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Show gg SCREEN1 RADIO 1W VllUilMA V ALIO (lie lea.scil by Wcslnn Ncwup.ipf r Union.) nKSTING'S under way at J- Paramount for "Kor Whom the Bell Tolls"; Charles La lighten , Akim Tamil-oil and Oscar llomolka have been considered for the role of "Pablo," but the burn-iiu; burn-iiu; question is who'll play "Maria"? It calls for beauty, but even more for the ability to act. We hear Unit Paillette Godclard heads the list of the Kills to be tested; seems ns if it would be a superb piece of miscasting if she gut the part. Ingrid Herman's our choice and the author's. Ginger Rogers has signed for three years more with RKO; she's been there for eight rTTTTl years. She did "Fly i L,n. 1 ing Down to Rio" ; then, and her danc- l . t in wlth Fred k Astairc in Unit little I i number made them I J our leading dance I . team in pictures. ; She wisely insisted, ut last on acting as well, and worked up s. . , to "Kitty Foyle," Ginger Rogers which sl,c dld,,'t want to do, we hear. but which proved to be her greatest success. She's just finishing "Tom, Dick and Harry" now, and they say around the lot that it's a worthy successor to "Kitty Foyle." Orson Welles isn't making any announcements about his second picture for RKO Radio he kept mum about "'Citizen Kane" too, remember, re-member, and executives were pretty startled when they found out, too late, what it was all about and it looked as if they might have trouble If they released It. Instead of a trouble-maker, they had one of the best pictures of all time on their hands! Welles has admitted that he will write, produce and direct tills new picture, and will star In it. Joseph Pasternack, who guided Deanna Durbin through her successful success-ful screen career, has signed a contract con-tract with Metrc-Goldwyn-Mayer; it looks as if he might do for Kathryn Grayson what he did for Deanna. -r Hollywood just didn't give a whoop about Victor Mature until he made a highly press-agented press-agented appearance T J in the New York , stage success, x ' '"Lady in the Dark."" ; J He doesn't act much 'iH in the play, just ) looks tall, dark and handsome. Now it's ; ' -J announced that two V J motion picture com- J ; panies want him; f one, Twentieth Cen- I , xLaJa tury-Fox, has bought half his contract Victor Mature from Hal Roach and will feature him in two pictures a year. The first will be "Bowery Nightingale," co-starring with Alice Faye. Old timers among the movie fans will remember Raymond Hatton; probably they'll also declare that "The Whispering Chorus," in which he starred for De Mille, was one of the best pictures ever made. Well, Hatton is working for his old boss again in "Reap the Wild Wind." W. S. Van Dyke, the ace director, has been on active duty with the marine corps for the past year. Now j he's returned to the Metro lot. And : what do you suppose his first assign-I assign-I ment will be? "The Female of the j Species" a long cry from the Marines! ! Did you happen to hear "Man on the Street" on the "Manhattan at j Midnight" radio show about a month j ago? Within 24 hours after the I sketch was presented five motion picture studios were after it. Paramount Para-mount won out; Bing Crosby and Mary Martin will co-star. They've ! just completed "Birth of the Blues," with Carolyn Lee and Brian Don-levy. Don-levy. People who've heard Bob Hope rave on the radio about Madeleine Carroll have decided that he must know her well enough to get autographed auto-graphed pictures of the blonde star for them. She's on location in the West Indies, so they've been pestering pes-tering him for the photographs. He doesn't mind; he just got a lot of her pictures, autographed them with his own name, and had them mailed. ODDS AD E.YDS-lTayne Morris got leave from the Mavy Department to finish "The Smiling Ghost" fur ITarner Bros, before he became an ensign . . . A BC is preparing a new series, "Boy Meets Band," for its singer-bandleader, Ted Steele, who used to be an iBC page boy . . . Though Bing Crosby j cant read a note of music, the boys in j John Scott Trotter's band say he's a swell conductor . . . Metro ivill push ; Marsha Hunt up the ladder as a re-j re-j suit of her work in "Blossoms in the i Dust" . . . Service men who want to J and can see Hollyw-ood stars broad-' broad-' casting should apply to Charles Posner at the L nited Service Organizations. |