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Show STkE-SCREEOADIO Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE MARGARET SULLA-VAN'S SULLA-VAN'S willingness to return re-turn to the screen in order to play "Smitty" in "Cry Ha-v0C'" Ha-v0C'" indicates that the picture pic-ture will really be something special. Absent from pictures pic-tures since she made "Back Street," in 1941, she's resisted aU efforts to lure her in front of the cameras. Merle Oberon gave illness as a reason for resigning from the P , i i " 1 MARGARET SULLAVAN role. Joan Crawford left the cast because this would have been her third successive war picture, and she felt that the role assigned her wasn't satisfactory. , Hollywood's best oriental actors flatly refused to portray Japanese soldiers, so Director Richard Wallace Wal-lace got the Japs for major and minor roles in "Bombardier", out of the make-up box. RKO faces the same problem in "Behind the Rising Ris-ing Sun." Fred Giermann, character actor, has an odd reason for wanting the war to end. "I haven't been out of a Nazi uniform as an actor 'for the last seven months," he explains. "Five Graves to Cairo," with Fran-chot Fran-chot Tone and Anne Baxter, is his latest. You'U see most of the cast of that swell picture, "Casablanca," in "The Conspirators"; Humphrey Bo-gart, Bo-gart, Paul Henreid, Sydney Green-street Green-street and Helmut Dantine all have leading roles. Ann Sheridan has the leading feminine role. Bill Stern, whose "News of the Bay" newsreel is a favorite with moviegoers, is happy because now le can make predictions on the air. His NBC Sports Newsreel has been a Saturday feature, and he felt that ven an expert couldn't predict the outcome of the following Saturday's games without sticking his chin out. Now he's broadcasting on Friday evenings, which is better. Albert Parker was a noted director, direc-tor, until he lost his eyesight seven years ago as a result of an automobile auto-mobile accident. Recently Director Frank Turtle, shooting a street scene in Prague for "Hostages," decided to use a blind man with a seeing-eye dog. He thought of his friend Parker, Park-er, who thus, for a brief time, will once more take part in the making of motion picture. Black-haired Mona Berle was the first extra hired by Producers Williams Wil-liams Pine and Thomas when they tegan making pictures for Paramount Para-mount nearly three years ago. They've found a spot for her in every picture they've made since currently she's in "Tornado," which stars Chester Morris and Nancy Kelly. "She's good luck to us," say the two Bills. Private Harry Keaton of Fort Creely, Alaska, thought that the Pretty girl he asked to dance with him was one of the civilian nurses. Some time afterward he learned that e was Marjorie Reynolds, who'd danced with Fred Astaire in "Hollywood "Holly-wood Inn" and teamed with Bing Crosby in "Dixie." By that time Marjorie had moved on to the next amp in her Alaskan tour. Ml Lesser, producer of "Stage Door Canteen," feels that the pub-he pub-he ought not to pay an extra premium pre-mium for quality picture entertain-ment, entertain-ment, at least for the duration, according ac-cording to a recent announcement. So, although "Stage Door Canteen" culd undoubtedly run on and on at advanced prices, if released only in key cities at first, and shown twice 8 day, it will be made available for Seneral runs as soon as it is released. re-leased. "This is a soldier's love s'wy," says Mr. Lesser, "and it be'ngs to the public." ODDS AND ENDSCtaudctte Col-"n Col-"n spent her No. 17 shoe stamp on a f"'r of luggage tan pumps said she dose them because they'd harmonize any other color . . . Dennis Day ex-PWi ex-PWi to leave on an overseas entertain-J1" entertain-J1" 'our the middle of June . . . (nose lf'e tore" will move into the 'r spot vacated by Jack llonny's pro-('am pro-('am for surr,nrr . ;sl Bmny "'oadcast will be May 30 . . . When 'orf"erite Chapman was a telephone Jerator, in her pre-movie days, her Jmloyment number" was 206; now ""I she's starring in Columbia's "Ap-Tn'aent "Ap-Tn'aent in Berlin" with George San- e her dressing room is 206! |