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Show STAGESCREENADIO By VIRGINIA VALE Prepared Exclusively for WNU. TRUST the movies to come up with something new! When Gertrude Lawrence sang "The Saga of Jenny" in (the stage version of "Lady in :the Dark," audiences may have experienced mild, delightful de-lightful shocks but when .Ginger Rogers sang the song for the movie version she was the one who experienced ihocks electrical ones. Something In the atmospheric conditions, and the fact that Ginger was dancing on (a coco-matting carpet, set up electrical elec-trical charges when the mink evening eve-ning gown (yes, really, mink!) she wore swept the matting. ' Gail Russell could give Cinderella Cinder-ella pointers on how it feels to find oneself famous in practically no time ' r, -.y t vi, ? L V'.' - X'tpoA,. ' ' GAIL RUSSELL at all. A good role in "The Uninvited," Un-invited," then another in "Our Hearts Were Young and Gay," and now she's right up top in "Fear." Edwin C. Hill's ode to "An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving," which the commentator has given annually for almost a decade, will be given a epecial Thanksgiving day network spot of its own this year, with all the production trimmings. Although the popular ballad, "All or Nothing at All," was published but a few months ago, it could very easily have been Dinah Shore's theme song a few years ago. Dinah, who stars now on her Thursday night program, sang on small radio stations sta-tions when she first came to New York for "nothing at all"; some of the people who worked with her then say that they thought she didn't have much of a voice and they couldn't believe that she had a future in radio, but that they kept encouraging her because she was such an awfully awful-ly nice girl! Loretta Young was so Impressed with the play, "Lost Yesterday," In which she appeared on the CBS "Silver "Sil-ver Theater" that she is trying to Interest film producers in the script, with a view to playing on the screen the role she did on the air. Last November, Hunt Stromberg predicted that his new contract player, play-er, Michael O'Shea, would become one of the most promising stars of the screen within a year. The young Irish actor played his first movie scene as a putty-nosed comic in "Lady of Burlesque," last December. Decem-ber. He was borrowed to star as "Jack London"; before that picture was finished he was given the role In "The Eve of St. Mark" which he created on the stage. ,He's booked now to star in a screen character patterned after Henry J. Kaiser, the shipbuilder, in "Man From Frisco," and Darryl Zahuck has arranged for him to star in two pictures a year for the next six years for 20th Century-Fox. Guest stars, heretofore exclusively exclusive-ly an evening radio feature, have been adopted by at least one daytime day-time serial big name personalities are becoming regular visitors in the script of "Bright Horizon," heard over CBS mornings. Mrs. Wayne Clark, wife of the Fifth army's General Gen-eral Clark, was the first celebrity to be written into the script, Bea Wain the second. ' The title of Sammy Kaye's picture for United Artists has been changed from "Song of the Open Road" to "It's Great to Be Young." Reports of a housing shortage on the Coast have caused Kaye to start planning for accommodations now. He's trying try-ing to get the house Jimmio Dorsey is living in at present; Dorsey wiil finish his picture and leave Hollywood Holly-wood about the time Kaye arrives ODDS AKD EDS Mrs. Dick Haymes takes all the buttons off the singing star's coat before each broad, cast, sews them back n ajler the show, because studio fans have a habit of snatching them for soux'rnrrs . . . Kntina Paxinon. prevented by illness from play, intt a supporting role in Ginger Rniirrs "Tender Comrade." tpill do RKO's "Mamma's Bank Account" . . . Paul ftluni may never escape history he's booked now for "At Vfcit We Drram." a film to be based on the life of Chnnin . . . "Lassie Come Home" not only filled Note York's huge Music 11r.ll week j after week, but children begged to see ' it again! I |
