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Show STGExSCReInI) ftADlO y VIKOIM.V VA1.K pilKRK'S a lino of dialogue 1 in the script for International's Interna-tional's "The Stranger," where Loretta Youn;: confides to Orson Welles that she's a victim of acrophobia. That word threw everyone in the cast but Welles. "It's a fear of high places," said he. "I know because I used to have It mysolf. I cured myself by mountain climbing in the Alps; picked out the sheerest drops I could And and stared over the edge." But for "The Stranger" they built the highest set ever erected In Hollywood, Holly-wood, a lS-story church spire; Edward Ed-ward G. Robinson, Loretta and Welles do a dramatic scene part way up it. And who was It who had an attack of acrophobia? Why Orson Or-son Welles! Robert Benchley appears In Hollywood Holly-wood Victory Caravan, the all-star featurette sponsored by the war Activities committee, Hollywood div- I fx s 3 X xT x , I H x I : 's -v x x xl I -.xxx v x x I iS. Jl" x I r i I i ; V t I I ....... 2 , x I J ROBERT BENCHLEY lsion, acting for the TJ. S. treasury department, for the Victory Loan drive. Benchley appears with a stellar stel-lar cast of 20 other notables, in the screen world. Penny Singleton was sort of wor-ried-about her role in "Young Widow"; Wid-ow"; after seven years of playing the comic-strip "Blondie" on the screen her contract with Columbia Pictures calls for her to do three "Blondie" pictures a year she was afraid she'd suddenly go cavorting ' around the way she does as "Dag-wood's" "Dag-wood's" spouse. There's a screwball comedienne in "Young Widow," but Marie Wilson plays her. Penny had wanted to play a different role, and Hunt Stromberg, who brought her to the screen eight years ago in "After the Thin Man," gave her what she wanted; she plays a perfectly normal nor-mal person, the wise, understanding friend of the heroine, Jane RusselL Boris Karloff has been establishing estab-lishing a broadcasting record since he left Hollywood following completion comple-tion of his role In RKO's "Bedlam." Nine programs In sixteen days, Including In-cluding three appearances on "Inner "In-ner Sanctum" have kept him busy. Sitting through a Jap-made movie is the last word in agony, according ac-cording to Tom Neal, who plays the title role in "First Yank into Tokyo." Neal, cast as an American serviceman who undergoes facial surgery, so that he can pretend to be a Jap sergeant, for intelligence purposes, pur-poses, had to sit through "Kimona" 21 times, studying the performance of the Japanese star of the picture. Constance Moore, "Gloria Dean" on "Hollywood Mystery Time," has a four-year-old daughter, Gina, who's pretty smart. Connie was telling tell-ing a friend she was "sans cook and ians nurse." Gina looked up and inquired in-quired "Are they related to Sans Claus?" There's a lot of kidding In the script of the Burns and Allen show about George's singing voice. What very few. people know is that Grade's long-suffering spouse actually actual-ly began his theatrical career as one of "The PeeWee Quartet," at the age of 12. . Howard Barlow has no piano In his "Harvest of Stars" orchestra; Instead, beautiful Elaine Vito plays the harp. Motion picture companies have tried to tempt her to try her luck on the screen, but she prefers New York, where she plays in Tos-canini's Tos-canini's orchestra. She is also playing play-ing in Alex Stordahl's, while Frank Sinatra is broadcasting from New York. So why bother with Hollywood? ODDS AND ENDS Danny Kaye, "Wonder Man" star, is the first screen ttar to perform for V. S. forces occupying occupy-ing the Tokyo area entertained 3,000 servicemen in the Neiji Shrine stadium. ... Seems hard to imagine Ethel Bar- rymore as the mother in "Little Wom- i en" ; she's to play that role in Selznick's i Technicolor version of the story. . . . Gavin George makes his first film ap- j pearance in several years in "Notori- J ous" ; 10 years ago, in "Romance," he I was Greta Garbo's leading man. . . . Barry Fitzgerald and his stand-in held a two-man chess tourney between scenes ' of Paramount's "The Stork Club" they were cheered on by Betty Button. |