Show 4 v r TAGE SCREE E Nil Released bj by Western Newspaper Union By VIRGINIA VALE VALET T has given us ua U UNIVERSAL vJ something more than a topnotch picture in The Suspect Suspect Sus pert we get food for thought right along with abundant en en- A man commits two murders and has such good reasons for doing so that you cant can't bear to have him pun pun- You keep rewriting the ending ending ending end end- ing figuring out ways of saving him Charles Laughton gives one of the best performances of his life Ella Raines Rabies is excellent Molly Lamont Lament caused men spectators to ask V 4 7 l 4 i l f L i y Y by a 1 P 6 CHARLES LAUGHTON Who is she Robert direction direction direction di di- couldn't be improved upon Its It's a picture with murder but no horror a picture with charm and beauty No matter what movies 1945 brings The Suspect will be one of the best j Bette Davis is back in Hollywood after quite an absence to begin story conferences on her next picture picture picture pic pic- pic- pic ture Stolen L Life e. e The picture is set to go before the cameras early in February with Curtis Bernhardt directing When Martha 1 Holliday r reached ched Hollywood after dancing in night nightclubs nightclubs nightclubs clubs she was made assistant dance director She had to give up the job an and l go over to to satisfy her desire to act shell she'll act and dance too in George Geore Whites White's Scandals Scandals Scandals Scan Scan- dals starring Joan Davis and Jack Haley likes to push promising promising promising promis promis- ing newcomers alon along and give them thema a whack at really important roles J. Lauritz Melchior who makes his screen debut in Thrill of a Romance Romance Romance Ro Ro- mance Metro picture starring Van Johnson and Esther Williams has signed a new contract with the studio The famous singer has an important singing role in Brighton Beach t i Shortly before the war when the U. U S. S fleet was on maneuvers Art Linkletter House Party CBS almost almost almost al al- al- al most broadcast a unit of the navy into a general court martial When word came that the fleet was due in San Diego harbor he arranged to broadcast its arrival from a motor motor motor mo mo- tor launch Fog delayed the fleet some miles away and it anchored but Art didn't know that He broadcast broadcast broadcast broad broad- cast his script script and and the Admiral listening in thought his orders to anchor had been disobeyed and was ready to court martial all offenders Art can laugh about it now 0 Boris Karloff recently completed The uThe Body Snatcher and Isle of the Dead for and is booked to go right on scaring us into shivers The studio has signed him him to make three horror pictures during during during dur dur- ing the next two years When Phil Kramer NBC comedian an tried out for his first radio show with Edward G. G Robinson in hi Big Town Robinson stopped him and said severely Dont clown young man Use your natural voice The only trouble was that Kramer was using his natural voice He was doing all right in pictures till his vocal chords tightened up the aftereffect aftereffect aftereffect after after- effect of an illness his comedy voice resulted That baby on the Eddie Cantor Show Eddie Cantor Von Zell is isa a handsome chap of about 30 who's probably the only male baby impersonator impersonator impersonator im im- im- im on the air His name is Billy Gray and as a pioneer in his profession he deserves a rattle at atI I least ast Barry Fitzgerald played his role as Bing Crosby's father in Paramount's Paramount's Paramount's Para- Para mounts mount's Tavern with his hand in a cast he broke a finger the night before he started work on the picture That man could give a afine afine afine fine performance even if it he had a broken neck ODDS AND ENDS ENDS ENOS Queen gentleman gen gen- tieman sleuth of o othe the CBS series bearing his Ib name has hus a new Nikki Barbara ferrell Terrell Ter fer rell When Robert Taylor was a guest on the Kate hate Smith hour his wife Barbara watched the program from rom the clients client's booth Ono One of New NewY NewYork's NewYork's Y Yorks York's big department stores is iJ featuring i s dress dreu named Gaslight Gayeties named for the radio show how starring Beatrice Kay Ray and Michael OShea a. Sonja Homes Home's trained highly feet are among the smallest In she sTe wears a size site 3 shoe Alan Ladd once played six characters on a radio show that was wa when he Tie was trying to get his start as an actor and h he did it well too |