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Show stagecscreenMdio Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE WHEN an actress decides to free lance it's a gamble, gam-ble, even if she's famous. Barbara Bar-bara Britton decided to take a chance, a while ago, and her success will probably inspire many another girl to do likewise. like-wise. Before leaving Paramount she'd done "Till We Meet Again," with Ray Milland, and "The Virginian," Virgin-ian," not yet released, so she couldn't tell how the public would like her in that one. Her first picture pic-ture on her own was "Captain j - V', : :- ' - i ";" r . ! BARBARA BRITTON Kidd," with Charles Laugh ton and Randolph Scott Now she's signed for a comedy, Republic's "The Fabulous Suzanne," in which Rudy Vallee will also appear. Vallee will have the comedy lead; Steve Sekely produces and directs. A stray sailor became technical advisor for a few moments on "One Exciting Week," at Republic. Pinky Lee and Shemp Howard, as a pair of phoney marines, had a scene showing them changing their uniforms. uni-forms. And they couldn't get out of those skin tight navy jumpers. The sailor, who goes down In history AMM 3c Donald Wardwick, stepped forward and showed them the way. "Going My Way" has just begun a four-theater run in Paris, one of its first European engagements. But Americans there may be misled by the title; it's been translated into local Idiom, and is called "The Road Strewn with Stars." When he began directing "Calcutta," "Calcut-ta," John Farrow said, "The one thing I want to do in this picture is to get the flavor of the real India. I'm not after that Arabian Nights stuff that is usually seen." So we'll see Alan Ladd, Gail Russell, and the rest of the excellent cast against a background of India as it really Is, and we'll all owe John Farrow a debt of gratitude. Arthur (CBS) Godfrey went into a New York restaurant for a steak and came out with a tenor. It was Frank Saunders, the bartender. Godfrey God-frey took him to the studio to sing on his program couldn't get Saunders Saun-ders away from the mike before he'd sung three songs to the delight de-light of the studio audience. Godfrey, God-frey, too, was delighted, and has asked the singer to appear with him again. Bartlett Robinson, "Walter Manning" Man-ning" of "Portia Faces Life," has bought an island In Long Island Sound, between Darien and Stamford; Stam-ford; connected with the shore by a causeway, the island boasts a 125-year-old house. Robinson says he's going to spend all his spare time for years fixing it up. He'd better I remember that house, and the neighbors claim it's haunted! It's Van Heflin's sister, Frances, who plays the part of "Nora Holiday" Holi-day" In the new CBS air show, Holiday Holi-day and Co. But Frances doesn't have to rest on her brother's laurels; lau-rels; till recently she appeared In the Broadway stage hit, "I Remember Remem-ber Mama." Remember Paul Lavalle's famous "Society of Lower Basin Street"? It's rumored that he may revive it the rumor's been growing since the appearance of the jiving "Memphis "Mem-phis Five" on Lavalle's "Highways in Melody," on NBC recently Shortly after Ginny Simms arrived ar-rived in New York, her husband, Hyatt Dehn, contracted pneumonia. Ginny rode to the hospital in the ambulance with him, returned to her hotel and came down with flu. But her regular Friday CBS broadcasts went right on, and Ginny went right on with them. ODDS AND ENDS Herb Shriner, comedian of the air's Follies of Forty-Six, Forty-Six, collect! bicycles as a hobby has three, including m German one he picked up when in Europe with the 8th Corps. . . . Victor Francen's first scene in Warner's "The Beast With Five Fingers," when he'd just recovered from pneumonia, was a funeral, in which he was buried. . . . Columbia's "Carmen," starring Rita Hayworth, won't make Rita sing it's adapted from the book, not the opera. . . . At 20lh-Fox they dug a river bed for "Anna and the King of Siam" then it rained, the river ovgt-floived ovgt-floived resulting damage to studik '' joW ohnui S2D00. |
