HOLLYWOOD NEWS

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21194, 17 August 1940, Page 13 (Supplement)

HOLLYWOOD NEWS

MALE STARS SING DUET SOME NEW PRODUCTIONS Maybe the only certain means of taking your mind off the war for a moment lies in the item of news from Hollywood—Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy are going to sing a duet, says a writer in a London paper. The duet will belong to that brand of song which is chorused all over i the world about five minutes before closing time—no rhythm, not much tune, and with the words (let us say) somewhat slurred. The song will provide the high spot of the current Clark Gable-

Spencer Tracy picture “Boom Town.” The production boys have put their faith in the fact that both the stars have sung on the screen before, and thereby produced profitable reactions at the box-office. Gable formed one point of a singing trio with Joan Crawford and Franchot Tone in “Love On The Run,” Then, later, he sang with Norma Shearer in “Idiot’s Delight.” Spencer Tracy’s previous singing record is limited to that Portuguese fisherman’s song in “Captains Courageous.” Remember? Graf Spee Film Paramount in Hollywood are well advanced with the production of “Mystery Sea Raider,” a story suggested by the adventures of the German pocket battleship Graf Von Spee and the prison ship Altmark. Henry Wilcoxon, an Englishman, has the top spot role, so, apparently,

he is playing the part of the Graf Von Spee’s captain. George Sanders, another English 1 actor out in Hollywood who has be- - come famous for his Nazi character- ■ isations, gets the part of a Gestapo ■ official in “I Married a Nazi,” star--1 ring Joan Bennett and Richard Greene. Crooner in Dramatic Role i Such a success has Dick Powell made in “I Want a Divorce,” which gave him his first real chance of playing a dramatic role, that he has . been signed to co-star in “The New Yorkers,” another drama which will , cut out his crooning. United States Government figures show that there are more than 50,000 , ! girls between the ages of 16 and 23 ! who hitch-hike from one part of | America to the other mainly to esI cape the home environment, j Somebody in Hollywood saw the ; report, and the result is a film based ! on the subject called “Ladies of the Road.” The war hits Hollywood. Because ; the studios cannot get their usual , supplies of human hair for wigs from the Balkans the price of human tresses is soaring. Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, gay vagabonds of “The Road to Singapore,” are to be reunited in another tropical adventure labelled “Road to , Rio.” “I Love You Again” “I Love You Again,” fast-moving comedy and the first for some time co-starring William Powell and Myrna Loy in a non-“ Thin Man” , story, is in production. Powell will play a man who gets a smack on the head and loses his memory. The role calls for Powell to be badly dressed. In one scene Myrna Loy empties a plate of . scrambled eggs over Bill’s head. ! __