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Show STAGECSCREErOMso Rele.sed by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE THEY'RE telling it on Faye Emerson Roosevelt. Seems she sent Selznick International In-ternational producer, Dore Schary, a bill for $6.00 as the fee for plugging his picture, "I'll Be Seeing You." The Roosevelt bride got into a taxi at the Warner studio and forgot for-got to tell the driver her destination. destina-tion. But she did shout "I'll be seeing see-ing you" to a group of friends. s 4f .v , f t y FAYE EMERSON Whereupon the driver, asking no guestions, drove her straight to the theater where the picture was playing. play-ing. The meter rang up $6.00, she sent Schary the bill and he paid it. Anyway, that's the story. Incidentally, "I'll Be Seeing You" Is the first of the rehabilitation pictures, pic-tures, which will probably be a cycle before it ends. Joseph Cotten plays the returned soldier, Ginger Rogers and Shirley Temple are co-stars. co-stars. RKO's "Enchanted Cottage" is another one, with Dorothy Mo Guire and Robert Young in leading lead-ing roles. Warner Bros, have three scheduled "The Very Thought of You," "Janie Gets Married," and "This Love of Ours." New York fell heels over head In love with little Margaret O'Brien the instant she arrived. But Margaret Mar-garet never lost her head, though two of her pictures, "Music for Millions" and "Meet Me in St. Louis," were being shown at big movie houses, with crowds pouring Ln to see them. She could have appeared ap-peared on any number of radio programs, pro-grams, attended any number of parties. Everyone adored her. Lana Turner and Van Johnson draw the leading roles in Metro's production of "The Pirate," which Lynn Fontaine and Alfred Lunt did on the stage. This will probably be one of those pictures that are so gorgeous gor-geous to look at that nobody cares whether there's a plot or not. Anyway, Any-way, who cares about a plot if they can watch the lovely Lana, wearing wear-ing marvelous costumes? Though Dan Duryea succeeded Frar.chot Tone as president of the dramatic club at Cornell, he had no thought of acting professionally; it took six years in an advertising agency to lead him to the stage, and a career of playing men you'd like to choke. He does it again in "The Woman in the Window" he's cast as a bodyguard who turns blackmailer after his boss Is murdered. mur-dered. William Powell is going to appear again as the late Florenz Ziegfeld, this time in Metro's all-star, Technicolor Tech-nicolor "Ziegfeld Follies." Powell first played the Follies producer in "The Great Ziegfeld," which brought Luise Rainer an Academy award. They'll never be able to type Michael O'Shea. A low-brow comic in his first film, "Lady of Burlesque," Bur-lesque," he then played Jack London Lon-don in the film based on the author's life; he was "Mulveroy" in "The Eve of St. Mark," and a Actionized character based on Henry Kaiser in "The Man From Frisco." And on NBC's "Gaslight Gayeties," he shares honors with Beatrice Kay in singing old-time ditties. They rented a $65,000 necklace of white jade for Hedy Lamarr to wear in "Experiment Perilous." Then they photographed it. and it Just wasn't white enough for the camera. So they covered it with 40 cents' worth of white, washable make-up! Audrey Young of the Broadway musical comedy stage, has never yet been seen on the screen; her first picture is Paramount's "Out of This World." She's good enough, though, so Paramount borrowed her from RKO for a leading role in 'George White's Scandals of 1945." ODDS A!D ENDS Ginny Simms, star of "lohnny i'l. senls," recently was chilly at rehearsal and asked for a fur coat it seemed to walk to her alone, till lohnny stepped out of it. . . . Boh Hope's sponsor an nounced that Bob's nnv ten-year con tract invoked what is believed to be the laritest total sum ever negotiated in a single deal lor radio talent. . Klrfi Vallee returns to the screen in "I'eople Are Funny.". . Eddie Bracken inherits one ol the choice time-spots in radin when tie nets hts men show renrita; 14 the time immediately follou-in? Charlie McCarthy. |