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Show By INEZ GERHARD JEAN ARTHUR has a way of stamping a role as her own so definitely that it is impossible to imagine anyone else playing it as welL Returning to the screen in "A Foreign Affair," she has taken on an assignment that many ac- V . ; I J : - : A ' JEAN ARTHUR tresses would shun. She plays a dowdy, too earnest woman who loses her head completely when a handsome man makes love to her. True, the young man is John Lund, who is much like Clark Gable in Gable's younger days. Marlene Dietrich completes the trio. Most of the picture was shot in Berlin, and while it is a comedy, there are serious undertones. Errol Flynn is turning sports-caster sports-caster when he fills in for BUI Stern on the "Sports Newsreel" July 23 while Stern is in London for the Olympics. Stern may relate his sports stories at the Palladium, for $4,500 weekly. Anne Burr, menace on "Big Sister," did three unsuccessful auditions in an attempt to break into radio. So she turned to Broadway, and appeared in five plays. The last, "The Hasty Heart," took John Lund and Richard Rich-ard Basehart to Hollywood and gave Anne a leading role without with-out an audition. Because of her deep voice she draws many "menace" roles. Lowell Thomas, veteran CBS newscaster, is investigating the possibilities of short-wave broadcasting broad-casting from Palestine if he goes there this summer to do a series of on-the-spot broadcasts, but nothing no-thing is settled yet. Nine-year-old Luana Patten, featured fea-tured in Walt Disney's "Melody Time" and "So Dear to My Heart," will mingle with real-life characters in her next picture, a Universal comedy with Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray. Jane Wyman has sold her first oil painting. She was inspired by the beauty of the California coast when she went on location for "Johnny Belinda." The price was $4.50. The frame cost Jane $4. Jerry Wayne, a singing star a few years ago, is singing his way back to the top. You heard him on "The Ed Wynn Show," "The Hit Parade" and "The Jerry Wayne Show"; now he is acting as manager of ceremonies cere-monies and singing five times a week on CBS. It Is a variety show, with a vocal or instrumental guest star each evening. Barbara Bel Geddes, who did so little in "I Remember Mama," will have a real chance to display her undeniable talent as an actress in RKO's "Bed of Roses." She will play a youthful, captivating woman who uses her charm ruthlessly what actress wouldn't jump at that role! She went to Hollywood after making a hit on Broadway, and should be a big star there. Odds and Ends . . . Three well-known well-known names star NBC's summer list Morton Downey, Jane Pickens Pick-ens and Jack Pearl . . . And two daytime serials have returned to the air "Hilltop House" and "We Love and Learn." The latter permanently per-manently replaces "Katie's Daughters" . . AVanda Hendrix, one of Hollywood's tiniest actresses, ac-tresses, eats five meals a day, under doctor's orders; meals were served every two hours on the set of "Now and Forever" . . . Ninety-one of Hollywood's most beautiful girls were screen tested at Warners for 48 roles as bathing girls in "The Girl from Jones Beach." Those who have seen the place won't recognize it! In Earl Wrightson, "The Family Hour" has a male star for the first time, perhaps because he can do both popular and classical sons authentically. He was a regular member of the cast from May, 1945, to September, 1045, and has sur.g in opera, concert, a Broadway musical and television. Since he was in his teens he has paid for music lessons by holding a full-time full-time job. The first was in a Baltimore Balti-more bank, where he met his wife; they were in adjoining "cages." |