Show r r E EBy SCREEN CR EE 10 By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union HE first movie to be shown T THE Ji on the Normandy beachhead beachhead beach head the June invasion was Columbia's technicolor technicolor tech tech- Cover Girl according accord accord- ing hig g to information received from prom Col E E. E L. L Munson chief of Df the Army Motion Picture service The musical was shown to the invading invading invading in in- armies on June 16 and Colonel Colonel Colonel Colo Colo- nel Munson reports that the lithe boys loved it So this costarring effort of f Rita Hayworth's and Gene Kellys Kelly's KellYS KellY'S Kelly's Kellys Kel Kel- lys ly's makes movie movi history f Les Tremayne has added motion picture production to his acting ac ac- ac He is serving as production aide on Gene Lester productions I V I LES TREMAYNE short features and has completed his first assignment Peeks at Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood Hol Hol- lywood in which he also appears as an actor Carleton Young will be remembered remembered remembered by thousands of CBS radio- radio thriller fans as Chips Davis Com Com- mando Some months ago he decided decided decided de de- de- de to give up radio and become a movie actor In his first big part in Phil Bakers Baker's Take It or Leave It lies he's an announcer reading from froma a radio script Gary Cooper certainly knows what he does best For his first personally personally personally person person- ally produced film for International Pictures hes he's decided on The liThe American American American Amer Amer- ican Cowboy Gowboy which is said to be a super Its It's laid way back in the last century century adding adding one more to the long list of costume dramas mb Ha Bbb Haymes mes playing an army private in Columbia's Mr Winkle Goes to toVar War Var was stuck by a pin when he put on a un uniform orm rented from one of Hollywoods Hollywood's big ers Investigating ng he found a note pined inside the jacket It read I This jacket was worn by me in Seven Days Leave Let it look sharp on you and act like a hero I did Signed Victor Mature Bob pulled out the pin and did his best James Melton who's now heard I over aver CBS Sunday nights has been elevated to stardom by Metro as a result of his work in Fol Fol- lies They've put him down for the lead in a musical version of Cimmaron Cimmaron maron Meanwhile after vacationIng vacation- vacation Ing on his Connecticut farm and doing a series of Oklahoma recordings recordings recordings re re- re- re with Jeanette MacDonald hell he'll start on a concert tour which will last from October to March And hell he'll do six operas at the Met Met- From Metro comes the news that the first Clark Gable picture following following following follow follow- ing his discharge from the army willbe will willbe willbe be Strange Shange Adventure Based on the novel The Anointed its it's a prewar story of a merchant seaman seaman seaman sea sea- man and a seagoing non-seagoing girl And well we'll sec see Myrna Loy y as the girl I Former child stars who grew up to enter the armed services will rill be honored in the new Columbia Screen Snapshots subject The liThe Kids Go to toVar toWar toWar War Var which Ralph is pre pre- paring The reel will include intimate intimate intimate inti inti- mate shots from private film library of Jackie Coogan when he played in The Kid Jackie Cooper in Skippy days Freddie Bartholomew Bartholo Bartholo- mew at the time of liD David avid Copperfield Copperfield Copperfield Copper- Copper field and others including Mickey Rooney Jimmie Dundee the ace stunt stuntman stuntman stuntman man is having a vacation from doing doing do do- ing hazardous stunts hes he's playing a wise-cracking wise marine in Preston Sturges' Sturges Hail the Conquering Hero Hero He He- ro In 22 years his toughest stunts he says were driving an army jeep off ofT a foot embankment in The Story of Dr Wassell Vassell the first time lime the jeep rolled over his head struck the wheel and knocked him unconscious unconscious unconscious and being blown up in a six six- on on truck in Wake Vake Island ODDS AND Marlene ENDS Dietrich brought a coral necklace for Maria illaria Montez Monte when she returned from Italy the gift n of I I Jean Pierre Aumont Top role in the tlc I rc male re-male o of f Of O J Human Bondage goes to laul Eleanor Parker get the Bette Davis rule role opposite apposite him Diana E I L Lynn billed as us a star i in r t l' l Paramount Out o vj of f This Jr Ir World oriel orld rates the dressing room roomI I f net nest ned Paulette Goddard's on Star Row now tu Lee Trucy Tracy has been signed by Rho for forthe forthe the lead ni in From the East his liis first picture since his discharge from the I army in which he served as af a captain Don Ameche is reported to be forming h houn his hir 1 own oun independent pr producing company x |