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Show sWgecscreenadio Bv VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union.) HERBERT MARSHALL'S first talking picture was "The Letter," in which he played Jeanne Eagel's lover, whom she killed. Now he's playing in it again, but this time he's the husband of the heroine, played by Bette Davis. He prefers his current role. "I'd rather be a betrayed, but live, husband, than a dead lover!" he commented. Incidentally, two of the most interesting photographs that have come this way recently re-cently are of Bette Davis and her stand-in. They're dressed alike, posed alike. If anything, the stand-in stand-in is a little prettier than the talented talent-ed Bette, but she suffers sadly by contrast. Those photographs show the difference between an expert and an amateur, and they're worthy of any girl's careful study. Twentieth Century-Fox finally got the screen rights to the play "Tobacco "To-bacco Road," which has been running run-ning in New York for years. RKO wanted it too it's rumored that the price was more than $100,000. Unless all censorship bars are let down, considerable rewriting will have to be done. Although the two girls have been on the same lot for more than a year, Dorothy Lamour and Mary Martin didn't meet until recently, when they were rehearsing dance numbers with LeRoy Prinz. The Sarong Siren was brushing up on her rhumba for "Moon Over Burma," Bur-ma," and the "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" girl was rehearsing intricate intri-cate tap routines for "Love Thy Neighbor," in which she appears with Jack Benny and Fred Allen. According to Ray Milland, "The greatest gift an actor can get is a chance to day with Claudette Col- bert." Here's the record that proves it. One of Milland's first pictures was if... . A . : CLAUDETTE COLBERT "The Gilded Lily," made six years ago; it gave him a good start toward his present success. A young man named Fred MacMurray got his start in that picture, too; he was so scared that he shook when he was making tests, and Miss Colbert kidded him out of his panic. Melvyn Douglas was a polite but sinister "heavy" until he worked opposite her in "She Married Her Boss" and surprised everybody but himself by proving to be an excellent excel-lent light comedian. "I Met Him in Paris" gave the public another light comedian, Robert Young, who until then had been a serious young man on the screen. Clark Gable had been slipping at the box office until he and the charming Claudette made the hilarious "It Happened One Night." A giant gorilla' has been worrying the executives of the too at Bristol, England; it costs $48 a day to feed him, and they feared that they'd have to destroy him to save his rations. A giant gorilla has also been worrying wor-rying Producer Jack Moss of Paramount Para-mount he needed one for "D. O. A." (Dead on Arrival) a mystery thriller featuring Ellen Drew, Rod Cameron, and various others. He's cabled to Bristol to ask how much he'd have to pay for Alfred, the gorilla, and what could be done about transporting him with a trainer train-er to this country. Seems that Hollywood Hol-lywood zoos can't offer anything big and scary enough to suit his purpose. pur-pose. After finishing a picture most stars make a great to-do about escaping es-caping Hollywood and its crowds to get away to some quiet place. But after finishing "The Howards of Virginia," Cary Grant rushed straight to Broadway, and Martha Scott headed for a crowded and fashionable hotel in Santa Barbara, Calif. Hats off to them! The stars who declare that they wish the public pub-lic would let them alone are likely to rage and storm if people don't notice them Garbo excepted, of course. |