LATEST DOINGS FROM THE STUDIOS

Chronicle (Levin), 8 April 1947, Page 7

LATEST DOINGS FROM THE STUDIOS

Les. M.

Murphy)

(SPECIAL — From

Peggy Ann Garner has left Hollywood for New York to play "Alice in • Wemderland" on the stage. Eva le Gallienne's famed repertory company offered Peggy Ann this ehance — which has set the 15-year-old actress into a fever of excitement. Kirk Douglas, the fair-haired actor who made a smash-hit i'n "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers," will take a top role in "Mourning Becomes Electra," for R.-K.-O. ,The new vogue for fllins with Irish themes has made an English star of Dermot Walsh, from Dubiin. His first English production will be "Hungry Hill." The first masculine Swedish star to go to Hollywood is due to arrive there this month for Allied Artists. He • is Frank Sundstrom, a graduate of Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theatre. Sundstrom's second claim to fame, he was the leadi'ng man to Ingrid Bergman, Vivica Lindfors, and Signe Hasso in Swedish movies. Allied Artists has ehosen Audrey Long to partner Sundstrom in . "Tragic Symphony" — the lifestory of Tchaikovsky. Cornel Wilde leaves this month on a two-months' vacation for England, having finished his role as Bruce Carlton in "Forever Amber." Cornel and his wife, Patricia Knight, plan to visit the places where Lord Byron lived and worked, and to do research at the British Museum and other educational centres on the life of Byron. "Before I finish the novel that I'm writing now, I need to check firsthand on many facts," he said, "and I that's primarily why Pat and I are going to England." After two months of searching 20th Century-Fox found Linda Darnell's "son" for "Forever Amber." The role went to seven-year-old Perry William Ward, who takes the part of "Little Bruce." Son of Perry Ward, radio actor, the youngster is having Miss Darnell as his third glamorous movie mother. He was Olivia de Havilland's son in "To Each His Own," and Hedy Lamarr's in "Experiment Perilous." More than 20 youngsters were fcested to find one resembling Linda.

For the night club sequence m "The Guilt of Janet Ames" a set entirely encased in celloglass has been, completed' «at .Columbia .Studr ios. It is in this set' that Rosalihd Russell ahd Melvyir Douglas • .play their big love scene and whqre: Siti Caesar delivers his featUred comedy routiiie . Since the ' set' r epr e A sents the background of' a dr.eam, director Charles Vidor will bring his ^rincipals ihto'focuS only-out-side the' celloglass. The background, J j -the • nihsiiciah$ \ a'hd night club 'crbwd will sh6iv.; ksj ;glittery dream'-substance, in which the forms are recognisable but ao not come ;into 'realistic focus. ; Hollywood is down to the last of its redmen. Genuine Indian extras and bits players have sud~ denly acquired a preniium value, what with Columbia, Paramount and R.-K.-O. currently shooting pictures with mdians in them. As a result, Sam Katzman, who is prdducing "The Last of the Redmen," an adaptation of "The Last of the Mohicans" — for Columbia, has been forced to put 45 Indians under contract for the run of the picture and double their pay , rate to make sure they will not 'desert to be De Mille's in. "The Unconquered."