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Show V'trixiA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) ROLAND YOUNG made up a novel "ten best" list the other day, between scenes of Columbia's "He Kissed the Bride" a list of Hollywood's best scene-stealers. Being a gentleman, he spared the fair sex. Here are the performers he considers most dangerous to have in camera range while playing play-ing a big scene; Cary Grant. Lewis Stone, Wallace Beery, Charles Chaplin, Chap-lin, James Gleason, Robert Bench-ley, Bench-ley, Bob Hope, Allyn Joslyn, Edgar Kennedy and Daisy, the canine star. For your information, the best scene-stealers do the trick with their eyes and their hands, and are death to newcomers; put two together, and you have a battle royal. Mickey Rooney, it seems, is considered con-sidered adept at scene stealing, but according to Roland Young, his face lights up too much when he gets ready for a piece of business. "In the Hardy pictures, Lewis Stone stops Mickey cold every time by dead-panning." At last Richard Denning's actually going to appear in scenes with Dorothy Doro-thy Lamour; it's taken him three years. When she played in "Her Jungle Mate" he was an aviator flying over the jungle, searching for ' v kx ' Tk ' ' '' ' ' dsn; RICHARD DENNING Ray Milland. In "Disputed Passage" Pas-sage" he had two scenes and two speeches, but not with her. Now, in "Beyond the Blue Horizon," tall, blond Denning steps out as Dorothy's Doro-thy's love interest. Billie Burke Is one of those people who never throw away anything of sentimental interest. But the other day she told Joan Crawford, whose mother she plays in "lie Kissed the Bride," that she was going to destroy de-stroy most of the things she'd been saving. So she went bor e and pitched in and the first old letter she opened was one from Enrico Caruso, written to her after she refused re-fused his proposal of marriage. (That was in the days when she didn't want her career cluttered up with matrimony.) The house cleaning clean-ing stopped right where it bad commenced. com-menced. Recalling the damaging effects of a terrific beating George Raft took in the original version of "The Glass Key," six years ago, Paramount executives ex-ecutives have applied for $50,000 worth of insurance to cover possible damage to the handsome countenance counte-nance of Alan Ladd, playing Raft's role in a re-make of the mystery thriller. Raft still bears the scars of the slugging administered by Guinn Williams. William Holden's been grounded for the duration of "Meet the Stewarts." Stew-arts." Director Al Green nearly collapsed col-lapsed when he found that Holdcn was spending his Sundays racing high-speed motorcycles at Muroo Dry Lake, and got studio permission to stop it. "t Betty Winkler, of the air's "Abie's Irish Rose," and Vice President Wallace agree on one thing that she can't speak Spanish. She auditioned au-ditioned for NBC's new "Down Mexico Mex-ico Way," and without warning was asked to learn a Spanish song from a record and sing it. When she heard the result she criticized it vehemently. Wallace was kinder when he heard the recorded show; just said "That girl cannot speak Spanish." . "Johnny Presents" Talullah Bank-head Bank-head in evening gowns, only because her sponsor asked her to wear them instead of slacks when broadcasting. broad-casting. So now she changes in a special dressing room at the studio, and as soon as she's finished her stint, bowed and thrown kisses to the lads in the audience who are in uniform, she gets back into her own favorite uniform slacks. ODDS AM) EDS-Sammy Kaye the bandleader, is learning to skate tince he ucceptrd a leading role in Sonja llenie't next picture, "Iceland" . . . At last Lionel Itarrymore hat u role he Umg U play, that of Thaddeus Stevens, arch enemy of Andrew Jack ton, whom he't hern Undying for years ... "The Gentlemen Misbehave' Cary Grant gets chased by six blood hounds, one of which captured convicts who escaped from the Arizona ttulr penitentiary ; at rehearsals that one al wayt caught him . . . Vat ()'llrun'. formed an "All Irish" glee club on th set of "lle't My Old Man"-I'at'$ tht only Irishman in it. |
