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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. I"HAT'S been happening ' ' to that feminine lead in Metro's version of the stage success, "Best Foot Forward," For-ward," is like the old game of "Button, Button." Lana Turner Tur-ner was announced for the role, then she was out and Lucille Lu-cille Ball was assigned to it. Then Miss Turner got it, and Miss Ball was out. After which there was another shuffle, and now this seems final it's Lucille's. The role of "Smitty" in "Cry Havoc," that story of the nurses on Bataan, is another one that's been in doubt. Merle Oberon, Greer Gar-son Gar-son one top notcher after another was suggested for it. The beautiful Greer couldn't do it and really didn't care. She's to be co-starred , ( ' " j i ' ' "I I j : I j MERLE OBERON with Walter Pidgeon again, which makes the third time, in "Madame Curie," based on the lives of the tamous scientists. Merle Oberon and Joan Crawford head the cast of "Cry Havoc," with Mervyn Le-roy Le-roy directing. Samuel Goldwyn's had to borrow a "Gone With the Wind" flag. A Confederate banner was needed for "They Got Me Covered," the Bob Hope-Dorothy Lamour picture, but the flag-makers said that all bunting bunt-ing and material were going into modern emblems and nothing could be done about making one. Melvyn Douglas has got what he wanted he's a private in the army now. Which means that a new leading lead-ing man had to be rounded up for "Gaslight," starring Irene Dunne. And Columbia's "Port Said," it's said, has had to be put on the shelf, unless someone else can be found to take the Douglas role. Gone are the days when leading men were a dime a dozen in Hollywood! It's a long jump from tent shows ' to the role of "St. Bernadette" in "The Song of Bernadette," but Jennifer Jen-nifer Jones, a newcomer to the screen, has made it. She's been in Hollywood just since last February; David O. Selznick is responsible for her discovery. It's announced that Orson Welles Is going to do a spot of acting again, this time in 20th Century-Fox's Century-Fox's "Jane Eyre," as "Rochester" "Roches-ter" and it's to be hoped that audiences won't giggle in remembrance remem-brance of Jack Benny's valet whenever when-ever the name is spoken. Joan Fontaine has the title role. That picture Welles worked on in Brazil, "It's All True," is still unfinished. "Der Fuehrer's Face," the song hit that has made so many of us laugh, was written specially for Walt Disney's picture of that name in just one hour and a half the composer, Oliver Wallace, says so. Disney had outlined his idea for a picture, and Wallace remembered a few arrogant phrases from Hitler, Hit-ler, Goebbels and Goering, sat himself him-self down and dashed off the song. Sammy Kaye recently celebrated the first year's anniversary of his song, "Remember Pearl Harbor," by donating another $1,000 royalty check to the Navy Relief society. That makes the tidy little sum of S4.000 that the song has brought them. Joan Davis' first song, written with Dick Mack, producer of the Rudy Vallee program on which she Is featured, has been recorded by Donald Dickson and a full orchestra, orches-tra, and may soon be spotted in a motion picture; it's titled "A Day Closer to Victory." ODDS AND ENDS The "Star-Spangled "Star-Spangled Banner" film slion by Fred Waring and his Pennsylianians is nmv being shown by Fox Movietone . . . Cleo Manning, younger sister of Lucille Ball, starts her picture career in "The More the Merrier," which stars lean Arthur and Joel McCrea . . . Jerry Hauser, who a few months ago was the voice of hum and Abner's foundling baby on the air, is now an aerial photographer pho-tographer in the army . Ann Sheridan's Sheri-dan's gardener, Arne Lindstrom, makes his movie debut in Ann's picture, "Edge of Darkness"; he's never seen any movies but the ones in which she has appeared. With eight well-known actresses in the picture, the set of Columbia's "City Without Men" was a magnet for everybody who had time to go visiting. Linda Darnell and Leslie Brooks were the chief attraction. The real reason wasn't their beauty, beau-ty, however it was the fact that they were shown working in a good hot steam laundry. It didn't do Linda much good to be known as "the most naturally beautiful girl in Hollywood," and the fact that Leslie was picked as the "HurreU girl" couldn't compete with steam. |