Joan Bennett Dances "Hotcha" Rhumba

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 186, 3 May 1940, Page 5

Joan Bennett Dances "Hotcha" Rhumba

TOAN BENNETT revealed an unsuspected talent when she danced a rhumba in Walter Wanger’s “The House Across the Bay.” It was not the common ballroom variety but the type featured by South American “hotcha” dancers. Miss Bennett has never attempted anything like this on the screen before, all her previous dancing activities having been limited to sedate waltzes and never anything less conventional than a slight variation of “The Lambeth Walk.’’ She also sings two numbers written specially for her: “Chua Chihuahua” by Jules Styne and George R. Browne, and “I’ll be a Fool Again” by Al Siegel. When the picture opens Miss Bennett is seen as a night, club entertainer, and it is in. these early sequences that she does her rhumba. The number is a Latin-American novelty, and Miss Bennett executes the entire dance carrying a Chihuahua dog in her arms.

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MAUREEN O’HARA, who has just completed her leading role in R.K.O. Radio’s “A Bill of Divorcement,” is planning to fly home to Dublin, Ireland, and bring her 17-year-old sister back with her for a visit and possible screen tests. Maureen declares the youngster is a real beauty

ATORMA SHEARER will be starred by M.-G.-M. in “Forever,” based on a story by .Mildred Cram. The story is a spirit world fantasy, dealing with two spirit lovers, separated when born into the world and united again only when death overtakes Dotli. ;

rjECIL B. DE MIELE will presently scour the Canadian north-west for a suitable location site for his forthcoming production of “Northwest Mounted Police,” which will have a star cast including Joel McCrea, Robert Preston, and Madeleine Carroll.