STUDIO CHATTER

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 94, 3 July 1946, Page 6

STUDIO CHATTER

A FEATURE COLUMN “LOVE LETTERS” A ‘Big’ Picture “Masquerade in Mexico” is one of the big pictures in schedule for 1947. It presents the stylish society life of Mexico City. A New Departure ' Paramount’s Academy Award winning picture, “The Lost Weekend”, which is at present screening in Auckland is Hollywood’s first screen treatment of alcoholism as an out-and-out dramatic subject. The film preaches neither “dry” or “wet” but approaches the story from an objective angle. Too Thrilling The greater part of the magnificent story sequence in “I Know Where I’m Going” was made in waters that are charted unnavigable by the British Navy. This location was the famous and dangerous whirlpool of Corryvreckan, which lies between the islands of Scarba and Jura, off the Argyllshire coast. Claude Rains Returns Claude. Rains will join Bette Davis and Paul Henried in a major role in Warner’s production of a story tentatively titled “Deception.” It will mark Rains’ return to his home studio for the first time since appearing with Bette t>avis in “Mr Skeffington.” Meantime, he has been in England under a sensational solary contract to star in “Caesar and Cleopatra.” Try a Film Career! Paramount is besieged by approximately 5000 candidates a year, mostly people who pin their hopes on written testimonials about iheir talents. About five hundred are interviewed, and screen tests given to about twenty. If the studio is lucky, some twelve of the twenty will be worth taking a chance on and are signed to contracts. Of these, an average of three only, will come through and make good. Regent “Love Letters”’ (Sat. Mon. and Tues.) Stars Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten. A romantic drama stepped in the mood of sinister mystery and suspense. The story of a man who wrote love letters to a girl he had never met. One of the strangest and most compelling love stories ever screened. Jennifer Jones, playing her first truly adult role maintains the exceptional standard which won her an Academy Award in her first picture “Song of Bernadette.”