Friday, March 14, T947 O P a ge S i x ________ _______________ TOLEDO UNION JOURNAL Ann Dvorak, Star In “Bel Ami,” Leads Charmed Life In films Just recently Ann Dvorak kicked a time-honored Hollywood maxim in the teeth—and got away With It. The maxim !s “you have to get in there and keep pitching if you want to stay on top.” In other Dennis Morgan Now words, nobody in show business can afford to drop a career just any old time and then come back to Audrey Thought Her Dick PoicelFs Moll Kenny Delmar Starred Lesson Hadn't Begun Honorary Mayor But Ann Dvorak did. Not once. Not twice. But three different times. At the moment Ann, Dennis Morgan, who soon will turning to the screen for the HOLLY WOOD — Au­ third time, has grabbed off her It I ■ drey Totter, taking her first As Senator Claghorn appear in Warner Bros.’ “Two fattest acting plum to date. She K -1! driving lesson, was sur­ Guya From Texas,” has been is playing the important starring I prised when her instruc­ installed as Honorary Mayor of role of Madeleine opposite George ihi tor after ordering her into the rdar seat took the wheel In “It's A Joke, Son!” his home community, La Canada, Sanders in the highly romantic (A ' himself and drove around Fans of Senator Claghorn, the big noise of the airwaves—and Cal. Ix>ew-Lewin production of “The 11 Private Affairs of Bel Ami.” Y--, 4 & I'*'; > fore you move up to the they are legion—will rejoice that at long last they can see their The ceremony took place at -i This is an adaptation of Guy de I u f 4< steering wheel yourself” he favorite on the screen, when Kenny (Senator Claghorn) Delmar the Double H Club in Eagle Rock%J Maupassant's colorful novel, s. ’» At- 'A. ' tfe ' & replied. “You did fine, too will be seen in his famous characterization in Eagle-Lion’s comedy at a dinner-dance honoring State «—not a word out of you!” Chamber of Commerce men “Bel Ami,” set in Paris of the A I riot, “It’s a Joke, Son,” now showing at the Esquire Theatre. 80s. which bowed in at the She didn’t explain that, The film gives Delmar full op-| 7 from throughout the country. '■ I thinking the lesson hadn't Valentine Theatre this week. 11’? portunity to develop his role to Henry And Phoebe Ann. who was born in New A %$''■ '' begun, she’d spent the en­ tire time reading the script the utmost. In the part of the Clamle Jarman Goes York City, started in pictures in of “The Beginning Or the 1929. But she had an unusual impoverished Beauregard Clag- “Barbary Host” To School On Tour gift for dancing, so she dropped ' ..Jf '.fl End!" horn who is persuaded to run for > :■ « A -‘A ’A** A for an hour in silence. acting to become a dance direc­ “What am I back here senator in opposition to his own Henry and Phoebe Ephirm HOLLYWOOD—By summer’s tor. She returned to the screen for?” the M-G-M actress, wife, he brings to the screen all have returned to the Warner end Lucille Ball and Desi Annas with ‘ Sweet Music,” in which are to have that formal church currently in “Lad yin the the familiar oddities of speech Bros, studio after a New York •he sang with Rudy Vallee. She Lake” finally asked. wedding they’ve been wanting. went on to win a highly dramatic and gesture which have endeared visit to complete their scripting Vacation plans of the couple in­ ■A ia*, “Just to get rid of any of “Barbary Host,” which Wil­ role in ‘‘Scarface,” opposite Paul backseat driving habits be- him to his fans. clude a trip to Santiago, Cuba, Muni, that brought her instant The film surrounds Delmar liam Jacobs i« readying for where they will rewed in the same church where Arnaz was fame. iX X I L ; ‘X-- •:4 with a strong supporting cast of spring production. She married Leslie Fenton, Texas Beauty Makes The Ephrons recently com­ baptised. author, actor and globe trotter in Evelyn Keyes starts out, In film favorites, headed by Una M-G-M Film Debut pleted the script for “Wall­ It will be the Metro-Goldwyn- 1932. In less time than it takes Talented Ann Dvorak is cast as the sophisticated young Columbia’s thriller, “Johnny Merkel in the role of his domi­ Mayer star's first visit to her to tell it, Ann had deserted the matron who advances the career of George Sanders in the witty HOLLYWOOD — Texas has flower,” now before the cameras a new representative in Holly­ O’clock,” as a nice, demure neering wife; June Lockhart, with Robert Hution and Joyce husband’s native land, where the •creen and was off to Europe on Lo< w-Lewln production of Guy de Maupassant's “The Private daughter of Gene and Kathleen Arnaz family are among the O Affairs of Bel Anil.” The film is a .United Artists release, now wood acting ranks—auburn­ little dancer in a road show. Reynolds in starring roles. Fred­ a honeymoon that lasted nine Lockhart, in the role of his erick De Cordova is directing most distinguished citizens. months. playing at the Valentine Theatre. haired Pat Emanuel, a beauty She ends up as girl friend tn born twenty years ago in Ram- lovely daughter; and Douglas and Alex Gottlieb producing Miss Ball is currently starred She came back when she Jolly Dick Powell who is a gentlo- Dumbrille, as the crooked polit- "Wallflower” for Warner’s. Well felt like it and played a long ayor, Texas. She makes her M-G-M’s "Two Smart People.” l ive New Warner Films film debut in M-G-M’s “Green man decidedly on the tough ical leader. Also seen is Ken- •uccecsion of roles that bounced Burning Memory side. neth Farrell, newcomer who is her right back on top. But. suri Before Cameras Dolphin Street,” starring Lana Bobby-sm^L are known to Turner with Van Hefflin Donna being introduced to films in the denly, with the outbreak of With “Two Guys From Texas,” leading romantic role of the boy World War II, her husband was literally hiflv torn souvenirs Reed and Richard Hart. Plane to Bring Camel headlining Dennis Morgan, Jack A Houston shipyard worker with whom Miss Lockhart is in •ent to England where he com­ from the of their idols Carson, Dorothy Malone and love, whose initial performance manded an MTB boat at St. (Frank Sinatra once lost, a jacket for twenty-two months during Penny Edwards, moving indoors the war, Miss Emanuel, whose proves him to be a well grounded Nazaire. Ann once more ditched sleeve to one of his admirers), Treasury” —thoroughly capable performer but rarely dk> they exhibit the following a week of outdoor screen name is Pat Emery, later her career and followed him. shooting, Warner Bros, currently The first all-animal cargo who is certain to go very far in While in London, she picked up ingenuity and daring of one became a Dallas photographer’s Dana Andrews fan in Stamford, has five films before the cameras model. One of her modeling plane, the Noah’s Ark, an S-54, films. Deers Orsn ’ another career, that of a news­ at the Burbank studio. In his first film role, Delmar caster. Conn. pictures attracted the notice of haj been rented by Coulson Dailv Andrews, along with the rest Other films shooting on the a studio executive, and a test proves himself a worthy con­ When the war was over Ann Warner Bros, lot are “Wall­ won her a screen contract. Glick from the Philippines Over­ tender for top acting honors to Came back to Hollywood. And of the Twentieth Century-Fox flower,” Robert Hutton-Joyce seas Airlines for $17,000 and What happened? You guessed it. company, came to Stamford to Five feet 7 inches tall, she match the great popularity he film Darryl F. Zanuck’s presen­ Reynolds starrer; “The Unfaith­ weighg 125 pounds and her will be flown back to Los An­ has achieved on the air. Senator Instead of being a forgotten face ful,” starring Ann Sherdian, blue-green eyes are a sparkling Claghorn is a meaty character, Ho ■howine;! •he was off again on her bril­ tation of “Boomerang!" which Zachary Scott and Lew Ayres; geles March 15 from Karachi, opened this week at the Para­ addition to her fetching ap­ India, with an Arabian camel well rounded and colorful, who liant road to fame. “The Voice of the Turtle,” with pearance. epitomizes all the foibes and It seems that, no matter where mount Theatre. In town, a crowd Ronald Reagan and Eleanor as one of its most important •he roams there will always be followed Andrews wherever he failings which we have grown to Parker in starring roles, and Von Zeil A Character passengers. The camel—the first associate with the particular type INTIMATE STORY • career waiting for Ann Dvorak went and he didn’t dare throw “The Unsuspected,” Michael tn Hollywood! away even a burnt match, be­ On Frank Morgan Show ever to be flown over “the of Southern solon who makes Of A FRENCH HEEL! cause it would start a mad Curtiz Productions’ initial pic­ Hump —- will be used in Co­ long and windy speeches at the ture for Warner Bros, release. Harry Von Zell, radio an­ drop of a hat.. It is to the credit •‘That Way With scramble among souvenir nouncer and star of Columbia lumbia’s “Assigned to Treasury” h unten, One girl, however, of director Ben Stoloff that he Women” In Final two-reeler, has signed a contract starring Dick Powell and Signe never allows the action to be de Maupassant’s managed to snare a prize—a Warner, U.