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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union.) IT IS difficult to know what to say about the National Legion of Decency's banning of Great Garbo's new picture, "Two-Faced Woman," with Archbishop Spellman also condemning it, and various cities banning it as well. The plot, that of the woman who poses as her twin sister to prove to her husband that she is glamorous, has been used in Hollywood Holly-wood over and over. Will H. Hays' office had passed the picture. There is hardly a picture-goer who hasn't seen things on the screen that shocked him. But since "Two-Faced Woman" was banned, there must have been some excellent reason for it. Do you remember that delightful story, "The Constant Nymph"? It will be made again by Warner Brothers, with Charles Boyer and i - i Mimmmmm A ''' ,, 1 CHARLES BOYER Joan Fontaine who can have practically prac-tically anything she wants these days in the principal roles. Bob Hope and Victor Moore are to be teamed in Paramount's version ver-sion of "Ready Money," the farce about a young man who becomes a financier by mistake. Last time it was filmed was in 1914, after it had been a successfi11 stae production. Barbara Stanwyck may have contributed con-tributed -new slang phrase to our language. During the making of "Ball of Fire" she happened along -when Director Howard Hawks and the picture's authors were trying to think of something slightly slangy for her to say when she walked up to some men she didn't know very well, in a night club. "That's easy," said Barbara. "I'll say 'What's buzzin', cousin?' That's what we used to say in Brooklyn." It's in the picture. "For Whom the Bell Tolls" is under un-der way even though the cast isn't complete. More than 120 technicians techni-cians and actors left Hollywood recently re-cently for the loftiest location site in film history a spot 9,300 feet up In the Sierra Nevada mountains. Technicolor and long shots had to be made now because of favorable snow conditions, similar to those in the book. Donivee Purkey knew what she wanted years ago; now she's got it She wanted to get into the movies; she worked hard in high school and college dramatics, for four years, and a Paramount talent scout plucked her out of a college play and sent her to Hollywood for a screen test. You'll see her, probably, proba-bly, in "The Fleet's In." Oh yes she changed that name to Laura Lee. When Gilbert Roland, Philip Reed, Errol Flynn and other Hollywood-ites Hollywood-ites who like tennis enter the annual an-nual motion picture tournament next spring they're likely to rue the day that Paramount signed up Jim Brown, who's now playing the romantic ro-mantic lead in "Out of the Frying ran." Brown is Texas tennis champion. cham-pion. Radio's "Woman of Courage" has two leading women who made names for themselves in the movies mov-ies in the days when radio was a lot of strange machinery and a couple cou-ple of car phones. They are Esther Kalston, one of the most beautiful blondes of that day, and Enid Mar-key, Mar-key, one of the most striking brunettes. bru-nettes. OH you're a star of "Meet the People" Peo-ple" you're destined for Hollywood fame, apparently. First Virginia O'Brien, then William Orr, signed up for the movies. The third member mem-ber of the cast to face the cameras is Betty Wells, who was nabbed by Metro. ODDS AXD EDSIt's rumored about that Errol Flynn succeeded in making himself exceedingly unpopular with the newspaper photographers of New York recently . . . President Roosevelt Roose-velt tiill be heard over the Mutual fhain December 24 during the ceremonies cere-monies at the annual lighting of the National Christmas tree . . . The actor-raven actor-raven of "True to the Army" has been offered to the V. S. army signal corps, to co-operate with the army's carrier pigeons . . . Bob Hope and Rita Hf worth have been selected by the news cameramen assigned to Hollytvood as ''the most photogenerous stars of 1941." |
