LATEST DOINGS FROM THE STUDIOS

Chronicle (Levin), 15 March 1947, Page 6

LATEST DOINGS FROM THE STUDIOS

Les. M.

Murphy)

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Hollywood is still striving to sign up the Duke of Windsor for a big executive- film job, but so far no, dice. Joan Crawford, last year's Academy Award winner, now has 162 hats. We hope none of them is _too snfall. J TT _ . They say along Broadway, U.S.A., that it is now so dark that you cannot tell .the difference between Jane Russell and Katharine Hept>Urn- , X, J. • They say in Hollywood that m view of the number of divorces during the past year, a reference book called "Who's Whose" is needed. M.-G.-M. have been having some trouble with Frank Sinatva. The crooner has behaved very temperamentally before the cameras, and it nearly came to the company and the singer terminating their arrangements. Arthur Rank, the British film magnate, has coneeded that his British films are on the long side for American audiences, so has sent to Hollywood one of his best editors to superintend the cutting. Talking of "The Razor's Edge," a New York critic, in reviewing the film recently, summed up thus: "Maugham's the word. Marvellous — couldn't be sharper." Kathleen Winsor, the authoress of the widely read novel "Forever Amber," the film version of which is due to go before the cameras this month, has married band leader Artie Shaw. She is Shaw's fourth wife. A decree nisi against Frederick Robert Donat, the film actor, was

recently granted in the • English Divorce Court. He did not contest the case. Mrs. Ella Donat petitioned on the ground of adultery. and was granted the custody of the children. > ■ ' "v_ ^ A number of readers have asked me to publish the ages of some- oi the film actors who have been and are still box office -draws.. We oblige with the following:- Paul Muni, 51; Fred Astaire, 47 (as is Alfred Hitchcock) ; Bing Crosby, 42; Jean Gabin, 41; Clark Gable, 46, Robert Taylor, 33; and Gene Autry, 29 Loretta Young's latest comcdy for Paramount, "The Perfect Marriage," is shortly to be released in New Zealand. She is co-starred with David Niven, supporting players being Charlie Ruggle, Virginia Field Rita Johnson, Zasu Pitts and. Eddie Albert. After viewing the film in New York, Jack Moffitt, m "Esquire," -said: "You'd better. see'The Perfect Marriage.' It comes pretty close to being the perfect comedy."