paid Martha Scott $20 for playing a small role oa one of his "Five Star Final" programs. Later, he gave her more opportunity and more pay. She made good on the stage and on the screen and when she appeared recently on the CBS Playhouse in his version of "Bachelor "Bache-lor Mother" her check was for $2,000. Here's a bathtub scene that not even DeMille ever thought oL It's in "Cairo." Jeanette MacDonald takes a bubble bath, Ethel Waters is her maid, and they sing "Figaro" from the "Barber of Seville" Miss Waters jiving, Miss MacDonald going go-ing operatic. ODDS AD ESDSKen Mies, "Big Tou-n" announcer, ivas the first member of his profession to present movie celeb-rities celeb-rities over the air . . . Eddie Cantor has decided that for the duration his "Time to Smile" broadcasts u:ill originate exclusively ex-clusively from army camps . . . Gracie Aliens home is filling up with toy ducks, sent by listeners for Grade's air bird, "Herman" . . . Martha Tillon, songstress on the Ransom Sherman show, has been named "Siveethearl of the Auxiliary Fire Fighters" in the Los Angeles area . . . Brian Donlevy, off four days from "Woke Island,'' headed for his tungsten mine and went to work. |