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Show Monogram, taking advantage of recent headlines, is preparing a picture about the army fliers being held for ransom by the wild Lolo tribe in China. The film is being called "Escape to Danger," Times change! A few years ago Bob Mitchum played in the film "When Strangers Marry" for the King Brothers, and the whole picture cast about $75,000. Now, Bob's loan-cut salary is $100,000. Under her new contract which recently received court approval, Margaret O'Brien will receive $2,500 a week for 40 weeks annually, an-nually, or $300,000 before the end of her contract in 1949. Not bad for a nine-year-old. While song -writers George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Stephen Foster, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin have been "immortalized" "immortal-ized" on the screen, Sigmund Romberg is turning down screen offers for his life story. Says he doesn't want people thinking he's dead. George Murphy's young son, Dennis, recently went to church alone, with money George gave him for the collection plate. George was surprised to see him return from church loaded with candy. The. boy's explanation was: "The preacher met me at the door and let me in free." Wally Beery, who once worked work-ed with a circus and isn't ashamed asham-ed to admit it, never misses a chance to get together with the old gang when a circus comes to town, or to let his daughter know he was once valet to an elephant. Greta Garbo has returned from her European trip and is back in Hollywood, alone. Bing Crosby, and Bob Hope are now at work in another road picture, this time, "Road to Rio," but under their own management. Paramount washed its hands of the boys, and their road films, claiming the boys clowned too much and took off too much time for their shows. Working for themselves, they'll probably waste less and work more. Friends and fans of Frank Sinatra Si-natra hope that the rumor that they are separating is just rumor. Vera Vague has been elected mayor, or should we say, mayoress, mayor-ess, of Woodland Hills, where-ever where-ever that is. Van Heflin really wants to do the role of Ben in "Look Homeward, Home-ward, Angel," and he's got Frank Morgan Massey hepped on that story, too. Harold Russell, the ex-service- man who lost both hands but '' played in Sam Goldwyn's, "The Best Years of Our Lives," received re-ceived an unexpected bonus from Goldwin a weekly salary for a whole year. Marlene Dietrich set the town on its ear recently when she showed up at a night club wearing wear-ing a full-length ermine wrap, cut on the lines of a man's overcoat, over-coat, complete with lapels and a red carnation in the buttonhole. |