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Show STAR DUST Across The Seas By INEZ GERHARD DEANNA DURBIN joins the list of American stars making pictures in Italy. Her film will be a musical, of course, backed by Universal-International Universal-International and Scalera Productions. Produc-tions. The director will be Gofferdo Alessandrini, who directed "Furia," an Italian picture now being be-ing shown in this country. It is reported that Miss Durbir. may stay there indefinitely. Can she be con- never dreaming that one day his protege would win an Academy Award which Edmund Gwenn did as Santa Claus in "Miracle on 34th Street." He will recreate the role on the Christmas broadcast of the Lux Radio Theater, December 20, on CBS, with the other members of the original cast. The second round of the match between Jack Dempsey and Luis Firpo in 1922 was used as a model for one of the prize fight sequences in RKO's "The Set-Up," starring Robert Ryan. Director Robert Wise studied more than 200 reels of professional bouts, and concluded that the second round of that one contained some of the heaviest hitting hit-ting ever seen in the prize ring. Three years ago Glenn Ford and his wife, Eleanor Powell, were entering a theater when a 15-year-old girl asked for his autograph. He was late, so he gave her a nickel, told her to phone him when she was 18, and he'd show her around the studio. During the filming of "Return of October" he was called to the phone by the girl. "Where are you?" asked Ford. "Just look across the set and get- ready to escort Terry Moore on a tour of the studio," 6aid Terry, who plays opposite him. "And thanks for the nickel," she added impishly. i f ' I' ; DEANNA DURBIN templating an operatic career, - with the Italian opera houses as a springboard for later appearances at our own Metropolitan? When President Truman was in Los Angeles on his campaign tour, Dorothy Lamour, star of Columbia's Colum-bia's "Slightly French," got his autograph for her son by reminding remind-ing him that when he was Senator Truman she gave him hers for Margaret. Blng Crosby Is always willing will-ing to oblige a friend. When Al Jarvis, the disc jockey, wanted to impersonate Ring in Columbia's Colum-bia's "Make Believe Ballroom," Ball-room," he phoned to isk permission. per-mission. Crosby trot only gave his okay but also sent Jarvis a battered hat and a brilliantly checked sports jacket, to add authenticity to the performance. perform-ance. Gave everything but his volcel Edmend O'Brien is through with practical jokes. During a showing of an old horror picture in his home he painted his face green, flashed a flashlight on it and shouted shout-ed "Bool" Mary Hatcher fainted. Fifty years, ago George Bernard Shaw insisted that a young British actor be hired for one of his plays. 7fr Two-year-old Guy Mansfield, son of Arthur Godfrey's "Talent Scouts" producer, Irving, may live to regret this. Walking through Central Park with his father, he was chucked under the chin by Greta Garbo and he turned his back on her! Way back in 1938, Terl Keane and Michael O'Day worked together to-gether as two of the original ten New York radio juveniles. Now they are back together again but this time they appear as husband and wife on CBS's "Big Sister." ODDS AND ENDS Barbara Whiting o CBS' "Junior Miss" is gelling her hair bad to its normal "Irish brown" had it dyed for her rote in the screen's "Amboy Dukes." . . . Hedy Lamarr made ber first technicolor tech-nicolor test for "Samton avd Delilah." . . . Skeets Gallagher returns to the movies after lour years' ausence, in Republic's "Duke of Chicago." . , . Michael Cbapin, one of the kids on the Phil HarrtS'Alice Faye radio pro. gram, will play the son in RKO's Sam Wynne." . . . Sterling Hayden will play the lead in his first western, "El Paso," starring Jobn Payne. Released by WNU Features. |