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Show STAGESCREEfOADlQ By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) WENDY BARRIE and . George Sanders were sort of rocked back on their heels recently on the set of RKO's "A Date With the Falcon." Fal-con." They were introduced to Michele Morgan, the French actress who makes her screen debut here in "Joan of Paris," and promptly acknowledged ac-knowledged the introduction in fluent French. Then they went on from there. But Miss Morgan Mor-gan shut up like a clam; not even a "Oui, oui" did she utter. Finally, when they'd about decided decid-ed that their French was all wrong, she explained that she was trying j so hard to be completely American that she wasn't even thinking in French! John Boles fs returning to the screen in Monogram's "Boy o' Mine." Remember John? He used j to be one of the screen's most popular popu-lar singing stars. He's been doing concert tours and sort of resting on his laurels, during his vacation from the screen. Robert Preston, who recently was chosen by vote of the nation's exhibitors ex-hibitors as one of the top leading men in pictures (and that's the kind of selection that counts in Hollywood!) Holly-wood!) has been named by Para- t J . t j i j . H ROBERT PRESTON mount as the third member of the co-starring triumvirate of "This Gun for Hire." The other two stars are Veronica Lake and we're told that she'll change her hair-do and Alan Ladd. Ladd is a young character actor, of whom not much has" been heard as yet; he won the role with a ' remarkable screen test. Movie-goers will get their first glimpse of the technique of the underground un-derground revolt against Hitler, now spreading through Europe, in the newest March of Time film, "Norway "Nor-way in Revolt"; it also includes scenes of combined Norwegian and British naval raids on the coast of Norway, which resulted in the destruction de-struction of valuable Nazi war supplies. sup-plies. Bette Davis is "The Most Regular Star" on the Warner Bros, lot, according ac-cording to a poll cotf.d'acted by the studio's 72 police officers. The honor hon-or was awarded because of her thoughtfulness, cheerfulness and her being, in general, "a regular guy." Those who have forgotten that Bob Hope started his theatrical career ca-reer as one-half of the hoofing team of Hope and Byrnes are going to be surprised when they see his song-and-dance version of the Irving Berlin Ber-lin number, "You Can't Brush Me Off" in Paramount's "Louisiana Purchase." He does a dance routine with a colored kid band and quartet that should make Rochester look to his laurels. Did you know that Mickey Mouse was 13 years old the other day? Walt Disney named him Mortimer Mouse, but Mrs. Disney suggested the change to Mickey. He made his debut in the cartoon comedy, "Steamboat Willie," and was an instant in-stant success. Everyone who enjoyed those radio presentations of outstanding pictures is delighted now that the Playhouse is back on the air. Dramatized versions ver-sions of successful pictures are heard Monday through Friday in quarter-hour episodes. The cast is headed by Virginia Field, and includes in-cludes Donald Briggs, who has appeared ap-peared in many of the Dr. Kildare j and Andy Hardy pictures. j ODDS AMI EDSWhen she u-tu in Arte York recently Joan Fontaine j drove interviewers slightly mad by in- , sUlinsi on discnssinn fishinit trips in- stead of fashions and pictures . . . Joe E. Uroun has recovered from injuries sustained in that automobile accident and has checked in at Columbia for "Coubov Joe" . . . ttita llavworth is coming riizht aonc: she gets Franchot Tone as her leading man in "Fadie If as a Lady" . . . And Alexis Smith is doing all right too: Warner Bros, gave her a neic contract and plans to star her in "lilonde Bomber" . . . Barney Google and Snufjy Smith of the comics will . tlep into a series of Monogram pictures. ( |
