OCR Text |
Show STAGESCREENaHADIO By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. THE March of Time's "One Day of War Russia, 1943" is probably the best documentary film that has come out of this war. That was the opinion of Walter Graebner, their war correspondent, corres-pondent, when he saw it in Moscow. His adventures in getting it to the MOT'S New York office would make an exciting mystery mys-tery film. Once, when he looked for the cans of film, they had disappeared! disap-peared! He waited in Teheran for a duplicate print to be flown to him, and the plane was forced down on the way. The African offensive broke, and he had to cover it. When the film finally reached Cairo the Egyptian customs refused to pass it, till he talked them over. John Garfield isn't finding his midget automobile so cramped since he worked in Warner Bros.' "Air Force" he spent most of his time in an improvised tail gun position in the Flying Fortress Mary Ann. Mary Ann is the heroine of the picture. Monty Wooley, "The Man Who Came to Dinner," became the man who came to Al Jolson's air program, pro-gram, "Life Begins at 8:30," and remained to co-star. After two guest If ' I . s" S j MONTY WOOLEY performances the combination of Jolson and Wooley was seen to be so satisfactory that it was' made a permanent per-manent one. Now it's known as the Al Jolson-Monty Wooley program, at the insistence of the former. Marcy McGuire, RKO's 17-year-old find, is likely to become the pet of the music publishers. Making her screen bow in "Seven Days' Leave" Bhe sang "Touch of Texas" and "I Get the Neck of the Chicken" straight into the Hit Parade. And her performance won her a top role in her company's forthcoming Kay Kyser-Edgar Bergen comedy, "Keep 'Em Sighing." Gig Young put his heart and soul into his portrayal of the co-pilot of "Air Force's" Mary Ann, which depicts de-picts the air war against the Japs from the days of Pearl Harbor. His father-in-law and close friend is a prisoner of the Japanese. . . The "Town Hall Club" of Boston bestowed scrolls on Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, calling their NBC humor hu-mor "earthy," and hailing it as having hav-ing "helped to unify Americans in our war effort by supplying democratic demo-cratic laughter with which to form a bond of wellbeing among our people." Quite a tribute to two comedians who just started out being be-ing funny as a way of earning a living! Ever wonder what's happened to the kids of "Our Gang"? Farina's now a soldier, serving in Australia; "Fatty" Joe Cobb's a defense worker. work-er. Mary Kornman is happily married. mar-ried. Jackie Davis is Dr. John Davis, USN. Freckle-faced "Mickey" "Mick-ey" Daniels works in an aircraft factory, Johnny Downs alternates between stage and screen, Harry Spear's a bank accountant. Jackie Condon is in service, J. R. Smith is a successful salesman, and blonde Jean Darling has become a very popular night-club singer. A technicolor musical called "New Orleans" is being made ready for Alice Faye, so it looks as if she'B to lose no time now that she is working work-ing again. Meanwhile, she'll be co-starred co-starred with Carmen Miranda in "The Girls He Left Behind." "Navy Hotel," a story of the WAVES and the SPARS, will be one of those super-super musicals, set against the background of a Miami hotel; Charles R. Rodgers wants Benny Goodman and his orchestra for both acting and musical parts in the United Artists production. ODDS ASD E.mS Bi-m Davis' first film on her return from her vara, tinn, stmeral months hence, will be "Mrs. Skeffinftton" . . . In the making of 'One Day of War Russia, If 41" 30 out of 160 cameramen were hilled in action . . . The Ahlrich Family series wont lose Jimmy Lydon after all; the army rejected him . . . 7 he title of the picture co-starring Grade Fields and Monty Wooley has been changed from "Buried Alive" to "Holy Matrimony" . . . Dame May Whitty is in her 77th year', but the distinguished actress recently re-cently signed a new long-term contract with Metro : the first picture will be "Madame Curie" |