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Show STfiGESCREEN!$MDI0 Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE PAT O'BRIEN says he's all washed up as a movie producer. pro-ducer. "I've just finished co-producing co-producing 'Crack - Up' " (he I also co-stars in the RKO picture, pic-ture, with Claire Trevor and j Herbert Marshall), "and decided de-cided it would be my last be- j cause, for one thing, you lose a lot , of good friends. I had parts for six ! actors, and about 200 of my actor friends asked for those six parts." Besides teaching him what producing produc-ing a picture means, "Crack-Up" gave him a new kind of role; he 1 plays a lecturer and highbrow art 1 ! : 'I x j PAT O'BRIEN authority attached -to a big museum. mu-seum. To develop the plot, some conspirators try to drive him insane in-sane as if that co-producing assignment as-signment weren't enough to drive O'Brien nuts! "White House," latest of RKO's "This Is America" series, brings is the history of the White House, rom its erection to the present. The executive offices are shown as well as the rooms which the casual visitor sees. The daring stunt pilot who landed land-ed a giant transport plane on a spot between towering trees, to rescue Gary Cooper from a tight fix In 'Cloak and Dagger," was Paul Vlantz, who won the Bendix trophy ace from Van Nnys to Cleveland few days later. Thej''re demolishing Tara hall, ind all the other "Gone With the .Vind" sets that have been more or ess a permanent part of Pathe's 10 acres since 1938. On the foundation founda-tion will be erected a New England illage, representing Concord, Mass., (or Selznick's "Little Women." Right on top of the success of Columbia's "The Jolson Story" :omes another announcement of !0th Century - Fox's plans for T Wonder Who's Kissing Her Mow," based on the life and songs if Joe Howard. It'll be in techni-:oIor, techni-:oIor, and if it runs true to form will bear slight resemblance to L-eality. June Haver, Martha Stewart, Stew-art, Reginald Gardner, Mark Stevens, Ste-vens, ' Richard Haydn, Vanessa Brown and Charles Brown are in the cast. So far Martha Vickers has been seen on the screen only in "The 3ig Sleep," in which she steals certain cer-tain scenes; she's had featured roles in "The Man I Love," "That Way with Women" and "The Time, the Place and the Girl," none of which have been generally released. re-leased. Now she's co-starring In "Love and Learn." Around Warner War-ner Bros, they say she's likely to be a star before the public gets to know her. Ralph Edwards can't be sure what will happen on "Truth or Consequences" Con-sequences" in the future. A few years ago, by remote broadcast, he had a young man carry out his consequences con-sequences from a street corner just a few blocks from the NBC studios stu-dios but last winter he did a two-way two-way overseas broadcast to Tokyo; the contestants were G.I.s stationed there. On a 1942 show a man looked for a needle in a haystack the 1946 version sent a contestant to the Arctic Circle, by plane and dog-sled, to search for a nugget of gold. Rudy Vallee spent half his working work-ing day recently lying on the floor, during the shooting of "The Bachelor Bache-lor and the Bobby Soxer." He had to be knocked out by Cary Grant and then just lie there during the rest of the scene. Everyone else mulTed his lines, the scene was shot over and over, while Vallee rested, with Grant, Shirley Temple and Myrna Ley as an audience. ODDS AM) KMlS-Lnuson Zrrbi; ihos hr,n tpiv.ializing in villainy trcpffrl into the rolr of conrnui! hul'h llrent in "Hond r I. if," uilh urwrnt( tfif. . . . rm Mprnmati l.n'iv ihn uttrd and music oj 24 notif! u h n Hi mtmlhx aid. . . . Janrl l,rii;h en thrilled nl mrikmtt her tcrern d'hut as an Jttirion't hrarl intfrml ! in "'I he liomanrp 0 Hnsy Hidxr" hut tl meant nul!;in$ a cow, feeding ! r'ifi, and fulling in lh mud. . . . I he : "Captain I mm (ahIiU'' ca:t lntd;ed ffruard to pomai tn Vrjirti on lorn- ! Una, till t)iey found they'd have tn he norruhiteii ai'amtt typhoid, tetanus ind mallpox first! |