LATEST DOINGS FROM THE STUDIOS

Chronicle (Levin), 21 May 1946, Page 7

LATEST DOINGS FROM THE STUDIOS

(Special — From Les. M. .Murphyj. WELLINGTON, This Day. Eddie Bracken, who usually play£ a dope on the screen, is one of the smartest businesSmen in Hollywood. •* • In real life Charles Boyer is a typicai Frenchman, cautious, careful with money, and a happy family man. Olga San Juan is a flashing. twisting, sensuous bundle of Latin vitality on the screen, but in real life she is reserved and gentle, and speaks so quietly that you can hardly hear anything except the giggle that ends most of her senrences. After twelve years of giving ofi grunts in Tarzan pictures, Johnny Weissmuller has finally been allowed to speak in "Swamp Fire." And it is just as well, or he would have broken under the strain. He is among the more talkative men in Hollywood. Judy Garland, proud mother of month-old bady Liza Minelli, returns to the screen shortly as star of a romantic drama called "Foreveri" Franchot Tone, instead of Joseph Cotten, is starring with ' Shirley Temple in "Honeymoon."- Gotten— who has young Guy Madison as romantic rival in the film — got sick of the idea and walked out. Goldwyn1 has bought one of Thurber's most famous stories, "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" as a vehicle for Danny Kaye. The feminine star will be Virginia Mayo. Eieanor Parker, has left Hollywood on a six weeks honeymoon tour with her bridegroom, Bert Friedlob, after completing her role in "Escape Me Never." Following spirited bidding among major studios, Jack L. Warner has purchased Philip Wylie's best-sell-ing novel, "Night Unto Night." Patricia White, 19-year-old actress who won a Bachelor of Science degree from Columbia University at the age of 17, has been assigned a role in Warners' "Two Guys from Milwaukee," starring Dennis Morgan, Joan Leslie and Jack Carson.-. Now that Hedy Lamarr and John Loder are feconcifed, Hedy's friends and fa'ns can relax. Hddy has'wept herself nearly into a nervous breakdown since her John mafched out on his' hearth, home and' baby. The Lamarr-Loder reconciliation was the high spotj of a quiet week in film society. Director Peter Godfrey's reading of a ",bit" during a story cohference on Warner Bros. "The Two Mr's, Carrolls" so impressed Producer Marlc Hellinger' that. he. prevailed upon Godfrey to, do the parf himself.. So the London-born writer-pioducer-directo.r-actqr ' donned, make-up, dressed the 'part of an English race track tout, and play.ed a scene with Barbara Stahwyck and Humphrey Bogart. Because she was the life of her own party, Ida . Lupino was on crutches for several days. Miss Lupino, as is her custom, gave a huge party over the week-end for Ihe cast and crew of her recently completed picture, "The Man I Love" at her Beverley Hills home. Ida insisted on dancing with all the men of her party at least once. Result: Sprained tendons, crutches. Claude Rains will join Bette Davis and Paul Henried in a major role in Warners' production of a story tentatively titled "Deception." It will mark Rains' return to his home-studio for the first time since appearing with Bette Davis in "Mr. Skefflngton." Meantime, of course, he has been in England under a sensational salary contract to star in "Caesar and Cleopatra."

INQUIRY COIINER : "The Pie," Levin.- — "NatipnaL Velvet" began on ..February 28. Pliotos could be obt'ained' from the New Zealand representative of M.-G.-M,,. Box l664, Wellington. ' "Movie Fan," Shannon.— Giriger Rogers and Patricia Roc, c/q RKORadio Studios, Hollywdod.; .Margaret Lockwood can .be found at British Lion Film Corporatioft'.Ltd.," 76-78, Wardour Street, London, W.I. • "Music," Otaki.-^-For ad'dress see answer to "The Pie" above. ' "Kingfan," Levin. — Dennis King was at one time a 'well-known singer on the American stage. He appeared in operettas such as "The Vagabond King" and "The Three Musketeers." He prefers dramatic acting, however. His first. film was "Between Two Worlds." '