LATEST DOINGS FROM THE STUDIOS

Chronicle (Levin), 23 August 1947, Page 6

LATEST DOINGS FROM THE STUDIOS

, M.

Murphy)

(SPECIAL — From Les.

FILMLAND Joan Crawford will do a modern version of the 1933 Gold Diggers of Broadway for Warners — just to show she can handle comedy as well as drama.

Roland Winters ,the 43-year-old ,■ Boston actor, will be the screens next Charlie Chan — replacing the late Sidney Toler, who replaced the j late Warner Oland. Charles Chaplin, Senr., will not| permit Charles Chaplin, Junr., to; appear in Hollywood films. Now , you know why 22-year-old jumor is playing in Little Theatre pro- , ducticns — planning to make films j in Paris next year. ; Lynn Bari and husband Sid Luft are divorcing. After filing in the court last week Lynn confided that j she was suing for divorce on the , grounds of cruelty. "We just, ccuidn't get along, and decided to call the whole tliing off, said Lynn. The pair were marned m uecember, 1943. . Slowly Americans are coming to I the conclusion that the invasion of foreign, and particularly British, films might help. Jean Hersholt, I president of the Academy Awards I says: uIt is a h6altb.y sign that aboufc 40 per cent. of the pictuies named are foreign and independ7

ent George Bernard Shaw, who has often tuined down other people, has been turned down himseif. He , wanted Ingrid Bergman to stai in j a film version oi' "Saint Joan. Bergman said "No." Before shooting his film version of "Macbeth," Orson Welles will take a troupe to Salt Lake City for a week's presentation of Macbeth on the stage. Having failed to obtain Talluiah Bankhead for the part of Lady Macbeth Orson has now failed to obtain Agnes Moorehead because of her ladio commitments. He has cast radio actress Jeanette Nolan. > Jack Warner gave Bette Davis daughter the beginning of a pearl, necklace as a gift. He gave her , three perfectly matched pearls on a fine gold chain, and intends to add a pearl each birthday. Edward Small is to produce two literary classics for Columbia. The first of the two i . atures will be Alexandre Duinas' "D'Artagnan," dealing with the romantic leader of the Three Musketeers. The second will be "The Black Arrow," a film adaption of the Robert Louis Stevenson novel of that title, which is a tale of ad venture during the Wars of the Roses in the time of Henry VI of England.