Friday, May W, 1946 THE TOLEDO UNION JOURN AJ, Page Five Paramount’s Picture “Kitty Delightful Film Fare By Burny Zawodny Granddaddv Of Them A Hub! >a Hui .ba Girl Take a combination like Paulette Goddard and Ray Milland, Hewnomor Wins Vote New Acting Honors put them together in a spicy" story of Eighteenth Century vintage and top it all off with Mitchell Leisen at the directorial helm, Makas Movie Debut ? t For Peter Lawford and you have as entertaining a picture as moviegoers could hope HOLLYWOOD. — Douglas to see. Adapted from Rosamond Marshall’s sensational book, Dick, a new Hal Wallis find, HOLLYWOOD — Firmly Paramount’s “Kitty,” which whose discovery is one of those establishing him as one of the opened at the Paramount The- stories that makes Hollywood leading young actors of the 4re to an enthusiastic audience, Midgets Are the fabulous place that it is, has year. Peter Lawford has been is the kind of been handed a prize role in signed for a featured role in the film t h ■ t i “The Searching Wind,” the new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical, breezes merri­ Real Live Wallis production at Paramount, “It Happened in Brooklyn,” co- ly along from with Robert Young, Sylvia Sid­ starring Frank Sinatra and start to finish '• ney and Ann Richards. Kathryn Grayson. with never a ^g Pixies To Star The sandy-haired youth !n his Young Lawford won the role dull moment, on the strength of his outstand­ An excellent early twenties, who has had no previous ew York or screen ex­ ing performance in the musical, supporting cast HOLLYWOOD (Special) — “Two Sisters From Boston,” includes Patrie perience, has been signed to play The life of a midget, in Holly­ Sam, the soldier-son and one of and his recent work in “My Knowles, Reg­ wood or anywhere else for that Brother Who Talked to Horses.” inald Owen, the five principals in the picturi- Cecil Kella- matter, has its advantages to­ zation o fthe Lillian Hellman “It Happened in Brooklyn,” is Burny Zawudtiy way, Constance gether with its probles. This play. to be filmed in Technicolo^, Colier and Dennis Hoey. In ad­ was revealed at M-G-M studios His d scovery was by the dition to all this talent, Raoul recently when a troupe of the purest chance, the kind of thing Rene du Bois and Madame Ka- that makes truth stranger than rinska have provided some of “little people”—23 of them-— fiction. His final selection for the most spectacular settings checked In to appear in “Three the part in which he is making and costumes ever seen on the Wise Fools,” starring Margaret his Hollywood debut was the jereen. O'Brien, with Lionel Barry­ result of a unique vote among Sart- day “Kitty” is the story of a Lon­ more, Lewis Stone. Edward Ar­ feminine employes on the Para­ t *ku don Cockney waif who becomes mount lot. the talk of English royalty when nold and Thomas Mitchell. Young Douglas, who recently Sir Thomas Gainsborough exhi­ Beat Housing Shortage had been discharged from the bits her portrait at the Royal When they arrived in Holly­ Navy, was in New York when Academy. Paulette Goddard out­ wood, due to the housing short­ Wallis was there a few months does herself as the flirtatious age, they were lodged comfort­ OLDEST AMERICAN actor, Harry Davenport, ctltbiaie^ his 60th hkriiiday ai the M-G-M ago. The youth, who heretofore hussy who makes five men do commissary, as Katherine Grayson and Jane Powell sing “happy birthday to you.” As active had appeared only in a little ably in reconverted dressing­ and enthusiastic as ever, Davenport is currently working in his 100th film, “Faithful In My ABIE'S and her bidding, marches three to rooms at the studio. ' theater production of' “The arson GOT HIM' ;I the altar, including that prize “We don’t mind being small,” Fashion.” Hasty Heart” in Phoenix, Ariz., catch, the Duke of Malmunster Billy Curtis, spokesman for the was in the office of a Broadway AUDREY TOTTER is an­ superbly portrayed by Reginald troupe declared. “The only thing Artress Receives Gift agent trying to arrange for an other of those golden-haired Owen. Ray Milland plays the in­ Movies Build Own BLE that is really tough is this mat­ Of Sentimental Value interview when Wallis came in ‘finds’ of M-G-M. Snatched gratiating scoundrel for the first ter of shaving for the men. Hotel for a business conference. The from radio 'soap opera,’ the time in his career and comes WOB architects apparently labor un­ HOLLYWOOD — White roses producer and the tyro met in curvesome thespian was sign­ through with a notable perform­ the would-be actor that he im­ ed on the dotted line and der the delusion that six feet is Brittany Coast Village hava a special message for ance. Those who remember him standard height for all males. mediately proposed a screen handed a role in the Lana as the habitual alcoholic of “The Loretta Young. And when she Even reasonably short men have test. The test was made in New Turner thriller, “The Post­ a Lost Weekend” will have fresh a hard time gazing into a hotel HOLLYWOOD (Special) — Any school kid in geography received a bouquet of them the York and sent to Hollywood. man Always Rings Twice.” proof of his remarkable versatil­ class who insists that the coast of Brittany is in California, just When Wallis was casting for the~reelTthing ity when they see him as Sir bathroom mirroj, So what does day she went to work on “The ONDELL-.MITdM 1 that make us? northeast of Culver City, may know what he’s talking about. Perfect Marriage.” Hal Wallis the Sam role he showed the More tnan a dozen different Hugh. Constance Collier, one of The Breton coast and village scenes for Metro-Goldwyn- test, along with the tests of five our most brilliant character ac- “The chairs,” he went on. “are production for Paramount, the Indian races an dreligions are MUSICAI usually too big to drag through Mayer’s “A Woman of My Own, spread over two studio lots and other candidates,' to 300 women CARTOON •esses, ably assists as the be- then jump several hundred miles star gave them the choice loca­ employes at the studio, steno­ represented in Paramount's <1 itted English dowager who con­ a bathroom door. As a result, “Calcutta,” including Hindu, NEWS we just have to team up. We to a seaside setting at Monterey, tion in her dressing room. graphers. secretaries, messenger Moslem, Sikh, Afridi. Singha­ spires with Milland to transform California. Clan O’Brien In girls, file clerks. They were “Kitty” into the grand lady all take turns sitting on each The roses were from her hus­ lese, Punjabi and Gurkha. others’ . shoulders while we polled and their vote was over­ England thinks she is and sell Feat of Movie Magic Hollywood band, Tom Lewis, the radio whelmingly in favor of the un­ her off to the highest bidder on shave, a none-too-steady perch. There, at Montqgey, is where executive, who is away from Sure—we cut ourselves.” known. the marriage market. This slow, two-thirds of the picture star­ Reunion Hollywood visiting his ailing painful process of Kitty’s refine­ In casting Douglas in the im­ Unreal To Margaret ring Greer Garson and Robert HOLLYWOOD — It was a mother in Troy, New York. portant role in “The Searching ment provides some of the most Out at the studio the little Montgomery will be filmed. great for the Irish at Metro­ delightful bits of comedy in the “White roses mean that Tom Wind” Wallis is keeping intact people were looked upon as the Along that eighteen miles of Goldwyn-Mayer studios the the record he has made at Para­ film. Once Kitty feels her oats, nearest thing to real pixies that rock-studded coast, a studio other day. is thinking of me and wishing she starts playing the game her technical crew, 150 in number, mount for creating a new star tiny star, Margaret O'Brien ever Actor Pat O’Brien, paying a me the best of everything,” Miss with each new picture. The list way, and plays it to the hilt. seen. She was convinced that worked for sixteen weeks, erect­ Young explained. “When I’m ing a French village highlighted visit to Margaret O'Brien on the already includes Lizabeth Scott, Here is sparkling entertain­ the small, doll-like folk are far set of “Tenth Avenue Angel,” appearing on a broadcast or sensation of “The Strange Love ment for those who want to have outside the realm of reality and by a cottage of stone high on a bluff overlooking the Pacific, invited the child star to lunch. starting a picture, he sends of Martha Ivers.’’ Dem DeFoxe s good time. never ceased to watch with He asked Margaret’s mother to them to me from wherever he and Kirk Douglas. open-eyed wonderment as they and a Breton shrine carved out happens to be. Once, during the DOORS of living rock. come along and insisted George Starlet's Advice stowed away full-sized meals ia Murphy, who stars in the new war, when he was in London, VACATTON FROM A HIT IRIK DAILY The natural beauty of the the studio dining room. film with Margaret, join them Tom didn’t forget to remember Harnld Vermilyea, prominent h a. m. Wins Girl Beaux. “I thought they lived on dew Monterey peninsula is a dupli­ also. when I was beginning a film in Broadway actor, took four Friends out of bluebells,” she told her cate of France’s Normandy They were approached by a far away Hollywood.