LATEST DOINGS FROM THE STUDIOS

Chronicle (Levin), 31 January 1948, Page 6

LATEST DOINGS FROM THE STUDIOS

Les. M.

Murphy)

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• Claude Raines is very anxious to g'et to England and start working for Ronald Neame, who made "Great Expectations" and "Brief Encounter." Lioyd Bacon is bidding for MaeWest to leave Britain for Hollywood to' star in "Glittering Hill," but the actres's seems reluctant to leave London. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's profit for 1947 was over 11,000,000 dollars, compared with over 18,000,000 dollars in the previous year. This still does not ruin, but M.-G.-M. are wielding the economy axe all round. Paulette Goddard and her husband, Burgeis Meredith will take £500 worth of food with them for friends in Britain next trip. Bing Crosby will definitely go to London in May to star in a musical for J. Arthur Rank. Bing is keen to visit England. i J. Arthur Rank, head of the I Rank film organisation in England, has given new instructions to producers. They are: "Make your pictures for £200,000 — or make them for someone else." The producers concerned are working at the more expensive studios, Denham and Pinewood. Fabulous Ronald Colman scores ;the greatest success of his career in "A Double Life," and he is now almost certain to be nominated for an Aca'demy Award. Colman never misses and never makes a flop. He has been a top-ranking star for 20 years. Hollywood is disappointed with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor for not visiting there after all. Offers to put ther lives 011 the screen have been turned down. Deborah Kerr (Mrs. Tony Bart'jLey) is calling her new baby daughter Melanie Jane. When Deborah returns to Metro, she .will eo-star with Lana Turner in Esfcher Forbes' "Running of the ride," a story about 19th century salom, which won her studio's latest novel contest. "The Paradine Case" was given one of the biggest an 1 flashiest premieres seen in Hollywood in many moons. Prodncer David O. Selzniek took • over two facing theatres in the Uaiversity town of Westwood Village, carpeted the street between in red plush, and erected huge it-awds for Ib.e thousands of fans. With the exception of Ann Todd, all ihe stars of "The Paradine Case" attentied -Gregory Peck, Charles LaugiiLm, Charles Coburn, Ethel Barrymore, Frenehman Louis Jourdan and Italian actress Valli.