LATEST DOINGS FROM STUDIOS

Chronicle (Levin), 3 January 1948, Page 7

LATEST DOINGS FROM STUDIOS

M.

Murphy)

(Special — From Les.

Hollywood's Academy Awards' function of 1948 will be held in March at the Shrine Auditorium. It is at this function each year that "Oscars" are awarded stars, directors, producers, etc. ■' Ingrid Bergman's next film, "Under Capricorn," will be made in Ireland, because of the British dollar tax. When informed of the change of the venue of the picture Bergman was • delighted as she has always wanted to visit Ireland, of which she has heard so much from Irish descent actresses in Hollywqod. Douglas Fairbanks, Jni\, is retiring from films as soon as he completes his six-picture contract. .The 38-year-old actor plans a new career in the Foreign Diplomatic Service. Failing hearing due to an ear injury during the war is partly responsible for retirement from pictures. Walt Disney will film Parker Butler's satirical old classic "Pigs Is Pigs." The story deals with an unhappy express agent who finds a consignment of pigs multiplying — and 'the consignee refusing to accept delivery. Donald Duck will probably play the express agent. Disney considers this satire particularly suited to the animated-cartoon medium. Comedienne Joan Davis, Mrs. Victor McLaglen, and the much-mar-ried Arlene Judge, each reached the divorce courts recently. Joan Davis, who married in 1931, is charging her husband, Si Mills, with mental cruelty, and has arranged the joint custo'dy of their 14-year-old daughter Beverley. Mrs. Victor McLaglen, who as Suzanne Rockefeller, was Vietor's secretary for six years before their 1943 marriage, is charging Vic with incompatibility. Olivia de Havilland wants to make a film from Thomas Hardy's "Far From the Maddening Crowd" — in England, and with George Cukor as director. This ambition will not be possible until the dollar tax situation is solved. Peggy Ann Garner has been signed for the important character ingenue role of Christine in Columbia's Susan Peters — Alexander Knox co-starring feature, "The Sign of the Ram." The role, which marks little Miss Garner's first loan-out from 20th Century-Fox where she is under contract, is in marked con--trast to the sympathetic parts the voung actress has played , before. The Christine role is that of a neurotic child whose wilfulness drives her to attempt murder. As the result of her work in one of the "four leads of the Columbia musical, "When A Girl's Beautiful," Patricia White was signed by the studio to a term contract. A 21-year-old redhead from Dayenport, Ia., Miss White was originally brought to pictures from the Broadway casts of "Junior Miss," and "Kiss and Tell," but languished > at Warner's and Paramount withou't appearing on the screen. ; , i