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Show STAGESCREEfOADIO Released by Western IJewspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE WHEN Lew Ayres announced an-nounced that he was a conscientious objector, exhibitors exhib-itors just 'didn't want his latest lat-est "Dr. Kildare" picture it had to be re-made without him. But his four years of war service have won his public back again, and he's slated to re-1 turn to the screen in International's Internation-al's "The Dark Mirror" with Olivia de Havilland, playing a psychiatrist psychi-atrist bent on solving a murder. Jane Russell had asked Howard Hughes to let her have time off from picture-making from next Sep. tember to January: she wants to spend the football season following her husband, Bob Waterfield, around the country. He's quarterback for the Cleveland Rams. Vivian Blaine, soon to be seen in "Doll Face," may have to desert 20th Century - Fox temporarily. French Producer - Director Marc P - - x- uxiy'X'v ifw.p- )mw.ww 'I xi, f xx : F . ' I - Nx. ' L...LJ; .. . J VIVIAN BLAINE Allegret was so impressed by her work in "Nob Hill" that he wants to borrow her for the first French postwar technicolor musical, "La Belle Amour." Vivian is brushing up on her French. Joan Ecjwards will be the next girl to be glamourized by Hollywood's famous George Hurrcll, whose photography pho-tography helped sell the public on Marlene Dietrich, Ann Sheridan and Jane Russell. Joan spent six full days under the lights. At 18 June Haver's a movie star, but she's still a fan at heart. Her favorite dance band is Harry James', so imagine her delight when in her fourth picture, "The Dolly Sisters," she was co-starred with Harry's wife, Betty Grable. The first day on the set June exclaimed, ex-claimed, "I'm living for the day when he visits the setl Then I can ask for an autographed picturel" In "A Scandal in Paris" Carole Landis has a song with the line, "I've got a flame that's too hot to handle." The Johnston (Hays) office of-fice objected. So a lyric writer slaved till he'd changed the words but kept the meaning. After finishing "Colonel Effingham's Effing-ham's Raid" at 20th Century-Fox Bill Eythe went home to Mars, Pa., for a vacation. While there he was interviewed by Pittsburgh newspapers, newspa-pers, and said his Hollywood home had been sold and he couldn't find another. The interviewer had friends in Hollywood who were going to move, and told Bill. So he found a home he'd never have had if he hadn't gone 2,500 miles away. Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker's to be featured in a new radio series, "The World's Most Famous Flights." It's an unusual program because it uas ueen iranscriDea me nrsi time an outstanding "name" has done this. He's asked the sponsor to turn over all fees that he would receive to the army air forces aid society. One of the most interesting things about the new "Follies of '46," heard on NBC Tuesday evenings, is that all the principals are under 30. Johnny Desmond, "the G.I. a Sinatra," Margaret Whiting (who's engaged to Bill Eythe), Herb Shriner, a radio favorite before he joined the army, and Bandleader Jerry Gray, who was Glenn Miller's Mill-er's arranger they're all in their 20s. . Sylvia Sidney took her six-year-old son, Jody, to visit her on "The Searching Wind" set. He watched as she did a long dialogue scene with Robert Young and when she asked what he thought of her acting, act-ing, replied "All right, but mother, you talk too much." ODDS AD EMDS Barry Fitzgerald says he wants l retire to Ireland eventually event-ually because there they know best how 1 to cook ham and eggs. . . . Millions hate listened to Andy Russell, singing star oi CBS's "Joan Davis Shnu" now they can see him in "Stork Club," ''Breakfast in HollyirootT and "Make )line lusic". . . Danny O'Seil, the "I'otcder Box Theater" star, has signed up for a course of boxing lessons; he surprised his tutor by his expert footwork, foot-work, the result of years of buck and uing dancing. . . . Rockie and David kelson, sons of Ozzie end Harriet, recently re-cently received two movie offers which their parents turned down. |