STUDIO CHATTER

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 68, 1 May 1946, Page 6

STUDIO CHATTER

A FEATURE COLUMN

Richard Lyon, 10-year-old son of Ben Lyon, former star of silent films, has been signed for a role in “Anna and The King of Siam.”

Recent prowler at the home of Eleanor Parker left the seat of his pants with her watch dog. His end, the police , say, is in sight!

Producer Brian Foy has sent “Johnny Comes Flying Home” com-edy-drama of three fliers’ readjustment to civilian life, before the cameras at 20th. Century Fox.

Quentin Reynolds, noted author and commentator, has been offered the post of narrator for Warner’s projected newsreel service. Reynolds asked for some weeks in which to consider the offer, and is planning to confer personally with Warner executives.

Stewart Granger had to receive police protection after the premier of “Caesar and Cleopatra,” when he was mobbed by fans. He plays the part of Apollodorus, a dashing young connoisseur of carpets and treasures of art, and, according to reports, looks more ‘glamorous’ than Clark Gable.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has pur-' chased the rights of the great Australian classic “The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney,” by Henry Handel Richardson, and plans to produce the film on a large scale with Greer Garson and Gregery Peck in the starring roles. The two appeared together previously in “The Valley of Decision,” soon to be released in Australia.

Flicka’s many admirers will welcome the news that another of the stories by Mary O’Hara, “Green Grass of Wyoming” is to be filmed The same cast as in “My Friend Flicka” and “Thunderhead, Son of Flicka”—Roddy McDowall, Preston Foster and Rita Johnson —will be featured. “Green Grass of Wyoming” will be a striking film done in technicolour like its predecessors.

Regent: The May picture calendar for Whakatane is striking enough to warrant comment. Significant of the increase An British films being brought to the Dominion is that at least 4 will be shown here this month We particularly recommend “This Love of Ours”—now in its premiere at the Majestic; “Demi Paradise”— an English comedy based on a foreigner’s viewpoint of the Mother Country and its people; “Watch on the Rhine” —the Academy Award winner starring Betty Davis; “Western Approaches”—epic of the British Navy and Merchant Service after the style of ‘San Demetrio, London’; and “The Way Ahead”, with David Niven.