PRODUCTION PARS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 42, 29 November 1940, Page 3

PRODUCTION PARS.

Dealing with a deformed outcast's hopeless love for a beautiful gipsy girl, “The . Hunchback of Notre Dame” comes to the screen as the most spectacular achievement in recent years. Charles Laughton is starred in the title role. * * * * In “The Cowboy and the Lady” which , stars Gary Cooper and Merle Oberon there is a scene beside a swimming pool. Miss Oberon gets thoroughly ducked at the hands of Cooper. « * * * “The Female of the Species is more deadly than the Male.” So goes the old proverb, which is proved beyond doubt in Metro-Goklwyn-Mayer’s latest hilarious hit of hits, “The ‘Women.” The cast of 135 women is headed by Norma •Shearer, Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell. * * * * Excitement and mystery is the theme of the latest M.G.M. Kildare series, “The Secret of Dr. Kildare.” The cast includes Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day., Helen Gilbert, Lionel Atwill and Nat Pendleton. * * * * The cross-eyed comedian Ben Turpin, who in the past provided picture-goers with so many laughs, has died in Hollywood at the age of 65. * * C * A London cable states that Captain David Niven, the popular film star who is now serving with the British Army, is shortly to marry Primula Iloilo (London).