LATEST DOINGS FROM THE STUDIOS

Chronicle (Levin), 1 March 1947, Page 6

LATEST DOINGS FROM THE STUDIOS

Les. M.

Murphy)

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Brian Donlevy has 'filed suit, Diana Barrymore has maraed| against his wife, Marjorie Lane, ; tennis star John Howard m Ne.v demanding the custody of their vTork.

three-year-old daughter Judiiaj Anne. I Sylvia Sidney has announced her forthcomihg marriage to radio pro- | ducer, Carlton Alsop— ex-husband j ■of Martha Scott. William Holden goes to Columbia j for a co-starring role with Glenn, Ford in "The Man from Cclorado"i after he flnishes his "Blaze of I Noon" fllm at Paramount. Last year will go down in Holly-j wood annals as one packed with 1 raore marital rifts than any in fllm history. To date divorces and' separations among "starry" couples nave exceeded marriages by a ratio of flve to one. The birth rate has also reached a new low level. Ray Milland will make a murder thriller, "The Big Clock," before he goes to England to co-star with Ann Todd in "For Her to See." Ida Lupino hopes to coax Charles! Laughton and Brian Aherne into being her leading men in "The Queen's Necklace" — a Bogeans production, in which Ida plays a female Rattles. John Charles Villiers Farrow, five-montli-old son of director John Farrow and Maurecn O'Sullivan, is making his movie debut. John Charles Villiers has a big cene in his father's next fllm, "Blaze of Noon-" The judge's conaemnation of Laraine Day's action in marrying Leo Durocher in Mexico the day after securing her interlocutcry divorce from Ray Hendrieks, has made sizzling headlines in all the American newspaoers. Her Ca.lifornian divorce will not be final for a year. Laraine now faces a charge of bigamy. .

For the first timo since "Goodbye Mr. Chips," Paul Henreid win appear under Metro's banner in A Loye Story." He has been selected to play opposite Katharine Hep•urn in this tender love story about' the great composer, Robert Schumann. Robcrt Walker has been cast for the role of Jchannes Brahms. Humphrcy Bogart has earr ed the praise of filrn critics in New Yorx and Hollywood for his ^ smootL work in Columbia's Washingtonset mystery, "Dead RecKoning.' The girl in the film who shares high adventure with Bogcy is Lizabeth Scott.

Fox Films, IJollywooa, are seeking a Board of Trade permit o reconstruct Wembley Studios, Lon~ c'on at a cost of £1,000,000. Fox president, Murray Silverstone, said in London that "British films are making such an impression 1 ohroughout the world that we in Hollywood are very anxious to make films here." Jeanette MacDonald, whom I recently referred to in this column f as i;eturning to films after an - absence of four years co-stars with Jose Iturbi and Jane Powell in M.-G.-M.'s modern comedy, "The Birds and the Bees." The film, which is to go into production next montli, will be made in techni - colour Jt describes the trials and tribulations of ' a glamorovs widow whose three daughters object to her re-marriage. No wonder Katharine Hepburn had to cut shOrt her Conheclicut holiday— she is in for two piano lessons a week and three hours of daily practice. Director Clarence Brown issued the ultimatum when Miss Hepburn reported for- her initial story conferences for " \ Love Story," the romance of Robert and Clara Schumann. As Clara Schumann, one of the worla's I- finest pianists, Miss Hepburn nqt only plays Schumann compositions, j but those of Brahms and Liszt.