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Show IBS BY INEZ GERHARD -IittENDELL COREY, "hotter than a two-dollar pistol" at the moment, can have just about anything any-thing he wants in Hollywood, but is so experienced an actor and so wise a young man that he knows how to take only what's best for j him. Currently seen in Paramount's f - A - i WENDELL COREY "Thelma Jordan," he was lent out for "No Sad Songs for Me," soon to be released. He was lent again for the coveted role opposite Lana Turner in her comeback, "A Life of Her Own," but turned it down. After his recent visit to New York he and Mrs. Corey planned going tome via New Orleans. "But I hear my son asked, 'When's Daddy coming com-ing .home?' he said. "So I guess I'll skip it." Ray Milland inherits the role Corey turned down in M-G-M's "A Life of Her Own," right back where he made "Payment Deferred" De-ferred" 19 years ago and was fired immediately afterward. He says It took him six days to make scenes he should have done in two. His new Paramount deal calls for six pictures in six years, giving him time to make outside films like this one. "Father of the Bride" was finished fin-ished at Metro a few weeks ago and work on a sequel, "Now I'm a Grandfather" was begun immediately. immedi-ately. "Father," in which Elizabeth Eliza-beth Taylor stars, will be released soon after her marriage. "Operation, Good Samaritan," Samari-tan," a series of programs produced pro-duced by Church World Service, Serv-ice, Inc., is being aired by radio stations throughout the country. The programs dramatically dramat-ically describe the work of this religious overseas relief agency in aiding those in other countries who are still hungry, hopeless or homeless in the wake of war. They are well worth hearing. When Cary Grant starred as "Mr. Blandings," who built a house with such difficulty, he little knew that this year he would be re-building one of his own. His bride, Betsy Drake, is letting him supervise everything, including re-decorating; she claims that all the experience ex-perience he gained while making the picture qualifies him for this real job. Recently a movie star, no longer .young, grudgingly allowed her company to make appointments for three interviews while she was in New York. She'll never know how unwilling the newspaper men were to accept the assignments. assign-ments. During a rehearsal of the CBS comedy - mystery program, "Mr. and Mrs. North," Producer John Loveton explained to . the actor about to be murdered where in the script he wanted him to gasp his last. The actor, who was giving it a Camille touch, asked "You don't want a gasp here?" "No," replied Loveton, "I want you to gasp just when you die, and make it fast." Lucille Ball, star of the CBS comedy series, "My Favorite Husband" and Columbia Pictures' Pic-tures' "The Fuller Brush Girl," has alerted her household to help her to remember that her radio show has moved from Friday nights to Sundays. At Warners' Bette Davis had a deluxe trailer dressing room. When she left the studio to freelance she gave it to Jane Wyman, complete with furniture, draperies, lamps, electric stove. Jane used it while making, "The Glass Menagerie." President Soekarno chose "The Story of Dr. Wassell" as the first movie to be shown at his palace In Djkarta. His first choice was "Samson and Delilah," but no print was available; he was fold to take any other DeMille. ODDS AND ENDS . . . Steve Cochran, handsome new Warner Bros, star, says he's going to stay single from now on but has he lorgotten what happened to Jimmy Stewart after he said he'd probably lever marry . . . Billy Redfield, jf "The Brighter Day" and "Young Dr. Malone," has just replaced re-placed Eddie Albert in the Broadway Broad-way hit, "Miss Liberty" . . . Ed-nond Ed-nond O'Brien, star of CBS' "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar," has been ilgned by Columbia Pictures to nake "Prowl Car.". |