Show l eib IJ Of tw 1 Looking at HOLLYWOOD R H aLL the town that's AJ made colossal gigantic and stupendous the keynotes of the movies like nothing better than giving the fans their moneys money's worth Where the stage supplies a line of 20 girls girls' in a musical the movies bless em give us Such prodigality pays off and always has That's one reason studios do things in a big way Some of the boys recently sat down and figured that the fans who pay to see Fred MacMurray l or orBette Bette Davis in a a 8 picture would be I twice as eager to I see their favor favor- favorites favorites favorites ites if said favorites favor favor- favorites ites were to do two roles les in the same film instead T 1 of the customary single stint Two for the price of one is the bait held out these days Imagine how the bobby- bobby Gene Kelly would queue up if a marquee were to read Tonight 2 Frank 2 Frank 2 2 I 1 The dual role one star playing two parts in the same movie is isI I back in vogue with a bang Actors are delighted delighted and and why not since not since this means twice as many But camera men and technicians are cussin cuss in right out loud for mak- mak makIng making Ing a pair of actors sprout where there should be one o e is a tricky and tedious job It was bad enough in days of silent movies to match such action but with dialogue the problem problem lem takes on the tone of a Russian t trying to translate a speech done Jin Chinese Its ra an Epidemic Over at Mutual Fred MacMurray its lis is playing twin brothers in the com- com ledy iedy Pardon My Past on which i Leslie Fenton serves as both pro- pro producer producer ducer and director This comedy has iFred Fred playing two distinct charac charac- one comedy the other a heavy When I asked Fred how he liked be- be being being ing a split personality he quipped back at me with Dont forget Hedda it isn't every man who gets a Ia a chance to shake hands with him him- self And it isn't every man who gets the chance of being his own ri- ri rival rival val for the affections of pretty Marguerite Mar Mar- Marguerite erite Chapman Oye Over at Warners' Warners Bette Davis is having herself an emotional daisy day ay as two girls one girls one good bad in Dad in A Stolen Life Bettes Bette's a triple threat gal on this She's also producing it Bette about emotes herself to pieces when she plays a ar r single role so you can imagine what this is doing to her Cornel Cornet Wilde of A Song to Re Re- Remember Remember Remember member is also hitting the dual role Tole trail in A Thousand and One Nights a technicolor extravaganza of old ol Bagdad Al Green director had his hands full on this one for not only does Cornel do a dual stint but Dennis Denni Hoey oey works in double exposure im impersonating personating an eastern potentate and his wicked twin brother Hajji Ray camera man told me he went berserk trying to keep the characters straight on the film In Sacred Stiff which comes from Thomas Pine-Thomas Lucien Little- Little Littlefield Littlefield field also plays two parts eccentric twin brothers who get mixed up in inthe inthe inthe the theft of a studded jewel-studded chess set of all things I Danny Kaye in Wonder Man plays identical twins too The Hard Way WayOn On the stage a few plays have had a star play two separate and distinct parts in the same show This causes the actor or actress to tomake tomake tomake make quick costume changes just justoff justoff off of the th stage and switch wigs as quickly as possible But it really takes a movie camera to present anything as boisterous and blatant as Betty Hutton Dutton singing a duet with herself in Here Come the Waves or Gene Kellys Kelly's startling alter ego I routine in which he serves as his t own dancing partner in Cover Girl The dual role however is as old as the moving picture itself Way back in the days of short technicians discovered how to make makeL L half a film take a scene then wind back and expose the other half which had remained unexposed Crude double exposure was thus obtained ob ob- obtained obtained but it was a far cry from such smooth achievements as hay hav- having I hav-I i ing Fred MacMurray hand himself a letter in Pardon My Past or Cornel Wildes Wilde's duel with himself in inA inA inA A Thousand and One Nights The stars enjoy the glory of a af f showy dual assignment No they dont don't get twice their salary but the ther f r extra footage applause and glory make up for the lack of bulge in their bank accounts A Great Opportunity Well We'll see if our big boys inthe in the studios can take it They're getting overseas shots like mad Two top men from each studio have been in invited in- in invited invited by the government to go over over Idea is for them to be shown the horrors of Fascism con con- concentration con con- concentration i. i camps torture chambers so that from now on f they can keep p r w this in mind when Planning pictures Hordes HIdes j of slaves from many coun- coun countrIes trIes must 1 be reeducated Pictures L 1 will teach each them the meaning of free free- dom r |