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1946-05-31, [P ] Friday, May 31, 194(1 THE TOLEDO UNION JOURNAL Page Fiv< Stanwyck, Cummings A Ri$t In New Film A Love-ly Moment In Paramount’s Delight Newsmiiil o£ Siage Screen ■' ---------------------:---------------------- by Burny Zawodny ....................................................... ■ llobert Cummings hilariously strives to catch Barbara Stan­ Star Saves Place For wyck with her boots off throughout the entire running time of Ex-Boom mate Olivia de Havilland Pqramount’s modern comedy-romance, "The Bride .Wore Boots,” By Wiley Pattani which opened at lhe Paramount Theatre \ with Diana HOLLYWOOD — Before [ITS TRUE! the war took them away Gagg 5X ith Director Lynn also starred. In othef words, * Bob objects to sharing from the Hollywood scene Barbara’! affections with the r. *?*’*_* ^ ! ''' ' $£ i/'' HOLLYWOOD — Olivia de . six years ago, David Niven Havilland, where a joke is con­ tAtnrrz Ata-Svdrses she3UC adores,auuxco, andaiiw which he and Robert Coote shared cerned, can give it out and take Filming > . bachelor's abode at Santa (Hkors with equal zest.. He fi­ W: it with the best of them. MfLWIOR, Monica, their domicile be­ On the first day’s shooting of ME^EOPOLITAb nally succeeds Story Gigantic ing known as "Cirhossis by in proving Paramount’s "To Each His OPERA STAA himself the the Sea.” Own,” the star’s dressing room >4AS BtEN Hollywood Job Niven, resuming his NIG^TED BY more desirable was crammed with flowers. One American screen career in IN6 Oifc^TiAN of the two, but of the particularly striking bou­ HOLLYWOOD ,(jS p e c j a 1)— "The Perfect Marriage,” DEMARK only after a se­ quets bore the name of Sidney X One of the biggest production Hal Wallis production for Lanfield. The envelope was ad­ ries of riotous­ Paramount, recently an­ preparation tasks, in .Holly wood ly funny epi­ dressed to Miss de Havilland. 5 - » f > Zx fcA nounced that he and Coote am- Inside, however, the message sodes culmi­ history is drawing to a close. As are again house mates, nating in a Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer’s "The read: "This is really for Lily "I own the place in Brent, horse race fin- May, one of my favorite people.” Beginning Or The End,” story of wood which I got for my 5 ish whichc is Lily May is Olivia’s negro maid. the atom bomb, nears its starting wife and two children when nothing short An hour later, on the set of date, a job comparable to that they came from England,” Burny Zawediiy of cyclonic in «v /.'« "The Trouble With Women,” the the actor explained. "Bob picture Lanfield is directing, humor. which preceded such pictures as got in from London the In the film, Bob and Barbara "Gone With The Wind” and there came a messenger boy other day and was hard put bearing a huge cactus plant. are married, have a fine home, "Ben Hur” js being completed in to it for living quarters. Lanfield opened the note ad­ are deeply in love, and are un­ record time. I’ve made him Our star dressed to him. It read. "No boarder by renting him a happy. Bob is a novelist whose Stupendous Research matter what people say about ^ oks on the Old South bring spare bedroom. »*n I, First came a staggering you, I like you. Olivia.” mm the constant attentions of "That ought to fix him,” (5WS0N!, ladies belonging to historical or­ amount of research, followed by Broadway Actor Olivia was gloating to herseU as U'H SE^eCItD a? T-IE ganizations. Barbara, resentful­ careful" preparation . of the the plant was delivered. •SWEETIE Ar StGMA CMI ly, devotes herself almost entire­ screenplay by three of Holly­ To Mimic Stars Back came a communication FRATERMTY AT Alg.QN ly to her horses, her goal in life COLLEGE ( INCIDENTLY wood’s ace writers. Next was the HOLLYWOOD — klan Ladd, from Lanfield: "Would you care THAT FAMOUS SWtET-HEART being to wia a classic steeple­ for a personally autographed construction of the sets to dupli­ SONG WAS WRITTEN chase cup. Cummings cannot Geraldine Fitzgerald and Bing t?/ , M' photograph of me sitting on the AT ALBION.) abide horses, and is jealous of cate the many famous atomic de­ Crosby will all be on Broadway &.<■ - A ■ * cactus?” the expert equestrian, Patrie velopment sites and the gather­ this summer—though this is Olivia was afraid to answer, Knowles, who is their neighbor. ing of thousands of props, in­ for fear Lanfield would go DuhANT# PETESCAweOW probably news to them. I HAS >IS FAMOUS Into this highly charged at­ cluding much scientific and mili­ through with the idea. •SOW022OLA’, . mosphere comes further compli­ tary equipment. Broadway star John Hoyt, "He won’t stop at anything I IN MGM j MUSKX PFUJI4 cations in the form (h u b b a, Still, another huge undertak­ whose deft impersonations of for a laugh,” she said. f TW iri&A K6K0T hubba) of Diana Lynn, young ing ih which Director Norman famous folk made him the IT’S: FAVOR.Tf and flirtatious member of an Taurog and Producer Sam Marx favorite of Manhattan cafe so­ & Tfuilcl Famous Ship COLOSSAL SIQSS & Old South society, whose inter­ now are engaged is the casting LINDA CHRISTIAN was spotted by an eagle-eyed M-G-M tal- I TCLl yuw est in Cummings leans more ciety, has just completed a role of 83 speaking roles in their in . Paramount’s "O. S. S.” his lent scout, while modeling in a Beverly Hills fashion show. She For Special Scene toward love than legend. She ■< U i pH OPF. film. AH but three' bf these first film. While in Hollywood finds being in films "exciting and looks forward to her first manages to lure Bob into a few will be filled by men. HOLLYWOOD — The Queen embarrassing situations, causing he studied the mannerism of spot in “Holiday In Mexico.” The casting of sbeh real-life studio celebrities, and his im­ Mary, built in a week, had made •TWO FROM BCWN*._MAT2X Barbara to pack up and leave. a landing on Paramount’s Stage figures as the late President pressions of the.cinema celebs IT’S TRUE? that e hand-forged sword presented to Lewdts T* is Bob’s desperate attempt to Veteran Actors Teamed Pals To Mark Durante’s 8, for scenes in "Suddenly It’s M|n her back, by riding in the Roosevelt, President Truman, will be featured in a Broadway Melchior by the former mayor of New York, Fiorello Le Guardia, Major General Leslie R. Groves musical now in preparation for Spring.” Jleplechase, that brings about For First Time In Film Thirty Years As Actor is used by the opera star in M-G-M’s “Two Sisters From Boston*. and various leading scientists summer production. A huge section of the ship’s the uproariously funny ending. HOLLYWOOD (Special) — side was reproduced in actual La Guardia gave Melchior the sword, a copy of an old Danish Barbara Stanwyck and Robert poses yet another problem. The Prior to coming to Hollywood, HOLLYWOOD (Special) — Jimmy Durante is set to start viMrg weapon in the N. Y. Museum on the occasion of Melchior’s studio is currently making ex­ size and placed on rollers, so Cummings prove themselves an Hoyt was co-starred with such Wallace Beery and Edward Ar­ his 30th year as an entertainer that it eased up to a New York 100th performance of “Siegfried” at the Metropolitan Opera Feb. expert comedy team in "The haustive tests to fill these im­ theater headliners as Katherine nold will be teamed for the first with one of the best screen roles portant roles. dock for the disembarkation of 22, 1935. “Two Sisters From Boston” will soon be on the screen Bride Wore Boots,” and the Cornell and Orson Welles. time on the acreen, although of his career in the Metro-Gold­ troops and a group of G. I. war at Loew’s. glamorous Stanwyck is as lovely Bomb’s Shap A Puzzle wyn-Mayer musical, "It Hap­ brides escorted by Paulette God­ and alluring in smart riding both started their film careers pened in Brooklyn.” which co- Some of Hollywood’s largest Star Plans Visit more than 30 years ago at the dard, playing a WAC captain. habits as she is in the flimsy and most authentically repro­ stars Frank Sinatra and Kathryn negligee with which she charms Essanay Studio in Chicago and Grayson. Mitchell Leisen is director of duced sets now are being readied To Native Land the Claude Binyon production. Cummings in a particularly for the start of filming. Camera both have long been under con­ The start of the production amusing scene. Diana Lynn’s crews already been working at HOLLYWOOD—Michele Mor­ tract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. will coordinate with the cele­ heart is still young and gay, but Oak Ridge, Los Alamos, N. M., gan, wearing a new and de­ bration planned to fete Duran­ BRACKEN’S UNDERSTUDY there is definitely more matur­ cidedly becoming shoulder Arnold has been named for a te’s more than a quarter century On the set of “Ladies’ Man Hanford, Wash., in Building in major role in Beery’s newest ity in the twinkle in her eyes. Washington, D. C., and at Col­ length hairdo, paid a visit on in show business. recently its top star, Eddie The fine supporting cast in­ umbia and Chicago Universities. TerdSfa Wright on the set of starrer at M-G-M, "The Mighty "It Happened Tn Brooklyn,” Bracken, recalled that when he cludes, in addition to the hand­ Paramount’s "The Imperfect McGurk.” He’ll portray the to be filmed in Technicolor, will was the lead on Broadway in Not the least troublesome of some Mr.
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