Show r t I T GE E CRE N 11 By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper UnIon A A MAN who has met so many motion picture stars that he cant can't even re- re remember remember member how many hes he's known told me that Joan Fontaine Fon- Fon Fontaine taine is really pretty wonder wonder- ful Vitality intelligence warmth sensitiveness sh she has them all said he He seems to be right A girl who grew up with her and her sister Olivia de Havil- Havil Havilland Havilland land told me that Joan always did know what she wanted and how to get it it Well when she came to New York after finishing French Frenchmans Frenchmans mans man's Creek for Paramount she wanted a vacation with her hus- hus 1 A A a a JOAN FONTAINE bond band Brian Aherne So she took it in fn a quiet corner of Connecticut Connecticut- and sandwiched work as a nurses nurse's aid in with doing the marketing Youa never have known if you ou 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 practically mobbed her when she got out of a cab in front of the impressive impressive sive building This time she wore old clothes and the doorman didn't want to let her in Heres Here's perfect perfect casting Samuel Goldwyn has engaged Victor Mc- Mc for the role of the pirate known as The Hook In his tech tech- technicolor technicolor production of Treasure Chest l will be a good pirate even though he will be the nemesis nemesis' of Bob Hope Elope and so in- in involved involved In comedy Hopes Hope's cast as a touring actor who gets involved with witha a boatload of pirates Lewis E. E Lawes La a or for many years warden of Sing Sing calls New Prisons New Men the first pic- pic picture ture I have ever seen which clearly portrays the thc all around activities of ofa ofa a modern prison in operation Its It's the latest of the This Is America series r. Ruth Brennan daughter of Wal- Wal Walter Walter ter begins her screen career in a small role in Since You Went Away Not wanting to trade on her fathers father's fame she used the name of Lynn Winthrop but the only person she fooled was herself Her fathers father's been signed by War War- Warner Warner ner Bros for one of the top roles in support of Humphrey Bogart in To Have and to Have Not f The Blue Networks 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 Cor 1000 hours of service Everybody who knows how v much time and good hard work she gives to aiding the wu war effort feels that she ought to be the most deco deco- decorated rated gal In America she's never too busy or too tired to do whatever she can f fOne One Mans Man's Family got its start starton ore on the air as a sustaining program on NBC way back in April 1932 Carlton E. E Morse had been writing and producing radio programs like Chinatown Squad and Twisted Tales but felt that the story of life liCe as it is to the average American would appeal to the public First thing anybody knew the public made it a weekly listening habit habit- and it still is Nancy Kelly would like to spend winters on Broadway on the stage and summers in Hollywood in m pic- pic tures-if tures she manages it lets let's hope shell 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 diced onlooker it seems that she's capable of far better work than she's done doneso so far ODDS AND ENDS Note to Dick girls lien didrich Jones onu is thrilled but also embarrassed b by oil aU those letters fetters junior misses have been sending him sealed with pink impressions impressio of 01 their lips Latest addition to tIe the Surer Theater is J Lee whom you to hear as aJ no n Andys Miss Blue When Jan Peerce of 01 Gr Gnat Jt Moments in lets leu go with the lull full power er of 01 his lungs lull fully expect the studio to be bl blasted apart lIal Roach former ormer United Artists producer pro pro- produce duce ducer has haJ been promoted from major to toli li lieutenant nt colonel in 1 the U U. S. S army |