Film News In Brief

Chronicle (Levin), 31 July 1948, Page 6

Film News In Brief

Charles Boyer gives one of his best performances as a refugee doctor in his latest picture "Arch of Triumph." Ingrid Bergman is sadly miscast in this Enterprise film. Metro starlet Janet Leigh is divorcing Stanley Reames on the ground of cmelty. The pair married in.1945 after a college romance. Although working hard on "Christopher Columbus," Fredric March has not been well since arriving in England. Last week he got his best tonic when his 16-year-old daughter flew over from Hollywood to visit him. She is staying with him until he completes the film. . Judy Garland, Fred Astaire and Oscar Levant, are signed up to costar in Metro's musical, "The Barkleys of Broadway," which is expected to go into production at the end of next month. Everyone who has seen the rough cut in the English studios of "Eureka Stqckade" is. tremendously impressed. Associate.'; producer Les Normdrf,.' bAck in Xondon from Australia where the film was made, . did .the/jopl / "The .Londbnerry Air," which will be heard as the theme song i-n the . screen, version .of the Broadway hit "Voice of the Turtle," probably has more titles than any other tune in -the world. Millions of music lovers know it as "Danny Boy" and in many church hymnals it is listed as "Would God I Wert the Tender Apple Blossom." Stars of "Voice of- the Turtle" are Ronald lReagau :and Eleandr- Parkes

■ Douglas Fairbanks, Junr., who is a member of the U.S. Olympic Games Committee, hopes to visit England for the Games— as do many other stars. Doug's next film will be "The O'Flynn," in which silent star Tom Moore will return to the screen— doing a character role. Leonara Corbett, one of Britain's wittiest and most beautiful women, seeking a play worthy of her, has found it. Rumour says Leonora iwrote it. Greer Garson says she I

also would give her soul for the right drama, too, and Deborah Kerr wants to return from Hollywood to England to make a picture. Incidentally Ciark Gable is not over-happy abbut being co-starred with her again. Robert Douglas, handsome British actor, is Joan Crawford's leading man in the courtroom drama, "Until Proven Guilty.'r Douglas recently finished an assignment opposite Alexis Smith in. "The Decision of Christopher Blake," his debut film in Hofiywood. Wellknown as a leading man on Broadway and in British films, Douglas joined the British Navy when World War II- was declared. Ralph Morgan and his actress daughter Claudia are in mourning. Mrs.# Morgan recently died after a long illness. One of the biggest Hollywood cash transactions for 20 years was effecte'd when multi-millionaire industraiist "and film producer Howard Hughes bought control of R.K.O. for 8,825,690 dollars.