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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union.) ONE of the most important, films ever made in this country will be released shortly to motion picture houses throughout the nation. . It is "Hidden Hunger," star ring Walter Brennan, presented present-ed by the Federal Security Agency as part of the National Nation-al Nutrition Program. A simple sim-ple story of better eating for sound health, it's not just a picture with a message; it has a lively and amusing plot, it's highly entertaining, entertain-ing, an excellent, two-reel production produc-tion made by experienced producers, produc-ers, directors and actors. TP Joan Bennett has revived the old-fashioned old-fashioned "quilting bee" on the set of her current Columbia film, "Highly "High-ly Irregular"; she's organized 65 elderly ladies into a group to knit and sew for men in the service. The gossip's modern, Hollywood variety! William Lundigan thinks his lucky breaks began when he left Syracuse university in his second year there to take a job in a radio station. An BKO executive whom he interviewed inter-viewed on the air told him he ought to be in pictures; when a New WILLIAM LUNDIGAN York friend fixed up a test for Universal, Uni-versal, he just had to stand and talk as he did for radio. He made pictures pic-tures for Universal and Warner Bros., then was signed by Metro and had the luck to land in the star-making star-making "Andy Hardy" series, as the new boy friend of Andy's sister in "The Courtship of Andy Hardy." Jean Arthur was in a scene with Ronald Colman and Cary Grant for "Three's a Crowd"; three soldiers who'd been watching rehearsals had Just left. Suddenly an overhead "spider" a multiple electric switch box blew out, showering them with sparks. Jean promptly scuttled away. "Where you going?" shouted Director George Stevens. "After those soldiers," she replied, "to put out the bomb!" Lucille Norman, blonde and 19, went east to go west. She left . Steele City, Neb., to win a place as radio singer over a Cincinnati station; sta-tion; while trying out there for the Metropolitan Opera auditions she was spotted by a movie talent scout, and now she's in Hollywood. X Johnny Johnston, young singing guitarist of radio fame, was picked by Paramount for a co-starring role with Ellen Drew in "Priorities of 1942"; it's a musical film with the activities of aircraft plant workers for its story background. Recently before "Henry Aldrich" went on the air a petition was circulated cir-culated asking the right to smoke backstage. Just before the broadcast broad-cast it was slipped into "Mr. Aldrich' Al-drich' s" script for safekeeping, and he very nearly read it over the mike. Note for baseball fans: The Brooklyn Dodgers didn't want that picture about them to be called "Them Lovely Bums," so remember remem-ber that it will be offered to the public as "It Happened in Flatbush" unless somebody thinks up a better title. Just before the war department forbade the use of rubber latex Paramount got under the wire, so you'll see a three-foot latex balloon as a prop for Martha O'Driscoll's bubble dancer scene in "My Heart Belongs to Daddy." Al Pearce of the air waves is interested in-terested In adding Marie Blake to his radio gang. She's Jeanette Mac-Donald's Mac-Donald's sister, and you probably saw her somewhere in the "Dr. Kil-dare" Kil-dare" series of pictures she played the telephone operator. ODDS AND ENDS Bill Stern, radio ra-dio sports announcer, uiU be seen in the lxu Gehrig film, "The Pride o the Yankees" . . . A fruit dealer icho knows and admires Edu-ard G. Robinson Robin-son spells the "Big 7"oi.-n" star's name out in fruit on his stand . A KoyaJ Air Force officer lent Franchnt Tone the uniform Tone ucars in Columbia's "Highly Irregular" . . Rosalind Kus-leU, Kus-leU, who'll star in "My Sister Eileen," is singing for the boys on her tour of army camps in the Soiillnaesl, and they love it . . . Jack Benny has signed a new two-year contract, which will carry car-ry him into his tenth year with the fam sponsor. |