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Show STAG E-C'S C H E E N A D ! 0 Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE TF YOU'RE all agog about 1 who's going to portray whom in "Forever Amber," here are the most recent casting additions: Peggy Cumming, the young English Eng-lish actress, has the role of "Amber," of course, and Cornel Wilde is the dashing "Bruce Carlton." Paul Guilfoyle, Clyde Cook and John Rogers are "Jim-my-the-Mouth," "Deadeye" and "Blueskin" respectively. Twentieth Century-Fox is doing it in technicolor, techni-color, and the production has already al-ready gone before the cameras, with John Stahl directing. Osa Massen, who has a featured role in RKO's "Deadline at Dawn," was a photographer and film cutter before she became an actress. Later, Lat-er, when she was a star in her na- OSA MASSEN tive Copenhagen, she pitched in and cut and edited her own pictures. And she's still at it she now makes a weekly photographic record rec-ord of Susan Hayward's twins; the girls became friendly while in "Deadline at Dawn." Cass Daley had a beautiful dream the other night. She dreamt that she was in the White House, singing as she never sang before. And her accompanist President Harry Truman, Tru-man, of course. Now her one ambition am-bition is to make that dream come true. Housewives, ta(;e a bow! Professor Profes-sor Quiz says housewives usually make out the best on his program, with doctors, lawyers and teachers on the rear ranks. And he should know. He's had contestants from every state in the Union on his Thursday night radio show, and there have been some from Canada, Europe and South America. While Ingrid Bergman was making mak-ing "Saratoga Trunk" she also made an abridged version of it for herself, shooting it in color with her own 16 mm. camera. Gary Cooper was camera man for the few shots of herself which she included. She began making her own pictorial record rec-ord of movie-making in Hollywood Holly-wood shortly after she arrived there; "Casablanca" turned out so well in her miniature version that sne auempiea a more amDiuous record of "Saratoga Trunk." Incidentally, Inci-dentally, she read "Saratoga Trunk" aloud, when it came out, to perfect her English, and was so much impressed im-pressed by "Clio," the Creole heroine, hero-ine, that she envied the actress who'd play her and got the role herself. Teresa Wright dreamed for years of having her name in lights on Broadway; then she made her debut de-but in "Our Town" and had to change her name, because her name was Muriel, and there was another Muriel Wright on the Equity Equi-ty rolls. Teresa's her middle name. Ricardo Cortez is resuming his acting career after four years' retirement re-tirement from the screen. He'll return re-turn in Republic's "The Twisted Circle," starring Adele Mara, and will play a suave villain. British actresses seem to be stepping step-ping into the lead in a lot of our pictures lately. Lilli Palmer, a British Brit-ish film star, has been signed to a long-term contract by United States Pictures, the new producing company com-pany headed by Joseph Bernhard and Milton Sperling. Her first assignment as-signment will be the leading role in "Cloak and Dagger," in which Gary Cooper will play the lead. Grace Albert, a "Crime Doctor" regular, is a successful business woman as well. She's purchasing agent and eastern sales manager for her mother's fruit cake business, busi-ness, operated in Minnesota. ODDS AND ENDS Ted Collins, Kate Smith's manager, has lined up Ray Mil. land, Cary Grant, Dorothy Lamour and Olivia De Havilland for guest broadcast on the Kate Smith show. . . . United Artists is so pleased with Tom Brene-man's Brene-man's first picture, "Breakfast in Hollywood," Hol-lywood," that he's been signed to make a picture a year. . . . Though Joan CaulfieloTs first film, "Miss Susie Sla-gle's," Sla-gle's," is just being released, Joan's already al-ready been named in eight polls as the most promising netc star of 1946. Ellen Andrews and her Belgian shepherd shep-herd dog started their theatrical careers in the same Orson W elles production . . . but the dog's now retired. |