Show S star tar dust A its a western year watch cagney go steeping sleeping producers by virginia vale THIS tand HIS begins to look more and more like a western year so far as the movies are concerned glorified westerns We sterns these new ones will be with the big studios offering you good casts stories and sets with al A l 1 directors handling the whole thing walter will tempt you soon with stage coach starring claire aire trevor and john wayne louise platt john carradine J donald meek george bancroft thomas mitchell and andy devine with john ford as director the picture was shot at kern ville calif and the story is one of those things in which an odd assortment of claire trevor characters is thrown together under unusual circumstances borrowed joh john wayne from republic at no small cost I 1 incidentally it was john ford who discovered wayne some seven years ago when the young man was working as a prop boy cecil B demille gives you union pacific history from a movie angle n but history for all that darryl zanuck contributes jesse jcsse james which if it even faintly resembles the stage play of that name recently done in new york should make you cheer and see james cagney in oklahoma kid by cou courtesy J of warner brothers it is said that his characterization is based on billy the kid and interesting years ago before hollywood had whipped up interest in young mr cagney he was just one more of new yorks actors doing pretty well but wanting to james cagney do d better mary mccall jr now one of hollywoods Holly woods best scenario writers learned that one of the major companies was about to do a picture based on the life and adventures of billy the kid and she and her husband did all they could to persuades persua ds the governing powers that cagney a friend of theirs was just the boy for the part H he e get it hollywood know know him which was their bad luck now he has his chance speaking of actors who arent appreciated precia ted brings up the young woman known professionally as elsa lanchester and otherwise as mrs charles laughton if you meet a motion picture producer kicking himself around the block know that she is the reason for the beachcomber made by laughton independently with the two Laugh tons in leading roles had no more than begun its showing in new york in late december than eve everyone began to rave about elsa Lan chesters performance she had everything and hollywood when she was there with her husband gave her no chance to do anything but the bride in the bride of frankenstein and a couple of bits better see the beachcomber when it comes your way it is being mentioned as one of the best of the year not a few of our best movie stars are envying joan blondell and dick powell these days for since they broke with warner brothers they can accept those tempting radio offers that they used to turn down regretfully because the studio let them accept jack haley was busy enough to suit him before the wizard of oz came into his life what with doubling in movies and radio now he figures that hell have to spend exactly one month out of the next three on making up for his ro role I 1 e of the tin woodman in the screen version of the frank baum story three hours a day to put makeup make up on three to take it off days altogether lawrence tibbett is preparing to commute from new york to hollywood and back again this winter lies been signed for that new radio program known generally as the carole lombard gary cary grant program but he is also scheduled for frequent appearances at the metropolitan opera house where he is one of the biggest draws so he will nit flit back and forth with practically all no spare time except while hes flitting ODDS AND ENDS charlie chaplin says that he positively will talk in his new picture ivsich will be a burlesque on I 1 the c hitler dictatorship I 1 if he makes the picture as slowly as he has some others theres danger that the me european scene will have changed so 80 corn plemely that it wilt will be ancient history loretti youngs young sister polly ann has an important role in monograms Mono Alono grams sky shy pirate first ot of a series of six tailspin gorrim tommy features a 0 western newspaper Newt paper union |