MOVIE NEWS

Opotiki News, Volume X, Issue 1041, 28 October 1947, Page 4

MOVIE NEWS

Greer Garsen’s First Seven Years With the completion of “Desire Me” Greer _Garson completes a seven year Hollywood career cycle which began in 1949. it has been an eventful seven years. Once, after being there a. year, she returned to England. She thought then that Hollywood wasn’t for her. But M.G.M. brought her back, in 1942 she made Mrs. Miniver and for that she won an Academy Award —and she has had nine Academy Award nominations and hundreds of other honours. Her first going to Hollywood had an dement of “fate” in it. Louis B. Mayer was in London and saw. a play advertised, “Old Music”. Thinking it was a musical, he went. It was a drama and Greer Garsou was the star. Mayor signed her. If someone had told him it was a drama he might not have gone! Only recently Greer Garsou signed a new long-term contract with M. G.M, She«has started on her second seven year cycle.

Green Dolphin Street Music Auth entic Maori Chants

Recording has started at M.G.M. on one oE the most elaborate musical scores ever prepared, this being the musical setting for “Green Dolphin Street”, drama of Old England and New Zealand. Composed by Bronislau Kapcr, the score contains authentic chants of the .Maori tribes in the New Zealand sequences anil veritable ecclesiastical music, including the authentic Gregorian, in the convent. sequences. These are woven into an original composition by Kapcr and are performed by the M.G.M. Symphony Orchestra. Charles Previn, noted conductor, was brought from New York to conduct the score. Lana Turner Flying to France Lana Turner who went into “Cass Tiniberlane” with Spencer Tracey immediately after completing her starring role in “Green Dolphin Street” has applied for a trench vista, and intends leaving for the continent immediately her third starring role in the one season, in which she appears opposite Clark Gable in “Home Coming”, is completed. She plans to lly to France via the Azores accompanied by her daughter Cherril Crystinc.

Production Starts on ‘‘The Hills of Home” M.G.M.’s “The llills of Home” Technicolour drama of the Scottish Highlands, went before the cameras last week on. a vast I cent ion high up in the Sierra mountains, Lassie, the collie clog star, Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Toni Drake and Janet Leigh were included in the large east that made the trip from Hollywood to launch the filming. Cameras, crew pack train of horses to one of the highest summits in Sonora Pass to film winter sequences at an elevation of 10,500 feet. Charles Coburn Shifts to Hollywood After ten years as a motion picture actor, Charlew Coburn lias at last decided to take up residence in Hollywood. The veteran actor on the set of M.G.M.’s “The B.F.’s Daughter” told his fellow artists that lie had sold his New York home and bought one locally.