Camera Flashes

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 141, 17 June 1939, Page 7 (Supplement)

Camera Flashes

LORETTA YOUNG is leaving FoxTwentieth Century to free-lance when she has finished "Alexander Bell." ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ (JHARLIE RL'GGLES is taking orders from his brother. Wesley Ruggles, who is directing "invitation'to Happiness," in which Charlie is cast ♦" ♦ ♦ ♦ (J.ENERAL FRANCO has put Coklwyn. Norma Shearer and Clark Gable'on tlie him fans' black list ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ J)OLORES COSTELLO .as leading lady of "King of the Turf." has l»een playing in scenes in which ] IC r father, Maurice Coetello is an "extra." In her first picture he was the star and Dolores an "extra." ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ WILLIAM FARNUM is being tested for the part of Gerald O'Hara in "Gone ttith the Wind." Walter Connolly was signed for the role a year ago, but the option expired. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ JJASIL RATHBOXE and Nigel Bruce, as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson spent two days rehearsing a tea-table seen,, for -The Hound of the BasketMlle. . | h o y drank 137 cups of tea and ate .S2 mullius. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ X'"-: 1-AHtHANKSES. se n. and jun.. will I;, „een together for the "first tune m films, when Douslas sen., produces his B on in "The Tenth Woman" and 'Three Musketeers" ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ T HI T. cha l ,tei " "" motion picture direction which will appear in a new edition of the '•Encyclopedia Britanuica" was written bv Cecil B. De Mille. ♦'♦ ♦ ♦ JJORACE MACMAHON. who has been acting small parts in Hollywood films for ten years, no longer complains of "never getting the girl." He has married Louise Campbell, new star of "Men With Wings." ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ rpiTE sequel to "Four Daughters" is now to be called "Four Wives." The three sisters. Gale Page and Jeffrey Lynn will all be in it with the rest of the former cast, except John Garfield.

♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ pARAMOUXT i„ Hollywood have ordered all their young plavers to see Charles Laughton and Kls'a Lanchester in "Tlie Beachcomber." and make them re-enact scenes from it afterwards. . ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ JJOROTHY LAMOUR has a couple of irritations yn store for her when she makes "Untamed." her next-but-olie picture. (Her first is "Disputed Passage.") She will wear a sarong—a garment she now detests—but, worse than that, her leading man will be Ray Milland, whom she dislikes even more. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ JJOBERT PRESTOX has been assigned to one of the three top roles in "Beau Geste."' With Gary Cooppr in the title role. Preston will play his brother Dijrby. while Ray Milland will play the younger iiiul romantic brother .lohn. Discovered at Pasadena Com in unity Playhouse only nine months asro. Preston is being pushed ahead in a manner that tends to confirm reports that Hollywood Paramount considers him one of the "finds'' of recent years. Preston has just finished a role—second lead in Cecil B. IV Mille's "Union Pacific." ♦ + ♦ ♦ "VATALIE VIS ART, who did costumes for Cecil B. De Mille's picture. "Union Pacific." namedthe following as ber choice of the world's bestbroomed men: The Duke of Windsor, The Duke of Kent. Herbert Marshall, Kay Milland. Director Mitchell Leisen, Charlie Chaplin. Ferdinand Gravet, Anthony Eden. Fred Astaire. Grover YVhalen (Xew York World's Fair Director) and Lucius Beebe (Xew York society columnist!. Quite an assortment ! ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ THE "EXTRA" GIRL SAYS . . "A full moon has little influence on the tied." ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ '•A.dumb waiter is a girlftok&tllattkaam engaged more than a year."