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Show By 1XEZ GERHARD Irene Dunne handled the difficult Impersonation of Queen Victoria in "The Mudlark" so satisfactorily that the picture was chosen for a command performance in London. But wait till you see what happens to her in RKO's "Never a Dull Moment". She falls into a haystack, sets a stove on fire and tries to cook a cougar, ail incidents gleaned " v " " . . ' v V S s f u . " j - - ? s fc V - ' ; t V I 'I 'I i 1 IRENE DUNNE from the life of Kay Swift, on whose book the picture is based. However, she needed no elaborate make-up. For "The Mudlark" she said, "They covered my face with strips of plastic lastex so I doubt whether my own daughter would recognize me". And made her a heavy-set woman with several double dou-ble chins! Samuel Goldwyn will come up with a re-make of "The Winning bf Barbara Worth", remembered as the picture which launched Gary Cooper's career, in 1926. This time Dana Andrews gets the starring role. And it will be produced in semi-documentary style, since it deals with the trials of desert reclamation re-clamation in the west. But the love story won't be ignored. Dan Seymour has been asked by a Paris cosmetic firm to come over there for three weeks and put the French version of "We the People" into operation. There's nothing he would like better, if he can get time off to go. Mona Freeman, co-starring with Joan Fontaine and John Lund In "Rendezvous", has another teenage teen-age role, the same part that brought stardom to Helen Hayes in "Alice-Sit-By-the-Fire," the play on which the picture is based. Blossom Seeley and Benny Fields, husband and wife who were tops among vaudeville stars years ago, are acting as technical advisers on "The Blossom Seeley Story" at Paramount. Betty Hutton will be seen in the title role. The day after Al Jolson died many of New York's taxi drivers driv-ers were very badly in need of sleep. Many of them had not bothered to go home, but had stayed up together, listening to the radio station that played Jolson records all night. Gov. Dan E. Garvey of Arizona has agreed to appear in a walk-on role in Pine and Thomas' "The Last Outpost", being filmed near Tucson. It has not yet been decided whether the governor will portray a Yankee or a Confederate soldier. In either case, he will be given the grade of corporal. Ronald Reagan, Rhonda Fleming and Noah Beery, Jr., head the cast. Arthur Godfrey's "Talent Scouts" vaudeville unit is travelling in style. For their opening in Baltimore, Balti-more, headliner Bill Lawrence and the other performers were flown to Maryland in Arthur's plane, with him in the driver's seat. Then he turned his DC-3, complete with navigating crew, over to the entertainers, en-tertainers, to fly them all over the country for the full tour. Margaret Whiting gave her sister sis-ter Barbara, of "Junior Miss", the honor of naming her brand new baby girl. Barbara chose "Debra" as the baby's name, and added "I'm grooming her to take my place on the show in 1965." I Harold Lloyd waited 12 years for the right story for his return to the screen. He made his last screen appearance in 1938, makes his next one in RKO's "Mad Wednesday". Says he never retired, just stopped acting. Gertrude Lawrence is certainly not herself in "The Glass Menagerie" Men-agerie" she appears in curlers, wears tacky nightgowns and faded old bathrobes. ODDS AND ENDS. . .Anne Kim-bell, Kim-bell, who made her film bow at the age of 12 in Warners' "Roughly Speaking", is back six years later to play a college girl in "Goodbye, My Fancy" Scott Forbes, who changed his name to Julian Dallas when his family objected to his be lng an actor, is Sco" Forbes again for his American film debut in "Rocky Mountain" . . . Roberi Douglas has the leading male role In "Bonaventure" at Universal International, starring Claudettc Colbert and Ann Blythe. |