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Show Ai i 1 most enct!y. Even the signs on the back of the car the bride and groom drive away in are the same. Fred Mae-Murray and Lynn Bari are the actors; the original participants were Adelaide Frost and Capt. Eddie Ed-die Kickenbaeker. Like a lot of us, Frank Ross is tired of those Hollywood searches for "unknowns" that end with a Hollywood personality getting the role. He's really searching for an unknown beauty for the role of "Salome" "Sal-ome" in-"The Robe"; he gets mail . by the ton, but looks at every photograph photo-graph himself. Attractive girls between be-tween the ages of 16 and 25 still have a chance. Anrlipncpc pasn and laugh at a Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE r PRESTON FOSTER has 20th Century -Fox over a barrel regarding his motorcycle. motorcy-cle. A clause in his contract says he mustn't ride it while he's working in a picture but from the first days of "Thun-derhead "Thun-derhead Son of Flicka" he rode it into the studio and nobody no-body said a word. He hadn't enough gas to drive his car from Newhall every day, so the ban on the motorcycle motor-cycle was lifted. He took Rita Johnson John-son on a death-defying ride around the studio to celebrate Rita's one of the leads in the picture and afterward aft-erward she commented "No wonder the studio doesn't want him to ride that thing. With him a motorcycle isn't a means of transportation it's a lethal weapon." John 'Conte, who's back at his post as master of ceremonies of the Frank Morgan radio program, accomplished ac-complished a lot during his six-months six-months absence. He had his first JOHN CONTE featured role in a picture "Lost in a Harem," with Abbott and Cos-tello Cos-tello in which he played opposite a handsome gal named Marilyn Maxwell; and they were married a short time after the picture was finished. Barbara Brown gave up the role of Robert Button's mother in Warners' War-ners' "To Young to Know" because of illness; when she recovered they cast her in thesame picture, this time as the woman who adopts Hut-ton's Hut-ton's baby. A wedding performed on September Septem-ber 26, 1922, was reenactcd down to the last detail for "Captain Eddie." On the screen it duplicates the news pictures of the original ceremony al- scene in "It's a Pleasure" in which Sonja Henie goes up to Michael O'Shea's apartment in an elevator, because the elevator operator looks so much like Frank Sinatra. His name is Dave Willock, and he says he's lost a good many movie parts because of his resemblance to "The Voice"; resemblances like that have wrecked more than one Hollywood career. Florence Lake, who has practically practical-ly made a career of playing Edgar Kennedy's wife in his RKO comedies, come-dies, has been cast for a comedy role in "George White's Scandals of 1945." Just for a change, this time she plays a mother not Kennedy's either. Ingrid Bergman has a "gismo" marine lingo for an "oscar." The 'bronze statuette of a marine was awarded to her by Leatherneck, the official publication of the corps, as the top actress of 1944, and it's a trophy to be proud of. Dick Long, Hollywood high school student, not only landed the role of Claudette Colbert's son in "Tomorrow "Tomor-row is Forever," but his screen test was so good that he was given a term contract with International Pictures, instead of a one-picture contract. ODDS ASP EVDS The Warner Bros' picture based on the story of Sgl. Al Schmid, blinded marine hero of Guadalcanal, has a new title instead of "This Love o Ours" it will be called "lJride of the Marines." . . . Florence Halop, radio actress currently cur-rently appearing in "David Harding Counterspy" is the sister of Bille Halop, i one of the Dead End Kids, noiv with the army signul corps in France. . . . Kathleen Kath-leen Norris makes her bow as a writer of radio daytime serials: the popular, novelist is writing "Bright Horizons," the serial starring Joan Alexander and Dirk K"Urnnr. on CBS. |
