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Show Wmm STAGE vSCREENMOiO By INEZ GERHARD ii Jt DAY in the Life of Dennis Day" recently included the arrival of his second son, Eugene Dennis, not long after Patrick James McNulty celebrated his first birthday. The birth of that high-pitched speaking voice Day uses on the air was accidental. Mary Livingston heard one of his r ? . - -. .'. -'V 1 ' 1 - ..-1 . . - V f i '- DENNIS DAY records and got Jack Benney to audition him when a new singer was needed for the Benny program. pro-gram. Day had been singing only on a small station, and was nervous ner-vous and excited. Benny, in the control room, said sharply "All right, Mr. Day!" and Dennis' voice came out in a squeak as he nervously replied "Yes, please!" He got the job and the voice stayed in. Frankie Carle's band seems to be the most popular one in motion pictures; in the past two years they've made five pictures, two at Warners, two at RKO, and one at Columbia. When they return to California next summer two more film assignments will be waiting. Meanwhile, on March 15, Frankie will begin a transcribed radio series, se-ries, "Carle Comes Calling." I Ed Gardner, of NBC's "Duffy's Tavern," will produce a series of j low-budgeted Spanish films for distribution in Spanish-speaking I countries. The first one goes into production next April, with a cast of Latin-American players. Minnie Pearl told this one. During the recent "Grand Ole Opry" tour overseas Minnie, Red Foley and Mrs. Foley were dining at a smart hotel In Paris. Exhausted from sightseeing, sight-seeing, Mrs. Foley slipped her shoes off under the tables and couldn't get them back on when it was time to leave. With Minnie Min-nie and Red giggling, she marched out through the lobby in her stocking feet. Bob Hawk, who spent his holiday holi-day vacation in Honolulu, came back to find his show rated among the top fifteen of the air. His mother accompanied him on the cruise on the Lurline, with Clark Gable and his bride. Bob Dryden feels perfectly at home In his new role, that of a police officer on "This Is Nora Drake." What with appearing as a policeman on "Crime Photographer," Photograph-er," "Call the Police," and "Big Story," it's second nature. This year NBC's season of "Orchestras of the Nation," under the title of "Pioneers of Music," will run for 21 weeks. Since it began, be-gan, many orchestras have been heard in these concerts which had never before been heard on the air, and the program has won many awards for presenting orchestras or-chestras from all over the country. Danny Kaye has never made a funnier picture than "The Inspector In-spector General"; in fact, it is doubtful whether anyone has. Kaye is at his best, and has wonderful material. The scene in which he appears as himself him-self and three other people is inspired. As usual, his wife, Sylvia Fine, wrote his songs. Henry Kostcr's direction is superb, su-perb, the cast excellent. Van Heflin got a release from the remainder of his MGM contract con-tract for a holiday present, and promptly lit out for New York with his wife. He'd like to do a Broadway Broad-way play again, but first will make a picture of John Huston. With Gregory Perk off to England Eng-land to star in "Captain Horatio Hornblower," Lieut. Comm. K. D. Ian Murray of the Royal naval reserve is busy at Warners, checking check-ing the script for accuracy in naval and historical facts. ODDS AND ENDS ... John Garfield Gar-field returns to the "Hard Man" type of role which brought him screen prominence in the "The Breaking Point" . . . Zasu Pitts has the "Lum and Abner" cast intrigued in-trigued with her special cold-weather cold-weather scarf it has gloves attached, at-tached, can be worn under a coat . . . Claudette Colbert's first assignment as-signment as a director, at RKO, will be "All Women are Human," a romantic comedy . . . Susan Hayward wanted to adopt the name if her randmother. |
