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1946-05-17, [P ] Friday, May IT, 1941 THE TOLEDO UNION JOURNAL Page Five "Whistle Stop" A Tempestuous Love Story Set In Small Town Miossip Sla'ue UmZ Screen By Burny Zawodny will jijiny.im Noyr showing at Valentine Theatre, Sevmour Nohenra! in­ troduced that provocative and brilliant actress, Ava Gardner, to >j/:«'■/'' ‘Cinderellu Jones, ’ Gay Film Roles Keep Starlet See ks Actor Pal American audiences in her first major role. Appearing opposite „ i V Kin To Actor George Raft in the sensational production, “Whistle Stop,** Ava For Thirty Years! took stardom in her first stride. Musical, Now At Paramount HOLLYWOOD — Beverly She is fortunate not only in Tyler, announced for sev­ HOLLYWOOD — After more beauty and talent, but also in of “Sleep Kentucky Babe,” ’ O 4 -i The faole of Cinderella’s glass slipper and pumpkin coach eral roles opposite Tom than thirty years, Edward Ar­ has been read every nold has finally caught up With ♦ he film Nebenzal chose for her. Saturday over WSPD on the f/ / \ and adored by generation down through the Drake after th**»r sucres«- Based on the Kitty Carnival. k years. But it remained for a motion picture studio to discover ful teaming in “The Green Wallace Beery. best - seller of Nice work girls, hope to its winsome appeal and to transform it into a modem, stream­ Years,” is a bit apprehen­ As a fledgling screen actor, the same name hear you again very soon. Ik-M lined romantic comedy. Warner Bros.’ “Cinderella Jones,”, sive of the relationships Arnold joined Essanay Studio in by M a r i 11 a currently playing at the Para­ Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer may Chicago in 1915 and was as­ Wolff, it is a mount, with Joan Leslie and Popular M. C. think up for future moviet signed Beerys old dressing Robert Alda in the top starring featuring the young violent and Screen Favorites f 9' two room. Beery had left many daring love ,r roles, is the film that lives up to At Lal in Club players. photographs still banging on the story set in the f V r every romantic promise in the In “The Green Years,” walls. original fairy tale and adds a the tltian haired actress quiet back- Kot So Handsome A; v Beery left. Essanay to go to water of a number of twentieth century played Toni’s fiancee. In Hollywood before Arnold had a HOLLYWOOD — If Adonis as welL small town. r ; * ** Sis “Sea of Grass” she will por­ ?hance to give him the photos. himself were to walk into a Adapted for the screen by tray his sister and, in “The Arnold later followed. The picture movie casting office looking for is handled with Charles Hoffman from the suc­ Beginning Or The End’’ Cast in their firs*, film to­ Burny Zawodny a job today, he probably would she is cast as Drake s wife! gether, Arnold greeted Beery superb drama­ get a swift brush-off. cessful Saturday Evening Post tie insight. It builds up, slowly story by Philip Wylie, “Cinder­ “What worries me, tho,” recently on the set of MGM's Casting directors, noted for ‘A®®! she explained on the set of at first and then at an ever-in* ella Jones” traces the whirlwind T- ‘The Mighty McGurk” by pre­ creasing tempo from the simple genius but not for tact, doubt- adventures of one Judy Jones “My Brnthfr Who Talked senting the photos just thirty beginning of a girl loved by two lesssly would tell Adonis to go (Joan Leslie), who discovers, at to Horses,” they'll think of years late! men, to an angry climax of climb a myrth tree, or go back separate moments but with next, may wind up playing on Greek relief, before they’d equally devastating effects, that Tom’s mother!” YANKEE IN HOLLYWOOD death, disaster and triumph. give him a chance. ■ ?■ ► Mary played by Ava Gardner, she has been graced not only Sonny Tufts, Paramount star, ie a headstrong and wilful girl. Adonic beauty simply isn’t with youth and beauty, but with A hand-painted dresv which has planted enough fruit and considered when studios seek vegetables and put in enough She had left Ashbury for Chi­ St »' •-t - ten million dollars to boot. As June Duprez wears !n the night­ male bets today. * ' 1 ri*’ * z livestock to make his Beverly cago in despair that Kenny, play­ the beauty has long been a part club acene of Paramount’s “Cal­ ed by George Raft, who loves Take Sonny Tufts. of the Jones’ family assets, it is Hills farm self-supporting “No w the ten million dollars that snaps cutta” cost the studio S350 for Yankee could live otherwise,” her, will never be anything more Sonny has six pictures under the art k-ork alone. Material than the town loafer. Unable to his belt and he is co-starring Judy out of her blissful world of he boasts. Sonny, as can be with Betty Hutton in his sev­ ballad singing with Tommy and designer's time ran the total imagined, hails from Massa­ forget him the story opens up to well above $500. when, after two years, she re­ enth, “Cross My Heart.” Mean­ Coles’ (Robert Alda) jump or­ chusetts. chestra and starts her on ar turns to Ashbury. Also in love while his fan mail has soared to t 7 ** eventful search for a super-in­ with her is Lew Lentz played by 6000 letters per week, best in­ .; i- ' -...1.■ dication that Sonny is right up ■ft'*** telligent husband. For according Tom Conway, wealthy owner of Ci The Flamingo, a local night­ with the box-office leaders from to the provisions of Judy’s in­ of 1946** is appearing this ou.kC i.lza aS a li i dg n 1 i t ii t Li i <klH<xliC heritance, she must marry a man club. newscomers’ ranks. actress in Hunt Stromberg’s beautiful and colorful new film, week at Latin Club direct Although he’s big (six feet, with an intelligence quotient of from a successful run in New It is only too clear to the dis­ “Young Widow,** coming to the Valentine Theatre through 150 or more. appointed Mary that Kenny is four inches. 210 pounds), Sonny United Artists release. York nite clubs. still the town loafer coaxing is deffinitely not pretty. dollar bills for beer and billiards “Far from it,’’ he grins. I've Stars’ Caricatures Starlet Mixes Film DOORS from his hard-working mother, been told I’m the Newfound­ Heard On Hollywood Calf Love Smites OPEN DAILY land dog type. Adorn Movie Cafe Molly, played by Florence Bates. Movie Set 41:00 His friends are the town's shady Bobby-Sox Delight Boy Screen Star HOLLYWOOD — First HOLLYWOOD — A tiny set a. m. characters including Gitlo, play­ Just a few years, ago, such HOLLYWOOD — The arrival constructed at Paramount for Farming ed by Victor McLaglen a bar- poodle trotted boldly up to of Spring finds romance a-bloom Irving Berlin’s “Blue Skies,” handsome fellows as Robert Tay­ Wallace Beery while the star Vmder in Lentz’s nightclub. Gitlo lor, Tyrone Power, Richard in Hollywood. the “Flapjack” cafe, was lined HOLLYWOOD — Pert starlet <ias his own reasons for hating was relaxing between scenes To the amazement of all, with murals that caricature Dorothy Patrick has turned Greene and Sterling Hayden led of M e t r o-Goldwyn-Mayer’s his boss and plays a sinister role, the heart parade. But among Butch eJnkins has deserted his many of the outstanding stars farmer — and right in the mid­ inflaming the rivalry between “The Mighty McGurk.” bike and marbles to spend his of show business from the past dle of Culver City, Calif., near the hottest male personalties at “Well, hello, little fella, Lentz and Kenny to a hatred present, there isn’t a potential time, gawking at Ann Lace, 26 years. MGM studios. that culminates in violence. boomed Beery as the pooch blonde curly-top who plays the winner of a Mr. American con­ suddenly took a flying leap In the story of the Sol C. Before starting her role in Ava and Raft makes a fine test. role of his kid sweetheart in Siegel production, Bing Crosby ::The Mighty McGurk.” Wallace team, brilliantly building up and onto his lap. Just then, the “My Brother Who Talked To Sharing top current honors dog’s owner appeared. plays a carefree cafe owner Beery starrer, Dorothy pur­ exploiting the story motivation. Horses.” He has even taken to who always sells his establish­ chased a house and four lots. with Tufts is Van Johnson. Like “Oh, there he is" explain­ slicking down his unusually un­ As fascinating a pin-up as ever his contemporary on the MGM ed the man. “Ever since I ment and starts another as soon She renovated the house and floated through a G. I. dream, lot, Robert Walker, Van is good­ ruly mop of hair. The other day, as it is on a paying basis. has turned the lots into a farm. Ava is also a superb actress. trimmed his hair after his Ann invited Butch to attend her looking in a boyish sort of way. first picture role, he seems to birthday party. The “Flapjack" is one of a Her livestock at present con­ Raft, who has been a favorite But there are those who have be cold.” half-dozen restaurants which sists of a dozen chickens. The 1' -‘i for years, can add another mag­ Blushing furiously. Butch cor­ J inspected him at close range “Gosh,” rumbled Beery, nered Peter Lawford some time will be seen in “Blue Skies.” Hots have been plated in corn.
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