PARS about the STARS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 225, 21 September 1940, Page 6 (Supplement)

PARS about the STARS

QAMUEL GOLDWYN's newest production 'Raffles,' stars David" Niven (concerning whose intentions of resuming his British Army commission controversy is still raging) as 'a suave and dapper gentleman crook.- Pictured 'as a society favourite and s chi.tapioii on the cricket field, Baffles, however, cannot resist the lure of living the life of an adventurer in crime. But when he falls in love ani becomes engaged to Gweji Manders, played *hy lovely Olivia de Havilland, Baffles decides to give up his secret life of crime. Unexpected events intervene, and Baffles is forced to foous his attention on the famous emerald necklace of Lady Melrose, an eccentric dowager, who invites him to her country estate for a week-end. Niven arid Miss de -Havilland are supported in this exciting my stery - - melodrama such expert troupem as Dame May Whitty and Dudley JQigges. s /I; \♦ * +.\. ' ♦ ♦ ' v TytCK POWELL and Ellen Drew will be co-starred in "A v Cup'of Coffee." This was originally scheduled for Betty Field and but both, the latter have too many pictures on their respective schedules. . . . John Garfield gets a new type of picture in '-Hill Doctor." It's about a backwoodsman in Kentucky with medical leaninp*. . . .

— . - V — — — "rpOM JONES," -Henry Fielding's his : ' tory of a foundling, written in the eighteenth century, will be movie-made in by Sol Lesser. Which reminds me, says Sheilah Graham, jrou can look,for an .avalanche of American pictures made in England and France. It's the best way for Hollywood to use its frozen money assets in these countries. ' ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ J>EN TENNYSON', who spent several weeks at eea with the Royal Navy on convoy work, and who has since becoitoe a naval officer, has made a stirring sea drama for Michael Balcon called "Convoy." It has just had its world premiere at the New Gallery, Regent Street, and several American firms are negotiating for it, writes our English correspondent. , ' ♦ ♦ _.♦ . ♦ JOHN JUSTIN, Alexander Korda's discovery, who f has a leading part in "The Thief of Bagdad," has returned from Hollywood, and k training with the Royal Air Force, writes Joan Littlefield from London. ♦♦ • ♦ rjTHE films section of the Ministry of Information is sending out short : pictures each week to interest and -enlighten the 20)000,000 cinemagoers of Britain. One, Ho!" deals with the child evacuation scheme to America and the Dominions; another, "Call to Arms!" deals with the work at munition factories; a third, "Britain at Bay,": shows other aspects of the war effort;* a fourth, "Invasion," has just been completed at D»nham.