Camera Flashes

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 189, 12 August 1939, Page 7 (Supplement)

Camera Flashes

FA YE will be seen in technicolour for the first time in "Hollywood Cavalcade," which bears a 2,000.000 dollars production label. Don Ameche co-stars. 4 4 4 4 JPKKDDIE BARTHOLOMEW has reached .">ft. TAin. which is why he wears inexpensive suits in private life. He prows out of them too quickly. Aunt Cissie will send him to a Los Angeles university when and if his movie career dies. 4 4 4 4 TIMER Maurice Coetello has a small part in "Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever." He was a movie idol before the star, Mickey Rooney, was born. 4 4 4 4 rpHERE is a plan afo(,t to film the life story of the late Marie Dressier, under the title. "Moilv. Bless Her!" with Oracie Fields impersonating the beloved actress. The picture will be made in London. 4 4 4 4 RUSSELL declares that she prefers her men friends to be from New York. "They are more companionable. more charming and more intelligent than the Californians. And they have an appreciation of a woman lacking in the Hollywood male, who is glutted with an overabundance of beautiful girls." 4 4 4 4

FLYNN is now the most highly paid of the Warner stars. He receives 4500 dollars for each of the 52 weeks in the year —'Whether he works or vacations. Errol is now reputedly worth 200,000 dollars. He even charges the expenses of his yacht against income tax on the plea that it is necessary to his business! ♦ + ♦ ♦ gONJA HEN 1E waited until the departure of the Norwegian Crown Prince and Princess before applying for American citizenship. Sonja's sensible explanation for her change of nationality was that she earned her living in America, so why not go the whole way and swear allegiance to it? HPYRONE POWER'S stepdaughter will shortly arrive in Hollywood to take up residence with her mother, Annabella, and her handsome new poppa. The little girl lias been living with her maternal grandmother. An amusing switch of title has taken place" on Annabella's most recent picture. Before her marriage to Tyrone, the film was known as "Maiden Voyage." It has been changed to "Bridal Suite." with Robert Young as the celluloid bridegroom. • + ♦ 4- ♦ B. DE MILLE wired Robert Morley telling him to name his own terms for" tlie role of Mordeeai in his forthcoming epic, "Esther," based on the Biblical story. De Mille is also hoping to negotiate the loan of Hedy La mar r from M.G.M. to play Esther, the beautiful Jewish queen -who saved her own people from threatened destruction. This role would be a "natural" for the glamorous Lamarr. The brunette sensation of the year is also wanted for another Paramount picture, "Air Raid," to co-star with Madeleine Carroll. It would be interesting to see these two actresses in one picture —Madeleine, the most beautiful blonde in Hollywood, and Hedy, the most beautiful brunette. , rpHE role of the man who is whipped in Cecil B. de Mille's "Union Pacific" has changed hands again. You will recall the story of how Charles Bickford turned down the role when he found it would be necessary to face a 25-foot rawhide bullwhip wielded by Akim Tamiroff. Whereupon C. Carroll Naish was called on as substitute, watched Akim Tamiroff give a demonstration of his skill, and accepted the role. Now it has been discovered that the shooting schedule of the film 'will interfere with another picture in which Naish has contracted to appear, so he's out, and the latest man to face up to Tamiroff's bullwhip is Brian Donlevr