About Picture People FROM FILM WEEKLY

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20733, 17 February 1939, Page 4

About Picture People FROM FILM WEEKLY

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JJILL CAGNEY'S another who maj join his family on the screen. Warners want him to play brother James's brother In "Oklahoma Kid." Once upon a lime Bill waß thought a better actor than James, while Jimmy was given credit for having a buslness head. Now Bill is an agent who manages his famous brother’s afTairs. He'a still wondering whether agenting isn't a better business than acting anyway. But he's gone as far as the testing stage. • • • • JNA CLAIRE had everybody baffled as to why she Anally gave in and consented to return to Alms, lna had her very good reasons. “They promised me an opportunity to play in a picture with Garbo," she is said to have said. “Which would have been enough to bring me back from the Fiji Islands." Thai coming from suoh a queen of the theatre ought to Hatter even Garbo. Only hope the promise is kept. So far Miss Claire's only got as far aa playing with Hedy LaMarr in “1 Take Tills Woman.” as you read last week. 'But she'd At nicely into what we heard of that Franco-Soviet comedy of * * a • TAN HUNTER goes over to M-O-M to * replace Walter Pldgeon In the cast supporting Jeanette MacDonald In "Broadway Serenade," which seems to be a new name for “Remember Tomorrow." Hunter hasn't been there since “The Devil Takes the Count," in which he fathered Freddie Bartholomew so pleasantly. Friend of his lately told me Hunter wasn't exactly expecting his studio to take up his soon-due option and wouldn't be exactly heartbroken. Couldn't exactly blame him either, ve way he's been wasted. Most of his better parts have been outside the studio. But even if Warners have rather underlined his Bfce reliability. Hunter is always nice to see on the screen.

EDWARDS writes with the bright * suggestion that “Little Mother.” the Ginger Hogers re-make from the French I mentioned lately, may be a translation of Darrieux a “Mademoiselle Ma Mere." Very plausible, but I hope not true. Unsavoury oomedy about a girl who falls for her husband's son, It w&e poor stuff even for a French star trained in risque coyness. Not the sort of thing most people would be proud of making once, let alone re-making. Incidentally, Darrieux's return to Hollywood gets more and more complicated. French law sustains her fouryear contract with a French company. Company says it has no wish to interfere with tier American contract, hut wants to start a <*h on April i. • * • • J-J UGH WILLIAMS has gone Off to Hollywood to Join Sam Goldwyn’t almost all-British cast in “Wuthering Heights.” Playg the stiff-necked hus- / hand Hugh Sinclair turned down. Good break for Williams. He’s a goodish actor and did well as Steerforlh in “David Ccrpperfleld” during his last Hollywood stay. Difficult to know why he’s spent the last two years In comparative obscurity jn British “B" pictures. If Goldwvn really means to make some pictures over here, as rumour hae it, pity he didn’t begin with “W’uthering Heights" ip Yorkshire. With all the Atlantic passages he 6 paying he might as well have. • • • • (TIENE AIELLO end ROBERT LOWRE Y come into pictures by divers means. Aiello w%s an art director first at United Artists, and lately at Paramount. Columbia are giving him a part in “Golden Boy.” Robert Lowrey has been at Twentieth Century-Fox. Appeared in forty films as "atmosphere," but spent most of his time kissing girls to whom the studio was giving tests. (A 6tooge is always required to give cues and kisses.) After such arduous training he's been promoted to juvenile lead in “Mr Moto in Porto Rico.” “Golden Bov’ is in the same all-set-but-the-star stage as 'Gone With the Wind.”