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Show STAGECSCREENaSADIO Released by Western Newspaper Union. , By VIRGINIA VALE TNGRID BERGMAN'S fin-1 fin-1 ished IVz million dollars' worth of films, all Academy-Award Academy-Award material, that haven't been released as yet. Two years ago she did "Saratoga Trunk," with Gary Cooper, but Warners' had a lot of war pictures on hand, so "Saratoga "Sara-toga Trunk" was held up, may be released in February, Then she did "Spellbound," which may be out soon. After that came ''The Bells j of St. Mary's," with Bing, due at Christmas time. Now she's making "Notorious." Then she'll make another an-other USO tour through the Pacific area; after that she'll go abroad for "The Scarlet Lily," to be made in Palestine and Jerusalem it's supposed sup-posed to be the life story of Mary Magdalene. Alice Frost, radio's leading shud-3er-show charmer, has an album ailed with horrible photos of herself about to be murdered, screaming l. S N -if ALICE FROST with fright, etc. One's signed "One of my fondest heroines, Boris Kar-loff." Kar-loff." The pictures were taken on every mystery series she's starred on. Dennis O'Keefe says it's an empty honor that stole up on him as he was finishing his co-starring role in "Getting Gertie's Garter" the optometrists op-tometrists of Westwood, Calif., voted him the man "best suited to wear glasses" which he doesn't! Maj. Allen Martini, whose Flying Fortress, "Dry Martini," holds the world's record for shooting down 15 German planes in 22 minutes, makes his screen debut as an officer of-ficer of a B-29 in "The Bamboo Blonde." He was production assistant assist-ant on RKO's "The Falcon's Alibi," and during his college days was identified with Little Theater groups at Palo Alto. Producer Edward Small, planning to make "The Life of Valentino," can't decide whether to hand the choice role to a star or an unknown. Unknowns have done all right in big parts Cornel Wilde in "A Song to Remember," Robert Alda in. "A Rhapsody in Blue," Jennifer Jones in "The Song of Bernadette." On the other hand, Paramount gambled to the tune of a million or so on Isa Miranda, in "Hotel Imperial," and lost, as did Goldwyn with Anna Sten. Still, Small is inclined to take a chance on the man who'll play Valentino. Reconversion is here on the air as well as in industry, especially in 'Superman." He was doing fine with the atom last year, till war department de-partment officials asked him to lay off, for reasons of military security. So now he's set to do things with Kryptonite, more powerful than Uranium, with the problems of establishing es-tablishing peace in the world uppermost upper-most in his mind. Robert Cummings will never forget for-get certain scenes in "The Bride Wore Boots," in which he co-stars with Barbara Stanwyck. They were made on location at Hidden Valley, with the temperature past the 100-degree 100-degree mark. In the script it was Christmas. So Bob wore a heavy, well-padded suit, and a beard, regardless re-gardless of the blistering sun be was being Santa Claus. Fast work on the part of actor-soldier actor-soldier Patrick Lee landed him a screen role while enjoying a two-week two-week furlough. He took a bus from Camp Roberts to Hollywood, hitchhiked hitch-hiked to Warners', and by noon was before the cameras in "Her Kind of Man," with Faye Emerson, Zach-ary Zach-ary Scott and Dane Clark. He said the best part of the job was wearing wear-ing a blue serge suit for the first time in over two years. ODDS AND ENDS Parkyakarku it grateful lor the publicity a soldier wrote him from a Louisiana army camp that on a certain niht recently the password was "Meet Me at Parky's". . . . Best kept secret in Hollywood's radio circles was the recent appearance of Bing Crosby's boys on the opening Frank Sinatra program it was kept for ten days before the broadcast. . . . "Mr. O.- itricl Attorney" tends the list of first fifteeen evening "Network llooperat-ings.". llooperat-ings.". . . . Jerry Colonna's first film role since his return from an overseas lour with Hob Hope is in the Disney "Make Mine Music" f'naing "Casey at the Hal." |
