LATEST DOINGS FROM THE STUDIOS

Chronicle (Levin), 3 May 1947, Page 7

LATEST DOINGS FROM THE STUDIOS

Les. M.

Murphy)

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Louis Etayward, who essays six characterisations during- the course of "The Returq "of Monte Cristo," is a , dead-ringer for Louis Napoleon, Emperor of France. A cast of Hayward's face was discovered to bear an amazing resemblance to the famous French ruler. ■ * A futhre jtreat for film fans in New Ze&land from big authors will' mclude "The Hucksteps," which is to star Clark Gable and Deborah Kerr. The film is based on the new novel by Frederic Wakeman, a leading American author. The fi'nal SGript of Fox's "Forever Amber" being approved by film censors, the production is well on the way. The censors demanded and obtained one final deleticm. Shakespeare was to blame. In the film, Amber sees a performance of Romeo and. Juliet and some lines of the famous love story were thought too indelicate for the ears of a modern audience. Lillian Gish, star of silent films, has a prominent role in David O. Selznick's colour film, "Duel in the Sun." Church criticism in America of the film has stirred the film magnates into action on film censorship. Joseph Cotten must have talked out of turn when he said he liked to. work hard, because David O. Selzrnick has taken him literally. After "Portrait of- Jenny," with Jennifer Jones, Cotten goes to work for Vanguard in "Trent's Last Case." Then he will probably do the movie version of "Voice of the Turtle." Julie Bishop retired from films temporarily over a year ago when she became the wife of Col. C. A. Shoop, technical director of "Gallant Journey," retums to the screen in the leading feminine role in Columbia's "The Last of the Redmen." Miss Bishop was under contract to Columbia a few years ago and subsequently was under contract to Warner Bros. Lucille Ball has beem set to costar with Franchot Tone in "The Mating Call," under a loan-out deal . made last week with M.-G.-M. by Tone and Raphael Hakim, who will produce the picture. The comedy will be directed by S. Sylvan Simon. The 300-year-old adobe tov/xi of Tubac, Arizona, and its entire population of 35 Indians, Mexicans and Whites, was rented for one day's shooting of "Three Were Thoroughbreds," technicolour Western drama being made by Cavalier Productions for Columbia. The cast is headed- by Robert Young, Marguerite Chapman and Willard Parker. George Sherman is the director