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Show STAGESCREENa?ASlO Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE UNIVERSAL has given us another of those top-notch top-notch psychological mysteries, myste-ries, one as good as "The Suspect." This time it's "Uncle Harry," with a star-studded star-studded cast George Sander?, Sand-er?, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ella Raines and Sara Allgood, who has only to walk across a room to steal the scene from everybody else. ' -7 ; r : GERALDINE FITZGERALD You'll see superb acting all through the picture, especially in some of Geraldine Fitzgerald's scenes. It's a picture that causes rather violent reactions people are going to like it tremendously or argue about it for weeks because they wanted a different ending. And that's a sure sign that a picture is exceptional; if it isn't nobody cares how it turns out. Dennis Morgan, star of "Christmas "Christ-mas In Connecticut," is the only Bollywood star who has worked in pictures under three different names, so far. as we know. At Metro he nsed his own name, Stanley Stan-ley Morner. At Paramount, Richard Stanley. Warners' gave him his present pres-ent name. If you've just stubbed your toe on a disappointment, here's encouragement encourage-ment for you. Clark Gable lost his first film job because "his ears are too big." George Brent and Humphrey Hum-phrey Bogart were dropped by contract con-tract holders because they "weren't convincing in western drama." And Bette Davis' name must still embarrass em-barrass certain executives who let her go "because she has no sex appeal." ap-peal." It looks as if the movie stars can't resist the restaurant business. During Dur-ing filming of "Young Widow," Louis Hayward had an architect make plans for a cafe to be opened when the war ended, and Alan Ladd's going go-ing into partnership in a hamburger stand. Frank Sinatra seems to be set for the next five years in radio. He's signed a contract for 39 weeks with a cigarette company, with options covering that time. He'll replace "Which is Which," for which "Detect "De-tect and Collect" substituted this summer. He'll be heard Wednesday nights, on CBS. He says one of the best things about the program Is the fact that Mann Hollner will be the producer thinks Holiner's the best producer in the business. The only motion picture footage of the atom smasher, which played an important part in experiments leading lead-ing to the development of the atomic bomb, will be seen in "Miracle "Mira-cle Makers," a Warner's short subject sub-ject now ready for immediate release. re-lease. Dr. O. E. Lawrence, who developed de-veloped the cyclotron, as it's called, was technical adviser on the sequence se-quence and appears in the film, Jack Smith, who now has his own show on CBS, joins Bing Crosby, Ginny Simms and all the others who've started on the air singing with a trio and graduated to stardom. star-dom. Jack was in high school when he and two friends landed the job vacated by Bing Crosby's Rhythm Boys at the Cocoanut Grove. He spends his free time teaching returned re-turned soldiers at the New York School of Artcraft Instruments. Twentieth Century - Fox's "The House on 92nd Street," dealing with the development of the atomic bomb, is based entirely on records of the FBI, showing their work In counteracting counter-acting enemy agents' attempts to obtain ob-tain the secret. It was made secretly secret-ly in New York, Washington and other locales, and sequences dealing deal-ing directly with the bomb were omitted till after it had been used in Japan. X ODDS AND ENDS Guest ghost, galore will haunt "Inner Sanctum," now back again, on CBS, with Paul McGrnth as Your Host. . . . Jane Wyman liked that leopard coat she wears in "The Lost Weekend" so much that the had a duplicate made for her own wardrobe ward-robe . . . Many oj the servicemen now in hospitals are learning the inside stories of actions they participated in by h'temng to Dan Seymour's "Now h Can Be Told series Ding Crosby s'??s,f2 snn" " ving Berlin's "Blue Skies -a treat for Crosby ,, wto won i be hearing him weekly if he car Ties out his threat to abandon those nursday night broadcasts. |