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Show STAGESCREENMCiO Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE ROBERT WALKER, Kee-nan Kee-nan Wynn and others on the M-G-M lot were discussing discuss-ing plans for the filming of "What Next, Corporal Hargrove?" Har-grove?" when Wynn turned to Walker and remarked "Bob, you've been in the armed forces so long now that you surely must have enough points to become a civilian." The crack was occasioned occa-sioned by the fact that out of eight pictures Walker has made, six have had- him in uniforms of the armed forces. In real Life he was turned down because of defective eyesight. But Van Johnson beat Walker's record; rec-ord; he's been in uniform for eight pictures; injuries suffered in that motorcycle accident two years ago made him a civilian in private life. Keenan Wynn was about to be inducted in-ducted when he, like Johnson, met fate in the form of a motorcycle accident. He's worn uniforms in several pictures. He and Johnson both wear, cits in "Early to Bed," Wynn's first since his recovery and return to the studio. Tommy Dorsey will star in a musical mu-sical film tentatively called "My Brother Leads a Band," for United Artists. It's scheduled to go before 1 X !' is v . ' Si, t,f ? i : 1 1 TOMMY DORSET ' the cameras some time during the 12 weeks Dorsey is on the Coast for his Sunday afternoon radio program. Kenny Gardner, former singer with Guy Lombardo's orchestra, now with the armed forces, has just received the Bronze Star for bravery brav-ery on the field of battle. Kenny, who's married to Elaine Lombardo, Guy's sister, is a first lieutenant with Fatton's Third army. There's a myth that all you have to do to break into pictures is sit on a drug-store stool near Hollywood high school and be discovered by a talent scout. Lana Turner was, they say. And Ann Sheridan's sister mailed her picture to the Dallas News and Annie became a star. But Bette Davis, Ida Lupino, Jennifer Jones, and hosts of others worked like dogs before they ever heard the rattle of a contract. After a month's search and two weeks of screen tests to find just the right bathing suit for Jane Russell to wear in beach scenes for Hunt Stromberg's "Young Widow," the search ended in Jane's own clothes closet. Dozens of suits had been bought, 'a knitting mill in Oregon was commissioned to make special ones. You'll see Jane wearing one she bought last year at a neighborhood neighbor-hood store. While most of her classmates in the graduating class at Westlake School for Girls began their vacations, vaca-tions, Shirley Temple went back to work. She headed for the Pacific Northwest and an extended tour of army hospitals. Her latest picture is "I'll Be Seeing You." Laraine Day is one of Hollywood's most enthusiastic collectors of 16-mm. 16-mm. films her collection rates with those of Cary Grant, Deanna Dur-bin, Dur-bin, Lou Costello and Alice Faye. While working on "Those Endearing Young Charms" she acquired a print of her first picture, "Border G-Men." She was 16 when she made it, and supported George O'Brien in it. And she was pretty good in it, too. Twenty different government agencies agen-cies are providing material for the "Now It Can Be Told" series, broadcast broad-cast Monday through Friday evenings eve-nings over Mutual. This is the program pro-gram produced by Dan Seymour which features dramatizations of material never before revealed. ODDS AND ENDS Eileen Farrell is considering an offer to make a concert tour in South America. . . . Ralph Bell's had such training in gangster roles in "Crime Doctor" that he's been given li i lead in a new radio program, "Prof, lirouduay and Boitram" ; it deals with the same kind of tough characters heard in "Crime Doctor." . . . Trudy Erwin of the "By Request" air show has a mascot (iny diamond earrings in the shape of musical clefs; she alivays wears them when she broadcasts. . . . Dick Powell is asscmlding material for a movie scenario sce-nario based on a haunted hotel oddly enough, he's working in a detective character that he'll play himself. |