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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. CBS' Stage Door Canteen will be the vehicle through which Bert Lytell, once a movie idol, will return to films. The movie version, produced for United Artists by Sol Lesser, will bring us a host of celebrities, including Katharine Cornell, who's shunned the films so far, and Lunt and Fontanne, Tallulah Bank-head, Bank-head, and scores of others. Lytell, has been so busy with stage and radio engagements of recent years that he's had no time for pictures. Orson Welles isn't trying to set a new fad with that shock of long hair that he's wearing at "Ceiling Unlimited" Un-limited" rehearsals. He's letting his hair grow at the request of 20th Century-Fox for his role of "Rochester" "Roches-ter" in their version of "Jane Eyre." George Montgomery will do one more picture before he goes into the service; it's in "Bomber's Moon," opposite Annabella the ' SV, i ' I , ' j : i ; i . I HMMHTW iili IP I iff 1 rilfcnA,, GEORGE MONTGOMERY story of an American pilot who's shot down in Germany. Do you wonder that Hollywood's wondering what to use for leading men? Maybe Bob Hope's a prophet; he hopes so. His "The Road to Morocco" Moroc-co" was filmed six months before the Allied invasion of that territory, and released right on the dot. Recently Re-cently he interrupted his tour of the army camps for 48 hours to do a scene for "They Got Me Covered" which depicts a deflated Mussolini escaping from the nation he led into its present predicament it's being filmed with the blessing of the Office of War Information. Bob's got his fingers crossed, hoping that this scene, too, will come true. Alan Ladd's date with Uncle Sam upset the apple cart so far as Para-mount's Para-mount's "Incendiary Blonde" was concerned. He was to have starred in this screen version of Texas Gui-nan's Gui-nan's life with Betty Hutton, but his prospective induction into the army wrecked that plan. At present the film has been shelved; Miss Hutton gets the feminine lead in "Let's Face It," and Betty Rhodes gets a supporting sup-porting role. They could hardly believe it at Metro when they got two new lads at once. Tommy Dix and Gil Strat-ton Strat-ton were brought from the New York stage for "Best Foot Forward" and at once Stratton was assigned to "Girl Crazy" and Dix will win Lucille Lu-cille Ball in "Best Foot Forward." If the actors on your favorite radio program sound pretty exhilirated, It's practically certain to be due to just one thing the return of a former for-mer member of the group in uniform. uni-form. "Pepper Young's Family" was almost disrupted when Larry Woodleaf appeared recently. Larry's a handsome lad who joined up before be-fore Pearl Harbor, after doing publicity pub-licity for the program; he'd spent eight months in the Far East. Eddie Cantor's explanation for substituting for Phil Baker on "Take It or Leave It" "Last April, Phil Baker took my place when I was in the hospital. So I took his place when he was in the hospital. Next time we'll both be on the program the audience will go to the hospital!" William L. Shirer, the news commentator, com-mentator, is planning a series ot talks at service camps throughout the country in the near future. He has Elready given numerous talks at camps in the eastern area. Ed Mur-row, Mur-row, the London newscaster, reports that he's expecting to solve the no-gas no-gas problem soon; he has his eye on an elderly horse, but is still dickering dicker-ing over the price. ODDS AND ENDS Radio's Tim and Irene are among the featured players in Columbia's picture, "Hcvcille It ilh Hcverly" . . . oe Schilling, Edward G. Robinson's stand-in in "Destroyer," wears a naval lieutenant's uniform the best his boss can do is a chief boat-smiin's boat-smiin's male outfit . . Thomas Mitchell's Mit-chell's been added to the cast of iMotro's "Hataan I'atrol" . . . Nelson Eddy, who httsnt made a picture since "I Married an Angel," will return to the screen in I'niversal's remake of "The I'hui.tom t the Opera": Deanna Durhin, origin-"Ily origin-"Ily scheduled for the picture, probably ivon't appear in it. Carlyle Blackvvell Jr. is following in the footsteps of his father, a star of silent films; he was an outstanding outstand-ing favorite in the two-reelers of a bygone day. Carlyle Jr. plays a suave lover, we're told, in Metro's "Trifles That Win Wars." When the Jack Benny troupe entrains en-trains for an army camp to put on a show for the boys, Eddie "Rochester" "Roches-ter" Anderson takes over the duties f the train conductor. He calls all stations, helps passengers with theii '"ggage and serves water. |
