STRANDED IN HOLLYWOOD

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 May 1940, Page 9

STRANDED IN HOLLYWOOD

t OWING TO THE WAR. * Being stranded in Hollywood is not so bad after all. In fact, Edmund Gwenn, noted British character actor, who was caught on the wrong side of the Atlantic when ■ the war started, now enjoys his bad luck so much that he is resigned to it. Gwenn checked in at Columbia studios a few weeks ago. Williams Perlberg and Alexander Hall, respectively producer and director of “The Doctor Takes a Wife,” thought themselves fortunate in being able to get him for the comedy co-starring Loretta Young and Ray Milland. Short, heavy set, infectiously genial, Gwenn plays Milland's father, and figures importantly in this breezy fable of two people posing as married, meanwhile hating each other, simply because people insist that they are wed. Simultaneously Gwenn is playing an outstanding role in “Pride and Prejudice,” thus doubling daily between two studios. One of Britain’s greatest actors, the actor was brought to Hollywood last August to play in a Scotland Yard drama. War broke out and the picture was postponed. Gwenn hastened to return home to offer his services to the World War regiment in which he was a captain, but transportation was not readily arranged. To pass the time he accepted a role in “The Earl of Chicago,” and a little later he was notified officially thaFhis military services were not needed at this time. Gwenn still considers himself strand- ; ed—but pleasantly so.