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Show STAGESCREENADJO Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINL4 VALE ALFRED HITCHCOCK, l who's just signed to produce pro-duce and direct one picture a year for five years for Selz-nick Selz-nick - International, came up the hard way. The master of suspense began his career in England by sweeping the cutting cut-ting room floors. In the years following fol-lowing he filled almost every job connected with the making of movies. mov-ies. When he finally picked up' a megaphone and began directing, he turned out such immediate successes suc-cesses as "The Lodger," "The 39 Steps," "The Lady Vanishes," etc. Now in England producing government govern-ment shorts, he's due back soon to begin work on the Selznick-Interna-tional "Notorious," which will star Ingrid Bergman. She also has "Spellbound" coming along. Remember back three or four years when Sylvia Sidney .was making mak-ing pictures that always seemed to put her into drab costumes, in drab stories? Well, just wait till you see her in "Blood on the Sun," the Wil- ' 5 i 4 4 If - ) LJk- 1 SYLVIA SIDNEY liam Cagney production. Her wardrobe ward-robe used to consist of a black dress, a gray dress, and a flannel nightgown, night-gown, as a rule. Now she'll wear six daring evening gowns and an eye-opening negligee. From now on we're going to be hearing about movie stars who were discovered when working in television. televi-sion. Shirley Hunter's one. She'd always wanted to get into pictures. She aad her mother moved to Hollywood Holly-wood in 193G, and Shirley studied singing, dramatics, everything that could help toward attaining her goal and landed in television. A scout for a major studio saw a telecast, she was sent for, given a screen test, and there she was in the movies! mov-ies! You'll see her in an outstanding outstand-ing role in "Delightfully Dangerous." Danger-ous." It was no hard luck for Marc Piatt when he sprained his ankle and couldn't do his spectacular dance routine for Columbia's "Tonight "To-night and Every Night." The director direc-tor used the time thus gained by ringing in an extra kiss scene for Marc and Janet Blair. Sergt. Robert Foster, a tank crewman crew-man on the French-German battle line, went to a movie provided by the Army Pictorial Service. Too tired to notice the name of the picture, pic-ture, he fell asleep. He was awakened awak-ened when the GI's began whistling at a gorgeous girl shown in Technicolor Techni-color on the screen. He nearly fell out of the hayloft where he'd been napping she was Jean Colleran, in "Cover Girl" also Mrs. Robert Foster! Umbriago, Jimmy Durante's 'little man who wasn't there," will be the little man who's everywhere this Christmas. A Des Moines woman started it by sending several packages pack-ages to her son, in camp, for soldiers sol-diers who don't get holiday presents. pres-ents. Inside each package Is a card saying "To Umbriago." Other moth-' moth-' ers heard of the idea as a result Umbriagos all over the country will receive unexpected gifts. The unhappy voice of the Postman Post-man on "George Burns and Gracie Allen" show is Mel Blanc's. The gruff voice of "Hubert Peabody," father of "Phoebe" on the "Jack Carson Show" is Mel Blanc's. And the stuttering squeal of Porky Pig in the movie cartoon is Mel Blanc's. Mary Mason, who's gay little "Penny" on the Blue Network's "My Best Girls," says she couldn't ! have avoided being an actress. Her mother played in early Western movies, and Mary was so entranced by her mother's work that she : couldn't imagine any other career. ODDS AD ENDS Another 'fen-I 'fen-I lyric topreno is being launched in the movies; she's Donna Ie, who , makes her screen debut in RKO's 'The Body Snatcher." . . . Warners have i chrnged the title of Joan Crawford's picture back to the original "Mildred i Pierce" no matter what it's changed to in future, we'll say no more about nrw titles for U. . . . F.rrol Flvnn will have eight leading ladies in "The Adventures Ad-ventures of Don Juan." . . . I, Man Fon-taine, Fon-taine, mother of Joan and Olivia de Hai-illand, makes her screen debut in "The Lost IT eekend." . . . 407c of the profits of "Hollywood Canteen" will go to the Hollywood Canteen. |