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Show Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE FOOLISH NOTION," by Philip Barry, is a play that's right up Hollywood's alley, partly because it would make a delightful picture, ?artly also because of its cast, alullah Bankhead returned to Broadway in it after she had "Lifeboat" and .'A Royal Scandal" to add to her screen career; Donald Cook is known to movie goers, as is Aubrey Mather. And Maria Manton makes her stage debut she's the daughter of Mar-lene Mar-lene Dietrich. Sho's a big girl, prettier pret-tier than her mother was when she arrived in this country, with a peachos-and-cream voice and an obvious ob-vious talent for seductive roles. "Foolish Notion" could step onto the screen with its Broadway cast, successfully. suc-cessfully. Of course we're used to those nicknames nick-names "The Look," "The Beard," and all the rest of them. But Pars-mount Pars-mount certainly didn't look ahead when Insuring Olivia de Havilland'i chin for $100,000 because Ray Mil- f-X2r J OLIVIA DE IIAVILLAND land was to hit her on it In "The Well Groomed Bride." Because quick as a flash up came a name for Olivia "The Jaw." Sounds more like something belonging to a prize fighter than a pretty girl. In Hollywood, it's a nice gesture Betty Hutton, between pictures, lent her stand-in, Barbara Cain, to Joan Caulflcld, the young Broadway actress. Barbara, star of Broadway's Broad-way's "Kiss and Tell," was beginning begin-ning her film career, In Paramount'! "Miss Susie Slagle." It looked as if Penny Singleton was doomed to play "Blondic" forever until Hunt Stromberg gave her a chance to escape in "Young Widow." Wid-ow." She was a victim of typing, till he put her Into this picture, In which Jan! Russell and Louis nay-ward nay-ward are co-starred. Jean Hcrsholt ran into the same difficulty after he did "The Country Doctor"; Van Johnson escaped the fate of the "Dr. Kildare" series, thanks to the bobby sockscrs. Basil Rathbone has to fight to avoid eternally playing Sherlock Holmes. Typing can make a Hollywood Holly-wood star, and ruin him. Virginia Bruce goes brunette for her dual role In Republic's "Love, Honor and Goodbye." She's blonde for half the film, then dons a disguise dis-guise as a brunette French maid to test her husband's fidelity. In private pri-vate life Virginia's best tint is honey blonde. Three years ago, after abandoning his job as vocalist for Harry James' band to get a start in films. Dick Haymes was broke and hungry. He got a job chauffcuring Chick Chandler Chan-dler to work at 20th Century-Fox. Now Chandler plays a columnist in "Kitten on the Keys" starring Dick Haymes and Maureen O'Hara. nearly near-ly breaks up their romance and Haymes is slated to give his former for-mer employer a punch in the jaw! That's a swell Idea of Bob Burns' In his home town of Canoga Park, where he's mayor, he's planting memorial me-morial trees for all residents killed while serving In the armed forces, with a plaque bearing the war hero's name attached to each tree. . That's a swell new radio show, "Detect and Collect," launched on CBS June 13 as summer replacement for "Which Is Which." In case u haven't heard it, Wendy Barrie and Fred Uttal give each contestant five clues to Identity his surprise gift, and $25 If he guesses it the first time. Prizes decrease to $5, but the contestant gets the prize even if he never guesses what it is. ODDS AXD F.SlS-Th Andrew Sister halt been voted th most lpu-lar lpu-lar harmony group by the whiter Rationed Ra-tioned in Ireland. . . . Sow that John Garfield uxm't b drafted, I'rodurer Carey H ilton is ready to Hurt produfr lion' on "Th I'ostman Ahi-ay Hint Twice, " Marring John and l.ana Turner. . . . This time I'aul Uhiteman ha nheduled a troup of Gershwin tribute instead of just a onc-tim thot; he' chosen Joan Edward oi toloist for the terie. . . . Jimmy Carroll uv vocal pinch-hitter for fit top tinter before h landed nil own commercial CBS serie. "Jimmy Carroll Sings." |