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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. A MAN who has met so many motion picture stars that he can't even remember re-member how many he's known told me that Joan Fontaine Fon-taine is really pretty wonderful. wonder-ful. Vitality, intelligence, warmth, sensitiveness she aas them all, said he. He seems to oe right. A girl who grew up with aer and her sister, Olivia de Havil-land, Havil-land, told me that Joan always did tnow what she wanted, and how to get it. Well, when she came to New York after finishing "Frenchman's "French-man's Creek" for Paramount, she wanted a vacation with her hus- I kX 1 JOAN FONTAINE Dand, Brian Aherne. So she took it, in a quiet corner of Connecticut and sandwiched work as a nurse's aid in with doing the marketing. You'd never have known, if you heard Marlene Dietrich recently on the CBS Playhouse, in "Manpower," that she started for the broadcasting studio in fear and trembling. Back In August, 1942, she appeared on that same program and fans practically prac-tically mobbed her when she got Dut of a cab in front of the impressive impres-sive building. This time . she wore old clothes and the doorman didn't want to let her in! Here's perfect casting: Samuel Goldwyn has engaged Victor Mc-Laglen Mc-Laglen for the role of the pirate known as "The Hook" in his technicolor tech-nicolor production of "Treasure Chest." McLaglen will be a good pirate, even though he will be the nemesis of Bob Hope, and so involved in-volved in comedy. Hope's cast as a touring actor who gets involved witb a boatload of pirates. Lewis E. Lawes, for many years warden of Sing Sing, calls "New Prisons New Men" "the first picture pic-ture I have ever seen which clearly portrays the all around activities of a modern prison in operation." It's the latest of the "This Is America" series. Ruth Brennan, daughter of Walter, Wal-ter, begins her screen career in a small role in Selznick's "Since You Went Away." Not wanting to trade on her father's fame, she used the name of Lynn Winthrop but the only person she fooled was herself. Her father's been signed by Warner War-ner Bros, for one of the top roles in support of Humphrey Bogart in "Tc Have and to Have Not." The Blue Network's glamour star, Gertrude Lawrence, is one of the proudest women in America, since the American Red Cross gave her her first stripe for 1,000 hours of service. Everybody who knows how much time and good hard work she fives to aiding the war effort feels that she ought to be the most decorated deco-rated gal in America; she's never too busy or too tired to do whatever she can. "One Man's Family" got its start on the air as a sustaining program on NBC way back in April, 1932. Carlton E. Morse had been writing and producing radio programs like "Chinatown Squad" and "Twisted Tales," but felt that the story of life as it is to the average American would appeal to the public. First ; thing anybody knew, the public made it a weekly listening habit and it still is. Nancy Kelly would like to spend R-inters on Broadway, on the stage, and summers in Hollywood, in pic-lures pic-lures if she manages it, let's hope she'll get better picture assignments than she's had recently. At 17 she was sensational in "Susan and God," on the stage, and the movies grabbed her. To an unprejudiced onlooker it seems that she's capable ! of far better work than she's done to far. OOPS AD E.VDS Note to girls Dick "Henry Aidrich" lones is thrilled, but also embrirrasst-d, by all those letters junior misses have been sending him, sealed with pink impressions im-pressions of their lips . . . Latest addition addi-tion to the "Silver Theater" is Madeleine Mad-eleine Lee, uhom you used to hear as mAmos 'n Andy's" Miss Blue . . . W'hn Jan Peerce of "Great Moments in Vatic" Va-tic" lets go uith the full pnuer of his tunes, listeners fully expect the studio walls to be bUisted apart . . . Hal Hnarh, I former United Artists producer, has been promoted from major to lieutenant lieu-tenant colonel in the V. S. army. |
