LATEST DOINGS FROM THE STUDIOS

Chronicle (Levin), 5 October 1946, Page 6

LATEST DOINGS FROM THE STUDIOS

Les. M.

Murphy)

Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles Reconciied

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; Glamorous Gene Tierney has publicly denied the report that she and husband Oleg Cassini were n the eve of a separation. "We are happy and such a thing never had cause to enter our minds," said Gene. Loretta Young has been ordered a long rest by her doctors. Ever since the loss of her premature baby Loretta has been frail and it will be some time before she again faees the cameras. A new feminine lead for Jimmy Stewart in "Magic Town" will now have to be found. The Chicago Symphony Orehestra has invited June Haver, 20th Century-Fox blonde actress, to play her own piano composition, Jazz Concerto, at its October Music Festival. June was a concert pianist before she became a movie StictX Enric Madriguera and . his orchestra have completed the recording of the Samba for the "Copacabana" number of Columbia's "Thrill of Brizil." Yolanda and Veloz will do the Samba in the film. Frank Orith and Ann Codee, once a famous vaudeville team, are cast together in a film for the first time in feature roles. The title of the picture is "It's Great to be Young"' starring Bob Stanton and Leslie Brooks. Rita Hayworth, Larry Parks and Marc Platt will appear on roller skates in the lavish skating ballet to be featured in Columbia's technicolour musical "Down to Earth." The production number on wheels utilises 62 skaters to back up the principals, and will be done to the tune "People have more fun than Anyone" — classed as the motion picture tune of the month. Jimmy Cagney hit Jare as a tough customer in "Public Enemy" and "Little Caesar." He tried several departures from such a role, but the only success achieved was "Yankee Doodle Dandy." After failure with "Johnny Come Lately" Jimmy decided to return to the rough-and-ready characterisations that lifted him to the heights, such as in "Blood on the Sun"— and again he is a Box offiee ringer. Jerry Austin who portrays the dwarf "Cupidon" in the adventure tale, "Saratoga Trunk," and who stands 3ft. 6in. tall in his highheeled shoes, is known to Hollywoodians as "the little man_ with the bravest heart and the biggest philosophy." For many years the tiny artist has been entertaining unfortunates in hospital wards for the handicapped. "It's like this," he said when asked to explain, "I figure that they'll figure that if a chap like me can make good — anybody can!" While Ingrid Bergman was starring with Gary Cooper in "Saratoga Trunk," she was also photographing her own abridged version of the Warner Bros. picture. Miss Bergman shoots her own personal movie in colour with her own sixteen millimetre camera, using spare ends of film. She's her own producer, director, cameraman and film editor, but on occasion, she can command a distinguished crew. Cooper, for example, was the cinematographer for the few shots of herself she is including. Director 'Sam Wood was her technical adviser. Miss Bergman started making her own pictorial record of movie making in Hollywood shortly after sh'e arrived there. Her success with a miniature version of "Casablanca" encouraged her to attempt an even more ambitious effort with "Saratoga Trunk." Mary Pickford became "America's Sweetheart" in the, old silent days, by portraying the little girl with the smile and curls. She tried to break from these roles by playing adult parts in "Rosita" and other pictures. Her fans rose up in arms — they wanted her in the "curly haired girl" roles. She was not to grow up 'in the films. So Mary 'returned to the parts that made her famous the world over, two of her greatest successes being "Polly*anna" and "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm."