TALKIES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 161, 17 May 1940, Page 2

TALKIES

LOSES FORTUNE TO PLAY ROLE, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, the distinguished British aelo:\ sacrificed a small fortune to play the role of Dr ! Jvingstone in Darryl F. Zanuek's production of "Stanley and Living* stone." 1 For Sir Cedric has wanted io porlray i'no famous explorer-mis-sionary ever since he was a bov. One of ihe must elusive of nil actors where films are concerned,, lie has turned flown scores of parts because ihey di:l not appeal to him. But in order io piny ihe hero of his bo.y-i hood days nt Bridgnorth School ijri i'-ngiand, (he actor closed the tour u ' ' !:s bit p'av, "Shadow and Substance," four months before schedule K was Zanuek who persuaded Sir Led rie to eome lo Hollywood five jea's (o play the bishop in "Los AJise; e.hies" and he returned two .•.ears later Lo appear in 'The Green Light.'' Spencer Tracy shares the title .ole as Henry M. Stankw, the great, newspaper man who found Livingstone in the black heart of Africa. Others prominently featured in the cast are Walter Brennan, Charles Coburn, Henry h u h an{l H T Travers. Henry King directed ' Stanley 'and Livingstone" l'rom a screen play by Philip Dunne and Julien Josephson. Kenneth Maegowan was associate producer. APPLE-MUNCHER Spencer Tracy munched apples assiduously between scenes of D. F. Zanuek's production of "Stanley and Livingstone." It was all part of a campaign to help make amends to Tracy for the fact that this was one of the few pictures in which he was not permitted to chew gum. The research department pointed out that chewing gum was not in vogue in the early '70's. FAMED DIRECTOR TAKES PLACE OF ACCOMPANIST I | Director George Archainbaud aclii eved an innovation in film driection during the production of "Thanks for the Memory," Paramount corned}'. Instead of calling for an accompanist during the rehearsal of the new Loesser-Garmichael number—"Two Sleepy People"—which Bob Hope and Shirley Ross sing in the picture, Archainbaud, an accomplished pianist, tickled the keys him self and worked out the "business" 1 of the song at the same time. Ardhainbaud claimed that his method is much more efficient. "You're dead right," agreed comedian Bob Hope. "I'll see to it that all the directors at Paramount start piano lessons." Archainbaud is a director with many successful films to his credit. Among them are: "Hideaway Girl," | "''Thrill of a Lifetime" and more recently, "Her Jungle Love." He is a j native of France. ! NEWS PARS j j Dorothy Lamour has been sunning in the nude it her Hollywood Hills home in order to have a deep tan for "Typhoon," which she starts next month with Robert Preston and Akim TamirofY at Paramount. Problem No. 1 now, she says, is lo match her comparatively white face in Technicolour make-up to the rest of her body. « * « • Harry Davenport, noted stage and screen actor who appears in a featured role of Paramount's "Death of a Champion" with Lynne Overman and Virignia Dale, began his career at the age of five as an angel,, hovering over the stage suspended by a wire. * « « * Hollywood's most-seen-togetlier are Shirley Ross and Mary "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" Martin. The latter player is preparing to sing opposite Allan Jones in Paramount's "Victor Herbert." Shirley's husband, Ken Dolan,, is Miss Martin's manager. « * » • Ray Milland and Patricia Morison have made a hit with the Big Be'jir townspeople during location filming of Paramount's "Untamed" (luring the past two weeks. They are unusually gracious, it seems, in explaining to Ihe natives why they [ook so grey. The Technicolour make-up is that, colour in order to the too-crimson complexion ivhich the dye film otherwise accen- j ■uates, they inform their questionil'S.